Should I go see Mastodon this Wednesday?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Keep in mind I hate the club they'll be playing at and most metalheads smell.

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Go on then. I'm impressed by them, but I'd probably lean on the wall at the back and clap in a smug satisfied manner rather than risk rubbing shoulders with anyone who likes metal.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I only mention the metalheads' foul odors because this club has, among other faults, shoddy ventilation.

 

Honestly, Mastodon is irrelevant; I only want to go because that night, the venue will have the largest collection of heshers I'm sure to ever personally witness.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Heshers?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

hesher

Long haired, usually mulleted person who listens and rocks out to Metal or Thrash music.Generally seen wearing acid-washed jeans, leather motorcycle or denim jacket covered with band and skull patches. Will often have a Molester Moustache

 

Damn, look at the Krokus backpatch on the greasy hesher!!!!

 

source: urbandictionary.com

[razazteca 0]

he who views AC/DC, Metallica, and Jackyll as the best bands around ten years after the fact of the bands true days of popularity. may be described in terms of male/female versions, each with distinct characteristics of both mullet and music.

female hesher loves 80's bands defined by long hair, throbbing pelvic moves, and glamour facepaint. also sports female mullet, long hair with straight chopped bangs sometimes teased to perfection.

 

male has standard issue mullet and exclaims how lame today's music is while driving away in his '85 Z-28 with G'n'R cranking

Sweet Child O' Mine.

 

Hesher is a Canadian hair band fan stuck in the 80's?

[The Czech Republic 0]

Hesher is JaxlMorrison?

[Red Baron 0]

he who views AC/DC, Metallica, and Jackyll as the best bands around ten years after the fact of the bands true days of popularity. may be described in terms of male/female versions, each with distinct characteristics of both mullet and music.

female hesher loves 80's bands defined by long hair, throbbing pelvic moves, and glamour facepaint. also sports female mullet, long hair with straight chopped bangs sometimes teased to perfection.

 

male has standard issue mullet and exclaims how lame today's music is while driving away in his '85 Z-28 with G'n'R cranking

Sweet Child O' Mine.

 

Hesher is a Canadian hair band fan stuck in the 80's?

So I'm a Hesher then?

[razazteca 0]

Do you have hockey hair, drive a sports car (not a rice burner), wear reebox and 80's hair metal concert t-shirts?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Metal Ed was a hesher.

 

And who voted "nah." Do you have a reason, or were you simply being a contrarian?

[Red Baron 0]

Do you have hockey hair, drive a sports car (not a rice burner), wear reebox and 80's hair metal concert t-shirts?

minus the reebox...yes.

[BUTT 0]

I'm convinced that "heshers" as described above do not actually exist and they are just a mythical breed created in the minds of indie-rock elitists searching for another group they can look down upon. I mean, nobody could possibly meet all of those requirements.

 

So I have shoulder-length hair (not a mullet), I listen to Metallica but not AC/DC or Jackyl, I wear Nikes, I drive a '97 Neon, and I own a GnR Use Your Illusion I shirt. Do I fit into that group?

[IllustriousOne 0]

I thought about going to that show, but decided to go see Star Wars instead.

 

Did you go to the Decemberists at the Southgate House by chance?

[The Czech Republic 0]

I'm convinced that "heshers" as described above do not actually exist and they are just a mythical breed created in the minds of indie-rock elitists searching for another group they can look down upon.

Jesus, don't they have enough?

[nl5xsk1 0]

re: the smell ... you should wear those nose plugs that kids that can't swim without water pouring up their nose have to wear, the rubber ones with the band that goes around your head and pinches your nostrils closed.

 

The chicks'll dig it.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Are they playing with anyone else?

 

They're pretty sharp and definitely intense live. They didn't do nearly enough jamming or anything deviating from studio structure for my tastes, but that's recent metal for you. Precision counts.

 

They are known to break into some bluegrassy back and forth riffing, but it's probably one of those things where if the mood strikes them, and if the crowd's receptive. Chances are you'll have a bunch of savages who are after some fuckin' metyl, from what I gathered from your town. You'll have a core group of metal-inclined hardcore kids though, they'll probably roughhouse with the skids.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I thought about going to that show, but decided to go see Star Wars instead.

 

Did you go to the Decemberists at the Southgate House by chance?

Don't you and I live in completely different states? I don't even know this Southgate House place.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Are they playing with anyone else?

 

They're pretty sharp and definitely intense live. They didn't do nearly enough jamming or anything deviating from studio structure for my tastes, but that's recent metal for you. Precision counts.

 

They are known to break into some bluegrassy back and forth riffing, but it's probably one of those things where if the mood strikes them, and if the crowd's receptive. Chances are you'll have a bunch of savages who are after some fuckin' metyl, from what I gathered from your town. You'll have a core group of metal-inclined hardcore kids though, they'll probably roughhouse with the skids.

They're playing with Cult of Luna and Death By Stereo.

 

A friend of mine who knows a lot about all things metal/hardcore says he's never heard of the former and that he thinks I won't like the latter. He also mentioned that there might be a fair amount of hardcore kids in the crowd.

 

And Sensei John Kreese is a moron, don't you think.

[BUTT 0]

No.

 

And I wasn't criticizing you for using the term "heshers" (or referring to you when I wrote "indie-rock elitists"), I was just saying that I've never seen any.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

They definitely exist.

 

Cult of Luna I don't care for. They're probably hot shit in Sweden, but their pretentious lyrics and attempts to combine things they wouldn't do well focusing on turn it into a bad metal art project. They could possibly be interesting live, but that'd be a longshot based on the one album of theirs I've heard, so whatever that means to you. I've never heard Death by Stereo to my recollection.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Keep in mind I saw Mastodon with Slayer. If you really want to see some heshers, go watch Slayer or Motorhead.

[IllustriousOne 0]

The Southgate House is right across the bridge from Bogart's (which is where I'm pretty sure Mastodon is playing on Wednesday) in Cincinatti, if I'm reading the info correct. It's also probably the best venue ever.

 

And yeah, I live in Kentucky right now, but it's really only a short drive from where I'm at to Cincinatti/Newport, which is why I asked about the Decemberists show.

[BUTT 0]

I would think you would probably find more at say, a Motley Crue concert, wouldn't you? Although you might also find your fair share of hipsters there too, for whatever reason.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Keep in mind I saw Mastodon with Slayer. If you really want to see some heshers, go watch Slayer or Motorhead.

Damn near every person I saw at this Ministry concert last year was wearing a Slayer, Motorhead, or Metallica shirt. Would that classify as hesherriffic?

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

It's not my social term, couldn't tell you. Do they fit the description quoted earlier?

 

Illustrious One is geographically closer to me than Incandenza. Dude's in Florida, Ill.

[BUTT 0]

Incandenza, I'm sorry if I somehow offended you. Certainly, I wouldn't want to get on the bad side of one of TSM's most respected posters.

 

But yes, you should see Mastodon, just for fun; keep in mind though, if you stand anywhere but in back, you will probably have to go out of your way not to get hit by any sweaty nu-metal kids dancing and moshing around like they own the place. I learned this when I saw Andrew W.K. live and I had some metalhead douche bump into me every 3.5 seconds during the two awful opening acts. However, the experience did provide me with the image of a lone nu-metal kid wildly moshing to the first band that played while everyone else there was standing there doing nothing. Perhaps you'd have to have to have been there to understand, but it was a moment for the ages.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I wouldn't want to get on the bad side of one of TSM's most respected posters.

Well you should be relatively safe here in the Music folder then

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

Hey, it's the guy from Hardcore Discussion.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Illustrious One is geographically closer to me than Incandenza. Dude's in Florida, Ill.

Yep. And Mastodon played Ohio two weeks ago, so your dates are off, Ill.

[IllustriousOne 0]

Yeah they are.

 

MYSTERY SOLVED.