IIRC this show was the year before the FQ/NOPD year. At the time this show happened, I was working at 'TUL and had been going to shows about twice a week foe a year, but I was totally unprepared for this. It really was like walking into another planet.
This is the show that they got kicked out of the bar and went into the streets. I was in the french quarter when this madness marched right pass me, and a woman covered in paint reached out her arm and pulled me into the madness. I followed grabbing a stick from the ground to band on garbage cans and street poles until the cops stopped everyone and took the instruments Crash Worship had... We were all so crazy over that, that we grabbed garbage cans and continued on our own until the sun came up
They put on great crazy shows but the fire department or the club always shut them down. It's like a voodoo ritual/food fight. The music is horrible though, I mean absolutely talentless and repetitive. I saw my friends 10 year old son's drum squad and those kids were much better musicians lol
These are the furry guys I saw at Mardi Gras, sometime back in the mid 90s. We were out side of Cafe Brazil by The Praline Connection. I was tripping balls and just wondered up on this big fire in the street. The drums were awesome to say the least. Never crossed my mind the the fire department wouldn't approve. Nor did the NOPD. They shows up in riot gear and started drumming the drummers with billy clubs. Holy shit, I never who in the fuck those dudes were.
Right or not, people lament the good times being gone, shows never being the same or anything. I could never explain how this happened or how I happened to find myself there. I was looking at Doo Rag videos and found this. It's beautiful just being reminded of that feeling.
Saw the one with DR in the warehouse that got shut down. Favorite was with Nipples of Isis on Lundi Gras!
Just the smells at this show were great. Wish I could recreate that smell.
Was this the show that Doo Rag opened for? it doesn't look like the same time that I saw them there (and to the earlier responder, the one with Blort and Gimp and Nipples of Isis was at another venue in the 9th ward I believe...
There was also one where the cops shut it down about 3 songs into the set I saw there in N.O. - but the one at tips (samhain 94 er 95 i believe ) was probably the best, yes they had the fire going in tipitinas...
Just a correction on the club name: it was called the R.C. Bridge Lounge; saw my first-ever concert there in '91 (Dang Bruh Y? and Fiddlehead). Wish I had been at this C.W. show but I never heard of them until the late '90s. This club is now a yuppie singles bar called simply the Bridge Lounge...
NO WAY! I was at this show.... glad to see some of it on video, because no way do i have any existing braincells from that era LOL! I think we may have seen them in Austin, Houston, and Dallas on the same tour??? best month ever!
i remember once during a Worship gig a drunk friend of mine grabbed the 2" knoted rope they (C.W.) had been dragging around the Aztlan floor (on fire) in Denver. he grabs the rope and began twirling it over his head (almost knocking a few unlucky peeps out) what memories of the great CRASH WORSHIP
Wow...one word. Frrrreaky! Don't know what kind of worship that was supposed to be, but I didn't sense the Spirit of the Lord in that one....and I am open to all styles of music when it comes to worship.
Been to a Crash Worship Show in NYC way back when and IT WAS SICK They had a chick being carried around on a tray of fruit, fire & fireworks unlike any other band ive seen Awesome
wouldn't happen to be the Coney Island High show would it? I was covered in so much juice, wine, milk, flour, etc by the end of the show it was like I had slept the night in a supermarket dumpster. Easily the best show I've ever been to.
What happened to Crash Worship? I saw them 3 or 4 times and they are hands down the best live shows I have ever been to, no contest. Are they still around? Do they ever ever play? I know at least some of them went on to form the Extra Action Marching Band-- Which is also great, but still nothing compared to Crash Worship...
Was this the show that the NOPD came in and started beating everyone indiscriminately with billy clubs? I was at a Crash Worship show around '93 in N.O., mardi gras. BLORT opened..
were you on the march through the quarter on Lundi Gras...when they took Bourbon street? I think it was 94 though...the procession went all the way up Bourbon to Toulousse and NOPD cracked down hard...they didn't even get to play, cops blocked off Decatur St. arresting people left and right trying to force people across from Kaldis promising "doses, doses" and some idiots went. Me and my friends ran as fast as we could to Jackson Square. It was chaos and beautiful before the cops came.
One of the greatest shows I've ever seen live, the audience became the band and the band became the audience. everyone was together it was so powerful... and the wine was delicious.
Crash worship are not musicians, they are thieves. They played a show at a house in Oberlin college years ago, and while most of the people were in the basement, the non-musicians of the crash worship touring squad stole valuables (stereos, money) out of the tenants upstairs rooms. Fuck these criminal burning-man goons.
well, i can not speak for everyone but a couple of them are still very good friends (from this era) to this day and i can honestly assure all that they are NOT thieves...they had a unique genius about them that not everyone can understand...and no doubt, thievery is a turn off to anyone...but your blanket accusation is not valid...it's not like they all gathered and plotted a shake down....Crash Worship ARE LEGENDARY!
you obviously didn't know what you were getting into. out of the 13 or so times i have seen them there was never once that i didnt end up covered with wine/smoke/human sweat et al
yes tinglepigstickprod you are right on about that blanket accusation as not being valid for i too can attest to what you say from EXPERIENCE. do you know Markus?
crash worship gets past the show and into and inside the "passive viewer". please help break down the boundaries of cognitive fascism. post your crash worship videos. inspire a new generation of pagans or would be.........
these boundaries must be transgressed, you hold the understanding in your hands.
i really thought they were the beginning of something, but they were just a falling star that only a few were able to see. are there any sparks out there?
Thanks for the vid, but it doesn't even come close to experiencing it for real does it? Like being in the middle of a riot and an orgy at the same time! I was actually hoping they would have burned the place down!
These guys were the only show I ever went to where I was scared (and that's a good thing).
Fireworks blowing off near me, and strangers bumping into me covered in mysterious brown stuff. (Friends Forever concerts are like that too: fireworks in your face! They're from Colorado.)
Wow what a flashback! I was there that night at the rc bridge lounge after driving in from GA. Those guys put on shows that I find hard to describe to people who never witnessed them. I must have seen them over 10 times! It's about time some vids show up
Yeah... They kind of charred the building when I saw them. Fire marshall definitely didn't approve and that venue was never to open again. :(
jgyokohama 4 weeks ago
IIRC this show was the year before the FQ/NOPD year. At the time this show happened, I was working at 'TUL and had been going to shows about twice a week foe a year, but I was totally unprepared for this. It really was like walking into another planet.
Will70115 5 months ago
@ggzo3 you're lucky - not everyone even got into that show!
eyeballjackson 9 months ago
This is the show that they got kicked out of the bar and went into the streets. I was in the french quarter when this madness marched right pass me, and a woman covered in paint reached out her arm and pulled me into the madness. I followed grabbing a stick from the ground to band on garbage cans and street poles until the cops stopped everyone and took the instruments Crash Worship had... We were all so crazy over that, that we grabbed garbage cans and continued on our own until the sun came up
fire77girl 9 months ago
They put on great crazy shows but the fire department or the club always shut them down. It's like a voodoo ritual/food fight. The music is horrible though, I mean absolutely talentless and repetitive. I saw my friends 10 year old son's drum squad and those kids were much better musicians lol
THEINVENTABLETHREAT 11 months ago
These are the furry guys I saw at Mardi Gras, sometime back in the mid 90s. We were out side of Cafe Brazil by The Praline Connection. I was tripping balls and just wondered up on this big fire in the street. The drums were awesome to say the least. Never crossed my mind the the fire department wouldn't approve. Nor did the NOPD. They shows up in riot gear and started drumming the drummers with billy clubs. Holy shit, I never who in the fuck those dudes were.
waylonlevins 1 year ago 4
Yeah I was here.
joconnor6 1 year ago
and I meant 1:28, not 38
xsinfulsurrender 1 year ago
Oh my god! haha I just saw my mom! At 1:38 and then again at 2:00 through 2:16 :D
xsinfulsurrender 1 year ago
@ggzo3 i was at that show. i sitll live some blocks away. amazing stuff.
DJcaliban 1 year ago
Right or not, people lament the good times being gone, shows never being the same or anything. I could never explain how this happened or how I happened to find myself there. I was looking at Doo Rag videos and found this. It's beautiful just being reminded of that feeling.
Saw the one with DR in the warehouse that got shut down. Favorite was with Nipples of Isis on Lundi Gras!
Just the smells at this show were great. Wish I could recreate that smell.
Thanks so much for sharing.
brickvickie 1 year ago
@brickvickie thanks for reminding me of the smell! yer totally right.
joconnor6 1 year ago
Fuckin good times.
barrydeez 1 year ago
I think I still have soot and fire extinguisher 'snow' up my nose....
kahmeleone 1 year ago
Was this the show that Doo Rag opened for? it doesn't look like the same time that I saw them there (and to the earlier responder, the one with Blort and Gimp and Nipples of Isis was at another venue in the 9th ward I believe...
There was also one where the cops shut it down about 3 songs into the set I saw there in N.O. - but the one at tips (samhain 94 er 95 i believe ) was probably the best, yes they had the fire going in tipitinas...
herdpoisoning 1 year ago
@herdpoisoning i saw the lundi gras show but what is THIS show?
joconnor6 1 year ago
I was here
joconnor6 1 year ago
Just a correction on the club name: it was called the R.C. Bridge Lounge; saw my first-ever concert there in '91 (Dang Bruh Y? and Fiddlehead). Wish I had been at this C.W. show but I never heard of them until the late '90s. This club is now a yuppie singles bar called simply the Bridge Lounge...
ibelieveicansoar 1 year ago
@microprophet ~ i went as well. i was very uptight back in the day. ill prepared for such an event!!!
texaho 1 year ago
I saw them in some warehouse under a bridge in salt lake in the 90s
outrightsugar 2 years ago
NO WAY! I was at this show.... glad to see some of it on video, because no way do i have any existing braincells from that era LOL! I think we may have seen them in Austin, Houston, and Dallas on the same tour??? best month ever!
JoannaSatana 2 years ago
i remember once during a Worship gig a drunk friend of mine grabbed the 2" knoted rope they (C.W.) had been dragging around the Aztlan floor (on fire) in Denver. he grabs the rope and began twirling it over his head (almost knocking a few unlucky peeps out) what memories of the great CRASH WORSHIP
noiseruption 2 years ago
Seen 'em several times. I even broke their smoke machine in Denver. Totally unparalleled.
drunkingham 2 years ago
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Wow...one word. Frrrreaky! Don't know what kind of worship that was supposed to be, but I didn't sense the Spirit of the Lord in that one....and I am open to all styles of music when it comes to worship.
JoynJesus2 3 years ago
dude... hush your mouth.
SkankytheSamurai 2 years ago
dude, you wouldn't know what the spirit of the Lord looked like if it sat on your face and squirmed......
kingtroll23 2 years ago
No, I don't suppose I would get a good look at God, if He was sitting on my face and squirming
JoynJesus2 2 years ago 3
Only these guys could get away with playing with fire in a wooden room.
rasputinvanclitt 3 years ago
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26ofcrown 3 years ago
i saw crash worship years ago it was f'ing intense.
ryl0 3 years ago
Been to a Crash Worship Show in NYC way back when and IT WAS SICK They had a chick being carried around on a tray of fruit, fire & fireworks unlike any other band ive seen Awesome
OfficialAmsterdamAve 3 years ago
wouldn't happen to be the Coney Island High show would it? I was covered in so much juice, wine, milk, flour, etc by the end of the show it was like I had slept the night in a supermarket dumpster. Easily the best show I've ever been to.
arclyte23 2 years ago 2
I think they all had kids
pstisdale 3 years ago
What happened to Crash Worship? I saw them 3 or 4 times and they are hands down the best live shows I have ever been to, no contest. Are they still around? Do they ever ever play? I know at least some of them went on to form the Extra Action Marching Band-- Which is also great, but still nothing compared to Crash Worship...
lbenfey 3 years ago
Was this the show that the NOPD came in and started beating everyone indiscriminately with billy clubs? I was at a Crash Worship show around '93 in N.O., mardi gras. BLORT opened..
fraccle 3 years ago
were you on the march through the quarter on Lundi Gras...when they took Bourbon street? I think it was 94 though...the procession went all the way up Bourbon to Toulousse and NOPD cracked down hard...they didn't even get to play, cops blocked off Decatur St. arresting people left and right trying to force people across from Kaldis promising "doses, doses" and some idiots went. Me and my friends ran as fast as we could to Jackson Square. It was chaos and beautiful before the cops came.
Izorpo 3 years ago
I saw these guys in ABQ about 10 years ago. The show, drums, horns, fireworks etc. spilled into the street. Very surreal and very fun!
haunteddollman 3 years ago
crash worship ruined live music for me ... thank you!
Crash1369 3 years ago 2
One of the greatest shows I've ever seen live, the audience became the band and the band became the audience. everyone was together it was so powerful... and the wine was delicious.
raw420x 3 years ago 2
Crash worship are not musicians, they are thieves. They played a show at a house in Oberlin college years ago, and while most of the people were in the basement, the non-musicians of the crash worship touring squad stole valuables (stereos, money) out of the tenants upstairs rooms. Fuck these criminal burning-man goons.
gumbasmut 4 years ago
well, i can not speak for everyone but a couple of them are still very good friends (from this era) to this day and i can honestly assure all that they are NOT thieves...they had a unique genius about them that not everyone can understand...and no doubt, thievery is a turn off to anyone...but your blanket accusation is not valid...it's not like they all gathered and plotted a shake down....Crash Worship ARE LEGENDARY!
tinglepigstickprod 4 years ago 2
Well, they ruined my brand new blouse at Antioch College. F*ckers.
NicolaBaltimore 3 years ago
if you wore a new blouse to a CW show....
you obviously didn't know what you were getting into. out of the 13 or so times i have seen them there was never once that i didnt end up covered with wine/smoke/human sweat et al
sorry no one warned you in advance
bluegreenwasabi 3 years ago
seeing that they were hours late, they attacked me as I was leaving and they were finally entering the building.
NicolaBaltimore 3 years ago
yes tinglepigstickprod you are right on about that blanket accusation as not being valid for i too can attest to what you say from EXPERIENCE. do you know Markus?
GreatestPotential 3 years ago
The idea of "they are thieves, hence they are not musicians" doesn't make sense.
Jean Genet was a thief and an amazing writer...
zoas23zoas 3 years ago
i was there
zickflaw 4 years ago
crash worship gets past the show and into and inside the "passive viewer". please help break down the boundaries of cognitive fascism. post your crash worship videos. inspire a new generation of pagans or would be.........
these boundaries must be transgressed, you hold the understanding in your hands.
soaxe 4 years ago 2
best ever....supernatural
i really thought they were the beginning of something, but they were just a falling star that only a few were able to see. are there any sparks out there?
soaxe 4 years ago
Thanks for the vid, but it doesn't even come close to experiencing it for real does it? Like being in the middle of a riot and an orgy at the same time! I was actually hoping they would have burned the place down!
dunnright00 4 years ago
These guys were the only show I ever went to where I was scared (and that's a good thing).
Fireworks blowing off near me, and strangers bumping into me covered in mysterious brown stuff. (Friends Forever concerts are like that too: fireworks in your face! They're from Colorado.)
TouchingYou 4 years ago
Wow what a flashback! I was there that night at the rc bridge lounge after driving in from GA. Those guys put on shows that I find hard to describe to people who never witnessed them. I must have seen them over 10 times! It's about time some vids show up
xenophono 4 years ago
thanks for posting this. best live band ever.
molecularash 4 years ago
finally the Crash Worship videos are showing up on here.
AntiMusick 4 years ago
this is one show you just have to see live. a video doesnt do it justice but gives you an idea. they jam!
phoenelai 4 years ago