GWAR – Pubes in Phallusland 1985 DVD Oderus Urungus Dave Brockie Live

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GWAR
Pubes In Phallusland 1985
PB Kelly’s
Richmond, VA
This is one of the earliest GWAR videos in existence, from PB Kelly’s in
Richmond, VA. According to the titles, it was shot by Michael D. Moore
and Hunter Jackson at GWAR’s second show with their own instruments. I’m
not sure whether this means that it was their second show ever, and
they were playing their own insturments, or if they played numerous
other shows before with someone else’s instruments. Either way, this
rare piece of GWAR’s prehistory has been shat forth like a petrified
turd to shed some light on the dawn of the Scumdogs.
The video features one of the earliest lineups with Johnny Slutman (Ben
Eubanks) on vocals, Oderus (Dave Brockie) on guitar, Jaws of Death
(Steve Douglas) also on guitar, BalSac (Chris Bopst) on bass, and Sean
Sumner (whose character didn’t have a name) on drums.
The video begins with some meaningless stage banter by Oderus while the
band waits for one of their amps to be replaced. Then there’s a
pseudo-music video of the live performance of Rock N Roll Party Town
edited together from various scenes throughout the show. Unfortunately
the sound is distorted and sounds shitty.There are some cool things to
see in this old video, though. We get to see Techno Destructo (who has
some kind of blaster on his arm rather than his trademark Atomic Power
Claw) get the shit beat out of him with a mace. We’re also treated to an
unnamed character in a helmet who rips the intestines out of a fluffy
pink unicorn and dives out into the crowd with entrails dripping from
his mouth. We also get a good look at the original brunette GWAR Woman
and get to watch her re-create a frozen antarctic blizzard. Actually,
she tosses bags of styrofoam packing popcorn out into the crowd. There’s
also some guy in a Suicidal Tendencies t-shirt with a staff with a
monster eyeball or something on it and some kind of mask that might be
from the Antarctican Ant. There’s also another guy (who looks like he
may be a young Chuck Varga) in the crowd who has a hat with a severed
baby’s head and legs sticking out of it. After that we’re treated to the
gorier first edit of the Black & Huge video, which features more of
the bloody scenes than wound up in the final version (which almost
never got aired anyway). It then has some footage of the band running
around in the streets and yelling at crowds outside the club that the
video was filmed at. Then it’s back to the 1987 show for some unedited
single camera footage. Unfortunately it’s not the entire show. The band
starts out and plays Rock N Roll Party Town, but apparently Douglas’ amp
wasn’t working (not that you can tell the difference because it sounds
so distorted anyway) so then they waste about ten minutes trying to fix
it. Oderus makes a comment about “So Johnny, you just flew in from
Cleveland. I hear it’s pretty hot there.” And Johnny just says “YEAHHH!”
And then they repeat it three more times. In fact, Johnny doesn’t say
anything other than “YEAHHH!” the whole time and Oderus does all of the
talking. Finally they get the amp working and the band plays through
Rock N Roll Party Town again. But just when you’re getting psyched to
see these mythical characters that have heretofore only been glimpsed at
in their Hell-o! era comics, it’s over. After that it cuts back to the
final edit of the Black & Huge video that can be seen in the TVD and
Next Mutation videos.

Overall, this video is a rare gem that could only have been cooler if
the full show had been included
Duration: 25 minutes
Quality: A/A
Menu: Yes
Format: NTSC
Cover and artwork: Yes (included)