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| - W.A.S.P. was a robot that competed in Series 6 of Robot Wars. Although the name was an obvious reference to wasps, it in fact stood for "What a Silly Project".
- The Weather Alteration System Platform, or W.A.S.P., was a platform in Octonok Cay. It was used to create a tornado on Magnus until Ratchet, Clank, Qwark, and Nefarious destroyed it on their way to the Terrawatt Forest.
- W.A.S.P. é unha banda estadounidense de heavy metal formada en 1982. Surxiron da mesma escea de Los Angeles da que apareceron bandas coma Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot e outros. O grupo tivo o seu pico de popularidade nos anos 80, pero continuou gravando e tocando, converténdose nunhas das bandas máis duradeiras de heavy metal da costa oeste estadounidense. W.A.S.P. gañou notoriedade pola súa estética shock rock, as súas letras e os seus directos. Leveb vendidos ao redor de 12 millóns de álbumes.
- Leader Blackie Lawless (bass/vocals) was already a rock & roll veteran when he relocated to the West Coast and founded W.A.S.P. with guitarists Chris Holmes and Randy Piper and drummer Tony Richards. The band soon established a reputation as a ferocious live act, thanks in large part to Lawless' habits of tying a semi-naked model to a torture rack and throwing raw meat into the audience. And with the release of their self-explanatory independent EP, Animal (F**k Like a Beast), W.A.S.P. became impossible to ignore.
- W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 and emerged with the L.A. scene that featured Motley Crue, Ratt and Quiet Riot. The band's popularity peaked in the 1980s and yet they continue to record and tour, making them one of the most enduring of the West Coast heavy metal bands. W.A.S.P. gained notoriety for their shock rock themed image, lyrics and live performances. The band writes and performs today, though Blackie Lawless remains the only member from the original line-up. They released a new album in April, 2007 entitled Dominator.
- W.A.S.P. is a Heavy Metal band from USA. Initially formed from the ashes of Sister, Circus Circus and London, W.A.S.P. gained notoriety for their shock rock antics (throwing raw meat to the audience, naked models tied to torture racks etc.) and the feud with PMRC in the 80's over their "objectionable" lyrics. Despite its attempts to ban the band, the outrage only resulted in higher album sales. The band took a more serious turn lyrically and sonically in the 90's with The Crimson Idol and, with the exception of Helldorado, has continued to this day. The frontman, Blackie Lawless, is the only member of the band from the original albums, very much a case of I Am the Band.
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| - W.A.S.P. é unha banda estadounidense de heavy metal formada en 1982. Surxiron da mesma escea de Los Angeles da que apareceron bandas coma Mötley Crüe, Ratt, Quiet Riot e outros. O grupo tivo o seu pico de popularidade nos anos 80, pero continuou gravando e tocando, converténdose nunhas das bandas máis duradeiras de heavy metal da costa oeste estadounidense. W.A.S.P. gañou notoriedade pola súa estética shock rock, as súas letras e os seus directos. Leveb vendidos ao redor de 12 millóns de álbumes. A banda foi un importante obxectivo a mediados dos anos 80 da Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) liderada por Tipper Gore, muller de entón senador Al Gore, unha organización que presionou para a imposición de etiquetas de advertencia na música gravada.
- W.A.S.P. was a robot that competed in Series 6 of Robot Wars. Although the name was an obvious reference to wasps, it in fact stood for "What a Silly Project".
- W.A.S.P. is a Heavy Metal band from USA. Initially formed from the ashes of Sister, Circus Circus and London, W.A.S.P. gained notoriety for their shock rock antics (throwing raw meat to the audience, naked models tied to torture racks etc.) and the feud with PMRC in the 80's over their "objectionable" lyrics. Despite its attempts to ban the band, the outrage only resulted in higher album sales. The band took a more serious turn lyrically and sonically in the 90's with The Crimson Idol and, with the exception of Helldorado, has continued to this day. The frontman, Blackie Lawless, is the only member of the band from the original albums, very much a case of I Am the Band. Not to be confused with WASPs, or Marvel Comics' The Wasp. Or, for that matter, the World Aquanaut Security Patrol.
- W.A.S.P. is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 and emerged with the L.A. scene that featured Motley Crue, Ratt and Quiet Riot. The band's popularity peaked in the 1980s and yet they continue to record and tour, making them one of the most enduring of the West Coast heavy metal bands. W.A.S.P. gained notoriety for their shock rock themed image, lyrics and live performances. The band in the mid-1980s were a prominent target of the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) led by Tipper Gore, wife of then-Sen. Al Gore (D-Tenn.), an organization that pushed for labels on recorded music. The band immortalized its fight with the PMRC on the song, "Harder, Faster," on their infamous 1987 live album, Live...In the Raw. The band writes and performs today, though Blackie Lawless remains the only member from the original line-up. They released a new album in April, 2007 entitled Dominator. In October 2007, W.A.S.P. embarked on their biggest tour yet, The Crimson Idol Tour, to celebrate the album's 15th anniversary. It is the first time that the album, often regarded to be among the band's finest work, will be played in full from start to finish. The tour kicked off in Greece, in Thessaloniki at the Principal Club Theater on October 26 2007. It has also been announced that this tour will be W.A.S.P.'s last tour for a while to come.
- Leader Blackie Lawless (bass/vocals) was already a rock & roll veteran when he relocated to the West Coast and founded W.A.S.P. with guitarists Chris Holmes and Randy Piper and drummer Tony Richards. The band soon established a reputation as a ferocious live act, thanks in large part to Lawless' habits of tying a semi-naked model to a torture rack and throwing raw meat into the audience. And with the release of their self-explanatory independent EP, Animal (F**k Like a Beast), W.A.S.P. became impossible to ignore. They signed to Capitol Records, and with songs like "I Wanna Be Somebody" (an absolute anthem to blind ambition) and "L.O.V.E. Machine" leading the way, their self-titled 1984 debut was an instant success. W.A.S.P. took their horror show on the road, and their momentum continued to build with the following year's The Last Command, which featured new drummer Steven Riley and the band's biggest hit, "Blind in Texas." Later that year, the band gained even more prominence as one of the biggest targets of Tipper Gore and the P.M.R.C. (Parents' Music Resource Center), a group of Washington housewives leading a crusade against violent, sexist song lyrics. Though the incident (which included Senate hearings on the issue with guest speakers as disparate as Frank Zappa, John Denver, and Dee Snider from Twisted Sister) would cause more publicity than actual results, it served to make W.A.S.P. a household name -- for good and for worse. Ironically, the band toned down their act for 1986's Inside the Electric Circus, a lackluster, repetitive album which saw Lawless switch to guitar (replacing the departed Piper) and the hiring of bassist Johnny Rod. The blood and guts were largely gone (as were the good songs), and despite releasing a strong live album entitled Live...In the Raw the following year, the band's popularity began to plummet. The all-time low arrived with the release of Penelope Spheeris' heavy metal "rockumentary" The Decline of Western Civilization 2: The Metal Years. An expose about the L.A. metal scene, the film's most dramatic and depressing sequence showed an inebriated Chris Holmes drinking himself into a stupor in full stage gear while lying on a float in his mom's swimming pool. In a movie filled with debauchery and decadence, this scene was by far the scariest. 1989's Headless Children (featuring ex-Quiet Riot sticksman Frankie Banali) was a return to form, but it couldn't revert the band's slump and W.A.S.P. disbanded soon after. Lawless eventually returned as a one-man show for 1993's The Crimson Idol, an ambitious rock opera/concept album billed as Blackie Lawless & W.A.S.P. Resurrecting the band's old shock rock antics, but alas, not fame and fortune, the album flopped, and the following year's greatest-hits set, First Blood...Last Cuts, seemed like their last chapter. But the resilient Lawless returned once again, luring guitarist Chris Holmes back into the fold and recruiting bassist Mike Duda and drummer Stet Howland for 1996's Still Not Black Enough. This lineup has continued to tour and record for a number of independent labels, with their albums including 1997's K.F.D., 1999's Helldorado, and 2001's Unholy Terror. The band released Dying for the World in 2002, an exceptional collection of unusually serious material inspired by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It was followed in 2004 by the conceptual Neon God, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, with Dominator arriving in 2006.
- The Weather Alteration System Platform, or W.A.S.P., was a platform in Octonok Cay. It was used to create a tornado on Magnus until Ratchet, Clank, Qwark, and Nefarious destroyed it on their way to the Terrawatt Forest.
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