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Hey! Whazzup, make up! My god! Whazzup?!
Our buddy Joe turned us onto this fantastic interpretation of The Rolling Stones ‘Start Me Up’. This has always been one of those videos that was hard to take seriously anyhow, between Mick Jagger’s tight v-neck shirt and his chicken-like dance moves. The disco era had a strange effect on the Stones, and this video makes that glaringly obvious.So… take this horrible original video and overdub it with different words and music, and you have something that’s truly magical and hilarious.
There’s something about overdubbing different audio against videos, I’m telling you… because god I love all those “shreds” videos too.
Tags: **** me up, chicken, disco, mick jagger, purple shirt, rolling stones, shreds, start me up, sts, tight shirt, whazzup
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Burn baby burn, it’s a disco towel
This is so weird, like, bein' on this burnin' towel!
The year was 1996, and it was our then-annual Lake George camping trip. I believe this trip took place not long after a group of us had gone to see Kingpin (the Farrelly Brothers movie starring Woody Harrelson, Randy Quaid, and Bill Murray). Disco Inferno by the Trammps was featured in the film, and must have remained in our friend Kevin’s head for quite some time afterward, because we would be singing it quite often. Then this songspeak moment occurred: A group of us were playing games at the campsite picnic table (probably Scattergories or some other such party game) while a citronella candle burned at the end of the table to keep the bugs away. Then, the unthinkable happened. One of us tossed a towel aside, and it landed in a most inopportune place. Smack dab on top of the candle. The towel, of course, caught fire, and we immediately threw it onto the ground and stomped it out. Kevin, meanwhile, started singing “Burn, baby, burn…” What we all expected him to sing next was, “It’s a towel inferno!”, but no. Instead, he sang, “It’s a disco towel!”. This made no sense, and due to the tensions being high and our near brush with death*, we all laughed more than we should have. It’s been over 13 years since that fateful day, but Matt and I still remember that songspeak quite fondly.
*And by “death”, I mean “charred towel”.
Tags: 70s music, 90s movies, bill murray, camping, campsite, citronella candle, disco, disco inferno, disco towel, farrelly brothers, kevin, kingpin, lake george, randy quaid, scattergories, the trammps, towel, towel inferno, woody harrelson
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Honda wants you to Respect The Van
With its throwback to the custom vans of the 1970s, Honda’s latest ad in its Respect The Van campaign, called “Van Stunts” is a pretty clever way to try and sell the Honda Odyssey minivan. Featuring 70s disco pop theme music and the A-Team van, the Cheech and Chong van, and the T.J. Hooker van performing some vantastic stunts, it’s a humorous (and hopefully effective) way of appealing to potential family customers.The campaign was developed at Rubin Poistaer & Associates. Hum Music is responsible for the awesome theme.
Here’s another Respect The Van commercial one that starts out with an image of an Odyssey in a lava lamp while P-Funk’s We Want The Funk plays in the background. It continues with a disco ball and ends with some hot tie-die action.
Here’s another one, featuring Heart’s Barracuda.
Damnit, I wish I could find the one with Slow Ride by Foghat. That one was good too.
Thanks to Digason for the tip!
Tags: 1970s, 70s, barracuda, cheech and chong, disco, foghat, funk, heart, honda, hum music, odyssey, p-funk, respect the van, rpa, rubin poistaer & associates, seventies, slow ride, t.j. hooker, theme songs, we want the funk
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Tragedy: A metal tribute to the Bee Gees
There is a band trying to “decimate” the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts on Thursday, October 16th. This band is Tragedy, the “all metal” tribute to the Bee Gees. Someone posted a link to Tragedy’s myspace on MassLive’s SoundBoard forum and it looks like they’re AWESOME.They play 80s metal versions of popular Bee Gees songs like Stayin’ Alive, Jive Talkin’, How Deep Is Your Love, More Than A Woman, Tragedy, and others.
From MetroMix:
How does one combine heavy metal and the Bee Gees?
It’s easy: We love disco, and we love metal. On the surface, they’re polar opposites, sort of like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, I guess. But it works, and it’s fun to go against the grain.How did you get so popular so quickly? You’re headlining an 1100 capacity venue.
We’re fucking awesome, that’s the main thing. As we like to say, we rock sweet balls and do no wrong.What’s with the popularity of tribute bands now?
Our success doesn’t really come from the tribute band scene. We play with some, like this weekend, but we play with some non-tribute bands as well; we’ve played with jam bands like Umphrey’s McGee and punk bands like Murphy’s Law. This isn’t a standard tribute—I mean, it’s songs people know, and that does help—but it’s a concept turned on its head.Who’s your fanbase?
It varies. See, I think almost everyone like the Bee Gees, and almost everyone loves heavy metal, either genuinely or an ironic way. Admittedly, we don’t get many hardcore Bee Gees fans, but they have a universal appeal.What’s your stage show like?
It’s mayhem. We have the three brothers up front, singing, playing cowbells, wearing tight white satin. And we have our beautiful back-up singers: Women’s Gibb, Angelpussy, Olivia Newton-Chong and Linda Gibb. Oh, and we have an intern/towel boy named Lance. He’s kind of an idiot.Tragedy has an album coming out on October 20th called “We Rock Sweet Balls And Can Do No Wrong”.
You can hear many of the songs on their website, letsmaketragedyhappen.com. Here’s a video for “Stayin’ Alive”…
Tags: 70s music, 80s music, bee gees, decimate, disco, heavy, how deep is your love, iron horse, jive talkin, let's make tragedy happen, massachusetts, metal, more than a woman, new york city, northampton, nyc, stayin alive, tragedy, tribute band, we rock sweet balls and can do no wrong
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