Chris Holmes on DWIs & How Much He was Paid in W.A.S.P. 

If some guitar company worked with Chris to make a signature model , I would buy it.

One of the most underrated guitarists ever. If you don't like his playing, you don't like rock.

Holy hell, Chris deserved $120 for every 5 minutes that he was playing live on stage! $120 per week for a rock star of his caliber is insulting. I bet Blackie didn’t make $120 per week! What a thief!!! From what Blackie was saying in interviews back in ‘84/‘85, W.A.S.P. were such a big attraction they were getting 100% of the bar till, or 100% of the door take, in all the clubs that they played! Where did all that money go Blackie? Chris was an absolute madman and full of energy every second he was onstage, if anybody deserved a good paycheck, it was Chris! From what I’ve seen, he was 50% of W.A.S.P.’s live shows all by himself. If you watch footage from the older shows like the pro-shot London Lyceum gig, people can’t stop looking at Chris and you can plainly see that Blackie notices it and he gets very jealous! Watch the footage from the Last Command tour on Randy Piper’s RU-vid page. Almost all of that show people are watching Chris and when they aren’t watching him, they’re watching Randy play his solos. Randy was also a huge part of their live shows. On the Winged Assassins tour, where Blackie was gargling blood from a skull, cu**ing the girls throat on the rack, or throwing raw meat, Chris and Randy were the obvious viewpoints of those shows. Blackie had to do outlandish stuff because otherwise he was like watching a lazy donkey onstage. Half the time Blackie’s bass was a backing track cause he couldn’t play single note bass lines and do his stupid line dance shuffles at the same time! LoL That’s 100% true. Watch that live Texas show on Randy’s page and you’ll see Blackie’s hand off the bass, but the bass is still clearly making sound. He’s not doing hammer-on’s either as Blackie claims he was doing, it’s a backing bass track plain as day, so he could dance around like an idiot! Chris and Randy deserved way more money than Blackie ever did. I really liked W.A.S.P. back in the day. The layered rhythm guitars on those first 3 records sounded so good. Fully cranked up on a good stereo, Chris’ playing and his solos on those songs sounded monstrous. When Blackie started wearing those weird vaudeville type costumes and doing those stupid shuffle dances he just looked stupid. I just stopped paying attention when I saw him dancing. Blackie took what could have been a really great band and ruined it with his overinflated ego and just being selfish altogether. Thanks to Blackie, we never got to see Chris Holmes get his due in guitar magazine interviews, his songs/solos tabbed out like he deserved! We never got to read about him hanging out and growing up with Eddie Van Halen when they were kids. We never got to read, or see pictures in equipment interviews. No discussions about his old Marshall’s, his custom Jackson and Charvel Star body guitars, his Ibanez Destroyer that he bought at the same time Eddie Van Halen bought his Ibanez Destroyer. Chris deserved all of that stuff. I mean c’mon, if Billy Corgan, Courtney Love, the guys from Black Veil Brides, etc got in guitar magazines it is absolutely criminal that Chris Holmes hasn’t had a damn whole guitar book written about him!! At least one damn issue of Guitar World could pay homage to Chris!

I saw WASP live in 1984 ,One of the greatest show ever 👍🤘🤘

Chris has been through the grinder on a level where most of us would be in the ground as a result . Its astonishing he made it through the other side AND got sober AND is still kicking ass. Rock on Chris \m/

Chris Holmes is the tallest, wildest guitarist that I ever seen live. I appreciate his honesty about drinking & efforts to be sober.👍👍

I'm surprised he's still alive! That's badass! 😆

I’m assuming DUI’s back in the day were different than today..🤘🏻

I'm here for Chris' laugh.

I didn't get a car cause i had my license suspended I'm already on my fifth DUI hahahahaha epic@!!!

I buy it. that scene on the Decline of Western civilization 2 says it all. the guy drank so much . I'm glad he's sober now

Damn. Finding out I was making at least twice as much as Chris back in the early 80’s and thinking he was making so much more.

I love your channel!!!!

Hahaha, $120 a week. Vinnie Vincent got $550 working in Kiss but Blackie out-cheapskated even them, an amazing feat.

Only Chris Holmes would think going to jail for 15 days was getting one over on the law...lol

Wasp self titled lp is my soundtrack! Best stuff when i was a kid. I wanna be somebody really hit me hard when i was a young loser with no future.

I saw WASP, Ted Nugent and King Kobra in Austin back in 85. I remember it like it was yesterday.

Five DUI’s. . . $125.00 a week ? This guy got to write a book ! I agree it’s epic !

I grew up in the 70s and early 80s. $120/week? That wasn't a lot even for back then. What kind of car could they buy on that kind of money? A Chrysler K-car?

I saw W.A.S.P. in 86 opening for the Toni iommi band aka Black Sabbath .

Chris is one of those player where you can remember the solo .there are a lot of players technically better and i cant remember hardly anything by them of the top of my head .i wanted him to behave so we could get more from him, but then your wishing him to be someone hes not and he wouldn't be that player with out being him ,if you know what i mean .

Blackie owes Chris a fortune in back monies, and for ownership rights to WASP. I hope Chris wins any legal, or court cases against Blackie, as Chris is longover owed his due's. \m/ Mean Man \m/

That's crazy, i was making $100 per night playing drums in a bar band in 95-96. He was getting screwed.

I don't drive so don't have to worry at all about DWI's, but I do love W.A.S.P., especially the Hits " Blind in Texas" and "Sex drive". Like Chris Holmes says " Hey dude, let's party. Goddamn right 👍!

Decline of the Western Civilization PT.2 was epic

Good thing he was hooked on alchohol and not heroin. In 1984 my habit was 200 a day. Yes I got help went to NA. been clean long time. But man 125 bucks a week. I suppose to live a dream and be Chris. Hed be dead if it was 500. So good the way it worked. I absolutely admire him for how he has stuck to his music and turned his life around. I loved the movie too

Ozzy, Dio and Blackie all did this to their bands.

It's ok Chris, Blackie Lawless is slowly morphing into Vinnie Vincent's twin sister as we speak.

This man's liver is the champion of the world.

Chris Holmes is a genuinely nice dude, not at all the “Mean man” portrayed in the lead single for “The headless children” I don’t get how Blackie expected Chris to accept that song as a homage… I have the feeling this was one of the reasons he initially left WASP… what a talent and an enigma, it’ll be a pity when… well we all know it’ll be soon😢

Let me guess, Blackie decided he was worth $120/wk like a damn part time employee.🙄

He saw better call sauls ads

Blackie really screwed him over. In demonic fashion.

I made $120 a week working at McDonald's in 1984 for $3.35 an hour!

that's not something to be proud of or to brag about about or laff at

Model citizen

110$ a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????? I'm glad I stuck to playing bars....I made more money then!!!!!!!!!!! Yes in 1985..poor guy!!!! This poor fucking guy Chris wrote the best riffs in W.A.S.P.!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ya know, back in the 80’s I busted my hump playing guitar trying to get the band signed, having fun of course, but dreaming of fame and fortune…… then all I hear about is the low money they made. Only the big acts started making meaningful money and only the actual biggest acts got the fortune. Dang ! Well it was still worth the fun but it’s depressing to hear low money for these guys. Vivian Campbell was a total buzz kill when he said how much he got paid with dio. Super LAME ! Lol

Damn, he may be approximate equivalent of $334 a week, when you convert money in 1984 to the present day. That’s pretty bad, but then again I never was impressed with their music whatsoever. Not hating, just saying.

He copied the exact same pose Mick Mars from motley Crue did on the too fast for love album cover with the exact same guitar a dean Starfire only his has fake blood on it

Its funny WASP still sounds like WASP without Holmes. Hmmmmm could be due to Blackie perhaps.

$120 when he first started clearly..

120 a week!!!!?????.....I make three times that in 4 hours at a bar!!!!

$120 a week?????

Lucky he didn’t kill anybody.

$120 a week... What a chump

It was a terrible group. How did they ever get a deal?

This man should be in jail for driving drunk.

You are not Mr. MEAN,you were F**ked and Used by Slackkie Jawless!Just saying!But still will Hit ya up Latuh fuh more creative input or Lie about credits,Still not Cool Man!Rock on CHris,You deserve Da Best Nah,Take care nah!Jcsx

I have 5 DUI,s myself

What a freaking crybaby no wonder why B Lawless wont bring him back ! Who needs this headache!