I was 16 years old when I was at this concert. It was at the Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. And Before GBH went on it's not on the video but they did fireworks inside the Auditorium. And their was like 3 big slam pits. I also see my old friend Kat from HRP (Hollywood Rat Patrol) doing stage security.
NO way !! I was there too.... the Riot squad was waiting for us outside...that was not fun .... guess thats why they call it a riot. guess some ahole burnt down a burger king down the road or something..... Ahole !!! that was a great gig. The center of the pit was skinheads...if you got too close to the center of the pit, they would just punch your face...HA ! Those were fun days !!
I remember when this aired on MTV. I didn't have cable had to go watch at a friends house. I was in awe of the brunette Discraceland poetess a budding teenager at the time. GBH to the day some of my antiheros, even did some record cover art for them decades later.
Raw Power were the best at this gig. It was an off night for GBH. I think the drummer was fired shortly after. He was hooked on heroin. Heroin and Jazz or even a guitar player on heroin can work. Heroin and Punk drumming isn’t a mix that works.
I almost saw G.B.H. at the Olympic Auditorium, but at the last minute the show got moved to the Santa Monica Civic. I did end up at the Olympic Auditorium for a Marilyn Manson show.
I prefer the early punk bands. Sex Pistols, the Damned, Patti Smith, Gang of Four. I liked the Pogo dance. I never liked the Mosh Pit / Slam dance which came a couple years later.
I saw and recorded this when it originally aired. The good thing about this upload is that it's got footage that was cut out from the MTV broadcast - some of the Dickies material didn't air, nor did the Breakouts.
wow... I wish I had kept MY original VHS tape recording of this M-TV show. The quality of mine was better than this one; but thanks for posting this one, great memories.
Seeing Gary Tovar, Big Frank and Wally George was interesting, forgot they were on this broadcast. I actually made a bootleg audio tape of this show. Went to the instore at Zed Records the next day!
It seems like with every form of new media, there always an early, more open-minded form of that media. But as that particular form of new media experienced entropy (which everything on earth experiences) the open-mindedness shrinks. That explains why MTV was once this, but is now a shadow of this. MTV experienced internal, creative entropy, and it became a lesser version of it's former self.
i was big into the L.A. scene early 80's i was supposed to go to this gig but my ride backed out on me (i was a teen didn't drive yet). luckily i seen THE DICKIES several times but was bummed i missed GBH who i have only ever seen on camera to this day despite the thousands of times they've played L.A. oddly enough i never saw this when it first aired but i do remember i went to a party at that house once and the cops broke it up not even an hour after we arrived. i haven't seen those generic beer containers in decades i forgot they even existed. this vid brought back a ton of memories fer sher.
Also, my copy has Leonard Graves with the dog puppet for "extended footage" for Poddle Party.. I swear Poodle Party seems much longer. Perhaps a different airing?
"Plain Wrap" is "the Breakouts" in my footage with identical footage. The Raw Power footage was longer with less of the mexican cop. The GBH seems similar.
Some kids at my age first into punk, they listen to green day, good charlotte and whatsoever bands that are mainstream. I am different, it's all started from a Kick Ass movie then I know The Dickies, the first punk I ever heard. At the time, mainstream punk band I don't know any of them but underground punk I know alot
The Dickies are absolutely shredding here, fast as hell
Holy Shit! I have been looking for this since it aired on MTV! Thanks so much for posting this!
cheers!
Awesome! What a voice!
The Dickies, timeless.
Wilf the best drummer GBH ever had.
1985, i was 17 then, punk was center of my universe. I was more into GBH then DICKIES
It's weird how every band now would be labled as extreme poseurs back then: travis barker, machine gun person, and the list goes on
lol they are labelled as that by people they imitate
I was 16 years old when I was at this concert. It was at the Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. And Before GBH went on it's not on the video but they did fireworks inside the Auditorium. And their was like 3 big slam pits. I also see my old friend Kat from HRP (Hollywood Rat Patrol) doing stage security.
+soynoise So much shit went down at those Olympic shows. So much fun! Remember the Riot at the Exploited show there?!
+carbage747 Yes, I still remember some kid who threw a beer bottle at the RTD bus.
NO way !! I was there too.... the Riot squad was waiting for us outside...that was not fun .... guess thats why they call it a riot. guess some ahole burnt down a burger king down the road or something..... Ahole !!! that was a great gig. The center of the pit was skinheads...if you got too close to the center of the pit, they would just punch your face...HA ! Those were fun days !!
There was always fireworks at the Olympic. . . lit off at PIL show too
So I'm guessing I'm you're gay if you attended this only way to explain the lesbians there.
thank you for posting this ... i had it on an old vhs (taped when it first aired) and wore it out. very nice.
When a show was all energy ! Damn those were good times!
I think Wilf was the best drummer for G B H
I ♥ The Dickies!!!!
I remember when this aired on MTV. I didn't have cable had to go watch at a friends house. I was in awe of the brunette Discraceland poetess a budding teenager at the time. GBH to the day some of my antiheros, even did some record cover art for them decades later.
she is a stunning specimen.
Man, Patrick Swayze was the best drummer The Dickies ever had.
lmao!
I always wanted to name a band Swayze legs.
😂😂
did i just hear diplomatic immunity in an MTV show... wtf???
Nothing says punk like Wendy’s, Jeep, Levi’s and Casio
lol
GBH at their very best
I love the Dickies ♡ ♥💕❤😘
Raw Power were the best at this gig. It was an off night for GBH. I think the drummer was fired shortly after. He was hooked on heroin. Heroin and Jazz or even a guitar player on heroin can work. Heroin and Punk drumming isn’t a mix that works.
I almost saw G.B.H. at the Olympic Auditorium, but at the last minute the show got moved to the Santa Monica Civic. I did end up at the Olympic Auditorium for a Marilyn Manson show.
@@TheWinston7777 Do you have the Cramps bootleg, Oo Ma Liddi. It is the last Cramps bootleg I need. Unless you come up with something else.
@@vinylrichie007 I don't have it.
Forget
How
Fucking
Good
GBH
Was
Thanks
P$
And oh yeah
Raw power is why ya never judge a book by its cover
Awesome! The Dickies kill it!
I prefer the early punk bands. Sex Pistols, the Damned, Patti Smith, Gang of Four. I liked the Pogo dance. I never liked the Mosh Pit / Slam dance which came a couple years later.
saw Raw Power 4 times back then. such a great band that still continues years later.
+bob blinky Raw Power shreds.
@SLANDERBOB HELL YES DUDE never saw em though.
Young Mark Gonzalez skating at 20:58
I saw and recorded this when it originally aired. The good thing about this upload is that it's got footage that was cut out from the MTV broadcast - some of the Dickies material didn't air, nor did the Breakouts.
Wally George!
wow... I wish I had kept MY original VHS tape recording of this M-TV show. The quality of mine was better than this one; but thanks for posting this one, great memories.
Tacos to you for this upload!!! What great fun!
The Dickies, who else would write a song about the fucking Pep Boys? Manny, Moe and Jack. Lol
I taped this and wore the VHS out, loved it then and love it now. 09:35 is my favorite part I think.
Seeing Gary Tovar, Big Frank and Wally George was interesting, forgot they were on this broadcast. I actually made a bootleg audio tape of this show. Went to the instore at Zed Records the next day!
Surfing in O.C. since 6 yrs old and being a teenager during the 80's.... So much fun and still going.
yep...the Golden Bear !! fun days....pure fun.
SHES A HUNCHBACK!!! ROCK EN ROLL!!!!
GBH !!!
I'm there somewhere in that crowd.
gbh sound great
Was at that gig...going nuts. They were my heroes at that point.
KILLER this is up, thanks.
lol the sponsors.
+KP5000 Back then that was like a Monster Energy sponsor! haha
Great upload, heard a lot about this here in England but I've never actually seen the full length feature. outstanding work that man !
This is what got me started!
Thanks so much for putting this up! :D
I taped this on my VHS in 1985 and watched it for the next 5 years until the tape broke ✊. Literally changed my life.
MANIAC!!!! ON THE LOOSE!!
It seems like with every form of new media, there always an early, more open-minded form of that media. But as that particular form of new media experienced entropy (which everything on earth experiences) the open-mindedness shrinks. That explains why MTV was once this, but is now a shadow of this. MTV experienced internal, creative entropy, and it became a lesser version of it's former self.
Tape dub has long gone into that graveyard in the sky. Really wish someone was willing to put this out on DVD.
Love gbh. No matter what
Who knew Jeffrey Dahmer was such a punk scholar.
Late 70's and early 80's punk rock was great
G.G. Punks Pious Pope. Rest in peace. Now onto the SS Decontrol!
36:26 this dude is so fuckin faded
I didn't know Dana Carvey did interviews.
still have all those old Olympic flyers.
Dickies - American Buzzcocks
I love G.B.H 🎸🎸
Thank you, thank you! I had this dubbed for 10 yrs then it got lost - ive been looking for it ever since! Esp for the dickies performance!
I saw GBH twice a few years later and the dickies in 1994 - they played so great!!
I wish I could find it on Blu-ray
May 31 1985
I was a teenager in that scene and there was a real thin line between a punk & a poseur.
I taped this on VHS when it aired and lost the tape sometime in the early 90’s. Pretty sure Gonz is in this too.
I was at this show I was 15 now I’m 48
raw power!!
Pleasant was/is so hot!
Love this band
love Steve Fryette on 2nd guitar, great footage thanks for uploadiation of this the video
Is that Gonz??
I’ve always thought it was Marc Gonzales!
Yes.
i was big into the L.A. scene early 80's i was supposed to go to this gig but my ride backed out on me (i was a teen didn't drive yet). luckily i seen THE DICKIES several times but was bummed i missed GBH who i have only ever seen on camera to this day despite the thousands of times they've played L.A.
oddly enough i never saw this when it first aired but i do remember i went to a party at that house once and the cops broke it up not even an hour after we arrived. i haven't seen those generic beer containers in decades i forgot they even existed. this vid brought back a ton of memories fer sher.
I was born just a pinch too late for all this goodness. I was only 11 when this was filmed.
I got into my first pit at age 12! Stsrted listening to punk when i was 10 in 85, but was too scared then to jump in... It was fun!
Great video
The breakouts clip, what's up with the singers guitar ? it looks like a SG with a really fucked up looking head stock.
i was there...gr8 show. .
brian I’m jealous
I was born in the wrong decade
Fuck that, all decades are punk decades.
***** Punk never went anywhere.
Nope, and it never will.
exactly
Yeah. But this was a special time in punk. Never will be replicated.
think we missed x
This was gold when I got my hands on a vhs copy of it back in the old days. We all wore that tape out
Awesome!
Was there
Bringing back my "Chino days"
I have a decent copy of this on VHS. I've been looking to get my tape digitized talk to me. My copy seems better, but it's been slightly fire damage.
Also, my copy has Leonard Graves with the dog puppet for "extended footage" for Poddle Party.. I swear Poodle Party seems much longer. Perhaps a different airing?
"Plain Wrap" is "the Breakouts" in my footage with identical footage. The Raw Power footage was longer with less of the mexican cop. The GBH seems similar.
Also, I swear the high point of the GBH footage is Gimme Fire, which I can't find fire on your footage..
freakin awesome
there is adeath punk??
Bummer Raw Power footage was cut off & incomplete 😢
fun times
I got your back in the day we rent punk rock LENNON STUDIOS
great!!!!!!
Raw Power was awesome.. That whole gig was awesome!
did the stage lighting for this gig, you can see me in a red/black flannel onstage right towards the end, it got a bit crazy...
Noice
my old buddy Plez always pops up in stuff.
47:06 might as well got ronald mcdonald to spurt this rhetoric.
+1 for Pleasant Gehman.
slam dancing is not punk its LA DO THE POGO OR dance by yourself
POGO is san francisco
+Michael Beaubien Slam dancing is punk as fuck...if you don't like it do the pogo??? So was LA and OC buddy. Get it straight!
+John Fouts pogo was London first. slamming was an American construct for sure tho
Circle pit. 1 or 2 tough guys going against the circle. PHX AZ USA 1982
Raw power forever I H C rules
How dare the MTV idiots cut into Raw Power's track. Mauro gave me a beer yeah!
Greatest band ever!
Oh so that's the dickies I very much don't like them, or well any of this bands aside from gbh, not that my opinion matter :b
+Nestor Gonzalez The Dickies were great. What are you talking about don't like them? They were genuis
+Nestor Gonzalez i came here for GBH, stayed for the Dickies.. amazing band
Nestor Gonzalez
You will like what you're told. Now put on your punk rock uniform you poser. 🤔
I think this aired on Night Flight, not MTV. I saw it on Night Flight, anyway.
originally aired on mtv in 84 or 85.
these dickies still rocks me more than any discharge, gbh, chaos uk stuff, the old style.
h.m.
that Poor car.
I’m 51 now
is that Don Ramón?
mind = blown
thx bro
Some kids at my age first into punk, they listen to green day, good charlotte and whatsoever bands that are mainstream. I am different, it's all started from a Kick Ass movie then I know The Dickies, the first punk I ever heard. At the time, mainstream punk band I don't know any of them but underground punk I know alot
speak English nguyen
+Alex Bluez (IV) good for you
Was this GBH gig in the Uk or Usa??
usa
Los Angeles, California at the Olympic Auditorium
My dad was there CHILLEN
lol '' dad ''