Mushroomhead - STAGE THREADS Ep. 8 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Stage Threads”, the alternative metal band, Mushroomhead, shows you their stage outfits and discusses how their style connects to their music and the stories behind the clothing they wear during performances. Mushroomhead is currently supporting their newest album, Call the Devil.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - October 28, 2025 Location - The Vixen in McHenry, IL  KEEP UP WITH MUSHROOMHEAD: Facebook - https://facebook.com/mushroomheadofficial Instagram - https://instagram.com/mushroomheadofficial Twitter - https://twitter.com/mushroomhead  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Skip Intro 01:27 Skinny & Jackie's Clothing 09:00 Masks 21:28 Rest of Wardrobe  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, and thousands of others over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.

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00:00So this one's got a wet specimen in it.

00:03I add my fun bullets, I find a patch that I like.

00:06I like to make a really gory one.

00:09So this is this year's. It's a little bit darker than last year's.

00:30What's up? I'm Jackie LaPonza.

00:40I'm one of the singers in the band Mushroomhead.

00:42And if you don't know who we are, let me give you a little bit about our stuff that we do.

00:47We are a very theatrical band.

00:50We love our wardrobe. We love costuming.

00:53The guys wear masks on stage. Everything's in-house.

00:56We do everything from top to bottom, start to finish.

01:00We are the team.

01:04We have a new album out. It's called Call the Devil.

01:07And we're going to run through everything from the stage gear to the masks to the hats that we wear on stage for stage threads with digital tour bus.

01:18So Skinny and I live back here and we have our wardrobe back here.

01:22So we're going to start here and then we'll take you to the rest of the guys' stuff.

01:25On this side we have Skinny's red set.

01:29So this is part of the Call the Devil touring gear.

01:35All black and red. Everything was black and red.

01:38And it looks great. Works great.

01:40Some of the hats that I do, I try to match to the wardrobe and whatever we have on stage for the night.

01:47I also match them to the mask colors.

01:51There's sets, different sets, different ways.

01:55Always something new.

01:56So these hats start off as like a blank base.

02:01I get them anywhere from gas stations to truck stops to tractor supply to Goodwill.

02:07This one was from Goodwill because I'm having the hardest time finding my bases on this tour.

02:12So we got a hat from Goodwill. I'm going to see if I can make it work, which I will.

02:19Same with the gas mask.

02:20I'm working on a little gas mask.

02:22It's not done yet, but it's started.

02:25It'll probably be in one of the shows coming up.

02:28So I take the blank base.

02:30I do some spray painting.

02:32I do some hand painting on them.

02:34I add my fun bullets.

02:37I find a patch that I like.

02:38I even add the string.

02:40I have specialty little beads that I put on them to hold the string.

02:47A lot of them don't have any of the beads or the string.

02:51I'll sign all of them.

02:53I add spikes.

02:54Sometimes I add piercing earrings.

02:58Different little things I find around.

03:05Sometimes pins go on.

03:08But yeah, it's all kind of random.

03:09However I'm feeling for the days.

03:12The mask I make for the night.

03:14So actually, this is my newer vest I made.

03:17And it's got some of my favorite patches on it.

03:20I know it's probably not the nicest.

03:23But I like embracing being a woman.

03:26And I like embracing the dumb slang, slur, whatever, terrible words that they use.

03:32I use them as powerful words instead of downing people.

03:35Giddy up sluts.

03:36Come on.

03:37Let's do this.

03:39But I got my T-Rex on here.

03:42I've always loved T-Rex.

03:44I always call it my spirit animal.

03:47Just different patches.

03:48I've used.

03:50I'm big into guns.

03:51I like to shoot.

03:53So I put my special forces up there.

03:55I'm a huge animal lover.

03:57Lots of dogs.

03:58So a canine unit.

04:00More gun patches.

04:02Obviously my bullets that I use in my hats as well.

04:06Star Wars.

04:07I'm sure we have some Star Wars fans.

04:09And then flip it over.

04:14And a patch like this doesn't exist because we only have black and white or red and black.

04:20But I paint mine so that it's the color that I choose.

04:25And then on the back of this, a lot of people call me Jax.

04:27Like Donnie always calls me Jax.

04:29And it's just a nice simple name instead of Miss Jackie.

04:33So Jax works if you call me out.

04:36You can call me Jax.

04:37These are my staple.

04:40If you've seen me on stage with any wardrobe, I usually have this belt specifically and a pair of suspenders.

04:49It's just kind of my thing.

04:51It's always kind of been my thing for years upon years.

04:54I don't know why.

04:55I just like it.

04:56I like extra flair.

05:00And this, we just went to David Perry's Music Museum.

05:04The Perry's Music Museum yesterday.

05:06And he had one of my old wardrobe hanging up.

05:10And I looked at him and I said, oh my God, it's the vest that fits the best.

05:15Can I finish the tour with it?

05:16He said, absolutely.

05:17So if you see this vest, this was my first original vest that I wore with Mushroom Head for years.

05:27And it has the desire across the back.

05:31And it's just the perfect size that I'm, I don't know why it says a small.

05:38And this one also says small on the tag.

05:41But somehow, the length of it is much longer and the width of it is much wider.

05:52And no matter how much I alter this vest, it will not fit properly.

05:57So I'm really happy to be allowed to wear this one again.

06:02And I'm going to wear it tonight.

06:04Even though it doesn't have all the flair on it.

06:06It's the Rothko vest.

06:09We love our Rothko vest.

06:11But I'm assuming this must be a youth.

06:14But I don't know how I fit a youth small.

06:17Either way, it's bright and I love it.

06:20And it's back in my possession for now.

06:24Until I give it back.

06:27But we'll get there.

06:28We're going to get another one.

06:30So this one will be eventually up for sale.

06:32Just because it doesn't really fit great.

06:34But it has a lot of my personal patches and pins on it.

06:38Which now I have to go hunting for more.

06:41So if you've got any cool stuff, send them my way.

06:44Here's Skinny's vest.

06:46For this tour.

06:47He's got some extra add-ons to it.

06:52I'll just take it down.

06:56It says destroy.

06:57He's got extra pieces, parts on it.

07:01We have Jessica Haney back at home.

07:03She helps go through the wardrobe.

07:06And make it as special as it is.

07:10And here's the jumpsuit that he wears.

07:12This is actually one of his original jumpsuits.

07:14This is an original jumpsuit.

07:17Skinny still has all his original jumpsuits.

07:20And every once in a while, he'll pull them out to use them.

07:25And because we're using the green jumpsuits on this tour, he pulled out his original.

07:31And so his goes with his vest.

07:35But I believe the ones that the guys are wearing, again, something that doesn't fit me properly, is the new jumpsuits.

07:42So I got my jumpsuit.

07:43I put it on.

07:44We're like, yeah, no.

07:45It's like you're wearing a big bag.

07:47It just doesn't work.

07:48So every couple shows, we switch.

07:51And this is my red wardrobe.

07:54And it's obviously, again, different than the guys because I want something that fits me properly.

08:01So this one, I got this one.

08:08Namilia is the vest.

08:10And then I add to it.

08:12And same with the pants.

08:14I don't know what the brand is, but I just add to it.

08:19Make it our own.

08:20And then here's the red pants that go with Skinny's red wardrobe.

08:24His red vest over there goes with these guys.

08:27And obviously, over time, a lot of pieces, parts fall off of these wardrobe.

08:33As soon as we wash them, things start going missing.

08:38So they're doing great, actually, for being worn for over a year now.

08:44It's always a gamble when we throw them in the wash.

08:47Try to fold them inside out and zip them up and see what happens.

08:52All right.

08:52So we did the back of the bus where Skinny and I have some of our wardrobe.

08:57Now we're backstage in our green room.

09:00And we could show you some masks and the other guy's wardrobe.

09:04So we have every night or every couple nights, we have a different set of masks.

09:10And they either go with the red wardrobe or they go with the green and black wardrobe.

09:15Tonight, we are with the green and purple set.

09:19Roxy painted this one.

09:20Jessica Haney.

09:21She's back at home.

09:22There's a few of us artists.

09:26Aiden, myself, Skinny, Victor, Jess, Joe.

09:32Everybody's kind of in on this.

09:34It's a team effort.

09:35We're all huge into art.

09:38Everybody does their part, for sure.

09:40From pouring, to sculpting, to painting, to fabricating.

09:45There's a lot of steps along the way.

09:47All right.

09:48Well, first off, the boss man.

09:50Skinny.

09:53Here's his mask for this set.

09:56Sick with the dreads.

09:58These are all hand-wrapped.

10:00Everything is pretty dope.

10:02The eyeball is cool.

10:05Cool little addition to this set.

10:08The hockey masks.

10:10These are for the water drummers.

10:12So that's like an alternate sometimes.

10:15Like, Simon, I think, will put it right on his face.

10:17And then I think Skinny throws it on over his mask.

10:20So they wear those for a couple songs.

10:22Scotty's got an alternate.

10:24He's got the resin.

10:26The resin mask, I think Victor probably did the center.

10:32Yeah, he does 3D prints and shit, just like this.

10:35This centerpiece always changes, so this time he's got the pentagram.

10:39Joe does the beard with the same hand-wrapped dreads.

10:46Always sick.

10:49Then we got Stevie, the Hulk, for this motherfucker.

10:56It's kind of weird.

10:57Falls apart.

10:57Yeah, yeah, it's hard to hold up.

10:59He doesn't like anything on his chin for singing.

11:02It's like the Guardian, Cleveland.

11:06Cleveland Guardian statue.

11:08This is Simon.

11:10You remember?

11:11Yep.

11:12Killing it on water drums.

11:15Mohawk in the eyeball, too, just like the Skinny.

11:20Here I am.

11:21This one, I mean, the crowns are all different.

11:25Everything is custom every time.

11:28This is, I take wire, and then I wrap it in cheesecloth.

11:32And then I put all the bird skulls on.

11:36Covered in some resin.

11:38And then painted up.

11:39This one was just a solid gloss black.

11:42Pretty sick.

11:42I just painted the mask.

11:43I painted the crown and fabricated all of it.

11:48Dr. F.

11:50Ryan.

11:51The Batman.

11:54Sick.

11:55Always sick.

11:57And then Scotty.

11:58Scotty's a dummy.

11:59Yep.

11:59There's his, this is his other mask, so he'll wear those, too, tonight.

12:05Off with the, with the jaw, so we leave a little bit of latex on there.

12:11And then that's elastic, so the jaw moves just like that.

12:17I'll see, like, this is another set.

12:19This is a set done by Victor.

12:20And it's all the same sculpt with different paint jobs and different accessories.

12:28Like, obviously, it's the same mask.

12:32Different mohawks.

12:34Different paint jobs.

12:37And we go through.

12:39Got the skinny.

12:41The Joe.

12:44The Scotty.

12:47The Hawks.

12:50You can kind of get it, and then same thing with the doctor, or the Stevie.

12:55Then we go into another paint scheme with, obviously, different accessories again.

13:02Same sculpts.

13:03We tend to stick with the same sculpts for an entire album cycle.

13:08And then for this, when we redo them, it's more of just a progression of each character.

13:14It's the same character, just growing up or morphing slightly.

13:20These are my two alternates for the tour.

13:23And they're just a little more decked out than the other ones.

13:27So this one's got a wet specimen in it.

13:31So that's a diaphanized frog.

13:32So let me, uh, let me, thank you.

13:40So I've got LEDs rigged through the mask.

13:45And then usually that phone holds that down.

13:48So I'll turn that on.

13:50And then it comes out the top.

13:54Right through there.

13:58So usually I do a specimen mask each show, or like one or two for tour.

14:05I just started it last fall tour.

14:08But this one is, uh, definitely my favorite.

14:15Uh, yeah.

14:16And then just the inside is just some adhesive foam.

14:19I kind of foam it out different each time.

14:21Sometimes the mask is poured thick.

14:23And so it needs less foam.

14:25This one's pretty thin, so I put a lot in there.

14:27This one, this is a thicker mask, so I, I didn't need any foam in it.

14:41Just put a lot of, a lot of cheesecloth on this one.

14:44And it was honestly, it was on an off day.

14:47We stopped home.

14:48So I had like two or three hours or something of just rushing and fucking get it done.

14:55I want another mask.

14:56So this one came out like that.

15:00Usually the ones that you don't even think about come out the best.

15:03Like when you're just like, get paint on it.

15:06Get it out.

15:08Those ones are usually my favorite.

15:11So while we're talking about masks, one of our mask sculptors is our very own Joe Gall,

15:17who is our guitar player.

15:18I'd like to let him talk about some of his designs.

15:22All right.

15:22Well, for this album cycle, usually like I started off doing like pumpkins and other just like

15:30scarecrow masks, one-offs and stuff.

15:32But for this album cycle, they chose Skinny's mask is my design and mine, of course.

15:39But we all, we all make the masks as well and paint them.

15:44So like from start to finish, we can all cast paint or this newer Jason kind of hockey mask

15:53thing.

15:54I redid from a pre, one of our previous sculptors, Jason Kisner had like the X face of teeth were

16:01like all viney and stuff, but I just kind of like clean them up and added the triangles

16:06that are on the sides as well.

16:09So it's just a little bit more clean.

16:11There's an updated look a little bit.

16:14They're fun.

16:16We're all horror fans too.

16:17We have a blow molded head armature called the head head from the Cleveland company that's

16:24actually huge in the industry called Monster Makers.

16:27And it's like a one size fits all head armature and you just start slapping clay on there, making

16:35it to whatever you want it to be.

16:36And then molding just involves taking a gypsum compound.

16:42It's called UltraCal 30.

16:44You can do it with HydraCal too.

16:47It makes a weaker mold and they start to get blurrier quicker.

16:51But it basically just plastered and it turns to stone.

16:55And if there's enough like shapes on it, like with ducks, ears and like this crazy stuff,

17:01the mold has to like go around it so you don't undercut yourself because the latex will never

17:06go in there without like creating bubbles and whatnot.

17:11So once you get the mold done, most of the time it'll separate perfectly and you clean

17:18all the clay out of it.

17:19And then after the moisture gets out of the gypsum, it's ready to pour latex in.

17:27And so you just do that, kind of let it sit there, fill it all the way up, let it sit

17:31there for about an hour and then dump it back out.

17:34And a day or two later, you can pull it out and start painting.

17:38Well, for this set, I just figured it's Halloween, man.

17:42How can you go wrong with orange and black?

17:44And then the first time I saw this band, I don't remember the year, it was probably like

17:512016, 2017, just as a fan, they had black masks with orange UVX face.

18:00And I was like, dude, I just remember being so far away from stage, but seeing how they

18:04popped, I was like, this is fucking awesome.

18:07So I figured I'd do a little throwback and, you know, put my own spin on them and stuff.

18:13And then Simon's, his accessory for this one, this mohawk was, I think I just took like dowel

18:22rods and just started breaking them and then taking a Dremel and sharpening them.

18:27And then they're just attached from the inside with super glue and then I latex them in so

18:32it's all smooth on the inside.

18:38Skinny's is always fun with the dread wraps.

18:43Just zone out and wrap dreads.

18:47It's, it really makes the mask, you know, like the black dreads would be cool, but it just

18:53adds a little bit more pop.

18:54And then the gloss black in select areas gives it a little more contrast.

18:59Ryan, our bass player, he painted that set in the back.

19:03Uh, really muted colors, you know, subtle copper and gray.

19:13Definitely a cool set.

19:17And then we did a collab.

19:19I did my crown on that one and then I believe Victor did the mohawk on this one.

19:27So it's fun to just change it up every mask, you know, like just the little features just

19:35completely change it.

19:37You know, like the, going from the bullets to the hair, like small stuff, but it really

19:44changes the whole feel of the mask.

19:47I'm a huge horror fanatic.

19:49I have monsters tattooed all over me and stuff.

19:52So like, I always try to like, on these tours, I like to make a really gory one.

19:57So this is this year's.

19:58It's a little bit darker than last year's, but yeah, I just kind of do some distressing

20:03with ink.

20:04And I just kind of kept them dark and high contrast, the black on white.

20:09And then the red, the blood, I just poured all over its bladder everywhere.

20:15They're super fun.

20:18And some reason like the blood on like my mask and some others, like it just gives it another

20:24in photographs and in video, it gives it another look.

20:27Like somehow like my implied teeth kind of pop more in here.

20:31It looks more like the mouth's open.

20:33It's just something that the blood does.

20:35And yeah, I love these bloody ones.

20:38During one of our, during a couple of our songs, the water drummers wear these extra masks.

20:45They're like kind of bent bandaged up patients kind of, and they wear these helmets with them.

20:54And this is kind of a throwback to one of the older members of the band Schmatz.

20:58He used to wear something like this with like a flashlight on the side.

21:02And sometimes he'd have like eyepieces or whatever, but it's just kind of like your standard army

21:08helmet or tactical helmet or whatever.

21:12And then we just kind of adorn them with other pieces that we make in our shop.

21:17But they look cool.

21:19Extra accessories, different costumes.

21:21We loved all the theatrical part of it.

21:24Alright, everybody else's is hanging up.

21:26I don't really do that.

21:28I kind of just, it's organized chaos, kind of.

21:33It's actually folded, so we're fine.

21:35There's my red shit.

21:36We're wearing this tonight.

21:38Jessica Haney makes all this stuff.

21:42Mine gets really filthy.

21:45My bad.

21:46Got the Zildjian patch on the back.

21:50Hell yeah.

21:51I like that.

21:52Yeah, so that's the best layer.

21:56Just a red work shirt.

22:01Good and gross.

22:02This thing is soaked.

22:03So I can't wait to put that on.

22:05I got red pants.

22:08I don't really wear them because I'm playing drums.

22:10So I got these shorts that have been with me since day one.

22:17These are my alternate ones.

22:19I haven't worn them that much.

22:22I think I only wore them on St. Patrick's Day or something.

22:26The Static X Tour, but I like those ones a lot too.

22:30That's just random nonsense.

22:32I got an alien in there.

22:34Chris gave that to me.

22:35Some sunglasses and then just random makeups.

22:38And then I don't know where my green stuff is.

22:43That's a really good question, honestly.

22:48I'll have to find that and get back to you.

22:51So this has also been with me since day one.

22:55I love this.

22:57This is honestly my favorite piece of wardrobe to wear.

23:00Just simple, illegal alien.

23:03There we are.

23:05Yeah, so this one is from, what is it, Half Baked I believe.

23:09Dude's got that same patch so we just took it and flipped it upside down.

23:15This is just a UFO for highlighting the illegal alien thing.

23:19And then I got four and then I lost one of them.

23:24But it was three so I had 43 for my bullets.

23:28But they're gone.

23:30And then I got a little Perry's Music Museum patch.

23:34That's pretty sick.

23:35And then these are, I don't even know, I don't know what that is.

23:41I'll play with yours if you play with mine.

23:44I didn't know that's on there.

23:45So that's fine.

23:46But yeah, there's that.

23:48And then a simple green jumpsuit.

23:51Everybody's got the same one.

23:53That's it.

23:56So it's honestly not the greatest because these sleeves always unroll.

24:00So I gotta cut those off.

24:02But, you know, we'll get there.

24:05Everybody's got their own personal little patches on things.

24:12This is Jenkins, so Joe Gall.

24:15I'm sure he'll come over and talk to you about that part time.

24:21There's Scotty's.

24:22He's got the little snake that is unbelievably held on tour after tour.

24:30So these ones, it's pretty much just the patches that are all different or the buttons.

24:35You know, he's got the Indians and the straight edge Scotty.

24:40And then with the red wardrobe, everybody's kind of got like a different layer over their vest.

24:46So like this, it could come off.

24:48I take mine off because it's just so much stuff to play in.

24:53It kills me.

24:55Everybody's front and back is completely customized.

24:59Everything's different.

25:00Jessica killed it.

25:03Kilt.

25:05I don't even know whose that is.

25:07I think this is Skinny's.

25:11Probably wrong.

25:15But yeah.

25:16And we're back to, back to green.

25:22And black.

25:24And Steve's.

25:27Inset fest.

25:29Thanks for coming and checking out what we do.

25:33What we love.

25:35All the stuff that's going to be on these stages.

25:38You should come check out on this tour.

25:42And Sonic Temple next year, next May.

25:45And then we'll be in Europe next year.

25:46So like, yeah, get this out there.

25:49Get it worldwide and come check us out at a show.

25:51We'll have all new sets of masks.

25:54Maybe wardrobe even.

25:56Who knows.

25:57Whole new looks.

25:58All the time.

25:59So.

26:00We're always making stuff.

26:01Call the devil.

26:02Always clean.

26:03Hell yeah.

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