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I Love German TV
There's a thread over on I Love Music where folks are digging through the YouTube site and finding gems of old music footage. Some of the coolest comes from German TV shows- like this one which clearly establishes the Monks as the most crazy-ahead-of-the-time thing ever:
(here's a direct link if the embedded players lock up your browser)
And this Birthday Party appearance (dir link) with Tracy Pew rocking the pirate shirt:
And this impossibly offensive music video from Nina Hagen- Heroin and Hitler all at once! (Link)
Actually, I think Germany has laws against this sort of thing, so I wonder what country did air it.
Part of the appeal here is that all these things seem to have been taped off TV when they first appeared, and have been laying dormant on Betamax tapes for 25 years, waiting to be shared. I was in middle school when Saturday Night Live had The Specials as the musical guest, and I had no idea what to make of all the hopping around with machine guns. I was very disturbed, and I remember trying to explain it to a friend. "The way they were jumping, I think there was something wrong with them! I don't know what they were called." My friend suggested it might be Devo. 'Cause Devo were really strange and stiff. Nowadays, Devo is all about rocking the middle schoolers. I wasn't watching SNL on Halloween, when Fear got punk banned from SNL for a decade.
Anyways, before I get too excited about continental television, there's this Jodie Foster performance which surely violates several clauses of the Patriot Act. And then there's this disco-Apache thing which appears to have been made under the influence of chugging Mazola corn oil straight up.
posted by bendy @ 1/31/2006 03:41:00 AM [permanent link]
I hope you realize that I'm now going to waste my entire day on YouTube. Good thing i don't have much work right now.
I've only managed to watch links that the I Love Music people dug up. I can't imagine what other riches are in there or forthcoming. It's an answer to the frustration of "oh yeah, Cheryl's ex-boyfriend had a tape of that...I saw that once"
Hey, y'all need to play a gig when I'm not out of town or otherwise engaged.
It's amazing how crappy video transfer and choppy streaming is completely sufficient to quell years of not seeing Cheryl's ex-boyfriend's video collection.
BS will be playing again soon!
Blackstrap is a rockpunk band that was formed in 2002 by several
disgruntled music fans. Some had played in bands for years, some had
never been involved in music. All of us were upset with the
direction the USA was moving. As you can tell, our impact on all that
has been overwhelming.
We broke up in 2004, just before releasing a debut EP. We still feel
bad about messing up 307 Knox Records
like that. We got back together in
2005. We might drive each other crazy again, so no promises.
We're a band that doesn't have many options as far as
money and time and touring and all those other thing that could make a
band be your life. The web is the main way we promote
ourselves. We figured out we should share what meager knowledge we have
obtained.
RESOURCES
or "Promoting Your Music as the Music Industry We Know and Dislike Dies...."
Websites are a lot of work to figure out, and don't work any magic
on their own. Most people who view your website are already going to know you exist.
Just having a website doesn't mean anyone is going to visit. So don't
worry about securing an Internet domain right away. Stick some
music on MySpace,
and then participate in sites that might actually drive interested
listeners to your music. Blackstrap gets more hits from our link
on ncpunkonline.com than from
higher-profile sites where we get lost in the shuffle.
There are advantages to having your own custom built website and
domain name, but it's only as useful to the extent that it gets linked to.
Here are some sites that are important and help to get noticed. They aren't all music sites, specifically. Alot of them require participation. But hey, you wanted to be on stage, right?
JUST HEARD
WEEKLY FAVS
LOOKING AT...
what else?
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