What the hell is the deal with Gwar? I understand the humor I do. Its trailer park rock fun- a sense of humor that I don't share but that has paid the mortgage of these old fucks for years.
The band formed in 1984 and maintained their original line up until the untimely demise of Cory Smoot on the tour bus in Canada..weird scene man. This 'shock rock' shtick was created by Alice Cooper than after years turned in to this idiotic redneck fun. The chorus on the video is pretty cool but the 'funny' change of lyrics to : “Carry on my wayward son, get the hell off the couch and get a goddamn job, get your ass out the door, don’t you cry no more.”, is just plain stupid.
I love that the AV Club (with partner Starbucks) are doing this series of covers but this sucks worse than the original song. Lets figure these guys are really too old but with the help of latex have managed to hide that from their fans- and fans they have. I recall speaking to a guy in Worcester a couple years back who went on and on about these guys as if they were the Beatles. It is impossible to take this seriously since they obviously don't. Even kiss took off their make up- this is just idiotic. Fun to some, cringe worthy to me.
Pustulus Maximus (who replaced the now dead Flattus Maximus) stated the following about the Kansas classic: “I hadn’t even heard it till they played it for me the other days. I was convinced they’d written it and I was like, ‘What are you guys doing writing that derivative crappy seventies crap crap. We’re not playing that song ever again.’ Kansas was a big part of a music where bands were often named after geographical locations. Let’s hope that never happens again.”
Let us also hope these guys just go away.
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