The late Sky Saxon and The Seeds stop by this now-forgotten sitcom entitled The Mothers-In-Law to deliver a particularly...errrmmm...."gassy" performance. Tolerate the awful jokes, come for the enthusiastic miming of one of the best garage jams of the era, and stay for Saxon's brilliantly eccentric presence.
The Young Ones' anarchic, hypnagogic alternate-reality probably makes the most sense as a televised platform for an obscure post-Pop Group project, but it's still pretty wild to see the lost dance classic "You're My Kind Of Climate" performed live (for real) on the tele. Neneh Cherry, who sang on the studio version, is absent, but Andrea Oliver does just fine. Also, this band needs a reissue campaign, stat.
A wonderfully deviant studio-performance on local San Diego music show Fox Rox from Wolf Eyes, subverting the expectation of doing one of their "hits" (e.g. "Stabbed In The Face") by executing a dynamic, sprawling version of one of their more abstract soundscapes (the first "Dead Hills" piece from their EP of the same name, in this case). Considering a lot of the M.O.R. indie acts that appear to have made up the brunt of the performances during its run, this Wolf Eyes excursion, as evidenced by the mind-numbingly moronic YouTube comments that accompany this video, must have caused a channeling of the Stravinsky riots in a few suburban homes.
With smooth-jazz snore David Sanborn as host and piss-lager stalwart Michelob as sponsor, Night Music sounds less than promising, but the show managed to accumulate a solid slab of visionary performances from the likes of Sun Ra, The Residents, Diamanda Galas, John Zorn, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Ambitious Lovers, and others. Here's one of my favorites from the show, certainly one of the more challenging for its network TV audience: Christian Marclay abusing vinyl as only he can.
The Young Ones' anarchic, hypnagogic alternate-reality probably makes the most sense as a televised platform for an obscure post-Pop Group project, but it's still pretty wild to see the lost dance classic "You're My Kind Of Climate" performed live (for real) on the tele. Neneh Cherry, who sang on the studio version, is absent, but Andrea Oliver does just fine. Also, this band needs a reissue campaign, stat.
A wonderfully deviant studio-performance on local San Diego music show Fox Rox from Wolf Eyes, subverting the expectation of doing one of their "hits" (e.g. "Stabbed In The Face") by executing a dynamic, sprawling version of one of their more abstract soundscapes (the first "Dead Hills" piece from their EP of the same name, in this case). Considering a lot of the M.O.R. indie acts that appear to have made up the brunt of the performances during its run, this Wolf Eyes excursion, as evidenced by the mind-numbingly moronic YouTube comments that accompany this video, must have caused a channeling of the Stravinsky riots in a few suburban homes.
With smooth-jazz snore David Sanborn as host and piss-lager stalwart Michelob as sponsor, Night Music sounds less than promising, but the show managed to accumulate a solid slab of visionary performances from the likes of Sun Ra, The Residents, Diamanda Galas, John Zorn, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth, Nick Cave, Ambitious Lovers, and others. Here's one of my favorites from the show, certainly one of the more challenging for its network TV audience: Christian Marclay abusing vinyl as only he can.
'The Mothers-In-Law' is a "forgotten" show?! No way - us Kay Ballard and Eve Arden fans would STRONGLY beg to differ!
Posted by: conrad | September 30, 2011 at 12:49 PM
I love those Night Music clips. David Sanborn jamming with Pere Ubu and Debbie Harry while Philip Glass watches is a trip.
Posted by: Tom | September 30, 2011 at 03:17 PM
Great Idea! Looking forward to more boob tooberies...
Posted by: Arvo | October 02, 2011 at 06:37 AM
LOVE the young ones. and definitely some great live music on those shows: the damned, madness, motorhead, amazulu, etc. thanks for the rip rig and panic clip from the wonderful young ones!
Posted by: anne | October 03, 2011 at 06:45 PM
The wondrous Mary Margaret O'Hara also had a turn on Night Music.
Posted by: drewo | October 03, 2011 at 10:02 PM
"mind-numbingly moronic YouTube comments"
but you repeat yourself
Posted by: JT | October 04, 2011 at 12:29 AM
! Looking forward to more boob tooberies...
Posted by: web design London | October 04, 2011 at 12:54 AM
I second Conrad with the Mothers in Law reference being 'forgotten.'
How about a post on bands who appeared on TV shows? I saw Boyce and Hart on I Dream of Jeanie, and I read that they were also on Bewitched and the Flying Nun. The B52s were on Guiding Light. Lucy went to London with the Dave Clark 5 (pretty sure Dino Desi and Billy performed on Here's Lucy, too). There has to be hundreds of them.
Posted by: dale | October 05, 2011 at 09:33 AM