For those of you who is not familiar with that name, you may be with the band he leads: W.A.S.P. This band was a shock-rock-hair metal band which began in the 1980's and through many line-up changes still continues today though on a lesser scale of popularity in the USA since the early 1990's. This band earned the ire of a group led by Tipper Gore called the Parents Musical Research Center (which demanded warning labels on records to let parents know about it's content, much like movies) with a single called, "Animal-I **** like a Beast. On stage, following Alice Cooper's lead, they featured half-naked models and did mock torture and even threw meat at their fans. Most of their material were anthems like "I Wanna be Somebody" and "Blind in Texas" whereas others were about getting laid. Former Guitarist Chris Holmes (once married to Lita Ford) even has a infamous scene in the documentary "Decline of the Western Civilization Part II" where he is incredibly drunk while in a swimming pool at night while his mother looks on with disgust. W.A.S.P according to Lawless doesn't stand for anything though the PMRC insisted it stood for "We are Satan's People" or "We are Sexual Perverts". Their magnum opus is a rock opera called "The Crimson Idol" about a aspiring rock musician with the moral, "Be careful what you wish for..."
I was a big W.A.S.P fan in my teen-aged years being a screwed up kid myself, that and the music was complex and "I Wanna Be Somebody" strikes a chord with everyone. This was during a time where I got tired of the hypocrisy of the church where I was raised (does it really matter which one?) and wandered looking for my own answers and ending up with people like Witchy-Poo. When I began my entrance into Orthodoxy I had an LP of "Animal" and threw it in the trash bin of my apartment and got rid of alot of other stuff I felt that I couldn't listen to or endorse if I was to take my new Faith seriously.
Blackie Lawless is one of the last people I'd ever expect to be religious, and I was right during all the time I listened to WA.S.P because he wasn't. FAR from it. But he got tired of profanity for profanity's sake and people "listening with their eyes". Here in this recent interview he explains why he will never sing "Animal" again. His singing voice sounds ALOT different from his speaking voice btw. I just wonder how he's going to perform "The Crimson Idol" since it has alot of profanity in it? Then again I and Jim Caviezel have to swear sometimes too. I first learned of this by accident and found christophobes complaining online about it. Well, the truth is only offensive to those who will not hear it. Blackie Lawless is not Orthodox, but neither is Chuck Norris.
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