"Watusi Rodeo" (Video 1983) - Guadalcanal Diary
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- This is the original 1983 video for Guadalcanal Diary's "Watusi Rodeo". Here is the introduction ( • "Watusi Rodeo" (Intro-... ).
Someone else has uploaded the version that aired on MTV's Basement Tapes. It has received an impressive response. This is the better version. It placed third in an "American Film Institute" competition in 1983 and last in the aforementioned (1984) MTV Cutting Edge. MTV did air it several times though, including in the early '90's as a "Closet Classic".
All footage is from Marietta, Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, and Charlotte during my first road trips with Guadalcanal Diary. The "cowboys and natives" were the only planned shots and captured at the "Much Ado About Midtown" festival In Midtown Atlanta 1983 (during that era there were many mid-town cultural events that sprang from more of a community-driven ethos and less from the cynical corporate-fests that followed). Editing was performed in Atlanta on industrial VHS decks. The first version cost just under $200. This is the second edit and there are two others, including one with the album audio track. The audio on this version, however, is from a 1983 performance at Atlanta's 688 club. I always preferred it. (I see several shrinking violets that don't approve - whether it's the raw video style or found footage approach - whatever. Expand your mind and eschew the pc approach to life - see what it is).
Murray Attaway vocals, guitar / Rhett Crowe bass / John Poe drums / Jeff Walls guitar, vocals / Warren Chilton video.
I don't care what anyone says but that is the greatest video ever made
James Gilbert
That's Jeff Walls and me watching the KKK march from the grave of Mary Phagan to downtown Marietta, Georgia in 1983. The cowboys were a gay line-dancing group. The scene of Murray jumping out of the van was in front of Jeffrey's and my house on Alexander Circle. That is the Big Chicken at the end. Want directions to Marietta ? Turn left at the Big Chicken. Gilbert takes the wheel !!
Do you know where the African dance group was from?
@@amtraklover Sorry, I do not. James.
I was watching the line dancing and thinking, those are the gayest cowboys, turns out I was right, real cowboys are just not that fluid in movement
Rip : Jeff Halls (1956/57 - 29 May 2019) Original co-founding member
Jeff Walls 1956
Jeff was a great guy. Just found out he passed. That sucks…
One of the most underrated, underappreciated bands of all time.
Agreed.
One greatest videos of all time. Was definitely the early 80s south
Great song, great album, great band
I remember seeing this on 120 Minutes on MTV back in the day. Good times.
Fantastic song, just learned about them (a few decades late). Love “The Big Chicken” clip, drive by it every so often 😊
I'm Rhett's sister. Did you know that the KKK march was to the Marietta Square?
One of my favorite bands from the post-punk 80s!
Got to see them at tiny place in Athens in 1983. Rhett was wearing her white cowboy boots. Still one of my favorite bands.
Did you see them at the 40 Watt? My brother, Curtis Crowe (Pylon) started it.
Also featuring James "Dancing Jimmy" Grantham an infamous midtown Memphian at :24 mark flinging his clothes off in front of the "World Famous Antenna Club"
This won an amateur video contest on MTV. And had just moved from Atlanta when this came out. I lived on the NW side maybe 10 miles from the Big Chicken - and it is indeed a landmark.
I don't know if they ever made it out to L.A. back then but the group of punks I ran with loved this band LONG LIVE GUADALCANAL DIARY!!!
I played this record so much in the 80s! I love this band, still sound just as great today. Thanks so much for sharing this fun memory.
One of the bands I feel most privileged to have heard growing up. Brought out ideas and feelings that laid the foundation for what I listened to, and was passionate about, long down the road. Great stuff.
0:15 Fridays, if I'm not mistaken, that was an old venue in Greensboro, NC. I believe R.E.M. played there a few times and a number of North Carolina acts such as The dB's, Let's Active (Mitch Easter), Don Dixon, and The Connells.
Thank you rottingtapes for bringing these great bands and footage together in one spot. I have yet to find one I did not LOVE!!!!
Caught them at Jumping Jack Flash in Boston, great old Boston Club back in the day. Packed, great show. Saw the band eating lunch at Arthur’s seafood in Allston the next day. Said hello, very gracious, thanked us for for the support.
Murray Attaway - unsung genius of jangle pop.
First GD song I heard and got me hooked.
When's the box set for the crazy white man?
Seven putting up a big fence around a sacred elephant burial ground...the song is timeless.
I think the only thing that could possibly improve this video would be if the two steppin cowboys got on stage with the African folk dancers. That would have been truly sublime.
Used to listening to the cover by Reverend Horton Heat on the soundtrack for Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Still one of my fave bands of the 80's. Trail of Tears an instant classic!
Saw them in some dive in Ohio the night before I shipped off to Army basic training in October of 1988. It was a wondrous evening.
this is SOOOOO FUCKING AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
Reminds of the good ole days at The 688 Club in Atlanta,.......
Never to be forgotten! What a club.
Guadalcanal "don't lump 'em with cowpunk" Diary!
country punk,a classic,thank you mr rotting
Great Video, -- these guys kicked A !
Proper cool...great band indeed!
Thanks!1 Alternate version...Homemade vid. AWESOME!!!
Oddly, no laws in Florida currently prevent this video being shown in any grade.
Masterpiece !!
I remember when this aired on Basememt tapes on MTV. It's censored here, there is a scene where they show a kid marching with the klansmen. A bit sanitized for today's political correctness which is why I figure it was edited out.
Them square dance boys was cuttin some rug 😑🚬 with them pointy toe Tony Llama®
crazy good.
gonna take me a cab to the congo land and see the watusi rodeo! Don't mess with that dude at 0:25.
likeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hey Miss Rhett....
Drug deal at Graceland. Priceless!
The original big chicken, before it became a KFC
Alta malha!
One of my all time favorite songs