What Is GWAR?
When their 1990 album “Scumdogs of the Universe,” sold a few thousand copies, no one could have predicted GWAR’s success and longevity. The music business is a volatile one, with groups constantly appearing and disappearing in a way that would make Darwin proud. You’re at the top of the food chain or you’re being digested. The groups that survive for decades or more are selling something that people want to buy. Each musical genre has its survivors. GWAR is one of them. Who would have thought that this group would still be around in 2007? GWAR (an acronym for God What an Awful Racket,”) is a group with the stated purpose of “(being) as obnoxious as the world is obnoxious.” That’s how groups’s mission statement has been expressed by Dave Brockie, who co-created the group with Chuck Varga and Hunter Jackson in Richmond, Virginia. The three men brought into the world the shocking multimedia show which was the result of their combined talents. David Brockie’s interests were in music, the m
