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Fun Fun Fun Fest scene report: backstage with Gwar
Funny things happen when you’re trying to grab a word with Mick Collins.
Hanging out behind the Fun Fun Fun Fest black stage on Saturday as The Gories were finishing up their set, your intrepid correspondent found himself within peeking-in distance of Gwar’s costume/prop area. Spiked helmets and shoulder pads, oversized phalluses, fake weapons of every description; it was enough to make Beavis and Butthead have a seizure.
Camera in hand, I started snapping a couple detail shots of the gear for personal posterity, when a fellow with an impossibly gruff voice and remnants of years of stage blood on his skin wanders up asking, “Hey, are you my interviewer?”
“Umm, no. Are you…?”
“I’m Oderus from Gwar.”
Sweet holy hell. Informing the faux 43-billion-year-old overlord of the universe that I was not in fact there to interview him, my “You’ll never see this again, so why the hell not?” instinct kicked in and I asked master Urungus to pose while I held one of the band’s battle axes. After pondering for a minute, he agreed, and the result is the sweet sweet photo magic above that’s now easily the best Facebook profile picture the universe has ever seen.
That is, until I get a chance to grin while holding the giant prop blood-covered plunger they used on a costumed toilet (don’t ask) a couple hours later on stage. A guy can dream, right?
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