Lydia Lunch Interviews on Videowave -- Oct. 1983, Nov. 1985

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  • Опубликовано: 26 дек 2010
  • Lydia Lunch, punk rock/no wave poet laureate is interviewed by Merle Ginsberg regarding the Immaculate Consumptive tour in 1983. She is interviewed again by Julia Masi in 1985 regarding promotion of The Right Side of My Brain. The 1983 segment was done in Young Filmmakers Studio with the great help of Martin Toub, Brett Landow, Ed Tooks, Lance Tooks, Robert Barry Francos and many others. These are 2 excerpts of 2 much longer pieces.
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    The 1985 segment was done at New York Video Workshop with the great help of Bonnie Pollack, John Zaff, Ed Tooks, Susie Byrnes, Seth Brown, Robert Barry Francos and many others (including NYVW owner/operator Bruce Spector). Videowave is a TV and Internet program featuring artists and music ignored by the mass media. #LydiaLunch #MerleGinsberg #nowave
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  • @Syntox
    @Syntox 11 лет назад +169

    Wow, people complaining about the New York scene being dead in the early 80's, while today everyone in NY complains about how they wish it was the early 80's again...#irony

    • @tartanhandbag
      @tartanhandbag 2 года назад +8

      it feels dead when people stop inviting you to the cool new thing. most large melting pot cities have their perennial underground scenes. sometimes they come and go so fast the mainstream never even hears about it. the trick is to publicise your scene by populating it with plenty of photographers, journalists and a peppering of famous people passing through

    • @ktiitfa2491
      @ktiitfa2491 2 года назад

      @@tartanhandbag lol underground in the rehash & phone addiction era

    • @RobertoReyesChHC
      @RobertoReyesChHC 2 года назад

      @@absrene Thats really odd because NYHC was exploding and evolving or at least was about to...

    • @CarinaPrimaBallerina
      @CarinaPrimaBallerina Год назад

      Yeah, it's a relative thing!

    • @newwavepop
      @newwavepop Год назад +2

      i am just some dude i dont matter, but this has always been my opinion or view on things. and this sort of goes for all musical subcultures that have come and gone, pretty much when they first start they are very small and the people in them are strange and creative and it is interesting, then as it starts to get any exposure at all more and ore people slowly then quickly flood in. but it is a different quality of people, essentially it is followers and not leaders or creators and scenes become watered down very fast and with in a very short time of just a couple of years the truly creative people that made that scene will have moved onto something else. for me personally by the time the 80s hit the interesting people in the punk scene had moved on and it had turned into the hardcore scene which i have never been impressed with, and yeah now that scene was exploding but we all know it was just tons and tons of boring uninteresting suburban kids exploding with youthful angst but no creativity or originality. now through the years i constantly meet people that were those youthful suburban hardcore kids and they all want to argue and picture themselves as having been so cool and interesting, i thought i was so cool and interesting when i was young too but i have gotten older and i have gotten over myself.
      lets try another view, i have for decades always heard people ask what was the difference between the American punk scene and the English punk scene. and this is how i have always seen it. the American scene at the very start of it all was made up of people that were already in their 20s and even 30s, it was people that really were sort of outcast and had already spent years in weird art scenes. where as the English scene was primarily a lot of young rebellious teenagers, they saw it as something new nd exciting and it exploded fast. and the publicity was off the charts as young arrogant kids courted the attention , and hey when we were skinny teenagers with weird hair and clothes we looked great and took nice pictures and really influenced our peers. and so the chaos of the media coverage made its way to America and our young angry rebellious teens were excited by it and thats what led to that big hardcore scene, as people took the most simple and basic aspects of punk "fast and simple and hard" and extreme it. to me that was boring and uncreative and so were the majority of kids i would have been meeting that were into it. so again while the kids were flooding into the hardcore scene and it was exploding, the slightly older more creative and interesting kids had moved on from punk and were playing what would come to be called post punk, still experimenting and growing.
      so yeah im sure for Lydia who had been there early on, the early 80s hardcore scene was probably boring as hell and filled with people that were already much younger than her and what the hell do they have interesting to say to her? what complaining about Reagan and Thatcher, or their parents, teachers and the police. what riveting conversation.

  • @kelechi_77
    @kelechi_77 Месяц назад +5

    So many punk and no wave artists were like Lydia at the time, but Lunch was the most vocal of them all so now she gets all the shit in the world by people who don't know her art or who she is, she was a pioneer of female led punk/rock music, if only people knew what everyone else was saying and doing back then. I mean that was just the culture. It's kind of how none of what happened in those scenes could ever happen today, everything being constantly recorded means nothing ever gets forgotten. I mean people like James Chance were slapping audience members just for fun lol, imagine that happening today.

  • @wesbeach69
    @wesbeach69 3 года назад +68

    This explains where courtney love got her persona

    • @walterkleinander858
      @walterkleinander858 3 года назад +8

      They are not in the same building.......

    • @--..__
      @--..__ 3 года назад +2

      @Kitty Foreman criticizing women is sexist

    • @andcircuit2020
      @andcircuit2020 3 года назад +9

      I’m not so sure about that. Courtney probably pulled from a lot of different people, but frankly if she was ripping anyone off if was very obviously Kat Bjelland, though they were at one point friends.

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Год назад +1

      Courtney Love, that's a laugh. It's pretty bizarre she was once in Faith No More.

  • @bestfrogs247
    @bestfrogs247 12 лет назад +8

    Thank you for posting "Lydia Lunch Interviews on Videowave -- Oct. 1983, Nov. 1985."

  • @frankensplean
    @frankensplean Год назад +3

    quality pair of clips. really captures the spirit.

  • @chelseapoet3664
    @chelseapoet3664 Год назад +18

    Holy crap Merle is like a Pre Raphaelite painting.

    • @VideowaveMusic
      @VideowaveMusic  Год назад +2

      Didn't notice it until your comment but her pose in the thumbnail confirms this!

    • @isrulius
      @isrulius 10 месяцев назад +1

      She’s extremely homely

    • @christianrokicki
      @christianrokicki 9 месяцев назад

      @@isruliuspoppycock!

  • @zoehansen_
    @zoehansen_ 4 месяца назад +3

    Love her so much!

  • @steveroby413
    @steveroby413 4 года назад +18

    The 1st interviewer is Merle Ginsberg she was the female judge on season 1&2 of RuPaul's drag race before Michelle visage came aboard

  • @Randyh9
    @Randyh9 8 лет назад +21

    "When something becomes a totally extreme and intense and intimate, it's usually I guess filthy. That's where I tend to come in"

    • @axelcats
      @axelcats 4 года назад +5

      so deep huh? gosh i feel like an adult among emotionally inept teenagers

    • @aa-mh3dn
      @aa-mh3dn Год назад

      @@axelcats LMFAO

  • @raimywinter2309
    @raimywinter2309 6 лет назад +29

    I fucking adore her

  • @goldencatpants
    @goldencatpants 9 лет назад +14

    This is def one of my fav Lydia interviews

    • @afrothunder142
      @afrothunder142 2 года назад +6

      What about the interview she had with Joe Rogan?

    • @DG-EditsYT
      @DG-EditsYT Год назад

      @@afrothunder142 LOL

  • @babyirene3188
    @babyirene3188 5 лет назад +16

    She gets it.
    It’s lonely getting it.

    • @atomaalatonal
      @atomaalatonal 3 года назад +1

      but sometimes out of nowhere someone seems to understand. and thats enough for the next decade.

  • @lamercado
    @lamercado 8 лет назад +18

    how she plays with words, concepts and rhetorics..Awesome! Why every comment here have to do with if she is "nice" or a "bitch"? fuck it.

  • @reghunt2487
    @reghunt2487 3 месяца назад +2

    OK I'm convinced Kate Micucci studied Shirley Temple, and Aubrey Plaza studied Lydia Lunch.

  • @juliacatharina2316
    @juliacatharina2316 7 лет назад +3

    so lovely

  • @ameliasmith4292
    @ameliasmith4292 4 года назад +5

    Love to see Marc’s interview! Anyone got it? :)

    • @VideowaveMusic
      @VideowaveMusic  4 года назад +6

      It is on schedule to be converted and restored, but given the current circumstances, within the next century

  • @ComeToThySelektor
    @ComeToThySelektor 5 лет назад +34

    lydia would have been a perfect role in clerks

  • @berlinesquelove1360
    @berlinesquelove1360 4 года назад +1

    powell!

  • @pumasgoya
    @pumasgoya Год назад +2

    There was definitely a scene in LA in '83.

  • @KristaAMartin100
    @KristaAMartin100 7 лет назад

    Cool!

  • @billygoat9381
    @billygoat9381 2 года назад +5

    bahaha I love her so much

  • @alexandradewinter9775
    @alexandradewinter9775 8 лет назад +19

    She's fucking amazing.

  • @gregdahlen4375
    @gregdahlen4375 3 года назад +7

    underground arts scenes are such fun

  • @abstractwater
    @abstractwater 10 лет назад +1

    una grande

  • @toyaquiyvoyaya
    @toyaquiyvoyaya 10 лет назад +11

    The interviewer is beautiful, Lydia is amazing.

  • @Bouncingballwilly
    @Bouncingballwilly 6 лет назад +4

    The second interviewer....is that the mother from A Nightmare on Elm Street?!

  • @EarlyLAPunk
    @EarlyLAPunk 12 лет назад +13

    I am glad this exists. Holding up to friendly cross examination. She is beautiful and terrifying inside and out. Here's to the truth tellers.

  • @beandipcartography
    @beandipcartography 3 года назад +1

    Dude, whatever happened to the New York scene ??? Duuude ....

  • @Saygoodbye130
    @Saygoodbye130 3 года назад

    Nice

  • @arcrs40
    @arcrs40 3 года назад +1

    amazing.... loveeeeeeeeeeeee

  • @lucianofigueiredo4877
    @lucianofigueiredo4877 4 года назад +1

    Essa é lenda💙💙💙💙

  • @Scuba_Bro
    @Scuba_Bro 2 года назад +13

    Wow she’s always been so miserable and grumpy even when she was younger 🤣 I guess it’s her trademark persona…

  • @mikeymumblesreal
    @mikeymumblesreal 3 года назад +10

    One of the sexiest women ever. Hatred for typical roles and for music which should be a joke anyway. She's great. I love her. Always have. People are too serious about music and art piss off

  • @BoneViolyn
    @BoneViolyn Год назад +6

    HORRIBLE CLUB??? I hope she isn't referring to the notorious gothic batcave club. That club was hella cool.

    • @jauxsef
      @jauxsef 9 месяцев назад +1

      They were talking about Daceteria

  • @ritamilan82
    @ritamilan82 8 лет назад +26

    courtney love looks exactly like her but in a blonder version. well just physical

  • @jamesmusings7169
    @jamesmusings7169 11 лет назад +5

    hot, hot, hot!

  • @deftonestoadies
    @deftonestoadies 10 лет назад +9

    she was so fine

  • @Eric-dn9bx
    @Eric-dn9bx 3 года назад +15

    this is the cringiest comment section i have ever seen lmao

  • @Buelligan88
    @Buelligan88 7 лет назад +25

    Merle Ginsberg was hot.

    • @stevenroby1667
      @stevenroby1667 6 лет назад +7

      Buelligan88 she still is Merle was a judge on first few seasons of rupauls drag race

    • @SuperRobertoClemente
      @SuperRobertoClemente 4 года назад

      See my response to Bart Tare above.

    • @davedogge2280
      @davedogge2280 3 года назад +3

      she has dark smokey looks that almost belong to a past more classical era

    • @Qrayon
      @Qrayon Год назад

      No, she was cool. Beautiful lady, though.

  • @Dylan230393
    @Dylan230393 12 лет назад +11

    there's no doubt she is gorgeous here, and still is in her 50's

  • @jameskennedy721
    @jameskennedy721 2 года назад +9

    She was miles ahead of a group like the Police or Elvis Costello . A decade later she was getting even more brutal and intense .

    • @adm8995
      @adm8995 2 года назад +5

      Ahead of Elvis Costello? Are you mad?

    • @CarinaPrimaBallerina
      @CarinaPrimaBallerina Год назад

      Ahead of neither of the two. She can't sing or play!

    • @TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy
      @TvDaddyAndTheTabloidArmy Год назад

      @@adm8995 no. you're a tool.

    • @michaellavery4899
      @michaellavery4899 Год назад +6

      Strange comparisons.

    • @jameskennedy721
      @jameskennedy721 Год назад +1

      @@adm8995 He got uninteresting fast . Of course they were exploring different kinds of expression . Costello is more cheerful .

  • @DickUrduh-wm5yk
    @DickUrduh-wm5yk 9 месяцев назад +1

    There ain't enough to go around so kick rocks lol.

  • @thesleepinggiant6457
    @thesleepinggiant6457 6 лет назад +5

    That poor host. lol. I love you Lydia.

  • @urwholefamilydied
    @urwholefamilydied Год назад +2

    3:08 what was that?? Was "truth beauty love filth" a song or zine or book or quote from someone that she accidently ripped off before correcting her self to, "oh, whoops, haha, I meant truth, beauty, love... my bad". That seemed like a really awkward and specific fuckup. Weird.

    • @fulanderson
      @fulanderson 2 месяца назад

      Cuz that's smt she had said in previous interviews w the Immaculate Consumptive. I guess she just changed it on the spot because it was no longer applicable at that moment

  • @thelaw1441
    @thelaw1441 4 года назад +4

    Whatever happened to Merle Ginsberg?

  • @edmund184
    @edmund184 5 лет назад +1

    0:56 I doubt that somehow though these days it would be believable. It's a more dangerous city than New York.

  • @DarlingPhenylethylamine
    @DarlingPhenylethylamine 7 лет назад +7

    How loveably narcissistic. Or narcissistically loveable.

  • @asong4thedead
    @asong4thedead 4 года назад +18

    The 80s were a tragic time for hair

    • @hjjabaljlaka5695
      @hjjabaljlaka5695 3 года назад +4

      no offense but have you seen the hair in your videos

    • @asong4thedead
      @asong4thedead 3 года назад +2

      @@hjjabaljlaka5695 none of that is my hair, genius

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Год назад +6

      The '80s were a magical time for hair; you're just envious because there was so much.

    • @EvilCat-EnergyCatalyst
      @EvilCat-EnergyCatalyst 9 месяцев назад +2

      The '80s were the BEST time for hair; Blixa, Genevieve McGuckin, Rowland S. Howard, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Foetus, Beate Bartel, Gudrun Gut, Daniel Ash - I could go on.

  • @SpaceIsThePlace_
    @SpaceIsThePlace_ 5 лет назад +2

    The interviewer was a judge on the first two seasons of drag race.

  • @marinablack181
    @marinablack181 4 месяца назад

    2:22

  • @StevieZero
    @StevieZero 3 года назад +5

    She was gorgeous

    • @TheBigMclargehuge
      @TheBigMclargehuge 2 года назад

      I mean maybe if you have been in a Turkish prison camp for the last 30 years she might look about as appealing as a cold bowl of boiled lentils

  • @terenceshannon4731
    @terenceshannon4731 8 лет назад

    Like a Matt Lucas character

  • @hcanderson3787
    @hcanderson3787 3 года назад +4

    What a wonderfully awkward interview. Was she always this way?

  • @nicecutie
    @nicecutie 6 лет назад +30

    is this the same woman joe rogan started screaming at?

    • @corduroykumquat
      @corduroykumquat 5 лет назад +5

      unknowntuber unknowntuber you know it

    • @rebeccalopez2997
      @rebeccalopez2997 5 лет назад +2

      Yep

    • @deathmetaldouglas69
      @deathmetaldouglas69 4 года назад +6

      Yes. That video turned me off to Rogan for a long time.

    • @varanchio
      @varanchio 4 года назад

      @@deathmetaldouglas69 gosh, what? i thought his stand up was okay, but when his podcast came out, it turned me off immediately.so I'm not really surprised though..

    • @barrbarr31u
      @barrbarr31u 3 года назад +9

      He put her in her place. Screw her.

  • @Shadowx011
    @Shadowx011 Год назад +1

    Wow that first Woman (is she from the UK) is beautiful. I am a gay male yet I cannot take my eyes off her…she looks so pure and friendly…❤
    EDiT

    • @frankensplean
      @frankensplean Год назад +1

      Merle Ginsberg? see description

    • @Shadowx011
      @Shadowx011 Год назад +1

      @@frankenspleanyes I researched right after I posted that comment.

  • @frog_king8383
    @frog_king8383 4 месяца назад +1

    This is dopey talk

  • @user-kn7fy6tr3t
    @user-kn7fy6tr3t 2 года назад

    Жаль я не понимаю английский

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Год назад +1

      Then perhaps you should hire a translator.

  • @Laura-kg9le
    @Laura-kg9le Год назад +1

    Uuuuugggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ....nice hair tho

  • @TheMrmojo23
    @TheMrmojo23 3 года назад +4

    She killed the new York scene

  • @quickthunder86
    @quickthunder86 7 лет назад +5

    truth beauty love filth

  • @Woodpeckersnest
    @Woodpeckersnest 11 лет назад +1

    & bang-banged by henry [the] rollings !! P00F!!

    • @Qrayon
      @Qrayon Год назад

      Really? If that's true, Henry must have liked her taste in music.

  • @stuntmangMUSIC
    @stuntmangMUSIC 4 года назад +20

    funny how this losers biggest print she left was being a rude to a extraordinarily nice man.

    • @SrSacaninha
      @SrSacaninha 3 года назад

      @Kitty Foreman Nardwuar

    • @stuntmangMUSIC
      @stuntmangMUSIC 3 года назад +1

      @Kitty Foreman His name is Nardwuar, and is a very 'unique' and talented interviewer. Who once interviewed this lady(Among many artists like Kurt Cobain, Snoop dog, DaBaby ect. ). And she might be one of the most disrespectful and bratty geusts to ever be on his mega successful string of interviews. Search Nardwuar on RUclips.

    • @stuntmangMUSIC
      @stuntmangMUSIC 3 года назад

      @Kitty Foreman and your a manlet. go cry now manlet

    • @stuntmangMUSIC
      @stuntmangMUSIC 3 года назад

      @Kitty Foreman Sure manlet, i geuss thats just your normal interactions with other people LOL. Back to ur grandmas basement

    • @hjjabaljlaka5695
      @hjjabaljlaka5695 3 года назад

      what the fuck are gamers L O L and people into mumble rap even on these videos WHAT THE FUCK

  • @Quinty5555
    @Quinty5555 11 лет назад

    mean mean meany! owen meany!!!!

  • @bwlamorte
    @bwlamorte 11 лет назад +11

    What's not to like about Lydia Lunch?

    • @Qrayon
      @Qrayon Год назад

      Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

  • @prokesuk
    @prokesuk 15 дней назад +2

    Every interview I have seen with Lunch she just tries too hard. At what? Who knows.

  • @iwishiwasananteater.3205
    @iwishiwasananteater.3205 Год назад +6

    Uhg...what an annoying personality. "Look at me...I'm so different. I'm always annoyed at everything. You just don't see how good I am."

  • @PerfectSnowball
    @PerfectSnowball 3 года назад +7

    She seems coked out of her head in all of these interviews

  • @zoologistsnightmare
    @zoologistsnightmare 4 года назад

    “People say that you‘re a bitch“ hahahhaa

  • @americancitizen748
    @americancitizen748 Год назад +4

    Interviewer is better looking.

  • @marcosmiranda6120
    @marcosmiranda6120 Год назад

    Doidinha, coitada.

  • @monicasmadhouse9278
    @monicasmadhouse9278 Год назад +1

    x yawn

  • @travistytoday4031
    @travistytoday4031 6 лет назад +1

    boring

  • @Roberto-nm8sw
    @Roberto-nm8sw Год назад +1

    little girl trying to be so .......

  • @loadspiller
    @loadspiller Год назад +1

    NOT PUNK AT ALL

  • @MAXIMILLIANgoodchild
    @MAXIMILLIANgoodchild 10 лет назад +2

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz boring

  • @barrbarr31u
    @barrbarr31u 3 года назад +4

    It took Joe Rogan to put this lady in her place.

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Год назад

      Joe Rogan is the king of the hyper-testosteroneated douchebags. What has he ever contributed to society?

    • @barrbarr31u
      @barrbarr31u Год назад

      @@QuadMochaMatti More than Lydia Lunch.