#whitezombie #robzombie #mtv #beavisandbutthead Today we take a look at how the MTV show Beavis and Butthead saved Rob Zombie's outfit White Zombie in the early 90's!
1980s-1990s: Music Television 2009: Turned off the cable I can't say I miss it. The only thing I watched consistently was Breaking Bad back then and it was already feeling like it had run it's course in the two(?) seasons that I saw.
When I was 16 my sister asked what I wanted for Christmas and I told her La Sexorcisto Devil Music Vol 1, so glad I had a cool sister cause she got it for me!
What a nice sister. I asked my parents for Sega Genesis on several occasions for Christmas and kept getting stonewalled yet my younger brother got Super Nintendo. Go figure. The downside of being the oldest of 3.lol
My dad, one of the most straight laced white guys ever, bought me Sinister's "Mobbing 4 Life", I wonder if the cashier thought he was buying it for himself
White Zombie was my first rock show, November 18th 1995 at the Palace of Auburn Hills, the Ramones opened. By the way I was in 7th grade with my best friend and his Mom. Pretty crazy being that little with a bunch of punks, bikers and metal heads and everyone was nice to us. Never turned back.
Thats cool, i was in 7th grade when i went to my first concert too, Foo Fighters. Rob zombie never did any all ages shows back then since he was playing the smaller venues around toronto. Got to see him a few years later in Ireland though when i was about 15. Great show
Me, too! 24/7, nothing else! I remember getting soooo smashed and waking up on a sofa in an apartment where I’d never been, basically topless, bras were still rather optional, so it’s a good thing it was a bra day for me...without my favorite shirt I’d been wearing before I passed out (it apparently got thrown out the window from a car between state lines while on a beer and liquor run with a bunch of friends... Fake IDs more easily passed off and cheaper and better booze were worth the run over the line). No one was around, and the place was dark except for the TV...I had been left on the sofa, facing the TV, and woke to MTV blaring loudly with zooming, flashing colors, they were playing Electric Avenue, and went on to other songs, and I was so very wasted, it gave me the worst case of the spins, and I was way too wasted to have the TV screaming at me with all the spinning colors of some vid that seemed to go on forever. I remember thinking that it was awesome that they had MTV because not everyone did have access to it yet, it was still that new in some areas and in any other circumstance I would’ve been ecstatic if it weren’t for that feeling that I’d been trapped on an amusement park ride that had gone wild, faster and off track. Still wish I could remember what video had spinning colors. I couldn’t even move a hand to cover my face, and it was bright enough to shine through my eyelids, and still see swirling colors, and I couldn’t even speak, let alone yell for anybody, my head hurt too much, and I had no idea where I was or how I got there, and if anyone were around anyway. Didn’t know where my favorite Sassoon shirt was, either (why does it always have to be your favorite shirt, or your favorite jacket or coat, or your favorite jeans, or your favorite boots or shoes?). Didn’t know what happened to my homies, for that matter, but I sure was getting cold without my shirt. You would think someone would have tossed me a blanket or something... MTV, and wild and crazy days and nights...that’s pretty much everyone’s life story in the 80’s...if you add the customary run-ins and close calls with troublemakers, police and occasional alphabet agencies, people getting knocked off, sometimes your favorite people, just like your favorite clothes and stuff, it pretty much sums up everybody’s experience in the 80’s...maybe every decade to a degree, but with the backdrop of MTV, and some cool shows on other channels, Living Color was big, launched a lot of people, for example, and Arsenio, with his long fingers, seems like he likes to show them off a lot, especially his 2 index fingers....it was a very unique time. Back then, TV channels were true to their name, like MTV. I got rid of TV some years ago, when it all went to hell, and better options became available... And it’s a good thing I copy now and then as I write, because RU-vid likes to reload the page or delete before you hit “reply”. If you copy as you go along you can paste it back when it deleted everything you wrote.
I think it was Kenny Hickey from Type O Negative who said he knew the band had a big break when he saw one of their video clips on Beavis and Butthead. Those were the days ....
I would go as far as to say the real reason WZ got big was because J. Yuenger joined the band. Dude is so underrated as a guitarist and pretty much invented the sound that would make them famous. His crungy, chunky guitars defined 90s White Zombie.
Beavis and Butthead also helped break Butthole Surfers to the mainstream, although they had a huge following Rod Flanders would never have worn a surfers shirt without B&B
They were already helped into the Mainstream by the Kurt Cobain seal of approval Beavis and Butthead definitely helped but it wasn't as important as it was for the other Bands listed
I had the same for Pantera. I never heard their music prior to Beavis and Butthead. "This Love" I believe where Mike Judge pointed out the head singer of Pantera might of got his ass kicked by his dad to respect his mother in physical and emotional abuse which he uses his music to vent it all out. 13 years later in my younger 20's, I went to Virgin Records in Triangle Square between Newport Beach and Costa Mesa at the end of the Freeway, I went to check their CD out while trying to find "my music" because I was just curious only liking other people's music in question of what my brand was, so they got these short demonstration microphones next to each artist CD's and there were a lot of bands to choose from, Korn was great, Sublime was calming, Greenday was relaxing, but Pantera was the best. I found out my favorite band that day and remembered "This Love" from Bravis and Butthead, bought their greatest hits verson and got Cowboys From Hell, Cemetary Gates, 5 Minutes Alone, Respect, along with This Love amongst other songs, but that day I discovered my favorite band is Pantera, as it might of been a commentary of guessed opinion by Mike Judge, it turned out to be my favorite band and my type of music. I also like White Zombie, Korn, and all of most the bands from the movie "Queen of the Damned".
Funny thing too, I was just re-watching a little bit of Beavis and Butthead from my DVD collection, and White Zombie was one of the bands I remember getting into when I was little.
Yup, I actually brought this up to some friends a few years ago. In the 90's, B&B pretty much ran the show when it came to music exposure and the billboards.
I remember an interview with Al back in the day where he was asked if he would do music for the new Rob Zombie movie. His response was "Rob Zombie has a new movie coming out? Is he playing me again?"
Hey man, great work with your videos! Fact-filled, straight-to-the-point, no meandering or useless padding. However, sometimes, like this one for example, they end kind of abruptly. A brief wrap-up/ending summary before your sign-off would make for a much smoother transition, IMO.
That's easy, Trent rezner took Marilyn Manson to a guns n roses concert in 92 or 93 and introduced Manson to Axl. Cal asked Manson about his band and music and Manson told him about how he took models from the 60's and 70's first name and serial and other types of killers from that same time also. He also told him about the album Charles Manson made called "lie" and the song "my monkey" that Marily Manson and the spooky kids were covering at that time and was going to be one their first album. Fast forward a couple weeks and Manson hears All is giving an interview an says he is doing Charles Manson's Look at your game girl and he's wearing that Charlie don't surf. So you see. Cal Rose ripped off Marilyn Manson who ripped off Charlie Manson.
This is the time when you go to a record store and buy a physical copy of the record and listen to the whole thing from first to the last song. nowadays, just download the song you like and thats it. record sales do matter back then. I used to stay up late at night just to watch beavis and butthead. they play the show around 11pm. Gotta love the 90s, so many good music and shows.
In the late 80s/early 90s I didn’t listen to anything but Hip-Hop. Beavis & Butt-head single handily turnt me onto sooo many metal bands. Pantera, Metallica, AC/DC etc
Dolphinboi Could of done without Lords of Salem though, personally. That film was just a mess...and don’t even get me started on the “acting” prowess of Sheri Moon-Zombie. There’s a reason she’s only ever in his movies. 😆
It’s crazy to think that it was B&B that actually broke White Zombie... I remember watching their vids on Headbanger’s Ball and became a fan that way (along with a bunch of other bands in those early pre-internet days), figured a bunch of other people that watched HBB would have as well. I guess I didn’t realize the impact B&B had on bands’ fortunes.
I loved White Zombie. Especially because the way they made all my friends think I was crazy loving these “ devil worshippers” lmao . I still jam this cd all the time. Every song is great on it. Andy Wallace mixed it and he might have also produced it. It’s a classic Rockin Roll lp. I also ended up seeing them in concert WZ 3x RZ 3x
I saw White Zombie shortly before Beavis and Butthead watched the video...and they were pretty popular then too...the La Sexorcisto album was fucking solid
They need to come back and be as wonderfully raunchy, uncut, insensitive, inappropriate, funny and politically incorrect as only Beavis and Butthead can be. Yeah!
If it wasn't for B&B, I wouldn't have heard of a large number of bands I still listen to today. I saw videos on there that I just never got to see anywhere else due to work or just the sheer lack of videos on the rest of the MTv schedule.
"Black Sunshine" appeared on the episode Home Improvement, "Thunder Kiss '65" was seen from "Yogurt's Cool" and "Welcome to Planet M.F." was from the tail end of "Kidnapped Part One".
This was one of my favorite albums of all time, at least top ten. Crazy to think it was that unpopular in the beginning. I remember those 3 BnB videos when I was really young.
Dimebag wore a White Zombie shirt in one of Pantera's film clips. I thought i would check em because if its good for DIME its gotta be good. Glad I did. Thanks again Dime🤟
I remember driving around in my little Toyota truck back in the day, blasting Vol. 1....and my friends, all of them.....making fun of it. They just didn't understand. They finally came around years later.
I really enjoyed this. This whole period of my life, is sorta blurred. I remember seeing the vid for Thunder Kiss before anything else. It wasn’t even on the radio yet. And, the video was actually on one of those old school pay to watch music video channels. I watched that video and immediately, that same day, went out and bought La Sexorcisto. I know this album more than most other albums from him. Love RZ. Some of his work can be a “miss” in my opinion, while so much more can be utterly glorious.
i remember seeing the thuderkiss video but i couldn't get the sexorcisto album where i lived so i got my parents to buy it when they went on a trip to a bigger city. they told me to never ask them to buy anything by that band again on account of the title and cover art. it was before it was on beavis and butthead... i used to play it at parties and became known as the guy who discovered white zombie where i lived. everyone had that album a short time later.
And they made fun of Morbid Angel for whatever reason, but fans could tell they were wrong on that one, and still made it the only gold death metal album ever.
White Zombie had a decent following in the LA area because of the Halloween show with Danzig in 92. Same show that Danzig released the live stuff in Thralldemonsweat live.
I grew up in Glendive, Montana and graduated in the mid 90s. No bullshit, MTV was literally the *only* access to "other than country" music. Only one local store - oddly, the pharmacy - carried "PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT LYRICS" CDs and cassettes.
Well I can officially claim I'm one of the few WZ fan's pre B&B. I was in the Navy when I bought the tape from a music store that sold a lot of Metal. I randomly chose White Zombie that rocketed to the top of my play list for the last oh.. almost 30 years! I likely bought it in March or April of 92 because I got out in July..
An acquaintance at school was listening to a tape beside me and I asked him what it was because it sounded pretty goo through the headphones. He let me borrow it and it had Stone Temple Pilots Core on one side and La Sexorcisto on the other, along with some other songs by some alternative bands at the time. I was hooked instantly! Had to go and buy a whole bunch of those tapes so I could listen to them in better fidelity.
Never knew this! Thanks R'N'R TS. 'La Sexorcisto...' was the first Zombie album I got, saw it in a record store, read the title, and was like "This HAS to be great!!"... and it was! Being from a poor family in the UK, we had no Satellite TV, so no MTV, and no Beavis + Butthead. Had to catch up later. Interesting to find out they helped 'break' 1 of the best Metal bands of the 90's!
Even in the UK my first taste was on beavis and butthead. Then it was astro creep and I got to see them live at donington. They have exposure from kerrang back when it was actually a worth while publication. I always thought Rob zombie was very much like Mike judge. When it's on your listen/watch with some massively underrated classics that get your full attention everytime. When me and the other old fuckers get together. el phantasmo and the chicken run blast o Rama is on our drinking list. Love you rob from Wales UK.
White Zombie was already on the rise and would have been recognized with or without Bevis and Butthead. The coverage didn't hurt but it didn't make or break the bands success. I knew White Zombie before BB covered them and I was a teen in West Virginia at the time. I will admit that it was quite the thrill to see them on BB.
Saw white zombie at LVJM in Winston-Salam in spring of 1993. The barricade got ripped apart, don't know why, it was 100% General admission. I rode the crowd for 4 and 1/2 songs and I say 60 or more people I knew very well were there. Tickets were $15 and shirts $12. Got autographs. The 90's were great!
I saw zombie on jre, dude comes off as an unlikable character. I love his music, his music videos, and his movies! Guy is creative and has a definite place in cinema and rock history
75k sold before B@B....that’s not too shabby. That song made its way to zrock’s Sunday night heavy metal show before B&B and I’m pretty sure they opened for pantera before the show also, so they were hanging in there, but damn they blew up. 2 years later they were the biggest band in the world
I wouldn’t exactly say, “saved”, considering they broke up permanently only 5 years after they were featured on Beavis and Butt-head...from the very beginning dude’s like, “would have been short-lived”...uuuuhh, they kinda were short-lived. Especially since they were a mostly completely obscure unknown band from ‘85 to ‘93. I love White Zombie, but I’ll always consider them short-lived...unless they reunite, but I sincerely doubt that will ever happen. Rob Zombie always seems dead set against it whenever someone brings it up in an interview, so....
