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In Your Face / Up Your Butt

by Helot Revolt

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Lizard skin cowboy boots Do you think this is Texas? Ride the concrete range Yee haw! Lizard skin cowboy boots Somehow they don’t protect you From anyone who is strange From anyone who might get you How the magick faerie scares you Black men give you a chill Akmed in the convenience mart How you envy his will Chorus: Bigotry is not rebellion. It only shows your fear. And when you take the stage You sing and preach your hate Against the very influences That you try to emulate Stealing blues licks from the Negroes Advertising your ignorance Stealing lipstick from the queers Your contribution has no significance Chorus / Chorus (4x)
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Clutch the cloth Bare your navel Let me see your body Quick and able Accidental brush Adrenaline rush The naked feel of wind Shirts in the dust Pre-Chorus: Every boy needs someone to love Every boy needs a push and a shove Cumin’ through from somewhere above At first you’re unsure Then you can’t get enough Chorus: Shirts and skins Shirts and skins Let the game begin I shiver within Shirts and skins Shirts and skins I hope I’m a shirt But I pray you’re a skin Chubby little girly boy With chubby little boobs Bouncing up and down So pitiful and crude Skinny little bookworm With pale and pasty skin Not got too much muscle Bony frail and thin Pre-Chorus Chorus There are boys Who want to be skins They want to be checked out They are beautiful and win All of our affection All our admiration Running bare in the sun Racing everyone Solo: Jack Solo: Mike Chorus (3x)
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You see two guys a-kissin’ And it blows your mind! See what you’ve been missing Or are you just not that kind? You see two guys a-kissin’ Now, don’t get upset If this is something new The world’s not done with you yet Chorus: Dude, Duh! (4x) Is this your first day of earth? (3x) Seems like your first day on earlth! You hear some faggots rocking Is this some kind of joke? Hey, fags don’t all love disco It’s time that you awoke! Take your Bette Midler Shove her up your butt! This is heavy metal And you feel it in your gut Chorus You say we’re all the same Except for what we do in bed It sounds like that is something That is only in your head! If we were all the same We wouldn’t be onstage We’ve got better things to do Than spend our time at “Rage” Chorus Solo: Jack Solo: Glen Chorus out
4.
What do you want to play? Cops and Robbers bank getaway? What do you want to play? Cowboys and Indians on the range? Let’s play Army, it’s more fun Cum and play with my big, big gun! Chorus: I like Marines, and soldier boys in green (2x) What do you want to be? A fireman all dressed in red? What do you want to be? A doctor with a patient in bed? I wanna be a soldier, it’s more fun Cum and play with my big, big gun! Chorus Do you want to go to war? No, I don’t want to see them die Do you want to go to war? No, I don’t want to see them die Let’s play Army, it’s more fun Cum and play with my big, big gun! Chorus (3x)

about

Helot Revolt grabbed national attention in 1991 with a transgressive combination of music, sexuality, performance art, activism, and spectacular live shows. Music press praised Helot Revolt's 1992 CD, "In Your Face / Up Your Butt," with write-ups in RIP, BAM, Details, Billboard, as well as in many zines that promoted the counterculture of the period. Helot Revolt coincided with the homocore and queercore movements, but had its own unique, polished, metal sound.

Producer, songwriter, lead vocalist, and mastermind Jack Curtis Dubowsky was working in Los Angeles as a recording engineer with Kiss, Bob Ezrin, Megadeth, Max Norman, Warrant, Beau Hill, Tom Werman, Ron Goudie, and many hair metal bands and producers of the day. This immersion influenced what would become his third record, the Helot Revolt CD, which musically was another studio project following Diazepam Nights (1989) and The Duchampians (1991 with architect Eric Kahn). Glen Meadmore appears on the Helot Revolt CD on electric guitar.

For live shows, Jack assembled a performance art troupe that played benefit shows for ACT UP, Queer Nation, City of Angels Hospice, and AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Helot Revolt shows were spectacular performance art extravaganzas with slide projectors, tape machines, costumes, dancers, and sing-alongs. In Los Angeles, Helot Revolt performed on bills with Tim Miller, Wayne Karr, Wendell Jones, Curtis York, Robbie Daniels, Molest Station, Daniel McVey, and others. In San Francisco, Jack put together a live band that performed on bills with Pansy Division, Malibu Barbie, and others.

To top the whole thing off, Alex Meconi directed a rockumentary about the band: "Helot Revolt the World's Greatest Faggot Heavy Metal Band or They Were Out of Bette Davis so I Got This." (1993, 27 minutes, Dir. Alex Meconi.) The film screened in San Francisco and at festivals as far as Honolulu and Melbourne, Australia.

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released September 1, 1992

Lead Vocals: Jack Spittle
Drums: John Schmit
Guitars: Jack Curtis Dubowsky (2,3,4); Mike Finkelstein (1,2); Glen Meadmore (Solos on 3,4); Terence Bovee (Lead on 1); Jory S. Kahn (Clean and Slide on 1).
Bass Guitar: Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Piano: Jack Curtis Dubowsky (2).
Backing Vocals: Jack Spittle; James Affeld (1,3,4); Alex Meconi (3,4); Drew Heidrich (2).
Demon Voice: James Affeld (1,4).

Words and music by Jack Curtis Dubowsky (1,3,4);
Words by Jack Curtis Dubowsky, Music Dubowsky/Finkelstein (2).

℗ + © 1992 De Stijl Records. All titles published by De Stijl Music (BMI).

PRODUCED BY JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY
Recorded and Mixed by Jack Curtis Dubowsky
Thank you: Ed Gori, Brian Richards, Doug Michael
Mix Assistants: Cannon Justice, Nancy Scharlau
Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman’s

Thank you to Queer Nation, ACTUP, the Radical Faeries, and the Gay Metal Society (Chicago) just for being you.
Thank you to Chinhippy, Rich Markowitz, Thom Brown, and most of all Alan S. Kahn, Flugel Horny Toad.
Special Thanks to Alex Meconi for keeping Helot Revolt going.
Art Direction: Pryor Praczukowski / bah! Graphix
Cover Photo: Myk Mishoe
Special Effects Ejaculation Team (high five dudes!): Russ Laskey, Vette Anthony, Jamie Moore.
Band photo: Stacie Schein.
Subway: Budapest Metro, Hungary. Recorded on location. Kálvin tér – next stop, Felszabadulás tér.

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Composer, author, filmmaker Jack Curtis Dubowsky works in concert music, improvisation, and live performance. His output includes three books, a documentary feature, and musical compositions in multiple genres. Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble combines composed material and structured improvisation and has played theatres and venues nationwide, presenting live scores to silent and experimental film. ... more

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