The Headbangers
The Headbangers are a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Mosh (Charles Warrington) and Thrasher (Glenn Ruth), best known for their work in the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). As the name of the team implied, their gimmick was that they were a pair of metalheads, complete with heavy metal related T-shirts, skirts, piercings, goatees, shaved heads, and black face paint.
History
Beginning (1994-1996)
They were both trained by Larry Sharpe in New Jersey in the early 1990s. Warrington and Ruth teamed up in 1994 as the Spiders in their home state, New Jersey, for the NWA. They made an Extreme Championship Wrestling appearance in June 1994, losing to Axl Rotten and Ian Rotten. The Spiders had a brief stint in NWA Dallas. Later that year they moved down to Tennessee in USWA. In 1995, they changed their gimmicks in Smokey Mountain Wrestling to the Headbangers. Their slogan was "Real men wear skirts." They won the SMW Tag Team Titles and dominanted the tag division. By December 1995, they debuted as jobbers in the WWF as the Spiders, the Arachnoids,and even used their real names. On a January 1996 episode of Monday Night Raw they got a World Tag Team Title shot against the Smoking Gunns. They returned to USWA.
Podcasts:
The Headbangers
ALBUMS
Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll High School? Adios Joey Ramone!!
Released 2002- Blitzkrieg Bop
- 53rd & 3rd
- Slug
- I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
- Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio?
- Loudmouth
- Glad to See You Go
- Suzy Is a Headbanger
- Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
- Go Lil' Camaro Go
- Swallow My Pride
- Chinese Rocks
- Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)
- Oh Oh I Love Her So
- Pinhead
- Mama's Boy
- Beat on the Brat
- Bye Bye Baby
- Pet Sematary
- Yea Yea
- California Sun
- I Wanna Be Sedated
- Rock 'n' Roll High School
