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November 14, 2007, posted by Crumbs.

The story behind "Rufus"

After recieving a few mail asking "Who the hell is Rufus?" we thought it could be a good idea to give you the real story behind "Rufus", told by the one and only Robb Flynn...

It was late Sept. of 97'. and we were just wrapping up the Pantera / Machine Head / Corn Chamber Tour. Pantera was on tour for their Live album "101 Proof", and The Head were on tour for "The More Things Change". To say the booze was flowing like water would be the understatement of the year. The Vodka Kings were hell bent on giving Whiskey Kings a run for their money, and both bands gleefully rose to the occasion.

For reasons beyond human comprehension, I had adopted a post show, alter ego named "Rufus", who would suddenly appear whenever I was hammered ( which was often ). I was Robb's brother "Rufus", who worked for MH, hence the reason he was around. I would put on a black haired afro wig, some 70's Elvis sun glasses, tape "X's" in black duct tape over my nipples, ( an inside joke I would carry on through the TBR tour ), put in Billy Bob teeth, and walk around in nothing but my boxer shorts and tennis shoes.

Rufus became very popular at Parties.

But after being Rufus for 2 or 3 weeks, I felt Rufus needed to go to a new level.
"A new leveeeeeel of Rufus-ness"... inspired by the Pantera song I heard nightly.

I had somehow come to the conclusion that, a grown man in his late 20's named Robb, walking around with a black afro, nipple tape, Elvis shades, Billy Bob teeth, in nothing but his Boxers and tennis shoes, wasted out of his mind, and referring to himself as "Robb's brother Rufus", just wasn't stupid enough.

So I decided that on the last night of the tour, Rufus would go to the next level of ridiculous-ness. We would do our standard last night of tour shenanigans, but this time Rufus would appear on stage and sing "This Love" with Pantera, in Depends Adult Diapers instead of boxer shorts, and pee in them on-stage in front of 3000 Texan's.

Pantera had already been letting us and Coal Chamber come up and sing the back-ups to "This Love" with them, and "Rufus" had already made some guest appearances, so this actually wouldn't be that unusual.

Upon telling my plan to the guys, Adam and Logan both burst into laughter, and had to be part of the gag. Dave would have nothing to do with it.

The plan would be, to finish playing our show, and proceed to drink a fifth of Stolichnaya Vodka between the 3 of us before "This Love" which was near the end of Pantera's set. Then don our Diapers and dance around like idiots, peeing, and singing "This Love". We sent a runner from the venue ( the guy whose job is to "run around" ) to go get some Depends. But upon returning, he had opted to buy Generic Adult Diapers and not "Depends".

"Not to worry" I said, "I'm sure they're all the same". So, we drank our fifth, I donned my Rufus garb, put on my Generic Adult Diapers, looked at myself in the mirror and thought... "I love it!"

Then I thought, "Maybe you should pee in them to make sure they actually work..."
"I gotta take a pee..."
"go for it"
"Wait........"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh".

I felt the wet, very warm stream of urine flush all over balls and butt and thought to myself, "The Generic Adult Diapers WERE working.....KILLER! I'll go tell the other........ uh-oh"

I felt a wet, very warm stream of urine rush down my leg, and proceed right into my shoe where it nearly over flowed on to the carpet. "What the fuck?!? These bullshit ass Generic Diapers" I cursed.

I squished over to the front of the bus where the other guys were and told them my dilemma.
"Dude's!?!? These diapers don't work for shit!!!"
"What?!?!?!"
Just then, we hear the first strands of "This Love" being played in the background.
They slammed on there diapers, and within seconds the 4 of us were on-stage, drunk, 3 of us in Generic Adult Diapers, 1 of us wearing an afro, nipple tape, Elvis shades, and Billy Bob Teeth, singing "This Love" with one of our favorite bands, in front of 3000 Texan's, and having one helluva time.

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Source: MH Official Boards