![]() “It comes from a 1970s porno movie,” Larson says. “Thunderpussy,” the “moonshine metal” guitarist assures me, is one word, even though it’s often printed as two, which leads me to ask what a “thunderpussy” is and what makes thunderpussy from Alabama so great. The thrash-metal trash-rockers stop in Detroit this weekend and Larson managed to wake up before 1 p.m. The guys got back to Virginia and their “shit” jobs just a few months ago to make enough money to get back on the road. So goes an early entry in the European tour diary of Erik Larson, guitarist from the stoner rock outfit Alabama Thunderpussy. It was a good start to the tour that we deemed the rolling destruction tour.” Not to mention all the deli meats and cheese that ended up all over the place in a drunken rampage. “After the show was done, we got started on the drinking duties, and I came to realize that three bottles of Jack Daniels a night, as well as three cases of beer, was just the right amount, for at the end of the night all of it was gone. Virgin Net hastily purged the site and banned its originator.Alabama Thunderpussy gets loaded and pushy. (Bad taste does set limits, however: A British online company recently discovered that a subscriber had posted a game based on the actual massacre of 16 Scottish schoolchildren and their teacher. No matter where you sit on the question of vid-game violence - whether you think it actively guts the souls of our youth, reflects an ethically impoverished society, or just represents a fine way to spend an afternoon - there’s no denying that Doom and the legion of ”first-person shooters” that followed raised the bar both for violence and for the average player’s tolerance of same. Then there’s the legacy of 1994’s Doom, whose gore quotient would have been simply unconscionable if the game hadn’t been so much damn fun to play. Also, this is a target-rich society, and the public-interest watchdogs have lately been nipping after more high-profile villains such as gangsta rap and Web smut. For one thing, the industry started slapping ratings on its product following the 1993 Senate-hearings kerfuffle over Mortal Kombat. We haven’t heard much about videogame violence in the last few years. ![]()
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