Nov 022007
Oh my, 2000 Man may have brought it like he’s never brought it before (and this guy has brought it with the best of them). The following video, which he posted as an example of the power of a well-lit video performance, may be The Greatest “Live” Promo Video in the history of rock. As fans of the “live” promo video for The Who’s “Join Together” can tell you, that’s a bold claim. Check it out!
The former champ concedes…
Wow. Just…wow.
I was in a band all through high school, and the drummer was totally into Angel. He’s the only person I know who wasn’t nauseated by this stuff. He also liked The Babies. I wonder if any of their vids are available. Gawd, I hope not…
How did Rock ever get this bad?
Holy crap.
With the exception of “VGPS,” has there ever been a good rock song with the word “village” in it? (Or a bad one with “sock it to me” in it?)
By the way, Townshend’s initial harmonica melody in “Join Together” is the melody from “Face the Face.” Do I win anything?
Hrrundi, don’t we have a prize for Rick’s observation?
Gary, I think Rock turned for the worse the day hippie drug culture trickled down to all the “squares” who had no business tangling with weed and free love. The Angel guys must have been some serious D&D players.
Man, that’s riveting stuff! I believe we have a new winner. In fact, I’d say the sheer rocktackularity of this clip exceeds even Diamond Dave’s “Yankee Rose” “live” video, which I’ve inflicted on most of you already. For all the new folks, though… enjoy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP12su7JooM
Note also that I’d give my eyeteeth to see Townsman Massimo imitating Angel’s frontman moves after a coupla beers. He always had an uncanny knack for that stuff. (My all-time fave Massimo rock star imitation: Nick Gilder. Priceless memories!)
Hey, I don’t know about all that – maybe it was that drugs were in the hands of younger kids? But anyway that big Angel head you see – it’s a hologram! It was SO cool! It lit up at the beginning of the show and told everyone how the gods of rock and roll loved us and were sending their love with five angels. Then those guys would get an introduction by the big angel head and just appear onstage, straight from rock n roll heaven (let’s see keith Moon pull that one off!). They didn’t walk out onstage, they just literally appeared in a box like the transporter from Star Trek. Punky Meadows was my favorite.
The weird thing is, when I was that age, I was listening to Dr. Feelgood and Eddie and the Hot Rods at the same friend’s house where we listened to Angel. The other cool thing about Angel was that their logo looked the same backwards as forwards and right side up or upside down. Believe me, discovering that on your own after many bongs was pretty awesome!
They also did a show somewhere where everyone wore white in the audience for a movie. I never did see it, but I thought it would have been pretty cool.
Let’s not bring my D&D qualifications into this, okay? It was a long time ago.
2000 Man wrote:
Sorry man, as the guy who moderates this show and finds great importance in these matters, I’m sure you get a sense of just how cool I am and have always been.
this is great!
for more along these lines, go to youtube and search zolar x.
here is but one example:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TjAYCntyHsk
Man, D&D and now this….You guys are gonna think I’m not cool and never was, but that’s okay. Because…well just because.
I saw Zolar X on The Next Great American Band. I had never heard of them (and they look like the kind of thing that would fly right into my radar), and they were showing them with a bunch of loser type bands. I thought Zolar X was funny looking and the schtick was gonna be lame, but then they kicked some major garage rock ass. I could tell the douchebag judge had a writer come up with his stupid fifth grade line for Zolar X.
“Whish planet did you say you were from?” asks Judge Douche.
“Plunomium.” replies Ygarr Ygarrist, as outer spacey as he can be.
“I thought that sounded more like the music of Uranus,” is all the writers could come up with for judge Douche.
Anyway, Judge Douche also ragged on a rockabilly band from Cleveland, Lords of the Highway. I’ve seen Lords, and I’ve got a few of their albums and I gurantee they flat out kill. Sugar was under her stand up bass in a provocative fashion and Judge Douche just says, “Get a G-string!” What a dick.
Then they pick a big band (only ten years late for that bandwagon) and three dudes that have a balding guy that wails on guitar named The Muggs. Sure, I like that kind of thing, but The Black Keys are ten times as good and they are virtual unkowns, so why would they think the kids would give a fuck about some three piece blues rock combo?
Man. I really AM totally lame!
Having nothing to do with this thread, has the Joe Strummer movie by Julian Temple hit theaters yet, specifically Philly theaters? It’s been so long since I’ve browsed the movie pages. Is this the film that was in theaters a few months ago? How pathetic am I? Thanks.
Boy, I haven’t heard that one in a while! My dad went to the innaugural party for a friend’s new radio station. It turned out to be WIOQ. He came home half in the bag with an armload of free promo records. Oddly, Angel and the Babys (Babys and not Babies? I forget) were two of the few we kept. I could never follow into that realm, though I think my brother went on to buy another record or two from Angel. This vid is hilarious. I always thought they looked like Alice Cooper’s band’s legit siblings. And watching the guitarist in this thing could be where Eddie Van Halen first realized Valerie Bertinelli was pretty hot, once you think about it.
After a day’s worth of watching this clip, I’m still impressed with how much effort went into the choreography and the set design. Amazing. I’d remembered this band vaguely, but I was expecting something more along the lines of Triumph when I clicked Play.
2k, i didn’t realize that zolar x were on that “greatest band” show until youtubes of their performance started popping up. your description suggests that to the discerning eye, they were much cooler than their surroundings.
they’re so much better in the perfect rock realm of my imagination. listen to the re-release of their material (on Alternative Tentacles) record, and look into your mind’s eye. you’d dig it, i’m sure…
In an ideal world, someone would have realized that the Sgt. Pepper movie should have been scrapped and the plot would have been re-written for Angel, with the movie culminating with the performance above. But only after 83 minutes of these guys beating the shit out of Aerosmith on top of a giant stack of dimes, getting electrocuted by Alice Cooper and jumping to their deaths off a one story roof. George Burns could have still been involved, possibly as the voice to the talking holographic angel head.
As far as the genre of music made by/for D&D players goes, I’d at least take this over Rush.
saturn, I’ve got to order that Zolar X rerelease. They were fun as hell, and they rode a swell garage riff in a very cool fashion. I hate that judge. I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that Alejandro Escovedo is Sheila E’s uncle, because she’s pretty much a dingbat.
It’s a dumb show. I saw the first two, but I was late to both. There’s some little kids that are heavy as Maiden and they’re very funny.
angel were in a movie called “foxes”.
the song they played over and over was called
“20th century foxes”. cherie curie from the runaways was in it. she dies at the end…
sorry to spoil it for you.