Halcyon Magazine

Drop Out of Life with Bong in Hand

Deep Slumber Lake is an artist duo consisting of Todd White and Zachary Scheinbaum. Their imaginative wanderings into the ancient and epic themes of swordcraft, battle axes, and wizardry elevate stoner musings of getting high and dropping out of life with bong in hand into epic and magnanimous vistas. Wizard beards become flowing primordial waterfallsof life, mountains become magestic wiccan candles, and battle axes become the pinpoint upon which the very universe rests. If Frank Frazetta smoked just a little more weed and listened to just a little more Judas Priest, you’d have Deep Slumber Lake.  Read the full interview by clicking the link below.

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So the title of this you tube video is “Video about pathetic metal dudes who make cardboard guitars,” or so the dude at Metal Inquisition tagged it on youtube. Right on dude! That shits funny! Anyways, Colin showed it to me at work a long time ago and I just remembered it for some reason. This self-loathing Ben and Jerry’s eating sweatpant wearing tagline ALONE really should be enough to make you want to watch it.

If that’s not enough, do let me explain. Its an excerpt from Janet Street Porter ’s 20th Century Box program,  a documentary on the then burdgeoning NWOBHM scene which included an early TV appearance of Iron Maiden performing at The Marquee Club, and ironically hilarious interviews with “air guitarists” narrated by Danny Baker.

Anyways, apparently the dude in this video has made close to half a dozen cardboard guitars (including one “inventerted flying V that was…. a total flop”) for his headbanging performances. Apparently in the underground British metal scene, kids make fake ones to play along with their riffing heroes. Call it what you will, but performer/audience communication and art imitating life imitating metal, to me, is a complex investigation into the nature of artifice and facade. 
Or whatever.