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- From: pck8t@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (FRANK LOPEZ)
- Subject: Re: WASP
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.155948.8105@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Dec21.134959.21939@physchem.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:59:48 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.134959.21939@physchem.ox.ac.uk> mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark) writes:
- >
- >
- >Could any one tell me why WASP are not appreciated in the USA??? Why do they not
- >get played on the rock stations out there???
- >
-
-
- I am a big stateside W.A.S.P. fan, and I agree with your point of view,
- although I can't answer your question. I happened to be living in
- London at the time The Headless Children came out and the tour began.
- They got publicity, and there was excitement surrounding their coming
- to Hammersmith Odeon for 2 nights at the very beginning of the tour. I
- went to the show and was really psyched. Then when I was in Munich a
- few months later, there were Headless Children posters everywhere,
- publicizing the album and upcoming show there.
-
-
- When I returned to the US, nobody knew anything about the album, and all
- the band did was a small club tour with very little publicity. For as
- much as Blackie tried early on to create controversy and draw attention
- to the band with his vulgarity and offensiveness, somehow all but a small
- faction of people in the US missed the point. Even when one of the radio
- stations in Boston (WAAF) started playing Forever Free, they rarely would
- credit W.A.S.P. They would usually just bury it in the middle of a
- bunch of other songs and then not mention it. Of course even though I
- like Forever Free, it certainly isn't a typical W.A.S.P. song.
-
- I have since met a British guy here in Virginia who has 2 W.A.S.P.
- tattoos and is fantatical about the band. You can bet that if the
- Castle Donnington Monsters of Rock was here in the US, you _never_
- would have seen W.A.S.P. appearing.
-
-
- Paul K
-