Bands whose fans were their own subculture

The Denny’s at Sunset & Van Ness or the Denny’s at Sunset & Gower?

New Model Army Family are they separate enough?
I think they overlapped heavily with Levellers fans or even split off to follow them more.
Funny to see the band is either still around or reunited, they have a few pages in VIve Le Rock which I haven't read yet.

Eskimoes following the MIssion but not sure they would have been entirely separate from other early 70s rock Goth heads. Or did they fight themn on the beaches with Sisters of Mercy fans?

we're just gonna ignore burrito's post like almost every other post in this thread then?

in that case, Insane Clown Posse

Insane Clown Posse

Burrito doesn't know that I was, in fact, one of the "Garth Kids" that the notorious Sixers abducted and beat up.

The "Garths," as we called ourselves never harmed anyone. We were just united by our love of the music of Garth Brooks. Yeah, some people made fun of us for wearing cowboy hats and heavy eyeliner and lipstick. But there was certainly no call for violence against the Garth community.

Anyway, after going through that phase, many of us drifted away from being Garths and instead gravitated toward an interesting little band called Icy Pee. We carried jugs of frozen urine with us everywhere we went. No one knows why. I guess that's why they started calling us Juggaloos. But

ctrl-f "juggalos"

nothing??

I know, fuckin' weird, eh?

Shit, long story, but back in 1998 me and about 14 other LA-area people who were HUGE fans of Eve 6 (you remember them - "wanna put my tender heart in a blender, watch it spin round to a beautiful oblivion, rendezvous and I'm through with you!"; great song) were paid by their label RCA Records to walk a few blocks down Hollywood Blvd to the Capitol Records building where there was a big release party going on for Garth Brooks because of three albums of his they were re-releasing that day. Me and all the other Eve 6 guys, we called ourselves The Sixers like it was like our gang name, and we did anything RCA told us to do to promote Eve 6. Anyway, one day that April, Capitol Records literally paid us $500 each to go walk down there, scope them all out, identify the weakest targets, and then get back to our rental car, drive it up to the Garth Brooks thing and run out and kidnap four of his fans, take them to the alley behind the Sunset Blvd Denny's, and beat them to within inches of their life with baseball bats. RCA thought this would somehow increase Eve 6's record sales! Of course we all did this without hesitation because hey it was 1998, MDMA was a new drug (that we were all taking), we were fueled by that and the propulsive energy of Eve 6, and frankly we needed the money!!!

this is the most terrifying copypasta i've ever read.

i mean ffs i knew major record labels were evil but damn

what did they call guerilla marketing back then, like "street teaming" or something

Actually it was "gorilla marketing," not "guerrilla marketing." Some of us were paid to dress as gorillas to promote Damon Albarn's conceptual project, Gorillaz.

Unfortunately the Sixers (whom we called "sux0rs") showed up first. They beat us up with baseball bats behind a Denny's. That's why their band became hugely popular and critically lauded, as they are to this day.

But they never attained the popularity of the Posse of Insane Clowns. Has anyone mentioned them yet in this thread?

surely

My high school was pretty much divided between Garths and Gaines. My heart was with rock and roll so I still sport my Chris Gaines tattoo when I whip off my shirt before a fight

no Gaines, no paines.

New Model Army is definitely right... they've just kept plugging away on the albums (last one is really enjoyable) and can consistently sell out 2000-ish sized venues throughout europe, probably to exactly the same people every year.

the weird thing with this thread though is nobody has mentioned the Insane Clown Posse?

this is a crazy thought, but has anybody ever tried shortening that to just "I.C.P."?

Immortal Technique maybe

Radio Heads

Hey, many of you guys might have already heard of it, but I just found out about this band called The Juggalos, and their fans are super into it and call themselves the Crazy Clown Gang and apparently it's this whole thing....

Thought it might be relevant to this thread.......

that's fascinating, especially seeing as how this is the first time i'm hearing anything of the sort.

Merits investigation.

intersting, wonder if theyre in any relation to the insane clown posse (ICP)

i've been racking my brain on this for the longest time and i just can't think of one

Just breaking.

My only more personal interaction with a Juggalo was with a Juggalette in a small town in mountainous northern California.

We'd hopped off a boxcar the evening before, grabbed beers and food, and found a good place to camp by the river. But later that night, it began to rain, so we had to pack up all our shit and hike in pouring rain to an overpass, where we slept in dust for a few hours.

Eventually we wandered back into town, ending up at an oddly placed gazebo along the main street. It was still pouring, and we were exhausted, and then this young woman came up to us and asked us if she could help us in any way. She also asked whether we had gotten in on a freight train and we said yes. We were a little suspicious, but we followed her when she said we could dry off and cook food at her house.

Which was a small, bleak apartment in an old apartment building that used to be a whorehouse, in sight of the river and the train tracks. We were hanging out with her, she kept packing bowls of ditch weed and talking about how her kid got taken from her. There were lots of legal papers scattered about, and she had two very young kittens living with her. We had our stuff in her dryer and cooker up some chili ramen.

Then, she answered her phone with a "whoop whoop" and we knew immediately that we were in the presence of a Juggalette.

Her mom came over and asked us why we were trying to get her daughter to run away from the small town. We told her we were doing nothing of the sort.

Eventually, it cleared up and our stuff got dry, and we cleared out. We talked about her sometimes, the kindly Juggalette.

Two years later, we're at the hobo museum where we eventually lived for a while, but that's besides the point. She was there! It was near the town where we'd first met her and during a party weekend, and I recognized her immediately. She had a hatchetman tattoo on her foot. She didn't recognize me at all but kept hitting on me all weekend even when my now-husband showed up and we were being all gross and queer hobo.

Anyway, when we moved to the area for a bit and I worked in the grocery store in town, she came in while I was cashiering, and my co-worker watched her try to steal a bunch of supplements. So, the last time I saw her, she was telling me that I was cute but that my co-worker was a terrible cunt who could get fucked. Never saw her again, a lost soul in northern California mountain towns.

lock thread

i have to break character here for a second and say what a beautiful tale that was; and articulated just as beautifully.

lock thread indeed.

yeah, that was a wonderful post. reads like a great short story.

wow. thank you table.

Good stuff table.

Thanks for reading it. All true! Apologies for misspellings, I was a little drunk and typing on my phone.

That was a great story, thanks, but I went to look up the Hobo Museum and saw that it was in Iowa so I got a little confused.

https://www.bbcrc.org/

My husband and I were winter caretakers here, 2015-2016

Fine tale, table. But

winter caretakers

Puts one in mind of

https://i.imgflip.com/2/4gtxd8.jpg

This was the place where the two other people on the property were right drug addicts and one of them threatened to kill us. We were fine and having a great time up until that point

marilynne robinson - 'juggling'

Do we have an 'excelsior'-like thread for booming posts?

Yes, and this was already posted there by Elvis Telecom. ilx posts with striking imagery

Also this, but not really for recent posts, according to thread title: Old ILX Posts Which Continue To Haunt Your Thoughts

Presidetn Donald John Trump

The Corona Virus

Insane Clown's Posse

Donald J. Trump

COVID-19

I.C.P.

Mr. Don Trump, U.S. President

SARS-CoV-2

Juggalo Family Gang

Hello Im Barron Trumpe and I've got the Corona Virus. I enjoy listening to music of Insane Clowns Possee on my Apple iPod portable music listening device. My father is President Donald J. Trump and we have the COVID-19 virus inside of us. Thank for reading my message, good day, I am Barron Trumpe

https://voca.ro/1oCsBKWgfg9Z

a recent revive has me thinking that a good example of this phenomenon might be Insane Clown Posse

Beat me to it!

Okay, the downside of this thread hijacking is that we have nowhere to discuss this topic.

So, in an attempt to get this thread back on the rails, I'll offer a non-jokey answer to the question (and frankly, I can't believe I'm the first to mention them): the Juggalos! (fans of Insane Clown Posse)

I understand juggalo, but then they do boogaloos?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXg1AxBXN5g

Ringo's response to "Honky Cat"

Have we talked about GWAR in this thread? A bunch of friends from elementary and middle school go to the Gwar-B-Que every year. It seems linked to Warped Tour and festival culture generally, but more bro-ey and also, Gwar.

GWAR fans are called "bohabs"