{"id":14689,"date":"2023-02-13T06:11:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T14:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2023-02-21T20:19:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T04:19:49","slug":"february-13-february-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/february-13-february-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"February 13 – February 20 (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

RANDOM PIC OF THE WEEK<\/h3>\n

I’m STILL laughing over this meme!<\/p>\n

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While I enjoyed a nice lunch at Panera on a gorgeous day, my music player offered this rockin’ morsel! It’s a group called LSD (Life, Sex and Death) and the song is “School’s For Fools.”<\/span> They first got exposure on “Beavis & Butt-Head,” but I heard about them from a good friend at the time. Back in 1992 they had an album out and were playing gigs all around. But there was a catch. While the band was comprised mostly of three hair-band looking guys who looked like 80’s holdovers, the lead singer looked like a homeless person who had wandered up on stage to join in. There were rumors abound that lead singer “Stanley” was an actual homeless person whose voice was so amazing, the band decided to make him their singer. Years later the truth has been revealed that “Stanley” was actually somebody named Chris Stann, who had created this character in a very “Tony Clifton meets metal” kind of way. Chris stayed in the Stanley character for days, and it’s even rumored that he actually DID live on the street for a while. Legend has it that when Stanley was on stage you could smell him all the way out into the first two rows! This song, along with “Telephone Call” from their album, standout as some of my favorite rockin’ tunes of all time. It’s unbelievable to me that this band didn’t go farther. In fact, when I got hired as Beetlejuice in the “Rockin’ Graveyard Revue” at Universal Studios in 1994, I had never heard Beetlejuice sing before. Unsure of what that would sound like, I figured that Stanley’s voice was about as close to what Beetlejuice singing would sound like. So I copped a lot of Stanley’s vocal mannerisms for the character! Because simply hearing the song doesn’t give you the full picture of what this band was about, I’m posting a link to the video. Many people now are saying the Life, Sex and Death was the perfect mix of hairband metal and grunge. But back in 1992, grunge wasn’t really a thing yet. So perhaps LSD was simply just ahead of their time.<\/p>\n