GWAR!!!!!!!!!

[Nessie]

Never heard of them but visited their website as a result of reading this thread.

I've never seen anything like that.

I don't mind a bit of heavy thrashing metal (I'm an old Alice Cooper fan) but how can those guys tolerate being trapped in those outfits for a whole entire concert? That must be unbearably nasty, hot, heavy on their bodies and totally uncomfortable. If it was me, I think I'd get heatstroke in all that and drown in my own sweat if I didn't just pass out onstage...not to mention it'd drive me nuts to try to sing through a mask.

Alice looked funky, for sure, but he wasn't actually weighed down under the massiveness of his costume.

Nessie

[Boggy Man]

Damn I'm old. I had a stereo with a casset deck.

I still do. It has a CD player as well, if that makes you feel any better. But the idea of downloading music into an ipod (whatever one of those might be, exactly) is far too technologically frightening for me to even consider.

We have stereos with cds, Cassettes, turntables, one with an 8-track, and we also have a couple of reel-to-reel tape players (one Phillips and one Telefunken).

I checked out some of GWAR's videos on YouTube, and they are hilarious!

Here are a couple:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvtfpz1 ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWoAXXbzFBg

[nachtjaeger]

Okay, technically she's not my niece, but the two families are so close the kids call the other's parents "Aunt" and "Uncle." She's 16, and really into Death Metal type music. Her mom and dad had NO desire to see Gwar, and were extremely grateful that I agreed to escort her.

There's a totally different dynamic between an aunt/uncle/other trusted adult and a teenager than between them and their parents. They can really relax and talk to you. I imagine that's why it was traditional to foster teenagers out to relatives back in the old days.

in loco parentis: Latin for "You'd have to be crazy to take that kind of responsibility for somebody else's kid."

Here's a link to my review of the show on Ticketmaster: http://reviews.ticketmaster.com/7171/735222/gwar-reviews/reviews.htm

Gwar

Deary, deary me.

Okay, so I let my niece talk me into taking her...

I'm not sure how I would define "Band you would take your uncle to see," except that this probably isn't it.

[water_bug_62208]

Your story about going to the concert with your "niece" reminds me of a conversation MANY years ago...

An officemate approached me and this gal one day asking what we knew about the group, Tears For Fear. His teenage daughter wanted to go see them in concert, but he was concerned about their music, their influence, and her going off on her own. Before I could say a thing, the gal I was talking to just burst right in with...

"OH MY GOD, don't let your daughter see THEM! They're a Devil's worship group! Their album, From Hell And Back, is solid proof of their dastardly ways!"

I'm wondering, "Where the hell did that come from and what planet she was from?" as she left. She was rather religious. The poor officemate was left looking like this... I told him that Tears For Fear was NOT a Devil's worship group, that their music was indeed fairly good, and that they didn't have an album titled, From Hell And Back. He decided to let his daughter go to the concert, but that he would go with her.

The following week at staff meeting he announced his adventure with his daughter to the Tears For Fear concert and how he found the band, their music, and the attendees rather all right. He also announced how he would no longer worry about his daughter going off on her own to see concerts like this.