Friday, August 15, 2014

GWAR: BATTLECROSS SHARE PHOTOS OF GWAR-B-Q 8/15/2014 Hadad's Lake (7900 Osborne Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23231)

Michigan thrash/metal warriors BATTLECROSS are sharing pics of the Dave Brockie Memorial/ GWAR-B-Q is taking place  8/15/2014 Hadad's Lake (7900 Osborne Turnpike, Richmond, VA 23231). 







ITP V.014 EDITORS NOTE: A typo regarding previous ITP V.014 journal entries about GWAR-B-Q  2014 as the event is 8/15/2014 and NOT 8/16/2014, sowee. 

 Dave Brockie (GWAR bassist) CAUSE OF DEATH: ACCIDENTAL HEROIN OVERDOSE (acute heroin toxicity). Many asking whom will fill in for late GWAR vocalist frontman DAVE BROCKIE? Will GWAR continue on after DAVE BROCKIE's DEATH? BEEFCAKE THE MIGHTY will be on vocals for GWAR and expect the band for a fall 2014 NORTH AMERICAN tour.                                                                                                                                         






GWAR main man DAVE BROCKIE's (AKA ODERUS URUNGUS) was being investigated by Richmond, Virginia police as drug related. DAVE BROCKIE (AKA: ODERUS URUNGUS) vocalist of  GWAR was found DEAD Sunday 3/23/2014 at 50.



GWAR guitarist CORY SMOOT (FLATTUS MAXIMUS) passed away on the bands tour bus in 2011.

GWAR B-Q, set for 8/15/2014 @ HADAD's LAKE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA will GO ON as planned with a public memorial for DAVE BROCKIE (AKA: ODERUS URUNGUS) set to take place 8/15/2014 (@ HADAD's LAKE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA) as the show features BODY COUNT, HATEBREED, BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and more.






 GWAR have been an active band since the late 80's, as the band concept was started by Virginia University college art students.

GWAR unleashed "BATTLE MAXIMUS"  9/17/2013 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.

BATTLECROSS unleashed "War Of Will" 7/8/2013 via  METAL BLADE RECORDS.








FROM RANDY BLYTHE (LAMB OF GOD):
Tonight we sent Oderus home in a fitting manner at the public memorial for Dave Brockie. A blazing Viking ship with Oderus laid out in it, the cuttlefish pointing proudly straight up. Watching my friend Dave's costume go up in flames in front of a thousand fans was so much more intense for me than the private memorial for friends & family we had April Fool's Day. I spoke at both of them, as GWAR asked me to, & both times as I spoke I was sad. But watching his alter-ego burn tore me up way more than the first memorial, maybe because there was Dave, the human who was my friend who just "left us"- I never saw his body- & then there was Oderus, who was something entirely else. To watch his stage gear burn was like watching part of my life literally go up in flames. I was sobbing my eyes out as I took this photo. It was just a super-intense moment. Very beautiful, but overwhelming. Fly free, Oderus- you are missed.

FROM BATTLECROSS: R.I.P Dave Brockie. Thank you for the memories and the music.



Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-