By Josh Shoberg
On November 3rd of 1996, I attended the Gwar concert at First Avenue. Skold was the first band to open. It seemed like they weren’t too experienced but all in all they were pretty good. The second band to play was the Genetorturers. To put it bluntly, they sucked. The guitar work was superb, however the female lead singer of S&M band screamed as loud as she could. It sounded like crap.
Finally Gwar came on, introduced by a man with a Jerry Springer mask. The band finally came on and ripped his face off. After I lost my shoe in the mosh pit, I retreated back, but I still saw the fight scenes. After the show Slimenstra signed some autographs and went home. My overall opinion: it kicked butt.