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Beer, Blood and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling

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Delving into the organized insanity of Incredibly Strange Wrestling (ISW), this memoir takes a look at the bastard offspring of post-punk garage rock and masked Mexican wrestling. Fielding a cast of crazed characters with names like El Homo Loco, Macho Sasquatcho, and El Pollo Diablo, the show lived up to its name. And if that wasnt enough, cult bands such as NOFX, The Dickies, and The Donnas provided the raucous rock and roll in between the highflying mayhem. ISW emerged from the back alleys and seedy clubs of San Franciscos South of Market scene to headline the historic Fillmore and barnstorm North America on the Vans Warped Tour. At the height of its popularity, Green Days Billie Joe Armstrong and Metallicas James Hetfield could be seen tossing tortillas (which the promoters supplied) at ringside with the rest of the hell heads, boozehounds, and tattooed party girls.

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Bob Calhoun is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Filmfax, Salon.com, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He is the coauthor of martial arts and Hollywood stunt legend "Judo" Gene LeBell's autobiography, The Godfather of Grappling. He lives in San Francisco. 

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ISBN:
9781550228274
Author:
Calhoun, Bob
Publisher:
ECW Press
Subject:
Wrestling
Subject:
Sports and Fitness-Wrestling
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Trade Paper
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Publication Date:
20080431
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
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Y
Pages:
300
Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.98 in 1.45 lb

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