G WAR
Electric Factory, Philadelphia
Saturday, December 20, 2008

“Drenching the audience in blood has been a proud Gwar tradition for 25 years,” boasts frontmonster Oderus Urungus. “The kids demand it. Some of them bring little plastic baggies to catch the stuff in and defile themselves with it later. Other people wear white T-shirts and compare stains after the show.” Quite a legacy. “When the band is dead and gone,” he says, “our splatter will still be here.”

Photograph by Brian Hineline/Retna
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THE FILLMORE, SAN FRANCISCO

MONDAY, JULY 21, 2008

“I Don’t come to one of our shows if you don’t

want to get your shoes stepped on or catch an elbow every once in a while,” frontman Pharrell Williams has warned. Maybe all the roughhousing explains some of the foggy thinking he’s noticed after the gigs. “[Audiences] leave and go, ‘yo, where have I been for the last hour and a half? I can’t believe it’s over already!’ ”

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