My Surrogate Activities.

Wow man, I didn’t know transgendered metal was a thing. At least it isn’t Hip Hop… :sunglasses:

We can agree on Cannibal Corpse. Knew one of their guitarists back in the day because their girlfriend was a friend of mine. True story.

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I’ve met all kinds of death metal band types over the years. I have a friend who started a chapter of a death metal club here in Alabama after going and meeting these dudes who started the club in Brooklyn. So they’ve got chapters in every state and he happened to be the guy who started the one here. I went to a death metal bar up there once and met one of the guys from type o negative, and a bunch of us rode around in this guy’s hearse. My friend promoted a ton of shows all over the place from here to texas and god knows where else and over the years I’ve just known a bunch of these guys. He played with some band at warped tour once. A lot of times I meet these people and they’re “famous” in death metal circles, but I have no idea who they are. I was backstage at a morbid angel show once in Atlanta and didn’t realize that I was talking to two of the guys from the band. I saw ozzy with sepultura in the 90s, Danzig, a bunch of others.

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I saw Manson in 1995 or so when he was opening for danzig. Danzig, Manson and Korn for 15 bucks in a small venue. Crazy shit man.

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I remember that song. It’s been a minute since I’ve heard it last.

I’ve only seen Korn, Type O Negative, Gwar, and Lamb Of God live. I’ve wanted to see more concerts live but I never have the money. I’ve always wanted to see Manson live but never got around to it sadly. These days I hear he is all doped up on stage doing performances which is unfortunate.

True story, I seen Type O Negative live three months before the lead singer died. I’ll never forget that.

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I saw gwar once. Ridiculous show. I also saw the Grateful Dead about 6 months before Jerry Garcia died.

I went to the summer sanitarium tour with metallica, kid rock, korn, system of a down and powerman 5000…back when kid rock still had the midget. Only twice have metallica ever cancelled a show, and this was one of them…sort of. The singer had hurt his back earlier in the day while jet skiing and couldn’t get on stage, so rather than deal with a potential riot, they got various members of all the other bands to fill in and to team up in odd combinations and just played like a 4 hour set of all kinds of shit. Dude from system of a down did master of puppets with the rest of metallica, the guitarist from metallica did low rider with some members of korn, the midget from kid rock did for whom the bell tolls. They got a guy from the audience to try and do a song as a singer and he fucked it up and they literally threw him off the stage. I was pretty disappointed as I’d played the guitar for years, grew up on metallica and could play almost every song they did all the way up until the black album. Ended up getting kicked off the marta in atlanta that night, then kicked out of a cab on the side of a highway, then bribed a waffle house manager to abandon his crew and give me and some friends a ride to try and find our car. We’d passed out on the marta and were miles away from the place we’d parked. Didn’t find it until the next day covered up in tickets. My friend worked for la quinta hotels and we’d booked 2 rooms for 3 days with his discount, and the 1 guy who’d left early and had gotten back to the hotel had pissed off the manager somehow and had watched tons of pay per view porn and when we finally stumbled in the manager got in my face and tried to make me pay for a bunch of porn. My friend said he didn’t know anything about it so I defended him to the manager and told him to fuck off and that this was no way to treat guests and that billing should be resolved on checkout. Then he kept being an ass and we raided the continental breakfast. Went back to the room we were in and someone ended up taking a shit between the mattresses, breaking the mirror in the bathroom, the lamp, and smearing food and shit all over everything before we checked out. I don’t know who’s credit card that shit was on but I"m pretty sure they were fucked and my friend lost his job at the la quinta in birmingham.

Hell man, just a few weeks ago I was nominated for this award from a local group, and it was at this fancy place on the top floor of this nice banking building, so I knew I was gonna get wasted because the bar was free. Then, that very morning, I found out from a team of attorneys that I was no longer facing almost the rest of my life in prison and that I wasn’t going to have to go to jail at all after being out on bond the last 2.5 years. So I ended up feeling a need to celebrate. So I used travel miles to book a fat room at this nice hotel downtown and started drinking manhattans and waiting for my friend to meet me to go to this event. I got there and drank like 5 or 6 beers in about 2 hours after the 2 manhattans. Then stumbled out of there wasted but not after saying a bunch of crazy shit to these 2 chicks who run the membership office of this fancy private club in the banking tower. Then the people from the event moved on to a fancy place down the street for an after party, and I had some russian and some jordanian friends of mine meet me there and I was so happy about not going to prison that I ended up drinking 2 or 3 manhattans and ordering like 5 bottles of champagne for all these people. but 2 of them I kept and was just double fisting these 2 bottles of champagne. Then I got one of the russians and this nurse I know from the local hospital to come back to the room and I opened a bottle of maker’s 46 and some vermouth and bitters and I don’t remember shit after that. I woke up around noon with the sun blaring in my eyes through the balcony window. I had 1 sock on. There were clothes in there that weren’t mine. Everyone had left. There were half empty bottles of liquor scattered around and a bunch of fruit like apples and oranges and bananas just thrown at the walls and stomped into the carpet and smeared all over the place. I legitimately didn’t know where the fuck my car was and I went into a panic and grabbed all my shit to get out of there and when I got downstairs the valet dudes were like,. “HEY, HEY! HERE HE IS!” and they all stared laughing at me and brought me my car.

I did not win the award, but I’m pretty sure I had the most fun. I ended up getting sent an offer from that fancy private club where they offered to reduce all the fees so low, and comp me enough shit to make it a net gain for me and so when I came out of court the following monday I just swiped a card and now I can eat fine food and all that shit and take bitches to the top of a fancy building for wine tastings and what not and in the end I’m pretty sure it’s not gonna cost me anything. Stopped in for some lunch the other day had a great time. It’s like the spot where local and state politicians have fundraiser dinners and shit and my ass is probably the only person in the whole place who can tell stories of all the hotel rooms I’ve trashed and all the crazy shit I’ve done. It’s like dentists and lawyers and other assorted assholes who have the worldliness of a slice of toast. Now here I come about to shoot the corks off champagne bottles because I beat down some shit in the district court. Only member in history with a tattoo on his head.

You gotta go to a Gwar live show on Halloween though. Was never really into Grateful Dead myself.

Do you even mosh? :wink: