Sara Castillo

On Monday, October 22nd, GWAR played in Charlotte, NC with DevilDriver, Ghost Trek creator, Michael Plumides had an opportunity to get together with his old jailhouse roomie, Oderus Urungus.  Plumides and Oderus, aka Dave Brockie, spent the night in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg jail together after the infamous "GWAR Obscenity Bust" in North Carolina, circa 1990.  Plumides owned the 4808 Club at the time of the raid, which later resulted in the venue's demise and GWAR's banning from the state for a year, chronicled in Plumides' memoir, Kill the Music, on Amazon. 

Just fresh from Rock and Shock, where the GWAR slaves shoved Danny Trejo and Bill Moseley in a meat grinder for the horror fanatics, the band is also on tour for five weeks to debut their Flattus Maximus replacement (after the tragic death of long-time guitarist and producer, Cory Smoot), “Pustulus Maximus” – the latest addition to the GWAR menagerie. 

Plumides said of his meeting with Dave Brockie, "In full costume Dave hugged me for a moment, and said, “Dude, what you’ve been doing is amazing – getting your name out there. I have been keeping up with all of your shit, with Ghost Trek. I even answered one of your posts on Fearnet about Holliston. The stuff on Dread Central is awesome.  I applaud all of your efforts. I read about everything you do.  Please don’t leave, Mike.  Hang out after the show. We really need to talk.” 

"After the show, Dave invited me up to Richmond in January - He must really be impressed because he's never invited me before now, and I've known him for over twenty years. Dave also asked me to produce on a project he has in mind, and he’s expressed interest in furthering my efforts with a Kill the Music film.  In a weird way, Dave and I are like family members, who don’t necessarily see each other that much, but pick right up where we left off – what Dave referred to as “Kindred Spirits”. When I asked Dave to help me get my book adaptation made, Dave replied, “When have I ever turned you down?"  Dave's got connections with Fearnet,  and now I'm consulting on this Nightbreed television show in development at Morgan Creek, so I think its time for us to seriously consider working together in the genre - it was Dave's idea , anyway.  I've developed exponentially and he said he needs someone to ”keep him focused" so, we'll see what happens. We are both working on horror-comedy projects a creative collaboration makes sense. It was all very positive." 

"It seems like GWAR has "been in my life for so long, I don’t know anything else,” as Ellen Ripley once said of the Alien.  I am tethered to GWAR, to the point I feel like a growth on the Cuddlefish of Cthulhu’s testicle… and that, in itself, is strangely validating."