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Blackie has one of the best voices in rock!!! Great songwriter!

Ever since I saw the video for "I Wanna Be Somebody" back in 1984 I've been a fan of this band. My favorite album was "The Last Command". W.A.S.P are definetly in my top 5 Metal bands from the 1980:s. Alexis the guitar player Burch was referring to who drank the vodka is the blonde haired guitar player in this video , Chris Holmes.

Chris Holmes has one of the best guitar sounds ever and so underrated guitar player. His stories with EVH are awesome too

Randy Piper and Chris Holmes were such a vastly underrated guitar duo!!! And R.I.P STEVE RILEY, you will be missed!!!

This is a proper classic!

When holding a press conference a journalist asked about the band´s name standing for "We Are Satans People". Blackie leans toward the microphone and responds calmly; "We Ain´t Sure Pal".

wow, brings back memories. We did EVERYTHING in excess in the 80's and we loved it!

Great classic W.A.S.P. Great job guys and gals. Lol.

When I first saw these guys back in the 80's my first words to the rest of my band was... "OH, Elvira's got a brother." Few months later I saw them open up for KISS in Denver. Good times.

One of my favorite 80's band! Need to do I'm blind in Texas!

Crazy 80 theatrics with the little air bombs behind them

Blackie has continued to release amazing tracks, if you want some more wasp try WASP - heaven's hungin black, WASP - miss you, and WASP - Golgatha

Saw WASP open for Iron Maiden at Irvine Meadows Irvine CA in 1985. Epic. I was 19 years old I'm now 57. Still love my 80s metal❤. My brother in law is a huge WASP fan and corresponds with Chris Holmes. Chris has sent him guitar pics and various WASP memorabilia.

W.A.S.P. !!!! Yes!!! Not unlike Ronnie James Dio, Blackie's voice was made for METAL !!!

The baddest of groups to come from the hair metal time period. Great live killer songs

I hope you both will react to :"Forever Free" sometime.It's a rock ballad.Alexis may enjoy that one more.Just a suggestion

WASP...one of my favorite bands. Just raw good Ole Metal.🤘 Seen them quite a few times.

I always did like Blackie Lawless's voice on this song. That raspiness.

Alexis nailed my thoughts exactly... this video has every bad 80's metal trope to come out from that time period, all in one video... yet at the time that this came out, this was an incredible video to watch. Now, well... wow. The song still holds up though.. I love it!

Saw them on the Electric Circus tour in 86 with Warlock. 👌🤘

Great reaction to a very underappreciated band.

Alexis there's your 80's fashion in the rock band industry

Funny thing about the saw blades. Blackie also had one for the crotch area as well as one that shot sparks. Blackie also hated playing the bass. In an interview he calls the bass "a tool of ignorance". That's why after Randy Piper and Steve Riley left the band, Blackie took over rhythm guitar and they hired Johnny Rod.

Love it 🤘Man the days of WASP & Blackie Lawless 🔥

WASP was always one of my favorite bands !!!!

They are a big Part of the Heavy Metal evolution in the 80s/90s too

Now you need to do Animal (the explicit version) by WASP.

The look on her face😂😂❤❤

Blackies voice was so underrated. Great vocalist.

I was such a big WASP fan back in the day but watching this now some 40yrs later and I'm like "Jesus H..! What was I thinking?" lol

now this is a real classic!!

Seeing this reminded me of the documentary, "Decline of Western Civilization 2, the Metal Years"

I first saw W.A.S.P in 1983 at the country club in Reseda California. I have been a fan since. Fun reaction

Blackie also sings that he does something... like a beast ! He' s an Animal ! 🤘 ;)

This band was just phenomenal. Blackie's voice, lyrics and ability to write memorable, catchy choruses, and Chris Holmes, who is just a BEAST...one of my all time fave bands

You need to show her The Idol and Hold onto my heart (the 1992 live accutic version is nice) and Forever Free. I think she might like those alot. You could throw one of their wilder ones in there like Scream until you like it from the movie Ghoulies II or Blind in Texas. They have so many good ones.

Woo Hoo, I love it, W.A.S.P was one of my favorite go to bands To listen to in the 80's, And I still. Listen to them today, They have a ton of great tunes to choose from.

off topic-- the pyrotechnics you saw in the Rammstein live video for Du Hast? yes- they do perform them here in the states (I was in the nose bleed seats in San Antonio a few years ago and I could STILL feel the flames

Speaking of guitars Chris also had the Budweiser guitar as well but I believe that was after The Last Command

Dude... I was in 8th grade and heard this song. I was a KISS fan....but this kicked it up a bit! I had to learn how to play this song !!! This was kind of it for me. Not a big fan of theirs, but the guitar and video hit me in my 13 year old age. I then got dokken and i knew i had to play. Had a good career. Thanks to the predecessors!!! 👏🤟🍻

I saw WASP live about 1985 when they opened for Black Sabbath without Ozzy nor Dio. I had their patch on my Winter jacket. I was only one who liked them in my junior high.

Best concert I ever attended was WASP opening up for Iron Maiden 🤘🤘🤘

Need to react to the Idol by WASP

Personally I like the desert imagery. Having lived in New Mexico during most of my metal years, I get it. The desert is a harsh environment, and only wild things that can actually survive there live in it, so to me, it's a perfect setting for metal. And, if you're riding a motorcycle, you HAVE to ride it in the desert! It's a thing. And I don't even have a motorcycle. 😀 W.A.S.P. was one of the "shock rock" bands of the 80s, along with Motley, Twisted Sister, Alice Cooper (who really started the 'shock rock' thing in the 70s), Kind Diamond, etc. Then you had the pretty boy hair metal bands like Bon Jovi, Ratt, Poison. Motley Crue fell into that category for me during their Theater of Pain era. Nothing wrong with that. I consumed it all! 🙂 And, if you think about it, no matter what category of metal it was, it was sure to shock someone! My dad HATED the guys that looked pretty, so I figured that was pretty shocking to him! 🤣

Love W.A.S.P.

love this song!

The Crimson Idol is a top 5 concept album of all time. It’s a masterpiece!!!!

Blackie quite often wore pants with the rear cut out. “I’m blind in Texas” and “I wanna be somebody” are safe ones for KZfaq. Staying in shock rock try Alice Cooper.

Just wait till she hears Animal…

Loved this album

My 1st exposure to W.A.S.P. was in the back of Metal Edge or RIP or one of the other metal magazines I got every month, they had lyrics to some songs every month and one month, Wild Child was the song. I had never heard them before but after reading the lyrics I sought them out to listen to it and loved it. It's sad Blackie uses tracks during live shows now.

Seeing heavy metal bands in broad daylight always gives me The Fonz jumps the shark vibe.

And Shock... BY FAR. WASP. GOLGOTHA..... ONE OF THE GREATEST CHRSTIAN SONGS about The CRUCIFIXION EVER PRODUCED...VIDEO AND ALL...EPIC....

You should definitely listen to "the idol" or "the great misconceptions of me" blackie absolutely kicks some ass on this

You should do an acoustic song of WASP for Alexis to show the vocal abilities of Blackie. I think he is highly underrated.

Of al of the Sunset Strip 'hair bands' W.A.S.P. were by far the best musically. And.that continued up till now, with an almost unbroken string of great records.

W.A.S.P My Jam! 🤘🏼🤘🏼. Blackie Lawless.. seeing them live as a kid so awesome

Drummer always cracks me up with his "stiff" drumming. Great glam band.

Oh wow, can't believe you're hearing W.A.S.P!! Saw them live with KISS way back in the day, amazing show, I honestly thought they out performed the headliner KISS, that's saying a lot!

That scene with the vodka was from The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. Thay movie is one of the best music documentaries ever made.

And yes, I watched Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins religiously.

Love

Speaking of spiders. Blackies´ bass is shaped in a way so it has a spider as a motive.

REACT TO MORE WASP!!!!! THEY ROCK

Chris Holmes in that pool drinking bottle after bottle of vodka is the best it's in that western civilization movie

Mountain Waluses of Kilimanjaro was a favorite episode.........

Very underrated band

Sleeping in the fire .. headless children.. by wasp they're awesome songs

I loved Blackie and this song so much I got “ Wild Child “ tattooed on my upper thigh!!!!😂❤

I became a Christian in the mid 80's. I found out several years ago that Blackie Lawless is now a Christian. I love that! So is Alice Cooper. And Nicko McBrain, the drummer for Iron Maiden! That's Awesome! 😁👏 I remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom well. Not as dramatic as the Planet Earth videos. It was very kid friendly. And if I remember right, it was followed by Tarzan. Oh, the memories of a childhood TV addict. 😄 Love your channel, guys! 👍😊

W.A.S.P is still one of my favorite bands to listen to. So many amazing songs that people have either forgotten about or just havent discovered. There are some real gems even on their 2015 album "Golgotha" one to check out there which is kind of ballady but powefurful with jist a lot of repeated lyrics but "miss you" is fire! Love the guitar work in that song. Should definitely cjeck it out even just for yourselves and not to make a reaction to.

W.A.S.P. was always a very underrated band. I remember that a lot of the metalheads I hung with looked down at them until they heard The Idol. Then they began to realize the band's talent. I still listen to that song all the time. It's just too good not to.

These guys were on the border of being shock rock. Mostly just through the image they put on. Then black and death metal came along and made them look tame.

Will there ever be a reaction to a Kiss song/video?

This video is the cheesest of the cheesest. 🧀🧀🧀. The epitome of 80's metal.

Saw WASP open for Metallica in '85 (yes, for some of this tour WASP was the headliner, but not the night I saw them), also with Armored Saint who came on before WASP.

In a song called Animal Blackie screams "F**k Like A Beast" it always gives me chills.

The Idol and Golgotha are awesome. Sorry if I spelled Golgotha wrong, possibly wrong twice. Oh don't forget about Chainsaw Charlie's Morgue. Can't go wrong with any actually.

Blackie has some of the best rock ballads by anyone so underrated

The Idol...now there's a song by WASP.

You should show the famous clip with Chris Holmes in the pool drinking

It's now been said that during the Holmes video he was drinking mainly water in a vodka bottle.

Awesome cool band, jamming yeah 🤘😆🤘🎸🎸🥁🎤

From the movie maker: Chris Holmes was drinking water out of that bottle. So the scene is less shocking. ;)

LOVE WASP!!

Need to dive into some Headless Children and Crimson Idol territory

Man when I was young watching this I thought this video was the coolest thing ever! It did not age well...LOL Still a great tune though, and I still think W.A.S.P.'s Crimson Idol record is one of the most underrated concept albums ever done. I would put it up there with Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime and Pink Floyd's The Wall. It's that great.

She would love,,, cries in the night!!!

Had a good voice, WTF, he still has an amazing voice. Out sings guys 30 years younger than himself.

Blackie and his river dance. It's like he restless leg syndrome.

I love it

The weather was really cold when they shot this.

Love W.A.S.P. Wish I could find more reactions/reviews. Not sure why there aren't more from them amd bands like Danzig, Kix and one ive only seen one reaction for one of the most underrated bands Princess Pang. I think they may not be well know enough. I feel like you may be more "in the know" for the time period. If you can find these bands and react to them would be amazing.

W..A.S.P was the band that got me into heavy metal my first album was Electric Circus awesome album

I saw them on my 20th birthday with Metallica in 85.

I saw WASP open for KISS back in 86

Stevie Ray Vaughan so excited live at the el mocambo watched him play for three hours without stopping just unbelievable, Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa I'd rather go blind live, ACDC ride on 😊😊😊

Greatest band ever

Hmmm...from my point of view regarding the video and the marketing and product direction of the band, it definitely played on all the metal tropes of its time and catered and targeted to its primary audience which were mainly teenage and adolescent males (which I was one in those days prob 18 y/o ish when the song was realeased). The goth and medieval tropes were part of the pop culture at that time as fantasy and sword and sorcery movies/books games etc were extremely popular. I believe the band name (particularly being that it is in all capitals and has periods behind each letter indicates that it's an acronym. It was 'cool' though for the time that the acronym spelled out an insect that stings (innuendo perhaps?) and is also aggressive and thus symbolizes the bands energy and desired identity). I see the desert scene to be very appropriate as the song is about the lustful hot and steamy passions between a taken woman (in red and representing temptation and sin) and her 'secret lover' thus the desert setting. It's awesome that you two are covering this period of music and genre and giving it context. Love seeing and hearing these videos and bands now from a 'more mature' lol perspective. One more point, that was made in your video regarding the National Geographic scene with the walrus tumbling down the cliff. What National Geographic doesn't show or mention to viewers is that the walrus was being pursued by a family of polar bears and was fleeing the bears to avoid being eaten alive (a worse fate than tumbling to your death) so it chose the only other option it had which was to try and escape via the cliff. Either way it's not a good outcome. Why National Geographic chose not to tell views about the polar bears is something to look into if interested. Anyways, keep up the good work on your channel you two and thanks for bringing back all these bands and memories and to get to hear opinions on this material from a newer and slightly older generation (sorry Burch, I'm there too plus a couple years lol).