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Showing posts with label Wrestling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wrestling. Show all posts
Monday, January 12, 2015
Sabu and Antiseen, The Perfect 5 man Tag Team Match
Sunday, August 4, 2013
You Need Punk Rock And The Cosmic Commander Needs Some Help
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| Howard Saunders, aka the Cosmic Commander needs our help with medical bills |
If you don't want to purchase the cd and want to contribute directly, by all means, any help would be great. Times like these is when we all need to band together to help a friend out. We would like to enlist the support of our punk rock brethren.
We have also been alerted that the YouCaring.com site takes 2.9% fee for the donations so if you want to insure that 100% of the money you contribute goes directly to the hospital bills, just send it via paypal to this address: Howardsfund@gmail.com and do it as a "friend" to avoid paypal fees as well.
Buy the Antiseen - Falls Count Anywhere, CD to Contribute $5 to help Howard
Contribute directly to help out Howard Saunders aka The Cosmic Commander
"As we all know Howard was in a a serious motorcycle accident the last week of July. This first week was spent in a medically induced coma in ICU/Critical Care. He has had emergency cranial surgery to remove the pressure on his brain and was on total life support and dialysis. At the time of this writing (8/2) he being brought out of the induced coma.
What is not known by many is that he DOES NOT have Medical Insurance and the cost for his family to stay by his side has been a financial burden to say the least. He is also going to have a VERY EXTENSIVE rehabilitation and recovery period. As a result we have set up this fund to help his family defray the cost of being by his side and to assist in covering some of his medical care both now and in the future. No donation is too small and every penny will help in some way now or in the future.
Let us, as Howie's numerous communities who love him, join forces and get together as one to help ease the burden where we can for him and his family in their time of need.
Together we CAN move mountains! ~Nameste~"
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| Antiseen - Falls Count Anywhere, A Collection of Wrestling Songs |
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!
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| The Cosmic Commander, Shorty The Ref and Jeff Clayton of Antiseen |
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Say Your Prayers For The Cosmic Commander
I hate getting phone calls and finding out
about the news of a fellow rider going down. My heart goes out to
everyone that knows the Cosmic Commander or have witnessed his amazing
talents around a wrestling ring. After meeting him last summer
at our Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse, he was nothing short of one great
individual that I would have enjoyed getting to know better. His
injuries are massive, so please keep him in your prayers. All hail the
Cosmic Commander of Wrestling. To my fellow biker brethren, ride safe...
Check out the video below and go to 3:20 and listen to one of the great tirades by the Cosmic Commander
Check out the video below and go to 3:20 and listen to one of the great tirades by the Cosmic Commander
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| The Cosmic Commander, Shorty The Ref and Jeff Clayton of Antiseen - photo © Lance Dawes |
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| Necro Butcher, John, Jeff Clayton, Cosmic Commander, Phil, Beastmaster Rick Link and Joe Young - photo © Lance Dawes |
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| The Cosmic Commander, Shorty The Ref and Jeff Clayton of Antiseen - photo © Lance Dawes |
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| The Cosmic Commander stalking the ring - photo © Lance Dawes |
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| The Cosmic Commander talking trash and making the show - photo © Lance Dawes |
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
The Iron Sheik Reigns Supreme In Wrestling History
As a kid growing up in the 1980's, wrestling was king. There were always other sports such as baseball and football, but pro wrestling captured the imagination of a world filled with tough dudes that had huge character and better one liners than most comedians. My brother and I were addicted to the sport and became life long fans of the squared circle.
The article below caught my attention and made me read it immediately as the Iron Sheik was one of the best heels in the business. His rants about America and how great Iran were classic. One of my favorite feuds of his was with Dusty Rhodes and some of their legendary matches. It could have been the blood shed or the pure athleticism, but what got me the most was his character. The timing was perfect for his schlocky approach to foreign interest via wrestling and from a country aligned with Russia in the time of the cold war. Gotta give huge props to the WWE for creating such a great batch of characters that continue to live on, even though all those years of body slams and choke holds have taken their toll.
Check out original article on Yahoo
"His voice was instantly recognizable, like that of a long lost friend. But it was a joyless voice, and sounded a bit feeble.
Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, is 73, and is in pain. He badly needs knee surgery that he can't afford, but if the truth is to be told, every joint on his body could use fixing.
A lifetime in wrestling, amateur and professional, will do that to a man.
So Vaziri, better known as the evil pro wrestler, "The Iron Sheik," would on this day rather sit in his chair and let the hours pass by than talk about his life.
He aches all over, he's not making a lot of money and he wants to be left alone.
"Bubba, please, I will talk to you and answer all of your questions," he says, pleadingly. "But let's do it another time. Now is not good."
Now, though, is the time. At least that's the view of Page Magen, who along with his twin brother, Jian, serves as the Sheik's manager. The Magens are attempting to raise funds through crowd sourcing to produce a documentary on the Sheik's life.
It is an incredible life, one well worth documenting. He was born in a small village near Tehran. His childhood home had no running water nor plumbing, but he worked hard and became one of Iran's most popular athletes. He competed in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City on its Greco-Roman wrestling team, and served for a while as a bodyguard for the family of the Shah.
He fled the country, though, when his friend and idol Gholamreza Takhti was, he believed, murdered by the government. He feared he might be next, so in 1969, he headed for the safety of the U.S.
The official version of Takhti's death, released by the government, is that he committed suicide. But Vaziri and many others believe Takhti was executed for his anti-government views.
"He was so popular in Iran," Vaziri said. "He was like the Michael Jordan. Everyone loved him. And I was No. 2. I thought, if they got him, they're probably going to get me, too. I knew I had to leave."
And so he set out for the U.S. Though he spoke only Farsi when he arrived, he quickly became immersed in amateur wrestling in his new country. He won an AAU championship in 1971 and was presented his gold medal by Muhammad Ali.
Later, he served as an assistant coach under the legendary Alan Rice on the 1972 U.S. Olympic wrestling team before he went on to stardom as a villainous professional wrestler.
But he became addicted to crack cocaine during his wrestling career, then suffered through the 2003 murder of his oldest daughter, Marissa.
Page Magen knows that for Vaziri to raise the money he needs for the documentary, he has to tell the story of his life to drum up interest in the project, so he patiently prods Vaziri.
"Sheikie baby, listen to me," Magen says, gently. "You need to focus. This is important. Can you do this for me, Sheikie? Just focus for a few minutes."
Vaziri agrees, but he speaks slowly, in a monotone and without passion.
Later, his wife, Caryl, says she's not surprised. It was not a good day, for the Iron Sheik, she says.
"He's in such great pain, almost all the time," Caryl Vaziri said.
The Iron Sheik poses for a picture during his younger days as a wrestler. (Courtesy: Hossein Vaziri)
The Sheik walks with the aid of a cane, but even with the cane, he moves slowly, unsteadily, and with great difficulty.
"He's such a big, strong guy, and he hurts so much, it hurts me to see him," she said. "He had operations on both of his knees about 10 years ago, and they failed. He hurts everywhere, but the knees are really painful. He told me, 'Caryl, I hurt from the top of my head to the bottom of my toes.' It breaks my heart. He can withstand a lot of pain, but this is too much for him."
His left knee is particularly painful, and gruesome looking. A bone protrudes out. The bones, Caryl Vaziri said, are out of alignment and "don't come together." It makes it torture to walk.
He loved his job, and wouldn't trade his years as a pro wrestler for anything. He won the WWF (now WWE) world championship on the night after Christmas in 1983 when he beat Bob Backlund. He then went on to have a lengthy feud with Hulk Hogan. He might have become the greatest heel – pro wrestling parlance for a bad guy – in the sport's long history.
But being a pro wrestler means days and weeks on end on the road, away from family and friends. Addictions are common. And though the results of a pro wrestling match are predetermined, that does not mean it's not physically taxing.
"Being a wrestler is not an easy life," he says. "It's very hard on the body. I loved it, but it is a hard life to live."
Josip Peruzovic is now 66, and lives in Baltimore. He used to work for the city doing code enforcement, but now works for the Police Department with its kids programs.
During his younger days, Peruzovic was known as Nikolai Volkoff, and teamed with the Iron Sheik to win the WWF tag team titles.
Volkoff and the Sheik played off the anti-Soviet, anti-Iranian mindset that was prevalent in the U.S. in the late 1970s and through the 1980s.
The Iron Sheik would routinely grab the microphone from the ring announcer and shout to an enraged crowd, "Iran, No. 1! Russia, No. 1!"
Hossein Vaziri is presented with a medal for wrestling accomplishments. (Courtesy: Hossein Vaziri)
At that point, he'd say "USA!" and then spit on the ground. Volkoff would then take the microphone and sing the Russian national anthem as the crowd booed mercilessly.
Peruzovic recalled his time as Vaziri's tag team partner fondly, and said Vaziri was great to work with. Vaziri, he said, loved the fans, particularly children, and would sign autographs for them for so long, he'd miss his plane.
But it wasn't long after they teamed up that Peruzovic began to worry about his friend.
Vaziri was becoming addicted to alcohol and crack cocaine, and Peruzovic feared for his safety.
"My God, I think at one time, more than 90 percent of the wrestlers were taking one drug or another," Peruzovic said. "I was fortunate that I never got mixed up in that. I don't drink, and I don't smoke and I never was fooling around with drugs. I thank God for that. But I know that the Sheik had a lot of problems with it.
"I'd say to him sometimes, 'Man, you have to be careful, and be good to your body. You're going to kill yourself.' He's a beautiful person with a big heart, but he didn't listen to me. He loved those drugs."
Caryl Vaziri said that when she met her husband in Minnesota in 1971, he didn't drink, smoke or fool with drugs. But once he hit the big-time and was traveling more than 300 days a year, the peer pressure on him was intense.
"It was horrible," she said. "It just got so bad, and it puts such a strain on your family and your relationship and everything. It's bad enough that he was gone on the road so much, but to know what he was doing to himself, it was very painful for the whole family."
On Oct. 7, 2005, a little more than two years after his oldest daughter was murdered, Vaziri was arrested near his Georgia home and charged with two counts of possession of cocaine and one count of possession of marijuana.
Not long after, Caryl Vaziri had had enough and left him.
"I never stopped loving him," she said. "Never, not for one minute. But I just had to get him to stop [using drugs]. [Me leaving] and getting my own place shook him up and straightened him out and he has been clean the last couple of years, three or four years now."
Several years ago when the Magens started working on the documentary, Vazir
I came to Toronto where they live to make an appearance at a baseball card show.
Vaziri took a cocktail of drugs and fell into a drug- and alcohol-induced stupor. The promoter who'd brought him to Toronto dumped Vaziri on the Magens.
Page and Jian picked him up and tried to bring him to the airport for his flight to Georgia.
"But someone had just given him a pile of drugs, and he was crazy, out of control, and was completely wanting more," Jian Magen said. "He didn't want to leave. We were fighting with him, but he wound up missing his flight."
They put him into a hotel and booked him on another flight. Vaziri was getting out of control and someone from the hotel phoned the Magens to come do something about him.
Vaziri wound up having a mild heart attack that night.
"The doctor told us, 'You know, he's pretty fortunate that whatever happened, happened, ' " Jian Magen said. "If he had gotten on that plane, he'd almost for certain have had a full heart attack and who knows what would have happened. So he was here for about four or five more days and, in a way, he was detoxed. And honestly, he's been pretty straight since.
"He'll buzz a beer here or there, but he's been clean for the most part since that time."
Some of Vaziri's later drug use was probably as a result of depression about the May 3, 2003, murder of his 27-year-old daughter, Marissa Jeanne Vaziri.
Charles Warren Reynolds, her boyfriend of several weeks, was arrested and later convicted for strangling her to death.
Caryl Vaziri said she believed her daughter was breaking up with Reynolds, which is why she thinks he killed her.
Hossein Vaziri was crushed by his daughter's death.
"That was just the worst year of our lives," she said. "He'd just had his knee surgeries, and had just gotten out of the hospital, when Marissa was murdered. It was devastating. No parent expects to bury their child. It tore us apart.
"[Vaziri] was distraught because he couldn't do anything to help her. He was this big strong guy that everyone had relied on for so long. And in this situation, there was nothing he could do to save her. It devastated him that he couldn't have been there and tried to save her."
At his peak as a wrestler in the early-to-mid 1980s, Vaziri was earning as much as $500,000 a year. But the travel was incredibly difficult, he had to pay all of his own expenses and there were crazy quirks to his job.
His gimmick as an Iranian bad guy raised passions among the audience who attended the wrestling matches. Vaziri forbade his family from traveling with him for fear someone would hurt them. At several stops, fans came out of the stands and attempted to stab or assault him. Several times, he was stabbed, though only in the upper arm.
But the family car had its windshield broken, its tires slashed and sugar put into the gas tank. Vaziri sighs and said he was never all that concerned for his safety, though he said it was another example of the difficulty of life as a wrestler.
"I love wrestling and I would do it all again," he says. "But it is a very, very hard business. There is nothing about it that is easy.""
The article below caught my attention and made me read it immediately as the Iron Sheik was one of the best heels in the business. His rants about America and how great Iran were classic. One of my favorite feuds of his was with Dusty Rhodes and some of their legendary matches. It could have been the blood shed or the pure athleticism, but what got me the most was his character. The timing was perfect for his schlocky approach to foreign interest via wrestling and from a country aligned with Russia in the time of the cold war. Gotta give huge props to the WWE for creating such a great batch of characters that continue to live on, even though all those years of body slams and choke holds have taken their toll.
Check out original article on Yahoo
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| The Iron Sheik, one the best heels in wrestling of all time! |
Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, is 73, and is in pain. He badly needs knee surgery that he can't afford, but if the truth is to be told, every joint on his body could use fixing.
A lifetime in wrestling, amateur and professional, will do that to a man.
So Vaziri, better known as the evil pro wrestler, "The Iron Sheik," would on this day rather sit in his chair and let the hours pass by than talk about his life.
He aches all over, he's not making a lot of money and he wants to be left alone.
"Bubba, please, I will talk to you and answer all of your questions," he says, pleadingly. "But let's do it another time. Now is not good."
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| Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Sheik |
It is an incredible life, one well worth documenting. He was born in a small village near Tehran. His childhood home had no running water nor plumbing, but he worked hard and became one of Iran's most popular athletes. He competed in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City on its Greco-Roman wrestling team, and served for a while as a bodyguard for the family of the Shah.
He fled the country, though, when his friend and idol Gholamreza Takhti was, he believed, murdered by the government. He feared he might be next, so in 1969, he headed for the safety of the U.S.
The official version of Takhti's death, released by the government, is that he committed suicide. But Vaziri and many others believe Takhti was executed for his anti-government views.
"He was so popular in Iran," Vaziri said. "He was like the Michael Jordan. Everyone loved him. And I was No. 2. I thought, if they got him, they're probably going to get me, too. I knew I had to leave."
And so he set out for the U.S. Though he spoke only Farsi when he arrived, he quickly became immersed in amateur wrestling in his new country. He won an AAU championship in 1971 and was presented his gold medal by Muhammad Ali.
Later, he served as an assistant coach under the legendary Alan Rice on the 1972 U.S. Olympic wrestling team before he went on to stardom as a villainous professional wrestler.
But he became addicted to crack cocaine during his wrestling career, then suffered through the 2003 murder of his oldest daughter, Marissa.
Page Magen knows that for Vaziri to raise the money he needs for the documentary, he has to tell the story of his life to drum up interest in the project, so he patiently prods Vaziri.
"Sheikie baby, listen to me," Magen says, gently. "You need to focus. This is important. Can you do this for me, Sheikie? Just focus for a few minutes."
Vaziri agrees, but he speaks slowly, in a monotone and without passion.
Later, his wife, Caryl, says she's not surprised. It was not a good day, for the Iron Sheik, she says.
"He's in such great pain, almost all the time," Caryl Vaziri said.
The Iron Sheik poses for a picture during his younger days as a wrestler. (Courtesy: Hossein Vaziri)
The Sheik walks with the aid of a cane, but even with the cane, he moves slowly, unsteadily, and with great difficulty.
"He's such a big, strong guy, and he hurts so much, it hurts me to see him," she said. "He had operations on both of his knees about 10 years ago, and they failed. He hurts everywhere, but the knees are really painful. He told me, 'Caryl, I hurt from the top of my head to the bottom of my toes.' It breaks my heart. He can withstand a lot of pain, but this is too much for him."
His left knee is particularly painful, and gruesome looking. A bone protrudes out. The bones, Caryl Vaziri said, are out of alignment and "don't come together." It makes it torture to walk.
He loved his job, and wouldn't trade his years as a pro wrestler for anything. He won the WWF (now WWE) world championship on the night after Christmas in 1983 when he beat Bob Backlund. He then went on to have a lengthy feud with Hulk Hogan. He might have become the greatest heel – pro wrestling parlance for a bad guy – in the sport's long history.
But being a pro wrestler means days and weeks on end on the road, away from family and friends. Addictions are common. And though the results of a pro wrestling match are predetermined, that does not mean it's not physically taxing.
"Being a wrestler is not an easy life," he says. "It's very hard on the body. I loved it, but it is a hard life to live."
Josip Peruzovic is now 66, and lives in Baltimore. He used to work for the city doing code enforcement, but now works for the Police Department with its kids programs.
During his younger days, Peruzovic was known as Nikolai Volkoff, and teamed with the Iron Sheik to win the WWF tag team titles.
Volkoff and the Sheik played off the anti-Soviet, anti-Iranian mindset that was prevalent in the U.S. in the late 1970s and through the 1980s.
The Iron Sheik would routinely grab the microphone from the ring announcer and shout to an enraged crowd, "Iran, No. 1! Russia, No. 1!"
Hossein Vaziri is presented with a medal for wrestling accomplishments. (Courtesy: Hossein Vaziri)
At that point, he'd say "USA!" and then spit on the ground. Volkoff would then take the microphone and sing the Russian national anthem as the crowd booed mercilessly.
Peruzovic recalled his time as Vaziri's tag team partner fondly, and said Vaziri was great to work with. Vaziri, he said, loved the fans, particularly children, and would sign autographs for them for so long, he'd miss his plane.
But it wasn't long after they teamed up that Peruzovic began to worry about his friend.
Vaziri was becoming addicted to alcohol and crack cocaine, and Peruzovic feared for his safety.
"My God, I think at one time, more than 90 percent of the wrestlers were taking one drug or another," Peruzovic said. "I was fortunate that I never got mixed up in that. I don't drink, and I don't smoke and I never was fooling around with drugs. I thank God for that. But I know that the Sheik had a lot of problems with it.
"I'd say to him sometimes, 'Man, you have to be careful, and be good to your body. You're going to kill yourself.' He's a beautiful person with a big heart, but he didn't listen to me. He loved those drugs."
Caryl Vaziri said that when she met her husband in Minnesota in 1971, he didn't drink, smoke or fool with drugs. But once he hit the big-time and was traveling more than 300 days a year, the peer pressure on him was intense.
"It was horrible," she said. "It just got so bad, and it puts such a strain on your family and your relationship and everything. It's bad enough that he was gone on the road so much, but to know what he was doing to himself, it was very painful for the whole family."
On Oct. 7, 2005, a little more than two years after his oldest daughter was murdered, Vaziri was arrested near his Georgia home and charged with two counts of possession of cocaine and one count of possession of marijuana.
Not long after, Caryl Vaziri had had enough and left him.
"I never stopped loving him," she said. "Never, not for one minute. But I just had to get him to stop [using drugs]. [Me leaving] and getting my own place shook him up and straightened him out and he has been clean the last couple of years, three or four years now."
Several years ago when the Magens started working on the documentary, Vazir
I came to Toronto where they live to make an appearance at a baseball card show.
Vaziri took a cocktail of drugs and fell into a drug- and alcohol-induced stupor. The promoter who'd brought him to Toronto dumped Vaziri on the Magens.
Page and Jian picked him up and tried to bring him to the airport for his flight to Georgia.
"But someone had just given him a pile of drugs, and he was crazy, out of control, and was completely wanting more," Jian Magen said. "He didn't want to leave. We were fighting with him, but he wound up missing his flight."
They put him into a hotel and booked him on another flight. Vaziri was getting out of control and someone from the hotel phoned the Magens to come do something about him.
Vaziri wound up having a mild heart attack that night.
"The doctor told us, 'You know, he's pretty fortunate that whatever happened, happened, ' " Jian Magen said. "If he had gotten on that plane, he'd almost for certain have had a full heart attack and who knows what would have happened. So he was here for about four or five more days and, in a way, he was detoxed. And honestly, he's been pretty straight since.
"He'll buzz a beer here or there, but he's been clean for the most part since that time."
Some of Vaziri's later drug use was probably as a result of depression about the May 3, 2003, murder of his 27-year-old daughter, Marissa Jeanne Vaziri.
Charles Warren Reynolds, her boyfriend of several weeks, was arrested and later convicted for strangling her to death.
Caryl Vaziri said she believed her daughter was breaking up with Reynolds, which is why she thinks he killed her.
Hossein Vaziri was crushed by his daughter's death.
"That was just the worst year of our lives," she said. "He'd just had his knee surgeries, and had just gotten out of the hospital, when Marissa was murdered. It was devastating. No parent expects to bury their child. It tore us apart.
"[Vaziri] was distraught because he couldn't do anything to help her. He was this big strong guy that everyone had relied on for so long. And in this situation, there was nothing he could do to save her. It devastated him that he couldn't have been there and tried to save her."
At his peak as a wrestler in the early-to-mid 1980s, Vaziri was earning as much as $500,000 a year. But the travel was incredibly difficult, he had to pay all of his own expenses and there were crazy quirks to his job.
His gimmick as an Iranian bad guy raised passions among the audience who attended the wrestling matches. Vaziri forbade his family from traveling with him for fear someone would hurt them. At several stops, fans came out of the stands and attempted to stab or assault him. Several times, he was stabbed, though only in the upper arm.
But the family car had its windshield broken, its tires slashed and sugar put into the gas tank. Vaziri sighs and said he was never all that concerned for his safety, though he said it was another example of the difficulty of life as a wrestler.
"I love wrestling and I would do it all again," he says. "But it is a very, very hard business. There is nothing about it that is easy.""
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Antiseen Is Wrestling With Pop Culture
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| Antiseen - Falls Count Anywhere - A Collection Of Wrestling Songs |
Click over to all things Wrestling With Pop Culture
"Given the self-destructive stage antics and confrontational messages of underground punk band ANTiSEEN, the band’s longevity is as impressive as a championship title reign. But these self-proclaimed Badwill Ambassadors have been piledriving eardrums and abusing themselves for audiences all over the world for 30 years now. And with numerous shows already logged this year, as well as an ever-growing catalog of new releases including the recent New Blood and Falls Count Anywhere albums, ANTiSEEN shows no signs of letting up on its destructive path of punk rock mayhem. As the band embarks on its Dixie Dynamite Tour with Hellstomper, front man Jeff Clayton talks to Wrestling with Pop Culture about wrestling, rock and blood.
ANTiSEEN has done enough songs about wrestling over the years to fill an entire CD. How far back do the songs on this album date?
Our earliest wrestling song was “Cactus Jack” and that appeared on Eat More Possum, which came out in ’93. But the version that’s on Falls Count Anywhere is the single version that came out a few years later. But that’s still the earliest thing on that record.
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| Greatest hype man in the business, the Cosmic Commander. Photo - Lance Dawes |
I’ve always liked wrestling and growing up in the South I loved seeing Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen. Later, when cable came along, we actually got to see the Freebirds and stuff like that. But I always liked the guys that were monsters and freaks. I loved it when Gary Hart brought in Kabuki. I remember being able to barely get a station on our television – we still had one of those rotary-dial antennas – and me and my brother would look for wrestling wherever we could find it. We found something that I think came from Texas and we saw Eric the Red. We thought that was cool, but the one thing that really left an impression on me and is why I still do what I do was when they brought in Abdullah the Butcher to take on Wahoo McDaniel. They had never shown nothing quite that brutal on the television show before, at least not since we had been watching it. They showed some pretty brutal stuff like the Andersons hitting people with the cast they had on for six months. But seeing Abduallah, the commentators made it seem mike it was the most terrible thing in the world. The audience was going crazy, there was blood everywhere and it went off the air while it was still going on. It was like, “Wow!” Then we found the show on another station and watched the replay, even though it looked like it was in a snowstorm, just to get to see it again. Then there were cage matches and barbed wire, which back then guaranteed one thing: there was going to be blood. A cage match was a brutal thing and we used to get wrestling magazines and see pictures of the Billy Graham/Dusty Rhodes bullrope match, barbed wire and all that stuff, wrestling just had a lasting impression. And I have an appreciation for all of it; I like luchadores, I like the mat technician guys like Guerrero, Malenko and all them people. But the monsters and maniacs were always my favorite, and still are to this day.
Wrestling has changed quite a bit since then. Do you still watch much of today’s wrestling?
I don’t watch it much because I don’t have cable. It was a big waste of money for a vast wasteland of nothing. I talk to people who do follow it, though. If something goes down that I think I really need to see, I’ll look it up the next day on YouTube.
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| Did you miss the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse? Blame yourself for being lazy and the show of a life time! The Necrobutcher gouging Beast Master Rick Link with a beer can for a hardcore death match. Photo - Lance Dawes |
It’s about time. He deserves it, man. He and just a handful of others were the ones who breathed life into that company. I know it was the efforts of a lot of people, but when you think about the Attitude Era you think of Foley going off the top of the cage, the Undertaker/Shawn Michaels Hell in a Cell, Stone Cold and all that stuff. And that whole attitude the WWF adopted at that time came from ECW. Foley came from there, even Stone Cold came from ECW to WWE. And they all brought some of that with them. It was a really exciting time for wrestling and one of them times you’ll never forget. It’s hard to picture that as being classic now, but it is.
Another CD came out around the same time as Falls Count Anywhere…
New Blood is a compilation of singles that were done over a three year period. We stopped being concerned with making albums, but we’ve put out a ton of singles in different countries all over the world. They’d be really small runs, so we sold out of all those within days. So we just compiled all those singles to make that album, which is why some of the tracks repeat on Falls Count Anywhere. But we just compiled all the wrestling songs in one place so people could just buy them in one place. I guess that’s not a very good business move since they’d have to buy ten CDs otherwise. Saying that aloud, now I think that was a really dumb move. Now we’re doing a truckload of singles again, so maybe in another year or two we’ll compile another album. We’re doing a split with a death metal group from Cleveland called NunSlaughter that will have two brand new songs on it. We’re also doing a split with Poison Idea that’s going to have a brand new original track and a cover of the Sex Pistols‘ “Belsen Was a Gas”. We’ve got a bunch of other projects lined up that we haven’t actually done yet. Those are the two that are done, sent off and going to be out soon.
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| The Cosmic Commander, The Ref and Jeff Clayton of Antiseen at the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse, Photo - Lance Dawes |
Yeah. We went on a three-month break because our bass player’s wife had a child. But we play at least one weekend a month when we’re not touring. But now we’re touring with Hellstomper and we also have a bunch of offers for one-offs overseas. So this year has been pretty busy.
What do you guys do when you’re not on tour?
Our bass player is going to school on his G.I. Bill. The drummer is about to finish college. Joe [Young] runs a record store and I work in a heating and air conditioner warehouse. ANTiSEEN keeps us busy, but it don’t keep us rich.
You guys are based in the Carolinas, an area with a storied wrestling past. Do you keep up with the local wrestling scene at all?
There’s a town here called Chester where Action Packed Wrestling runs every Friday night. They’ve had people like Ricky Morton and maybe some of the younger guys that are popular. It’s a fun thing. I only live about 20 minutes away from Charlotte and there’s a bunch of federations running out of Charlotte. There’s a real good one that runs out of Tremont Music Hall, where we play, called Xtreme World Wrestling and they’re really good.
Has ANTiSEEN ever performed at a wrestling event?
Yeah. But you know what? Only twice. We played at one in Philadelphia called Rule Breakers Rule back in ’96. That was the first time we had played one and that was complete and total chaos. Cops shut the thing down as we were playing during a barbed wire match. Last summer we hosted a show in Charlotte called Rock N’ Rassle Apocalypse headlined by “The Beastmaster” Rick Link and the Necro Butcher, so there was blood all over the place.
www.antiseen.com
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| Necrobutcher, Cosmic Commander, Rick Link and Antiseen - Photo - Lance Dawes |
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| Beast Master Rick Link giving the Necrobutcher a good beating - Photo Lance Dawes |
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Insane Championship Wrestling And The Braveheart Known As Grado
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| "It's all for nothing if you don't have Grado!" |
Underground wrestling is full of upstarts, who in the words of the almighty Ric Flair, "Write checks that their bodies can't cash". Their pursuit of making it to the upper echelon of leagues such as the WWE is a path only traversed by a select few.
VBS has a great four part documentary series on Insane Championship Wrestling and a few of their standout characters, with one in particular, Grado. What he lacks in a sculpted stature, he makes up for in sheer determination and willingness to seek out his dream. This is what we think life is all about. You need to think big, act big and never give up, while also crafting your ideals to create something unique. Thanks Grado, looking forward to hearing more of the shit talking in that thick brogue as you fly off the top turn buckle.
Link to original videos on VBS.TV
Watch Episode 1 of 4
Watch Episode 2 of 4
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| Grado, a Scottish wrestler in need of the strength of William Wallace |
Friday, July 27, 2012
Antiseen Feature Review On Punk News
Only if you have been hiding under a rock and praying that Charlton Heston will save you from the impending reality of Apes taking over, will we believe that you haven't seen all the work Antiseen has been putting in for the last couple of decades. Now with such a long winded opening statement, get your asses off the couch or magic computer box and pick up the greatest collection of wrestling songs ever created.
Yep, this ain't just no hyperbole for the sake of hot air, this is truth. Truth just like the science spit out so easily by Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's on a cosmic level of mat pounding brutality in which Baby Faces run like rabies ridden cats towards impending doom. So do yourself a favor and click this here link below to purchase your new theme music while posing in the mirror while getting ready for the next bout.
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| Antiseen's - Falls Count Anywhere - A Collection of Wrestling Songs |
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| Antiseen's - Falls Count Anywhere - A Collection of Wrestling Songs |
"As dedicated as ANTiSEEN is to self-annihilation, its interesting to see how reverent they are towards the music that inspired them. New Blood, a collection of the band's singles from 2008-2011 and some new tracks, finds the band fitting the material to create a surprisingly coherent album that pays respect to their influences as well as furthers their own quest for self destruction.
As with most of their work, the North Carolina band blends together punk/early hardcore with Southern style blues rock. The connection between the two genres is never more apparent than it is on "Reconstruction." The bands slams out three chord riff after three chord riff, but the song swings like ZZ Top, making the connection between punk and blues mixed together with no clear separation. BB King could as easily sing the song as could the Dwarves.
This connection is also addressed by each of the poles. The band tears through a fairly faithful rendition of the Ramones' "Chainsaw." However, Jeff Clayton's whisky soaked voice growls in lieu of Joey Ramone's lamentation, which takes the song from one of horror to one of perverse glee. Then, on the other side of their influences, the band cuts through "Black Eyed Suzie," a Southern banjo cut with the help of Hank III's stringsman Joe Buck Yourself. While the song is a traditional ballad based around a circular chorus, the band's purposeful sloppiness gives the song a ragged punk menace.
Just as the band twists their sources into a combination of their own material, the lyrics suggest a certain twisted transformation. For instance, on "Black Eye Suzie Brown," is the song an ode or lamentation to spousal abuse…or does "Black eyed" refer to eye color and not to bruises? Does the band care? "Pledge Allegiance to the Bomb" is just that, but is the song speaking in a ironic detachment of contemporary war theory, or are they really hoping for nuclear fallout to wipe out the human race?
But, despite the band running headlong into destruction, it's remarkable how much they preserve their source material. Personally they might be hoping for an end, but the energetic crunch of their riffs suggests that if anything, they're doing their best to preserve both Southern rock and classic American punk. New Blood is an argument for the curation of both, because while these songs are all loud and nasty, they each maintain a separate identity and edge, something sorely lacking in much modern music. Certainly the members themselves would have to (regretfully?) acknowledge that by trying to destroy themselves for so long, they've ended up preserving their career and by accident, preserved two disparate genres along the way."
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| Antiseen feature review for New Blood on PunkNews.org |
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Jeff Clayton Of Antiseen Will Be Invading Half A Million Homes
That's right, you heard us correctly, Jeff Clayton will be invading half a million homes four times in the next two weeks. The Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse has been selected to be a featured commercial during WWE Smackdown and TNA Impact wrestling. Not only is this a massive boost to the credibility of our bad ass event next weekend at the Tremont Music Hall, but most every television set in the metro region around Charlotte, NC will be warned of the coming Apocalypse.
Git yer priorities in order, make plans and work up your own BBQ tail gate pre-party for the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse. This is an event not to miss.
Oh yeah, we may as well start leaking some "secret" info on the show. A documentary film is also in the works for the event, so yeah, if you want to be preserved for posterity get your asses to the show!
Git yer priorities in order, make plans and work up your own BBQ tail gate pre-party for the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse. This is an event not to miss.
Oh yeah, we may as well start leaking some "secret" info on the show. A documentary film is also in the works for the event, so yeah, if you want to be preserved for posterity get your asses to the show!
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| Jeff Clayton will be in a featured commercial during the last two weeks of July 2012 on WWE Smackdown |
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| Antiseen - Falls Count Anywhere, A Collection Of Wrestling Songs |
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| Rusty Knuckles Presents - Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse - July 28th 2012 |
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| Jeff Clayton will be in a featured commercial during the last two weeks of July 2012 on TNA Impact Wrestling |
Thursday, June 14, 2012
ANTiSEEN's Falls Count Anywhere Will Debut At The Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse On July 28th
Did you ever consider to think that it was no coincidence, that we were putting on the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse and that the mighty ANTiSEEN could be puting out a release centered around a wrestling theme? Well dear friends, you are the first to see it in the here and now. Below is the cover and track listing for one of the best batch of songs from the fellas and damn if they aren't firing on all cylinders. Just have a look at this track listing and the cover.
Falls Count Anywhere will be coming out on July 10th worldwide and most of all through Rusty Knuckles Music. Be prepared for the best ring music to ever take over the squared circle.
Get your copy of Falls Count Anywhere now
Get your copy of Falls Count Anywhere now
Also, below the album cover, get all the info for the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse. Click on the ad link to the right to get your tickets now, before they sell out.
1.EXPLODING BARBED WIRE DEATH MATCH - A tribute to the over the top hard core style of Japanese Wrestling.
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!
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| ANTiSEEN - Falls Count Anywhere, A collection of Wrestling Songs. Available July 10th |
For months now we have been working on the details for a new type of showcase with a few of the bands we work with. It all started to come to shape with the new collection of songs being put together for the first time by the legendary ANTiSEEN. This collection puts all of their wrestling songs onto one amazing cd entitled Falls Count Anywhere.
Knowing the amount of interest the album was going to have, the one and only Jeff Clayton and I came together to work on ideas to help promote the album due out on July 10th world wide. One of the biggest ideas we had was to put on one hell of a show and due it in the right way to show bad ass these songs were going to be in one collection. After making the rounds, checking our rolodexes and looking at tour schedules we decided to put on one of the baddest Rock N' Rassle events that we could think of.
Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse will take place on July 28th at the Tremont in Charlotte, NC. Below is a link to buy tickets and be prepared hombre's as the assault is about to begin. Prepare for videos, matches and indepth interviews with the rassler's and bands taking part of this soon to be legendary event.
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| Rusty Knuckles Presents: Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse Featuring ANTiSEEN, Necro Butcher and more.... |
Monday, June 4, 2012
ANTiSEEN Falls Count Anywhere, Get Yours Now
Did you ever consider to think that it was no coincidence, that we were putting on the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse and that the mighty ANTiSEEN could be puting out a release centered around a wrestling theme? Well dear friends, you are the first to see it in the here and now. Below is the cover and track listing for one of the best batch of songs from the fellas and damn if they aren't firing on all cylinders. Just have a look at this track listing and the cover.
Falls Count Anywhere will be coming out on July 10th worldwide and most of all through Rusty Knuckles Music. Be prepared for the best ring music to ever take over the squared circle.
Get your copy of Falls Count Anywhere now
Get your copy of Falls Count Anywhere now
Also, below the album cover, get all the info for the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse. Click on the ad link to the right to get your tickets now, before they sell out.
1.EXPLODING BARBED WIRE DEATH MATCH - A tribute to the over the top hard core style of Japanese Wrestling.
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!
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| ANTiSEEN - Falls Count Anywhere, A collection of Wrestling Songs. Available July 10th |
For months now we have been working on the details for a new type of showcase with a few of the bands we work with. It all started to come to shape with the new collection of songs being put together for the first time by the legendary ANTiSEEN. This collection puts all of their wrestling songs onto one amazing cd entitled Falls Count Anywhere.
Knowing the amount of interest the album was going to have, the one and only Jeff Clayton and I came together to work on ideas to help promote the album due out on July 10th world wide. One of the biggest ideas we had was to put on one hell of a show and due it in the right way to show bad ass these songs were going to be in one collection. After making the rounds, checking our rolodexes and looking at tour schedules we decided to put on one of the baddest Rock N' Rassle events that we could think of.
Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse will take place on July 28th at the Tremont in Charlotte, NC. Below is a link to buy tickets and be prepared hombre's as the assault is about to begin. Prepare for videos, matches and indepth interviews with the rassler's and bands taking part of this soon to be legendary event.
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| Rusty Knuckles Presents: Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse Featuring ANTiSEEN, Necro Butcher and more.... |
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse - July 28th
We have been warning yall on the impending doom, that is about to happen on July 28th at the Tremont in Charlotte, NC. Not only will this go down as one of the rowdiest rock shows ever, but there is a level of hardcore action to this night, which will not be topped for a long time to come. Just watch the trailer and get in on the action.
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| Rusty Knuckles Presents: Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse - July 28th 2012 |
