THE BIG BOYS DESTROY PASADENA

THE BIG BOYS @ Perkin's Palace, Pasadena, California. 1983/4?

One of the frickin' greatest bands of all time!

 

Texas is the reason...?

#SK8+DESTROY

OS MUTANTES L' SHREDDING, SHILLING THESPIANS - ON TV + FILM

The best thing outta' Brazil since bananas! Os Mutantes rule. Found a couple unbelievable videos recently, not to mention the previous Redd Kross post, so there you go. Mais (More) Mutantes!!!!

First video is The Mutants themselvez in Paris circa '69. The band hung out enough in France to record a whole album of songs in 1970, many of which were English versions of their tunes. The album, intended to crack the international market, went unreleased until 2000, when released as Tecincolor complete with crappy Sean Lennon artwork. (Another story...) Amazing versions, though I guess I prefer the Portuguese versions. Cool to hear different arrangements of familiar tunes and wonder... The stuff is so killer in any language that only in our parallel universe did it not go global (Well Sooner...) Safe to say Mutantes are international. Er, galactic now days. Kurt Cobain name checked them, and actually wrote a letter to Arnaldo Baptista. It's great music for kids, actually. The song Ela e Minha Menina is turned into Oba Oba She's My XuXu (pronounced 'shu shu') Guess I'll have to put that one up on youtube myself...

Two classics, tight black n' white. Ooh La La! Rare French footage.

The Kidz are Alright!

High quality color footage shot in Brazil, gotta be '71 or '72. "You know I feel a little spaced out" in English. Yeah, toasted, nicely toasted.

Whatdoyouwannadowithyrlife?

Rita Lee and the band in a scene in the 1967 Brazilian film As Amorosas. Trip-py, Wow! Kooky face paint and flowers. Psychesploitation?

Well it's 1969 OK!

Rocking out on Brazilian TV program for the youngsterz.... Dig. Sacou?

"Know-it-alls!" Gilberto Gil

Shell commercials the band did in 1967. Way before The Who 'Sold Out'....

Our favorite record is Stoner Witch

Sleepless in Siver Lake

Back after a lapse and subsequent demolishing of the original concept, or not. But anyway Les Savy Fav closed Green Fest in Wicker Park with colored tape, a dog, grease paint, lots of spakle-y sh*t, an American flag cape... Singer Tim Harrington is a Care Bear gone bad ass, constantly climbing up on things (in this case a beer tent) and sometimes falling down (also the case in the photo sequence). He reappeared in the third story window of an apartment overlooking the show in which earlier he had encouraged a woman in the window sing opera - and she obliged. Chair surfing as well, the band just rips it up while he goes nuts.