The party-happy
Supagroup experienced a major setback in 2005, when Hurricane Katrina barreled through the band's native New Orleans and left miles of irreparable damage in its wake. Just three months prior,
Supagroup had released their fifth album,
Rules, whose unabashedly trashy set list (including "Let's Go [Get Wasted]" and "It Takes Balls") channeled the raucous, liquored-up revelry of Mardi Gras. Once the storm came, however, that attitude didn't seem appropriate -- nor was music foremost on the band's mind. What was once a tongue-in-cheek mission to spread rock & roll's soul-saving power had become a bad joke in light of Katrina's severity, and
Supagroup halted their current tour, raced home to retrieve their girlfriends, and scattered to dry land. Their larger-than-life aspirations lay dormant until weeks later, when infamous shock rocker
Alice Cooper phoned the group with an invitation to join him on a national tour.
Supagroup hit the road once again, and their satiric mission of spreading the rock gospel didn't seem like such a joke anymore. Party anthems and whiskey-soaked guitar riffs may lack substantial depth, but they're a helluva hangover cure. As New Orleans started down the long road to recovery, the rejuvenated
Supagroup soldiered on into Continental Europe, showing the world that their hometown still had plenty of rock & roll left.