Friday Morning Videos!
Free Kitten - Teenie Weenie Boppie
Pussy Galore - Dick Johnson
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Boredoms - Super Seeeeee!!!
Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl
Free Kitten - Teenie Weenie Boppie
Pussy Galore - Dick Johnson
Pavement - Gold Soundz
Boredoms - Super Seeeeee!!!
Sonic Youth - Little Trouble Girl
April 25th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
“Dick Johnson” is a classic Jens Jurgensen and Jim Spring video with a classic Pussy Galore lineup - Spencer, Haggerty, Bob Bert, and Cafritz (nice double-up with the Free Kitten vid too. WAIT A MINUTE… very scholarly of you, Mr Bortnik! i just picked up on the SY & PG & Pavement & Boredoms AND FREE KITTEN linkage this week - the Serge Gainsbourgh cover is only so-so).
You should have looped it together in the end with “Teenage Riot” over “Little Trouble Girl”. I think Teenage Riot had 2 Pussy Galore snippets in it. And one of the best videos to play Name That Band to.
The “Dick Johnson” video is very similar to Jens & Jim’s 1987 video (their first?) for Dinosaur Jr’s “Little Fury Things” which i believe you posted a few months back in FMV section (so i wont include the youtube link).
And again later in 1990 for “Unconsciously Screaming” by the Flaming Lips (during their acid punk years).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V6ahHP8dLQ8
Which is also similar to Jens & Jim’s other video for Bongwater “Jimmy/Lesbians of Russia” (which ends with Kramer & Ann Magnuson walking around a snowy and deserted Tompkins Sq Park… BEFORE it was gentrified and NYC Parks Dept put the kid’s playground in it).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OM8P8PRRrvk
They did the first video for the Blues Explosion “Rachel” too (no squiggles).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mNBA2WwRKpo
Jens also played bass in Boss Hog.
And they filmed a video for Mercury Rev’s “Chasing A Bee” in the Bronx near Rikers that’s kind of good for its day too.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aOuMd9cAs60
ends with some heavy shoegaze feedback… just for you, Mikhail.
April 26th, 2008 at 1:22 am
I chose Little Trouble Girl because it was a Kim Gordon song which featured Kim Deal keeping with the mostly bassist theme of Free Kitten.
As for Teenie Weenie Boppie. I don’t really think it’s that great a cover, but the video is creepy & transfixing.
Thank you for the Bongwater link!
April 26th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Indeed, I completely overlooked the double Kim bass threat.
Yesterday, i checked out the Bob Gruen photo exhibit “Rockers” at the new Morrisson Hotel Gallery (the old CB’s Gallery on Bowery). Worth a walk around. You’ll recognize many of his photos because they’ve been widely published in many magazines and books. A good dose of 70s punk. There’s a great photo of the Ramones taking the G train in 1975. The caption says they were so broke that they carried their guitars in shopping bags (which is how Johnny is carrying his guitar - a Macys bag or something). a lot of really good Clash pics too.
I also took a peek next door to see what John Varvatos did to CBGBs. DISASTER! i overheard a sales clerk say “The Indian from the Village People was here.” A disco Indian in CBs… hey “This Aint No Disco”!!! They glass-encased some of the left wall where decades worth of stickers & flyers are plastered, but doesnt quite fit in with the $900 vintage Stereo Receivers stacked below it. Another one bites the dust.