Memories from my Rock and Roll days...
I loved playing live shows. One of the best gimmicks a heavy metal/grunge/whatever band I was in was when we would play Garth Brooks' I got Friends in Low Places while wearing giant foam cowboy hats. The only problem with that was that the hats were hot and would usually fall off. But the problems entailed in that clever work of stage craft pale in comparison to the classic thrash metal band Slayer's trick.
Viz.,
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"People say, 'Why don't you guys use fire?' " King says. "(Expletive) fire. Everybody under the sun uses fire. Let's have a storm of blood."
Of course, like pyrotechnics, fake blood comes with its complications.
"Some of the older blood we used was corn-syrup based. But this new blood we've been using is like WD-40, so my fingers slip all around and make it hard to hit the right notes. But, hey, its part of the job."
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Viz.,
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"People say, 'Why don't you guys use fire?' " King says. "(Expletive) fire. Everybody under the sun uses fire. Let's have a storm of blood."
Of course, like pyrotechnics, fake blood comes with its complications.
"Some of the older blood we used was corn-syrup based. But this new blood we've been using is like WD-40, so my fingers slip all around and make it hard to hit the right notes. But, hey, its part of the job."
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1 Comments:
that's a neat slayer gimmik. although it might be cooler of the sprayer was shaped like courntey love and the blood was comming from between her legs. according to an eyewitness ms love (a scienetologist)had a gimmik where she would throw her panites into the mosh pit and apparently it cleared out fairly quickly. that seems way scarier than slayer's thing. slayer's fake blood semms...kinda fake. especially compared to gg alain, extreme elvis, bloody mess and the scabs and others who get naked and throw poo at the audience and stuff. another eye witness reported that once at a mr bungle show, mike patton urinated in his shoe and poured it on his face...
...in my own experience (aside from that halloween party which involved spitting fake blood and smasing up stolen suburban pumpkins as a finale) the most "shocking" thing i ever did was at our highschool home comming thing (first gig ever) i used a drill to play guitar. 2 interesting things with this.
1) some lame assed loser-fag band tried to get me banned from doing it. i belive most of those guys are selling insurence at the mall now
and
2) i didnt know what i was doing. i hadn't actually seen the "poundcake" video yet... so i just drilled into the bridge like an idiot.
rock on!
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