Via Culture Cat, the joys of YouTube. Amateur video and film, juxtaposed with obscure tv/movie/music clips of everything and everyone, searchable by tags. I suspect content--eclectic but low-in-volume--will continue to grow. Two worthwhile clips:
Beefheart on Letterman. Two clips from early 80s appearances on David Letterman's show. Captain Beefheart's talents don't lie in the arenas of the glib or flashy or self-promotional, so he and talk shows don't play together nicely. Could somebody like Beefheart get booked on network tv today?
The Gories: "Nitroglycerine." Detroit rock and roll, '90s style. To call this music video lo-fi would be an understatement--the band performing on what looks like the "Reservoir Dogs" set while a go-go dancer shimmies in, on, and around an old car. Before Mick Collins started the Dirtbombs, he headed up The Gories, the band that influenced the turn-of-the-milennium scene out of which The White Stripes rose to fame and fortune. This clip comes from what appears to be an English-language cable-access show in Germany, although the host is Hispanic. Also featured in the clip, an interview with Gories contemporaries the Oblivians.
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