Photos and review by: Alan Ralph @ARPhotoSF
As with every four-year election cycle, this 2024 United States presidential election season has been equally as boring as it is annoying, with the 24/7 news coverage and the debates and the spam texts and emails and the constant ads on the social feeds as well as in the physical mailbox.
Thankfully, the greatest live band in the universe, Antarctica’s very own GWAR, has once again stepped up to help out the American public… by executing all of the presidential candidates, present and past.
Spinning Platters is never one to avoid a good ole bloody mess, and with the expensive camera equipment properly covered, GWAR marched onto the stage and wasted no time in chopping off heads, hands, arms, and anything else available to spew their fluids onto all of those awaiting their bloody destiny.
Their announcement of The Stoned Age tour said nothing more than this: “On this tour we will [chronicle] the embarrassing loser-takes-all choice between a neurodivergent fascist and a desiccated mummy to be the leader of the free world. What could possibly go wrong?”
“In this corner, wearing a pantsuit that is woefully inadequate in covering her massive badonkadonk. Is she Black? Is she Indian? She slept her way to the middle… Kamala Junk in the Trunk Harris.”
“In this corner, weighing in at an unbelievable 160 pounds… the 45th, according to him, the 46th, and quite possibly the final president of the United States… NFT sellin’, head like a melon, convicted felon… Donald Grab Them by the Pussy Trump.”
GWAR kicked off the set with this cage-match style introduction of the two candidates of the current election… and then subsequently eviscerated them both. Having just killed off both candidates, they were left with the notion that “we’re stuck with this f*kin shit ass job” but don’t want it. Cue the stone age time machine prop on stage where “we could use this thing to bring back any president from history!”
Over the course of the next hour, Barack Obama, George Bush Jr, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Adolf Hitler (in a search for leaders from other nations), Founding Fathers Jon Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Hancock (all together as one giant superhero), and finally Joe Biden were all hilariously brought back to life and then immediately disemboweled, with their insides sprayed onto the enthusiastically eager crowd.
Speaking of spraying, who actually goes to see GWAR and doesn’t know this?! It was likely posted just for venue liability, but this is the first time ever seeing a warning sign in GWAR’s eleven visits to The Regency Ballroom.
Click on any photo below for a slideshow of full-size images of GWAR.
Dark Funeral and Squid Pisser opened the show. Both sets were intentionally dark by design, and only one photo turned out good enough to show here…
