Stale News Break The Insane Clown Posse announced on Wednesday that they're canceling this year's Gathering of the Juggalos due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The festival celebrating the hardcore hip hop duo will be postponed to next year. You can't replace what you mean to our team.
Now she wants to become a star. In Thornville, Ohio, Juggalos assembled to celebrate rap, Faygo, and family. Photographer Amy Lombard captured the technicolor chaos. They decapitated a giant robotic Barack Obama, made Hillary and The Donald fight to the death, and covered the crowd in pink fluids. Just another live set from the Virginian metal band. We traveled to the Republican National Convention and the Gathering of the Juggalos to ask attendees at both events the same questions on reproductive health, civil rights, and police brutality.
Florida, all over the place. It was insane! Right off the bat, I knew this was probably going to go on for a while. They started to look at the crowd, and there was one incident of spray paint on a wall, just a small tag, and they really were upset about that and I had to talk them down. Doors for the first day were set to open at 3 p.
It was a learning process. That year, we were just trying to get through it. We bit off more than we could chew. It was probably two of the hardest days of my life when the events were going on, and probably the hardest four days of my life when you count set-up days.
When it came time to open doors on that first day, there was a line of Juggalos that had to have been at least a couple thousand Juggalos. We got some news back, the people that were running the convention center, they were really nervous about it. So we needed every last minute. Finally, they just opened the doors. And this is probably about 20 minutes before doors were supposed to open, so none of our workers were in place.
We were having a last-minute meeting with everyone, trying to explain everything that was going on. So when they opened doors, a flood of Juggalos came in, and the first thing they hit was merch area, and nobody was there.
And so this looting started, where people were just grabbing stuff. When I came around the corner, I saw it from a distance, and I started running over there, and this group of Juggalos jumped behind the merch booth and they stopped everyone from looting.
It was such a show of respect and love. I had it out for her bad. So we hired her at the Gathering to be one of the ring girls to hold the cards up in between matches.
And I remember when I got there, the first person I saw was Spice. I was clearly trying to show this beautiful woman around, and they just were merciless! In four seconds, there were hundreds of them all around us. And I felt like such an idiot, because I always she thought I did that on purpose. It was really uncomfortable. I just thought we had time, like they would have held doors back for me to finish. We were trying to be very welcoming to people, thanking them for showing up.
You have to understand, this is a million years ago, this is before VIPs, this is before Cameos, this is before the artist accessibility age. This was the days when people bought your record and wrote you a letter with a pen.
To really be grassroots and shaking hands, having people tell you how much you mean to them and cry, it was moving. To have someone tell you to your face how much you mean to them and not through a computer screen, it means a lot. It was my first anything as Blaze. The first day I had nothing scheduled, I got to take it all in. I walked around with Twiztid the entire day.
I flew under the radar the entire time and I got to experience the entire convention. I had been out the Novi Expo Center before for different comic book conventions, but seeing it the way they had it set up was extra special.
They had booths with memorabilia, they had convention rooms where you could go and talk to people. It was a real cool set up. It was such an overload of stimulus, it was like whoa.
I have a stack of pictures, I brought a disposable camera for each day. I have like 24 pictures, not all of them came out great. It was pretty overwhelming. I went to a few of the seminars, which were absolutely awesome. Looking back on it, there was so much going on. I guess you could almost call it a mini-comic con. I remember standing in merch lines for hours to buy CDs and jerseys.
I bet I spent every dime. It was probably around a grand, at least. For the first night of concerts, I had to stand in the back, because I had two garbage bags full of shirts with me. Every T-shirt available, I bought. Every new CD. And because we had no luggage, we had to ask the hotel for a trash bag so we could haul our merch back with us. I saw a lot of pairs of boobs, actually.
The bird is pretty much the hello of the Juggalo. Like a Blue Yamaha or a Suzuki or something. It was like a trail bike. For some reason he needed one, he was going to do stunts on it or something?
And I remember going and buying it and bringing it so he could do that. I think he rode in on the motocross bike, and at the end of the seminar he put a helmet on, got on this BMX bike and rode over a ramp onto a bed of thumbtacks. It takes a nice toll on your body. You threw a ball, hit the button, and somebody would get dunked in Faygo. If you won, you got to go to the hotel room and get a massage.
And we paid for that. I actually called up these kind-of seedy masseuses, and I would pitch them the idea. It was crazy. You got to come in and play like a bingo-style competition, and whoever won got to go on a date with Shaggy.
I was never looked at as the hot one in ICP to the girls, you know what I mean? That was always Joey. He was always the one with his shirt off and all that. But we had a contest, we had to honor it. Nothing romantic happened, nothing came out of it, no girlfriend, no wife, nothing. It was just a couple hours of platonic hanging out, and that was that.
So that was cool. That made it a lot more comfortable for me. I remember you had to go to a pharmacy and take a pic of you buying the most embarrassing item you could find. By that time it was super late, so we blew off the rest of the scavenger hunt and got a couple hours sleep before the next day.
Everybody was messed up, passed out in parking lots, laying on top of cars because the hotels were getting so hot because people were everywhere. People were sleeping in closets. There was people under beds, laying on countertops.
It was wild. In our room we had two queen beds, and at the gas station a little red Ford Festiva was in the parking lot and there was three or four Juggalos sleeping in the car.
It was like a literal clown car when they started getting out, and five of them came out of the car. Among the attractions at the Gathering was a wrestling ring, where ICP held wrestling school tutorials and participated in matches. Not everything went as planned. Everyone got in the ring, and it dissipated. They destroyed that ring. Bolts started popping out of the sides, like holy expletive , man. Who does that?
It was that much chaos and insanity, it was a full blown Juggalo riot. And it was totally cool. They just sort of disappear into the rest of the crowd.
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