3 Mustaphas 3
Вставка
- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- A clip of the 3mustaphas3 from a poor quality VHS recording of an arty programme called 'Alter Image', on UK's Channel 4 in 1988.
I last saw the Mustaphas at the Irish Centre in Leeds around 1991. Amazing -far better live and without the comedy video.
Quick! A taxi for my uncle!
WOW!!! WOW!!! I was lucky enough to see them play twice in Cambridge, Mass in the early 90s. But I never saw them with Lisa. They were amazing in concert. I asked them all to sign a little shriner doll for me. Super nice guys!! Just amazingly great in concert. During "Anapse to tsigaro", Hijaz (Ben M.) was literaly writing on the floor just sawing away at his violin!!! Sabah, bah, give me Houzam anyday :)
The world is a slightly sadder place without these guys playing together. Happy to say that I saw them play live once, at that little Los Angeles dive, the Palomino. Forward in All Directions!
Thanks so much for posting. I saw these nutters play in Cardiff once and never heard anything of them since. Awesome.
This is my favourite video of all time. I couldn't believe anyone else had a copy. Fantastic!!!!!
I really loved the Mustaphas when they first were around. Am still in touch with Uncle Patrel ( Lu) and Sabah Habas ( Colin).
Awesome! I saw them play in Baltimore in the very early nineties. I used to have a t-shirt, wish I still had it.
I'm indebted for your providing the only video I've yet seen of the Beatles of world music.
I can’t believe I’m seeing Colin Bass in a fez singing God only knows what language here? Must be what I had for dinner?
I met Sabah and had my photograph taken with him in his other guise at Camel's Royal Albert Hall concert in 2018.
They vaguely remind me of a Balkan version of the Bonzos.
Fantastic! Saw them in Guildford one night, sharing a bill with Kathryn Tickell - can't imagine a better way to spend an evening (at least, not while wearing clothes). Took all the tapes out to GW1; perfect antidote to the Lisa Stansfield/ George Michael cr@p emanating from the other tents.
And for AvrilLavignesDad and t'other Janner - could be worse, you could be sat 16 miles north in Tavistock...
Wonderful music, thank you. Heard it on the John Peel Show ages ago. Absolutely great.
If a part of the message of this video is a poor standard of living, the cure ought to be easy: cultivate valuable things that you want in the society and in the world, pay FAIRLY for them, enjoy them like you can enjoy sunshine, and drop nasty things away, do not support them and do not bother anything for them. Pray for good, not for good in this nasty world but for a world that is amazingly good: you can bear it! Prayers are plans, so do not mix reality into them, choose just all your ideals!
Ware's the stunningly wonderful and cosmically marvelous button?
No! Everyone knows that Ware is a small town in Hertfordshire, England. - Ian Last-FM/group/3+Mustaphas+3
yeah, mostly seeing this just makes me sad, too. Greatest live concert I was ever at (better perhaps than even the great Fela Kuti)! Tomorrow I listen only to FEZ!
They supported Mar Almond at the Festival Hall in 84. They brought a huge melon on stage and shared it out, great band.
Oops, I meant Lavra, not Lisa. Thanks SO SO much for uploading this. I wish there were more clips!!
Yes, such a great band...Luckily i got to see them in Northampton Mass. in 199? Wow, everyone changed instruments and played great. What an experience....even did a "Soba" song in Japanese.....
That's where my brother lives now, he turned me on to 3M3, but we saw them in Baltimore. Bizarre, very silly, but also talented.
Great Video. Saw them thrice in NYC. Well 2 2/3 times, since the last was the infamous 3 mustapha lite tour, also known as 3 mustapha 2, when Sabah was left behind with Niaveti, mid tour.
I am told they did a tv appearance on Tom Snyder show, Tomorrow, circa 1990. Anyone got that?
This is just so good. I would watch seven seasons, and the reruns.
This is terrific! Yes, they certainly predate Borat, and I'll bet Cohen saw them. I saw 3 Mustaphas 3 in Burlington, Vermont in 1990, as part of a big benefit show tour. They played about a half hour and were incredible. Drummer was amazing. After the show they were in the lobby selling t-shirts and CDs. I bought a t-shirt for "Soup of the Century". I asked one of them where they were from, and he looked down and around before saying, "out of town". All total deadpan. Incredible band.
Forward in All Directions!
Awesome! Much respect to your father!! Musical brilliance and wit....
fala, merci, gracias, shukran, toda, madaase, tashakur, efkaristo, damyawad, shukria, thank you, thank you, thank you! This is wonderful to see!!!!
Yes I still have my little diamond shaped enamel badge of theirs, and Globestyle T shirt, in fact I used to print them in the 80's still have screen even!
This is so much better quality than my own copy... Thanks. I miss Alter Image.
Absolutely fantastic ! I miss Uncle patrel !
Absolutely fantastic to see this. Thank you SO much.
Do you have more?????
this brings back memories...great stuff!
I saw them live at the time - great stuff!
My Heart Is Full.
@Yehudittx Friend of Mustapha !!! Let's drink to remember ........
I suddenly realise where my my fanatical love of 'Fanfare Ciocarlia' and their music came from ..... I was just looking for a '3 Mustapha's 3' surrogate :-)
wow il sont aussi fou que je l'imaginai je les adores
THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU
I used to love these guys. A pity no-one has picked up on the fact they were doing 'Borat' stuff before even Borat was. Time for a 3 Mustaphas 3 renaissance ?
brilliant my friends.saw 'em southport arts centre,best band seen live xcept 4 p funk allstars at hacienda.
Oh, I remember these guys! My parents used to play them when I was a kid. I had the biggest crush on Sabah...he has fantastic eyebrows.
Forward in all directions!
Best show of my life, 3M3 played Slim's in SF Calif during the first Gulf War protests, and the very many pagans in attendance did the Spiral Dance. Sabah waggled his eyebrows at my ex-wife's friend, a tattooed belly-dancer.
Colin's eyebrows are legends in their own right.
Ivan, I have all of the 12 inch singles lps ... it's on Trouble Fezz meets 3 Mustaphas 3 but I have no way to convert my LPs to digital format. If I did then you could hear it again, the wolves and chilling, but the bears are very friendly!!
(deep sigh)
Such fab musos ...
Fee x
Is that all?! I want more !! :-(
I don't think so. Didn't know I had this one until I found it on the end of a vid I was digitising a couple of days ago.I have a stack more to go through, rest assured if I find anything out of the ordinary it will end up here eventually!
absolutly amazing wot a brilliantly crazy band
I just wish that someone could post some more bits from Alter Image on UA-cam!
@PlanetTharg Yes, being sat in Tavistock would be worse. But many more heroic tractor drivers to drink with and share tractor stories ! Forwards ........
Brilliant! Shuffirhiro.
Much enjoyed.
higgas8 - upon investigation, the singer (Sabah Habas) is the same. The delivery, however, is radically different.
The 12 string in question is called a Cumbus, the C should have a a little curl underneath it to note Turkish origin/pronunciation, but the keyboard is broken. Pronounces SHJumBush or maybe just JUMbush. Mustaphas Reunion?
Forward in all directions!
Hahahah cool... Bosnia :)
Didnt know that this show existed :D
Congrats to the glorious Astana team in the Tour of France country cycle race. They do not get paid, they do it for love of Kazakhstan!
take it to the fridge!
You can't coat a wolf in chocolate because the wolf already has its own fur.
Vi Bist Du Geveyzen Far Prohibish'n?
Uncle Patrel speaks in gravest tone of a time when the potentest of drink one obtain at Crazy Loquat was a little saffron tea with enormous quantity of honey. Szegerely dentists were most busy that year!
Forward In All Directions!!
@AvrilLavignesDad the Borat link is right on. It's always time for a 3M3 revival!
Ljubav Kraj Izvora with possibly Zvezdanovo (Skupovo) Kolo also.
It sounds too bizarre to be true: Tom Snyder vs 3 Mustaphas 3! I'll ask Sabah if this indeed happened.
me too! Where can we get it?
Peace!
They were a very accomplished band; lots of fun (without all the "comedy") live.
Sadly, Niaveti 3 (flute, newsman in vid) died this May.
Ugh, Ivan, I lie!! If you buy the CD reissue of Bam: Big Mustaphas Play Stereolocalmusic, you can hear your chilling tale and also Cabra!!!
Do you have any more clips from Alter Image? I'd forgotten all about it until I saw a Flying Lizards clip ("Then He Kissed Me") on UA-cam, which inevitably brought me here... I think The Residents (& Ranaldo & The Loaf?) might've appeared on it also?
What's the name of the first song? It's just amazing! :D
@AvrilLavignesDad ...in all directions!
Another Plymouthian 3 Mustaphas fan ? Don't take it personally, everyone mocks Plymouth Argyle !
Interesting... I reckon the Mustaphas were not remotely offensive in intent- (but if someone from the countries whose music and culture they express finds them so then it must be taken seriously). Borat, however, was racist, no question.
basic racism
Yes I still have my little diamond shaped enamel badge of theirs, and Globestyle T shirt, in fact I used to print them in the 80's still have screen even!