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Originally Posted by ismokeblunts
Probably wasn't more than 50 feet from you at the time. I went to two of the Red's shows. I was amazed at how many times Gwar actually came through Edmonton in a year or so there.
So Red's isn't Red's anymore? What do they got going on in there now, same shit different name? Right after I graduated I moved with some buddies like a block away from the mall, I was working at the HMV there, and we practically lived at Red's. Tuesday nights were always good for picking up drunk college girls. Awesome place for you and a buddy to go shoot pool and single out a couple girlfriends and work your magic. I fucking loved that place...
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I think they call it Edmonton Event Centre now. I haven't been there since, but back in the day I used to shoot all shows brought to town by Union Events. I've heard a lot about GWAR shows and how much blood they use up, but never took their word for it. Not even seeing entire Red's wrapped up in plastic was good enough warning for stupid, naive me.
As with any band, GWAR gave photographers first 3 songs under the stage for pictures. I thought - surely they're gonna take it easy so we can do our photography in peace... was I ever wrong. First character on the stage got its head chopped off as they started and I caught full dose of squirting blood. Went aside, wiped my camera and told myself to watch out for weird characters on stage and band members wielding swords. Next thing you know, the pipes they had installed all over the stage were turned on just as I was in front of them. I caught all that shit all over me and my cam equipment again. At that moment there was no reason for me to try to keep off blood. I was entirely drenched bottom to top.