Now-Sober W.A.S.P. Guitarist Chris Holmes Reshoots His Infamous ‘Decline of Western Civilization II’ Pool Interview

One of the most memorable, infamous, and unsettling scenes in rockumentary history is the swimming pool interview with former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes in Penelope Spheeris’s 1988 celluloid chronicle of hard-rock Hollywood, The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years. During the drunken, squirmingly uncomfortable interview (which took place on an inflatable pool floaty, until Holmes lost his balance and toppled into the water), the rocker described himself as “a full-blown alcoholic” and “piece of crap” while guzzling and/or dousing himself with a big bottle of Smirnoff — and while his mother, sitting poolside, observed him in silence.