Chris Holmes (ex-W.A.S.P.) is "Sh*ttin' Bricks"

Responding to the overwhelming demand from.... well, absolutely no one, former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes is preparing to drop his new solo venture, entitled "Sh*ttin' Bricks." (Get it? "drop?" See what I did there? Hehehehehe...) As anyone who heard Chris' previous solo work would be able to tell you, this is probably not a good thing.

Don't get me wrong, though I love Chris' work with W.A.S.P. dearly, the man's previous solo joint was utterly unlistenable, due mainly to the fact that Chris "sings" like a grizzly bear having a rough time on the toilet bowl... a fact that also ties in nicely to his new album title, I guess.

Blabbermouth wrote:

"Let It Roar", a new song from former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes's new project MEAN MAN, has been released via CD Baby. The track will appear on Holmes' new album, "Shittin' Bricks", which will be released at the end of January.

Holmes joined W.A.S.P. in 1982 and remained with the group until 1990. In 1996, Holmes rejoined W.A.S.P. and stayed with the band until 2001. Holmes has not played with W.A.S.P. since.

Holmes last year released a solo album called "Nothing To Lose". Chris composed, performed, and produced the music and vocals, and teamed up with former MOTÖRHEAD drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor to perform on and engineer the effort.

Asked if he would ever rejoin W.A.S.P. if had the opportunity, Holmes told Seiska TV: "Never say never. Never say never. You know?! I'm half of W.A.S.P.; I was half of the situation. Even though I am not the voice [of the band], or whatever, I was the driving force of that thing."

Holmes earlier in the year relocated to Cannes, France with his wife. Speaking to Riff-Mag.com at this past summer's Hellfest in Clisson, France, Holmes said: "I left in February, L.A., I left — gone. I don't plan on going back. I'm gone. I ain't going back to America… At all. I left. Gone, History. I sold everything I had there."

Asked why he decided to leave the USA, Holmes said: "Well, unless you're the opposite of me — a hip-hop artist or a rapper — you won't sell in America anymore. There's no rock magazines anymore. The black culture has really… The black culture has taken hip hop to white… The white culture and all the kids act like that; they wear their pants down. I think it's… I'm not 100 percent sure, but I when they go to school and they listen to hard rock, it's called 'p*ssy music.' [They are told] 'You need to listen to gangster rap.' I think that's what it is."

He continued: "I really looked at it in the last year and the way the culture has changed, and I don't wanna even be there. I had a hard enough time playing in a band in L.A., finding musicians. I'm tired of L.A., tired of the musicians there; they're stuck up. That's why I came to Europe. I like it here."

He used to be one of my Facebook 'Friends' and it would make me laugh, his wife, would try to gather his fans for impromptu discussion chats, that he would end cancelling each and everytime.

Also heard a couple of his 'solo' tracks and they sound like they were inspired while he was taking a sh*t.

Two words: Shit Sandwich

No thanks.

manny wrote:

He used to be one of my Facebook 'Friends' and it would make me laugh, his wife, would try to gather his fans for impromptu discussion chats, that he would end cancelling each and everytime.

Hahaha, yep, me too, I remember those. "The fan chat with Chris has been postponed till tomorrow," then the next day it was "We're sorry, the chat with Chris has been re-scheduled to Saturday," finally it would be "Sorry, the fan chat with Chris will be a week from the next full moon when Chris' Chakras are in the proper alignment with Saturn" or whatever....

I eventually deleted "Chris" from my FB friends cuz he obviously had nothing to do with the page, it was his wife/girlfriend or whoever was helping him promote that last P.O.S. "solo album" he put out. I swear it seemed like she just posted stuff pimping that album every thirty f**king seconds all day long. I'd log into my FB and my news feed would be flooded with twenty or thirty posts about that crappy album, after a while I just had enough...

W.here A.ngels S.uffer [P].  Worst...Shit...Ever.

It would be a listenable tune if there was no vocals.

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

W.here A.ngels S.uffer [P].  Worst...Shit...Ever.

That made my worst of the year of 2012. I have no idea what's going on in that video.

Ha! I can see why the comments section was disabled for that video.

Well I listened to the sample of this new "song" on CD Baby.  Geez, I could do those vocals.  As Sax said before, the song isn't that bad but those "half talking, half shouting vocals" suck.

I've been ignoring him since the 1980s, no reason to change that now.

that is horrible and I like Grave Digger. A lot.

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

W.here A.ngels S.uffer [P].  Worst...Shit...Ever.

W.e A.re S.till P.uking

Good God that video was almost as awful as the song! That's bottom of the barrel right there. Don't think I've seen worse.

Still don't understand the draw to W.A.S.P. I've tried them a hundred times and it's just boring stuff with sub-par musicianship.

Crap, that sounds like something Painkiller would write.

He's still a good guitarist and can write damn good songs, but I agree, his singing is horrendous.

He was great with W.A.S.P.; at least those first two albums are fun. His solo work is horrid though.

Funny how Duff supposedly kicked Holmes ass, while they didn't say sh*t to Axl.

Witchfinder wrote:

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

W.here A.ngels S.uffer [P].  Worst...Shit...Ever.

That made my worst of the year of 2012.  I have no idea what's going on in that video.

That's real? That's not one of those spoofed overdub videos? When that sloppy false-start leads comes in, I was convinced this was a joke.

Wow! I had forgotten about that video. Too bad it didn't stay forgotten.

Eyesore wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

W.here A.ngels S.uffer [P].  Worst...Shit...Ever.

That made my worst of the year of 2012.  I have no idea what's going on in that video.

That's real? That's not one of those spoofed overdub videos? When that sloppy false-start leads comes in, I was convinced this was a joke.

Exactly what I thought at that part. This is the kind of stuff you see on Adult Swim late at night. I was waiting for Tim & Eric to show up.

UNCLE SAXON'S KICKASS CDS wrote:

W.here A.ngels S.uffer [P].  Worst...Shit...Ever.

Good Lord...an entire full-length album by TheGeoff is more listenable than this crap.

His voice is worse than David Allan Coe's.

Okay, this thread has now been cleaned of all off-topic political soapboxing and the inevitable personal attacks that always follow anything remotely political.  Let's keep the music threads about music.

Okay, back to ridiculing Chris Holmes...

A new Holmes video to ridicule...

The song's not half bad this time.

Yeah, but half bad is only half good.