Would like to thank Psychopathic Records for giving me the opportunity to see the Detroit Version of the Underground Rebels tour. Same one I saw in des moines, however quite a bit more energy. Not to mention the clowns head lined it. TJF gave away a ticket to our facebook community to this show as well. Also got to attend the video shoot for the upcoming Mighty Death Pop Video: Chris Benoit
Underground Rebels tour- I just seen it days before and dropped you a review on that, you can read it HERE.
The Detroit Version was a quicker, higher energy version. DGAF was almost identical, other then they did not try and throw out chicken huntin at the end. Kung Fu Vampire – brought it just a few notches higher then he did for Des Moines. You could tell he was excited to be opening for the Clowns. In Detroit of all places to open for them.
Potluck’s set was much different, no screens, no turn tables, just the back drop and them busting out some of their well known songs. After a shortened set they capped it off like in Des Moines brining the whole tour on stage, and a bunch of lettes to wrap it up before giving the stage over to the clowns.
Before the clowns took the stage, they talked about upcoming JCW shows and through out some T-shirts to the crowd. Catching one and standing near a lette celebrating her birthday. TJF decided it was birthday present time! Happy Birthday Lette, hope it made your day. She is pictured below.
So this venue had no baracade – with a knee high stage – means good times for anyone up front. At the start of the clowns set it was clear that my legs where going to break so just got up on the stage where I chilled for the rest of the show. Was the old school crazy show like back in the 90’s (maybe I’m to old for all that now a days) Lots of faygo flying, lots of bodies flying, just a all out juggalo good time. Only concert staleness besides the 8 dollar beers was someone decided they wanted my hat more then me, snagged it off my melon and took off. Come on man? Really.
The set was something different, you can see it in the pictures below. Some gargoyle type statues with glowing red lights around Mike E. Clark on the tables. The set list was the typical set list you hear from them for the past 3 years. I didn’t notice them play ‘Chris Benoit’ like they have in the last couple of concerts. Bang Pow Boom – was cut short I believe just due to the massive ammount of people on the stage… Even though the song seems way short when your part of faygo armageddeon, im pretty sure it was actually cut short this time.
No news was dropped during the show – was hoping as the last show before the gathering, some kinda info would be dropped. They where offering the Mighty Death Pop flags as part of a promotion when pre-ordering Mighty Death Pop at the show – so kinda throws that Friday contest statement for this week that they are not being sold – out the window, as many people walked away with them.
Chris Benoit Video Shoot: Show up Promptly at 8:30 am. So the only staleness of the video shoot was rushing to make it by 8:30 just to sit around till 3:30 when they started using us extras in the video shoot. We took a party bus from our cars to the staging area for the extras where a tent was setup, with some lights, music, tent, tables, free water. At 2ish food finally showed, up, not sure ive seen 35 pizzas disapear that fast. Another 35 showed up shortly after that.
I do have to say, going like 12 hours without my phone in my pocket was a lot harder then it should be. No electronic devices where allowed inside.
The staging area burned through 2 generators during this time. Not sure what the deal was, but the loss of music in a old steel mill full of juggalos didn’t get as chaotic as you think it would.
Now I can’t really get into the details, cause it would ruin the fucking surprise. But as advertised, all extras where in plain black hoodie, pants, and shoes. So you can imagine there is not much in the way of your friends seeing you, with a few exceptions – hair sticking out, a black mark on a hand, etc, etc… We will see how hard I am to spot when the video drops, but i should be able to find myself, and my crew I think.
So the following video was seen by Violent J, etc, and it was decided the Director was the guy for making this video, so check it out – to get a sneak peak at a loose concept of what we may be getting, or what inspired them to hire the guy anyway. (from a video director point of view, not content)
Violent J stated a few times that the song and video are not a Tribute to Chris Benoit, but more about that moment of snapping and losing control.
Video release papers and liability papers where signed, wardrobe checked everyone for any color that could be covered with black duct tape, or made people change. Then it was off to the video shoot.
Some things we learned during the shoot – Master P will be playing the gathering, Vader will be wrestling at the gathering, and Ric Flair will be hosting main stage one night (Like Charlie Sheen year.) So after Charlie Sheen – and the Whoop Whoop Winning. It did not take long after Violent J said this for the people at the shoot and Shaggy to come up with “Whoop Whooooooa” Also Project Pat’s next Album will have a collab with the clowns on it.
There was a article that came out after the shoot, based on a interview that was done that day (No TJF Interview, i know – i know, we shoulda had one). This one was done by freep.com and you can find it HERE. There are a few spoilers in the article including that we where all wearing masks (They leaked it, not me.) Also that the music was played at double speed – thus the video will have a slow motion type effect when it is matched up to the song at regular speed. (Interested to see how this turns out.)
They also state that the video is planned to drop mid-july which we where not told at all that day.
The masks where pretty cool – this is something im very interested in seeing in the final product, although I am not a huge fan of this actual track, I think the video is going to turn out pretty fucking epic – hoping it drops on time!
In closing – I had a good time during the actual video shooting process, it was fun to see things come together – and found it interesting that they notice shit like a dude wearing blue boxers in a crowd of black clothes and redo the take. (Was not me – commando – TMI??) -Hazin
