Beto O'Rourke (2003) performing Punk covers in a onesie and sheep mask, at a joint called Moontime Pizza, no less...
I'm speechless.
In case anyone really needs to throw up, here is a video, below from the link above.
But Foss wasnt ORourkes only musical project. Nearly a decade after Foss split up in the mid-90safter he had returned to El Paso, started a web design company, and taken tentative steps toward a career in local politicsORourke and a few friends (including other ex-members of Foss) formed two other bands. One was a rock group called Fragile Gang. The other was a cover band called The Sheeps, which performed punk rock classics. Band members wore a variety of disguises on stagemost notably, tight onesies and sheep masks.
Our persona was that we were a very famous band from New Zealand and we didnt want people to know our true identitiesthats why we wore masks, Ailbhe Cormack, the bands bassist, tells Mother Jones. I think people followed along with the mystery of it, but they knew who we were.
At a December 2003 show at El Pasos now-closed Moontime Pizza, ORourke, the groups rhythm guitarist, wore a white onesie and tried on a bad Kiwi accent for good measure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=17&v=fMc69XcKfEU
Sheeps - Hearts of Darkness (+ special surprises) - Moontime Pizza - El Paso, TX - December 2003
The costumes varied. Aisling Cormack, on the audiences left, dressed as a nun and played keyboard; Arlo Klahr, a former bandmate from Foss, played lead guitar; Joey Cazares, wearing a bunny mask rather than a sheeps head, played drums. Ailbhe Cormack is on the far right. As of Wednesday, the video of this performancewhich included a rendition of the Ramones Blitzkrieg Bophad 53 views on YouTube.
The Sheeps had a short run. The band played three shows around El Paso between 2003 and 2004, just for a lark, according to Cormack. The group never toured. At its final show, in 2004, at a local club called the T-Lounge, band members wore brown paper bags over their headsbecause some members had lost their sheep masks.