Let me set the scene: it’s 2009, the warehouse smells like week-old fried chicken, and Rex is screaming into a microphone that’s held together with electrical tape. Tommy “Fried” Kowalski—and yes, the nickname came later for exactly the reason you think—decided that his drum kit needed more energy. His solution? A can of hairspray and a lighter, positioned behind the crash cymbal. The Moment Everything Changed The first spark caught the edge of a cardboard box filled with old newspapers someone had been meaning to recycle since approximately 1997. Within thirty seconds, we had what Rex would later describe as “an