It took BALLS to be a band like the minutemen in the early hardcore scene where individuality was becoming very unpopular. They were the ultimate fuck you to those creating guidelines for punk rock
Their chapter in Our Band Could Be Your Life talks about this. Everyone is making shorter more aggressive records? OK double album with slow interludes. Everyone is adding distortion and layering up guitars? OK strip everything back and play it clean. Just 3 dudes constantly taking wild left turns and unapologetically being themselves. Great band man, great band
Just saw Mike Watt tonight and asked him about this show, he was stoked and then signed my JOY album. One of the best shows ever. Such a genuinely nice guy and still kicks ass.
I have not seen Mike perform but I'm going to catch him at two different performances in July and August in San Pedro. Also hoping that I can get him to sign my copy of Craig Ibarra's book.
This is absolutely amazing footage. Thank you for posting. These people don't realize they are witnessing one of the greatest bands to ever exist in the history of music, IMHO. I had the good fortune to see them about two years after this in Long Beach. They were already so revered that this kind of reaction would never have happened. Those guys heckling them would have been thrown right out. It was at the Golden Bear. D Boon actually sat at my table for the opening band. Changed my life forever. And then I got to see, from about ten feet away, D and Mike and George just obliterate the stage. I've never seen anything like it. So original, powerful, weird, precise, rocking, fearless. Totally life-affirming. This is the music I go to when I need to realign my priorities.
Damn they’re young here! I was lucky to see them 4 or 5 years later not long before d boon left us. I’ll never forget how that big man played and danced.
you're so lucky to have seen them live. I got into them only about 8-10 years ago. I was the drummer in a punkish type band and the bass player(josh) who became one of my best friends said hey, check out this dvd. It was we jam econo. He's said I'm sure you'll like this band. He was correct. They were so damn good. RIP D. Boon
@@peewhocantbeaimed6954 fuck I was but a twinkle in my parents eyes and wouldn't be born for another 3yrs till after you turned 19 😂 anyway exceptional band for sure-i just stumbled onto them last year after reading that when Slint wrote their "Spiderland" album they had been listening to a lot of Minutemen and I'd never heard of them before at that point-I'm from the UK so I'd been more likely to hear other bands I'm really into like Gang of Four and other post-punk bands from over here but the internet changed all that. Anyway I gave them a listen and I've never looked back, they really were something else. I've just gotten into NomeansNo recently (especially their live+cuddly album) and that's knocked me off my feet
Their grace under the fire of those imbecilic hecklers is simply awe-inspiring. DBoon "don't throw them out...." MWatt "Peace and love " amidst the pure genius explosion that was their music/art gosh, what a band. RIP D Boon. TYSM for posting
Pretty certain the Huntington gigs were prior to this los Angeles section. I'm here in this show, I helped check sound and cleaned contacts, and asked crowd where from, and talked with a 21 Jump Street friend .
Please locate footage from Huntington Beach in this year. I signed on as partial roadie and partial after show party connector and hooked this band up to my orange county friends band's. Really vital show was near the power plant.
at ...6:39/40...Contained...boon and watt singing together is just beautiful...is the best word I can think of...if only we could of experienced what they had for us next?!?? ..they probably didn't even know either but damn if it would of been good!
How fuckin brilliant was this show? Holy balls, those guys had COJONES, and only a few people in the audience were even brave enough to actually enjoy the utterly unprecedented musical cavalcade of unbelievably great musical concepts and ideas being presented in such a frenzied manner. R.I.P. D. Boon, you were an inimical genius (not to take anything away from Mike and/or George, they're geniuses too).
Definitely but I thought the circle jerks had a great set in that doc and a lot of crowd energy, also fear with the way lee ving started antagonizing the crowd very pleasurable to watch
Absolutely fascinating. I have never seen this video. I did not move to be Pedro adjacent until 1986, so missed everything that had gone on and at that time punk wasn't my vibe. Now many years later I have learned to appreciate it. Currently reading Craig Ibarra's book, A Wailing of a Town...such history. I have seen George Hurley play recently (still banging away) and will finally catch Mike Watt in July and August (2024) at The Sardine in San Pedro. And D. Boon...you left us too soon. Play on man. ❤️🙏
Suburban Lawns were uninvited because we didn't sign w Slash because we were told the Germs were giving a Pizza upon completion of their album. Yes The Minute have stood out for their risk taking and originality.
Punk was a new genre at the time and people had no clue what they were listening to. Or that they were listening to one of the best punk bands that would exist.
I gave up bass about 25 years ago, but remember Watt in interviews talking about starting to play with fingers on Double Nickels, and he wondered why the hell he'd wasted all this time using picks. Also he played a Tele bass for a while. Actually found some forum talkbass dot com where he goes into detail about this minutia, if you want to learn more. He plays picks if Mascis or Iggy want it.
It's like that audience is attending church. No mosh, no pogo, no stage dive. Are they staging a protest? Mike Watt playing with a pick here. I think he started playing with fingers fairly soon after this. Not sure.
It took BALLS to be a band like the minutemen in the early hardcore scene where individuality was becoming very unpopular. They were the ultimate fuck you to those creating guidelines for punk rock
Their chapter in Our Band Could Be Your Life talks about this. Everyone is making shorter more aggressive records? OK double album with slow interludes. Everyone is adding distortion and layering up guitars? OK strip everything back and play it clean. Just 3 dudes constantly taking wild left turns and unapologetically being themselves. Great band man, great band
Individuality has never been popular in hardcore punk. Least of all then. Such a puritanical scene
Just saw Mike Watt tonight and asked him about this show, he was stoked and then signed my JOY album. One of the best shows ever. Such a genuinely nice guy and still kicks ass.
I have not seen Mike perform but I'm going to catch him at two different performances in July and August in San Pedro. Also hoping that I can get him to sign my copy of Craig Ibarra's book.
George is murdering those blue vista-lites. Great footage thank you
This is absolutely amazing footage. Thank you for posting. These people don't realize they are witnessing one of the greatest bands to ever exist in the history of music, IMHO. I had the good fortune to see them about two years after this in Long Beach. They were already so revered that this kind of reaction would never have happened. Those guys heckling them would have been thrown right out. It was at the Golden Bear. D Boon actually sat at my table for the opening band. Changed my life forever. And then I got to see, from about ten feet away, D and Mike and George just obliterate the stage. I've never seen anything like it. So original, powerful, weird, precise, rocking, fearless. Totally life-affirming. This is the music I go to when I need to realign my priorities.
They belong in the hall of fame
Absolutely.
Damn they’re young here! I was lucky to see them 4 or 5 years later not long before d boon left us. I’ll never forget how that big man played and danced.
Dude, u are so blessed so see them.. mike watt is a damn beast!!!!
D. Boon is 22 here
you're so lucky to have seen them live. I got into them only about 8-10 years ago. I was the drummer in a punkish type band and the bass player(josh) who became one of my best friends said hey, check out this dvd. It was we jam econo. He's said I'm sure you'll like this band. He was correct. They were so damn good. RIP D. Boon
Haha no shit! I was 16 in 1980. WHERE'S MY TIME TRAVELLING DELOREAN!!
@@peewhocantbeaimed6954 fuck I was but a twinkle in my parents eyes and wouldn't be born for another 3yrs till after you turned 19 😂 anyway exceptional band for sure-i just stumbled onto them last year after reading that when Slint wrote their "Spiderland" album they had been listening to a lot of Minutemen and I'd never heard of them before at that point-I'm from the UK so I'd been more likely to hear other bands I'm really into like Gang of Four and other post-punk bands from over here but the internet changed all that. Anyway I gave them a listen and I've never looked back, they really were something else. I've just gotten into NomeansNo recently (especially their live+cuddly album) and that's knocked me off my feet
Their grace under the fire of those imbecilic hecklers is simply awe-inspiring. DBoon "don't throw them out...." MWatt "Peace and love " amidst the pure genius explosion that was their music/art gosh, what a band. RIP D Boon.
TYSM for posting
first two chords and it's history of rock. They were so good. I am speechless
Musically speaking one of the greatest American punk bands of all time. 3 virtuosos
Good to see they never bothered to mix the 2nd mic even back in the 80s
never change shitty sound guys
After this show, the mics lit cigarettes and chilled.
Pretty certain the Huntington gigs were prior to this los Angeles section. I'm here in this show, I helped check sound and cleaned contacts, and asked crowd where from, and talked with a 21 Jump Street friend .
Please locate footage from Huntington Beach in this year. I signed on as partial roadie and partial after show party connector and hooked this band up to my orange county friends band's.
Really vital show was near the power plant.
"Issued you a new #, you POSER!" hahahahaha best mike watt quote ever!!
Greatest 3-piece fucking EVER
The Minutemen were so awesome the audience was dumbfounded and couldn't move or speak...lol.
Ahead of their time
at ...6:39/40...Contained...boon and watt singing together is just beautiful...is the best word I can think of...if only we could of experienced what they had for us next?!?? ..they probably didn't even know either but damn if it would of been good!
greatest band of all time.
I’m really happy someone recorded this
Cmoooonnnn that was a pretty difficult public. These guys were totally amazing and the crowd didn't even got hyped or anything, unfair.
Wow. Just wow.
How fuckin brilliant was this show? Holy balls, those guys had COJONES, and only a few people in the audience were even brave enough to actually enjoy the utterly unprecedented musical cavalcade of unbelievably great musical concepts and ideas being presented in such a frenzied manner. R.I.P. D. Boon, you were an inimical genius (not to take anything away from Mike and/or George, they're geniuses too).
This takes nothing away from Hurley or watt. But I always see it as boon the genius and George and Mike are the master technicians
Art in motion.
It's too bad that The Minutemen were a shade late for The Decline of Western Civilization. They would've been the most powerful band in the film.
really a shame
You’re absolutely right
Prolly a good thing...they were the beginning of the Re-ascent of Western Civilization.
literally
Definitely but I thought the circle jerks had a great set in that doc and a lot of crowd energy, also fear with the way lee ving started antagonizing the crowd very pleasurable to watch
Absolutely fascinating. I have never seen this video. I did not move to be Pedro adjacent until 1986, so missed everything that had gone on and at that time punk wasn't my vibe. Now many years later I have learned to appreciate it. Currently reading Craig Ibarra's book, A Wailing of a Town...such history. I have seen George Hurley play recently (still banging away) and will finally catch Mike Watt in July and August (2024) at The Sardine in San Pedro. And D. Boon...you left us too soon. Play on man. ❤️🙏
the way these guys stand up in the face of adversity melts my heart every gd time. blazin performance
Sound is great...i love this band...
Holy cow this is amazing
It was on a TV!
These guys, Flipper, and Black Flag got me through my adolescence.
i heard the tour with black flag in europe was brutal.
I fucking love this band
Germs would play their last show there about a month later
La mejor banda de la historia
Suburban Lawns were uninvited because we didn't sign w Slash because we were told the Germs were giving a Pizza upon completion of their album. Yes The Minute have stood out for their risk taking and originality.
Minutemen Tribute at Sardine April 1st Easter Monday for D.Boon
Incredible band. Great footage!
Thanks for posting this!!!!
This is incredible jamming!
Awesome
14:27 pick goes flying
Fukn greatness
Brilliant work! Keep it up!
Keep it up. brilliant! Band ended in '85 due to a death.
man i woulda lost my shit seeing them live, how do you not move to this??
Punk was a new genre at the time and people had no clue what they were listening to. Or that they were listening to one of the best punk bands that would exist.
@@SubaruWRXspdManual id still be dancing tho x(
I thought "Mike Watt Vs. The Audience" was a song lol
They would grow to make some of the best post Punk ever
Fuck yeah.
I noticed during “Definitions” instead of singing “burn your dictionaries” they sing “tear up your dictionaries”. Thought that was interesting.
I always thought "tear up your dictionaries" was the original line.
Rusty Shackleford are you deaf? It has never been burn
Juan Cena I must be deaf
"The measured distance between centuries issues you your number, you poser."
Quite possibly the worst audience ever at a h/c gig. 😂
WoW!! XOXO!!!
intro sound like the doors light my fire
Yes i hear it too, awesome
Its a great way to piss off the crowd
Dont think I've seen Mike playing with a pick other than this video
Also can't remember the last time he played anything other than his SG bass.
I gave up bass about 25 years ago, but remember Watt in interviews talking about starting to play with fingers on Double Nickels, and he wondered why the hell he'd wasted all this time using picks. Also he played a Tele bass for a while. Actually found some forum talkbass dot com where he goes into detail about this minutia, if you want to learn more. He plays picks if Mascis or Iggy want it.
D's playing his Strat from the Reactionaries days too. The Gibson Melody Maker and the Tele's were soon to follow. :)
the audience was acting like a bunch of posers. if you can't mosh or vibe to minutemen don't boo them and rip their mic cables and spit
minutemen are for dancing. the crowd are just lame
this ones for ronald reagan, hah
😂
the best version of that song in my opinion
Their first real gig. Bet the Black Flag set was also taped. That I love to see too but...
Wasn'T the gig on the 18th?
What happened at 13:27?
Cool, a tuning video. I always get scared when these things start this way. Lol
Tuners are for posers
d. with 2 broken strings hanging off his guitar
It's like that audience is attending church. No mosh, no pogo, no stage dive. Are they staging a protest? Mike Watt playing with a pick here. I think he started playing with fingers fairly soon after this. Not sure.
Pentecostal churches have more moshing going on than this gig lol
This one’s for Ronald Reagan
this is what you call dynamite in his pure acting of explosion
…all enslaved to the Fascist 😢
"You suck!"
Minutemen sucks
tf is up with the crowd why are they not slam dancing I guess it was to experimental for them what happen to punk haves no rules