Grodius Maximus of GWAR joins Kevin Powell for an absolutely unfiltered, chaotic, and hilarious interview during a stop on the Machines vs. Monsters Tour. We talk about:
If you’re new to GWAR, this is the perfect (insane) introduction.
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- How Grodius became part of GWAR (involving fish tacos and…freezers)
- Absorbing the powers of Girl Scouts
- Peeing on children (satirically, of course – it’s GWAR)
- His custom Radical Instruments guitar
- New music on the way & the story of Gore Gore, their dinosaur
- Wild tour stories including pranking Static-X
If you’re new to GWAR, this is the perfect (insane) introduction.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what the heck is up?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
As Grotius, Maximus of the rock group Bad Gwar. You're
a listener to the Kevin Powell Broadcast, The Kevin Powell
Podcast Broadcast.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Hey guys, we got a little special edition of the
podcast here. My name is Kevin Powell. I love talking
to bands all shapes and sizes of the rock, metal,
alternative worlds. I'm live in the studio today because right
next door I'm shooting photos for Machines Versus Monster Stour
and joining me right now, I have Grotius. How are
you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh? Hey, what's up? What Grotia's Maximus of Gwar? What's happening?
I like your Power Trip shirt?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Are you still a fan of Power Trip? Right now?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I don't know anything about Power Trip? I was just
commenting your T shirt, honestly, I don't know what that okay.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Basically, Riley passed away, they got a new vocalist. They're
still going on. I'm still a big fan of them
and they just killed it at Sonic Temple. But appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, you know, I'm just trying to be polite, honestly.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So so, Grotius, you're one of the newest members War here.
Tell me about how you know, getting involved with war
came to be.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, well, I mean I was out there surfing around California.
I was all in Malibu, just eating a bunch of fish,
tacos and junk and like murdering girl Scouts and stuff
and shoving them into my butt. But of course always
you need to fillay them first and de bone and
just kind of mash all the soft parts together and
then I it. Oftentimes I put them in a blender,
(01:25):
put them in the freezer for about three and a
half days. I have a freezer in my basement that
fits big people, so I like it going in nice
and cold and smooth and icy, and then I let
that evaporate inside my bowels and then I absorb their powers.
So that's right now, I have the power of about
thirteen to fifteen girl Scouts in me, and that's just
(01:45):
from this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Just this morning. So is that also how the costume
came to be?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Costume? Are you talking about like spirit like and.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Did you get the design this yourself?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Or don't quite under you mean my pauldrons?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, you know, Terry the Tara Tomo over here, we've
been calling him Barfollomew. He just kind of grew out
of me one day. I think he's from the dead spirits,
like I was just saying of some of the girl scouts. Actually,
So if you're not there looking at me, ladies and
gentlemen on the radio, I have this new kind of like,
what's the guy's name from basket Case?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That little guy the wile, he.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Kind of grew out of my shoulder and now he's
barfing all over everybody. So if that sounds weird to you,
you should come to the show tonight wherever we are.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So we're wheeling West Virginia for the Machines Versus Monster Tour.
Tell me how this tour is going. We're day what now?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I can't keep track of anything. Please stop asking me
these specific questions. I don't know what city I'm in.
I don't know what's going on. I've been on tour
every day. They're putting me to work. It's annoying and
I just want to go to bed forever.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Walking out on stage with Gwar, what's one of your
favorite moments so far?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Sometimes I pee on the little kids in the crowd
and their parents start really kind of getting upset with that,
and they have oftentimes started begun to cry, that's how
much it upsets them. The parents begin to cry. The
kids like it. So if they're under five, under six
years old, you know again it's girl Scouts and little
little little I just want to defile as many humans
(03:14):
and children and innocent beings as I can, except for
rabbits and snakes and whales and any kind of sea
porpoises and beatles.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes, well, at least you have a little bit of
a Yeah you're some monster.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah yeah, no, there there are lines I won't cross.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So you're the you're the guitar player. What kind of
guitar are you bringing that on stage?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's tough to say, because I don't pay attention to
stuff like that. However, wait no, it just came to
me Radical Instruments Productions products. This dude from the band
Toxic Holocaust. He's out there in Salt Lake City. He
makes these awesome guitars, and mine have Bengal stripes on
them and they're all radical shaped eighties looking machines. But
(03:57):
I don't really pay attention to stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's okay, Maybe you can remind us how did you
start guitar what was the first band that kind of
went you know, this is it I want to start
playing guitar.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, you know, like I've said famously before many times,
Chris Cross is what do you remember Chris Cross from?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
How old do you think? I am?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Twenty two?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I love you thirty?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, wow, so you maybe don't remember Chris Cross, but
this is early nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There was these two kids.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
They were like, I forget where they were from, but
they maybe like Detroit or something, and they were they
would wear their clothes backwards and they were like these.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hit I was gonna say, they just had like a
one hit wonder right.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Jump jump Yeah, Mac Dad, I'll make you. Yeah. So
they didn't have any guitars in their band, really, I
don't think. But Buckethead is one of my favorite guitar
players ever.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, it's a buckethead. And what are you bringing to
the stage for Gwar now that you're the guitar player.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Really not a whole lot. You know, all the guys
that came before me, fucking oh am I.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Allowed to Well you can say whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Heck yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All the Maximus members before me are insane rippers. And
I'm just you know, striving to one day meet You
know that's not true.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I bring my own thing. I'm more of a noisy guy,
you know.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I really enjoy effects and the use of noise in
atonalism in general, and trying to incorporate more of that
into people's ear holes.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Okay, so we have the Machines versus Monster's tour. Now,
obviously we had static X Machines, Monsters would be probably
everybody else who's winning.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You know, it's tough to say.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I did urinate into the lead singer of static X's.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Water bottle the other day. I didn't know about it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think he actually, you know, there's a lot of
peepe stuff going on on this tour. I'll just if
you can't. Didn't notice, but you know, he pretended like
he didn't like it, but then later on I saw him.
I saw him finishing it, gulping it down. So I'd say,
who knows who's winning?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Okay? So you know, with twenty twenty five, we're not
even at the halfway mark. What do you what can
you say about what's coming up next? For Gwar?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What am I allowed legally allowed to say about what's
coming up for Gore.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We have two new songs coming out and they're everything
centered around the return of our baby Gorgor our t
rex dinosaur. Okay, so we had this one come out.
It's kind of like the Teenage Years. That one's called
lot Lizard, when Gorgre was you know, stationed over at
the truck stop, you know, making ends meet with with
his Kloaca will say. And then the next one, this
(06:26):
one's more of like kind of like an escape from
the Planet of the x vibe because there's like Armando
the circus guy, and then like he saves this baby
monkey and then but you know, we'll pretend like Goregre
is the baby monkey in this instance, and like his
mom gets murdered put spoiler alert, and then all this
crazy stuff happens. You just gotta buy the record to know.
And then the last one, that one's kind of about
(06:47):
Gorgor rising to power and murdering people and peeing on children.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
As we wrap things up here, do you have any
advice for bands that want to make it to the
next level, even if they're just start out, even they're
just starting out.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh yeah, you've got to be persistent It's all about
who you know. You gotta really gotta just you know,
kiss ass, suck up to people, throw everything that you
know that you care about, that you love out the window,
and just do what anyone tells you. Then you'll get
on the radio just like new Kids. So don't don't
follow your heart. Follow your heart.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
A quote of the century Gradest. Any final words you
want to say to fans?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Do you have a toilet that I can use? And
I'm definitely gonna clog it. I'm talking to you the
fans at home. I mean, so like, let me. I'm
gonna be in your city, get me. Shoot me at
your number and send me some crypto too. I'm really
looking forward to getting some more bitcoin, and send me
some Soldano or whatever engine is, maybe one. I don't
know if that's still a thing, but I'm just really
(07:44):
into crypto right now. Send it to me a Grotius
dot crypto, dot Reese's Pieces dot com, and I.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Will I will. What's the word clog your toilet?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Perfect Grotius. I do appreciate a little bit of your
time today. That's Gratiaus Maximus. He's in Guar. They're on
tour right now. With Static x Killer, his Confession and
Dope check him out in their city, get ready for
some new music coming soon, and hey, appreciate you tuning
in this episode of the podcast. We'll see you next time.
Hey, what the heck is up?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
As Grotius, Maximus of the rock group Bad Gwar. You're
a listener to the Kevin Powell Broadcast, The Kevin Powell
Podcast Broadcast.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Damn it.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Hey guys, we got a little special edition of the
podcast here. My name is Kevin Powell. I love talking
to bands all shapes and sizes of the rock, metal,
alternative worlds. I'm live in the studio today because right
next door I'm shooting photos for Machines Versus Monster Stour
and joining me right now, I have Grotius. How are
you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Oh? Hey, what's up? What Grotia's Maximus of Gwar? What's happening?
I like your Power Trip shirt?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Are you still a fan of Power Trip? Right now?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I don't know anything about Power Trip? I was just
commenting your T shirt, honestly, I don't know what that okay.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Basically, Riley passed away, they got a new vocalist. They're
still going on. I'm still a big fan of them
and they just killed it at Sonic Temple. But appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, you know, I'm just trying to be polite, honestly.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
So so, Grotius, you're one of the newest members War here.
Tell me about how you know, getting involved with war
came to be.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, well, I mean I was out there surfing around California.
I was all in Malibu, just eating a bunch of fish,
tacos and junk and like murdering girl Scouts and stuff
and shoving them into my butt. But of course always
you need to fillay them first and de bone and
just kind of mash all the soft parts together and
then I it. Oftentimes I put them in a blender,
(01:25):
put them in the freezer for about three and a
half days. I have a freezer in my basement that
fits big people, so I like it going in nice
and cold and smooth and icy, and then I let
that evaporate inside my bowels and then I absorb their powers.
So that's right now, I have the power of about
thirteen to fifteen girl Scouts in me, and that's just
(01:45):
from this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Just this morning. So is that also how the costume
came to be?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Costume? Are you talking about like spirit like and.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Did you get the design this yourself?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Or don't quite under you mean my pauldrons?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, you know, Terry the Tara Tomo over here, we've
been calling him Barfollomew. He just kind of grew out
of me one day. I think he's from the dead spirits,
like I was just saying of some of the girl scouts. Actually,
So if you're not there looking at me, ladies and
gentlemen on the radio, I have this new kind of like,
what's the guy's name from basket Case?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
That little guy the wile, he.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Kind of grew out of my shoulder and now he's
barfing all over everybody. So if that sounds weird to you,
you should come to the show tonight wherever we are.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
So we're wheeling West Virginia for the Machines Versus Monster Tour.
Tell me how this tour is going. We're day what now?
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I can't keep track of anything. Please stop asking me
these specific questions. I don't know what city I'm in.
I don't know what's going on. I've been on tour
every day. They're putting me to work. It's annoying and
I just want to go to bed forever.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Walking out on stage with Gwar, what's one of your
favorite moments so far?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Sometimes I pee on the little kids in the crowd
and their parents start really kind of getting upset with that,
and they have oftentimes started begun to cry, that's how
much it upsets them. The parents begin to cry. The
kids like it. So if they're under five, under six
years old, you know again it's girl Scouts and little
little little I just want to defile as many humans
(03:14):
and children and innocent beings as I can, except for
rabbits and snakes and whales and any kind of sea
porpoises and beatles.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yes, well, at least you have a little bit of
a Yeah you're some monster.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah yeah, no, there there are lines I won't cross.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
So you're the you're the guitar player. What kind of
guitar are you bringing that on stage?
Speaker 2 (03:36):
It's tough to say, because I don't pay attention to
stuff like that. However, wait no, it just came to
me Radical Instruments Productions products. This dude from the band
Toxic Holocaust. He's out there in Salt Lake City. He
makes these awesome guitars, and mine have Bengal stripes on
them and they're all radical shaped eighties looking machines. But
(03:57):
I don't really pay attention to stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
That's okay, Maybe you can remind us how did you
start guitar what was the first band that kind of
went you know, this is it I want to start
playing guitar.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, you know, like I've said famously before many times,
Chris Cross is what do you remember Chris Cross from?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
How old are you?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
How old do you think? I am?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Twenty two?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I love you thirty?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, wow, so you maybe don't remember Chris Cross, but
this is early nineties.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
There was these two kids.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
They were like, I forget where they were from, but
they maybe like Detroit or something, and they were they
would wear their clothes backwards and they were like these.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Hit I was gonna say, they just had like a
one hit wonder right.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Jump jump Yeah, Mac Dad, I'll make you. Yeah. So
they didn't have any guitars in their band, really, I
don't think. But Buckethead is one of my favorite guitar
players ever.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Okay, it's a buckethead. And what are you bringing to
the stage for Gwar now that you're the guitar player.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Really not a whole lot. You know, all the guys
that came before me, fucking oh am I.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Allowed to Well you can say whatever you want.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Heck yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
All the Maximus members before me are insane rippers. And
I'm just you know, striving to one day meet You
know that's not true.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I bring my own thing. I'm more of a noisy guy,
you know.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I really enjoy effects and the use of noise in
atonalism in general, and trying to incorporate more of that
into people's ear holes.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Okay, so we have the Machines versus Monster's tour. Now,
obviously we had static X Machines, Monsters would be probably
everybody else who's winning.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
You know, it's tough to say.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I did urinate into the lead singer of static X's.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Water bottle the other day. I didn't know about it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I think he actually, you know, there's a lot of
peepe stuff going on on this tour. I'll just if
you can't. Didn't notice, but you know, he pretended like
he didn't like it, but then later on I saw him.
I saw him finishing it, gulping it down. So I'd say,
who knows who's winning?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Okay? So you know, with twenty twenty five, we're not
even at the halfway mark. What do you what can
you say about what's coming up next? For Gwar?
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
What am I allowed legally allowed to say about what's
coming up for Gore.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
We have two new songs coming out and they're everything
centered around the return of our baby Gorgor our t
rex dinosaur. Okay, so we had this one come out.
It's kind of like the Teenage Years. That one's called
lot Lizard, when Gorgre was you know, stationed over at
the truck stop, you know, making ends meet with with
his Kloaca will say. And then the next one, this
(06:26):
one's more of like kind of like an escape from
the Planet of the x vibe because there's like Armando
the circus guy, and then like he saves this baby
monkey and then but you know, we'll pretend like Goregre
is the baby monkey in this instance, and like his
mom gets murdered put spoiler alert, and then all this
crazy stuff happens. You just gotta buy the record to know.
And then the last one, that one's kind of about
(06:47):
Gorgor rising to power and murdering people and peeing on children.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
As we wrap things up here, do you have any
advice for bands that want to make it to the
next level, even if they're just start out, even they're
just starting out.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Oh yeah, you've got to be persistent It's all about
who you know. You gotta really gotta just you know,
kiss ass, suck up to people, throw everything that you
know that you care about, that you love out the window,
and just do what anyone tells you. Then you'll get
on the radio just like new Kids. So don't don't
follow your heart. Follow your heart.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
A quote of the century Gradest. Any final words you
want to say to fans?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Do you have a toilet that I can use? And
I'm definitely gonna clog it. I'm talking to you the
fans at home. I mean, so like, let me. I'm
gonna be in your city, get me. Shoot me at
your number and send me some crypto too. I'm really
looking forward to getting some more bitcoin, and send me
some Soldano or whatever engine is, maybe one. I don't
know if that's still a thing, but I'm just really
(07:44):
into crypto right now. Send it to me a Grotius
dot crypto, dot Reese's Pieces dot com, and I.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Will I will. What's the word clog your toilet?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Perfect Grotius. I do appreciate a little bit of your
time today. That's Gratiaus Maximus. He's in Guar. They're on
tour right now. With Static x Killer, his Confession and
Dope check him out in their city, get ready for
some new music coming soon, and hey, appreciate you tuning
in this episode of the podcast. We'll see you next time.
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