define "hesher" please

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they didn't use this word in the parts where i grew up.

i have some idea from the context i've heard it used in, but i'm not completely clear on the concept.

is it?
a beavis-butthead-type person?
a metalhead?
someone who only listens to classic rock?
a suburban high school burnout?

& what is the etymology? does it have something to do with 'hessian', like 'hessian trooper'/ some metal lyric reference, maybe?

(with apologies for my ignorance)

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

J0hn D4rnielle to thread!

Also DV knows about hessians.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

A hesher is a heavy metal fan. Also known as a hessian. In the California slang of my youth "hesh" was associated with being drunk or stoned, i.e. "partying." A guy at a party once told me, "Dude, I'm so heshed," and he certainly was. I also recall a flyer for a party called "The Fresh Spring Hesh." Heavy metal kids were drunk or stoned often, and thus were called "heshers," and, likely prompted by reading in an American history textbook of the German mercenary soldiers hired by the British to fight against the colonists, "hesher" became "hessian," though I like to imagine it being spelled "heshin'", because it's not just a noun, it's an activity. I also like to imagine the Hessians of the 18th Century having long hair and blue jean jackets with Metallica patches sewn on the back.

There was an excellent zine published 7 or 8 years ago in Olympia, Washington, called "Hessian Obsession," which was full of stories and lore about heshers. Probably impossible to find now, but if you ever stumble across it, it's highly recommended.

― Nemo (JND), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Hessians vs Goths FITE

I bet I'm the first person to make that joke ever.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Hessian Pessian just pass the bong

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

hesher

http://www.mulletsgalore.com/classifications/!pix/II/heshermullet.JPG

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Madonna's a dick!"

― Arthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

http://kuci.org/~nraggett/nedphoto.jpg

― heshin (Chris V), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

WOW I HAVENT HEARD ANYONE TALK ABOUT HESHERS IN A LONG TIME. I WAS INTO THE WHOLE HESHER SCENE IN JR. HIGH!! WOW STONERS F LIFE. DEATH BEFORE DISCO!!!! L.O.L GOOD MEMORIES WOW I HAD A JEAN JACKET WITH A CURE PATCH AND MUSHROOMS ON THE FRONT DONT FORGET THE O.G BLACK VANS

― VANESSA SIAN, Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:33 (twenty-two years ago)

MINT

― Chris 'Knuckle Deep' V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:36 (twenty-two years ago)

best thread ever

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.perfecteconomy.com/img-washington-crossing-delaware-x500.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

A Cure patch? Don't you mean a Slayer patch?

― Nemo (JND), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

http://hmpl.home.att.net/images/banner.gif

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you for demonstrating why I am currently a fan of Giorgio Moroder

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Back in Jr High, we called heshers: "those Iron Maiden guys"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

and the award for best dj name that's so obvious i didn't think of it myself until two minutes ago: mc hesher!

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

I vaguely knew this was a term.

It is now a bad movie.

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:33 (fourteen years ago)

Did Joseph not hesh?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 April 2011 03:47 (fourteen years ago)

I wish the script had limited him to heshing

― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 April 2011 04:11 (fourteen years ago)

It means the mark on a food label signifying that it has been certified kosher

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 21 April 2011 05:05 (fourteen years ago)

Joseph Hesher, author of Hesh-22.

― cia never wore tie-dyes (kkvgz), Thursday, 21 April 2011 08:38 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

Joesph heshed, but not convincingly. This was a pretty bad movie.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Sunday, 23 October 2011 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

I wanna read Hessian Obsession zine. Does it exist as a pdf somewhere?

― Mordy, Sunday, 23 October 2011 18:39 (fourteen years ago)

Got the Hesher DVD in the mail. Wow, did that suck.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 23 October 2011 18:46 (fourteen years ago)

haven't seen that but FUBAR seems like a pretty hesher movie.

― LaMonte, Sunday, 23 October 2011 18:48 (fourteen years ago)

Never heard of FUBAR. The greatest hesher movie of all time remains River's Edge.

― that's not funny. (unperson), Sunday, 23 October 2011 18:48 (fourteen years ago)

Prob true, but don't forget the collected works of Penelope Spheeris, incl docs The Decline of Western Civilization Vols. 1 & 2 (if punks can be heshers, and if professional musos of punk and/or metal can be heshers), also Suburbia her fictional setting of teen squatters. Is a punter a hesher? (Hetfield said when Jason came to audition for Metallica, "He had a bit of a punter vibe." Gorblimey Squire!)

― dow, Sunday, 23 October 2011 20:43 (fourteen years ago)

And those parking lot docs, Judas Priest Parking Lot, ect. Haven't seem 'em, but want to.

― dow, Sunday, 23 October 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

(Those aren't Spheeris's, are they?)

― dow, Sunday, 23 October 2011 20:45 (fourteen years ago)

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