You remember Chris Holmes? He was California heavy metal when heavy metal was heavy metal. He played guitar in W.A.S.P. for most of the 1980s up until early 2000s (excusing a short break in the late 1990s). Recently, Holmes picked up plus left his home of Los Angeles plus moved to Cannes, France with his wife because (as he told Blabbermouth) only hip-hop artists plus gangster rap make money in America now. “I’m not 100 percent sure,” he said. “But I when they go to school plus they listen to hard rock, it’s called ‘pussy music.’ They are told, ‘You need to listen to gangster rap.’ I think that’s what it is.”
So Holmes sold his life, grabbed his (third) wife plus went to France, where heavy metal roams free (That was basically a rhyme, FYI.). I do not blame him. Even metalheads need to go where the money is when there are bills to pay plus mouths to feed
Last week, he released a single for his up-coming album Shittin’ Bricks. The project is known as Mean Man, plus the song is titled, “Let It Roar”. I learned a lot about style from this video (mainly what I have to look forward to when my husband hits his mid-50’s.)
WHEN YOU GOT THE DOUGH, BRAND YOUR BOAT
Patches, stickers plus your band name spray painted on your guitar case are pretty much just jokes compared to having your band name on your luxurious boat. I don’t know if this is really Holmes’ ship plus even if it is not, it’s almost way more bad ass that he decided to graffiti a random boat with the “MEAN MAN” stencil. Some French man is going to walk down the dock in the morning with his three shots of espresso, lopsided beret plus just flip out. Maybe accessorizing your band name on high-priced modes of water transpiration that do not belong to you is the new circle pit?