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.
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 !!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
Hmm, I never really understood the appeal of the Dickies. They were OLD even here in '85! I guess they could actually play so they were considered good in L.A., but we had WAAAAAY better bands in D.C. where I grew up! Minor Threat, etc. Well, my favorites were always The Ramones who I first saw in '83 and then saw many times, until Dee Dee quit, then I stopped going to see them!
"Stukas" is my fave album, minus "Communication Breakdown". Give that a try - if you don't like it, maybe they're not your thing. I think they should most be compared with the Toy Dolls in spirit, and Bad Religion for tight playing, great harmonies, and pretty arrangements/songwriting.
I don't follow you. Even Leonard was saying that they're older, are you saying they're not? Anyway it's cool if you guys like them, I just never got into them, although I did play in a band that opened for them once in around '92 and actually bumped into Leonard in around 2013 and he was a nice guy.
The Dickies were geniuses at satire - but, their humor is SoCal-based. Stan Lee used to drop by the Bomp! Records office when The Dickies were home. We had a rock magazine, also called Bomp! - and a punk records outlet store in front. This was late 1970s - and the Hollywood Punk scene was in full-swing.
Took me like 25 years since yesterday. I don't know what I was thinking. I'm finding I like bands at certain points of their time and can get overlooked.
I was 11 in 85 ,,,and dont know how i missed this ,,,,when mtv is the only thing iv watched
The Dickies are absolutely shredding here, fast as hell
Awesome! What a voice!
The Dickies, timeless.
1985, i was 17 then, punk was center of my universe. I was more into GBH then DICKIES
When a show was all energy ! Damn those were good times!
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.
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.
Holy Shit! I have been looking for this since it aired on MTV! Thanks so much for posting this!
cheers!
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.
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.
I ♥ The 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
thank you for posting this ... i had it on an old vhs (taped when it first aired) and wore it out. very nice.
I love the Dickies ♡ ♥💕❤😘
I taped this on my VHS in 1985 and watched it for the next 5 years until the tape broke ✊. Literally changed my life.
Late 70's and early 80's punk rock was great
Awesome! The Dickies kill it!
Was at that gig...going nuts. They were my heroes at that point.
KILLER this is up, thanks.
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
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.
I taped this and wore the VHS out, loved it then and love it now. 09:35 is my favorite part I think.
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.
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!
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.
Wilf the best drummer GBH ever had.
Man, Patrick Swayze was the best drummer The Dickies ever had.
lmao!
I always wanted to name a band Swayze legs.
😂😂
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!
GBH at their very best
Raw Power was awesome.. That whole gig was awesome!
Was there
Bringing back my "Chino days"
Nothing says punk like Wendy’s, Jeep, Levi’s and Casio
lol
love Steve Fryette on 2nd guitar, great footage thanks for uploadiation of this the video
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
SHES A HUNCHBACK!!! ROCK EN ROLL!!!!
The Dickies, who else would write a song about the fucking Pep Boys? Manny, Moe and Jack. Lol
Love this band
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!!
Vi esto desde Colombia en el año 85 , veiamos tv extranjera por antena parabólica. Aca no había tv por cable en esa epoca.
gbh sound great
Tape dub has long gone into that graveyard in the sky. Really wish someone was willing to put this out on DVD.
Tacos to you for this upload!!! What great fun!
MANIAC!!!! ON THE LOOSE!!
Forget
How
Fucking
Good
GBH
Was
Thanks
P$
And oh yeah
Raw power is why ya never judge a book by its cover
Love gbh. No matter what
still have all those old Olympic flyers.
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.
my old buddy Plez always pops up in stuff.
I love G.B.H 🎸🎸
lol the sponsors.
+KP5000 Back then that was like a Monster Energy sponsor! haha
Young Mark Gonzalez skating at 20:58
i was there...gr8 show. .
brian I’m jealous
G.G. Punks Pious Pope. Rest in peace. Now onto the SS Decontrol!
GBH !!!
Greatest band ever!
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.
raw power!!
Wally George!
I was a teenager in that scene and there was a real thin line between a punk & a poseur.
these dickies still rocks me more than any discharge, gbh, chaos uk stuff, the old style.
h.m.
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.
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 think Wilf was the best drummer for G B H
Bummer Raw Power footage was cut off & incomplete 😢
I was at this show I was 15 now I’m 48
freakin awesome
I got your back in the day we rent punk rock LENNON STUDIOS
fun times
great!!!!!!
I'm there somewhere in that crowd.
May 31 1985
I wish I could find it on Blu-ray
+1 for Pleasant Gehman.
Great video
Dickies - American Buzzcocks
Raw power forever I H C rules
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
Awesome!
I didn't know Dana Carvey did interviews.
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..
Pleasant was/is so hot!
36:26 this dude is so fuckin faded
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
mind = blown
thx bro
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.
Is that Gonz??
I’ve always thought it was Marc Gonzales!
Yes.
My dad was there CHILLEN
lol '' dad ''
47:06 might as well got ronald mcdonald to spurt this rhetoric.
The breakouts clip, what's up with the singers guitar ? it looks like a SG with a really fucked up looking head stock.
I’m 51 now
there is adeath punk??
Who knew Jeffrey Dahmer was such a punk scholar.
I think this aired on Night Flight, not MTV. I saw it on Night Flight, anyway.
originally aired on mtv in 84 or 85.
How dare the MTV idiots cut into Raw Power's track. Mauro gave me a beer yeah!
is that Don Ramón?
that Poor car.
Was this GBH gig in the Uk or Usa??
usa
Los Angeles, California at the Olympic Auditorium
Hmm, I never really understood the appeal of the Dickies. They were OLD even here in '85! I guess they could actually play so they were considered good in L.A., but we had WAAAAAY better bands in D.C. where I grew up! Minor Threat, etc. Well, my favorites were always The Ramones who I first saw in '83 and then saw many times, until Dee Dee quit, then I stopped going to see them!
"Stukas" is my fave album, minus "Communication Breakdown". Give that a try - if you don't like it, maybe they're not your thing.
I think they should most be compared with the Toy Dolls in spirit, and Bad Religion for tight playing, great harmonies, and pretty arrangements/songwriting.
I don't follow you. Even Leonard was saying that they're older, are you saying they're not? Anyway it's cool if you guys like them, I just never got into them, although I did play in a band that opened for them once in around '92 and actually bumped into Leonard in around 2013 and he was a nice guy.
No I'm not commenting on their old-ness. I'm saying if you want to give them a fair shake, try their best (my fave) album.
The Dickies were geniuses at satire - but, their humor is SoCal-based. Stan Lee used to drop by the Bomp! Records office when The Dickies were home. We had a rock magazine, also called Bomp! - and a punk records outlet store in front. This was late 1970s - and the Hollywood Punk scene was in full-swing.
Took me like 25 years since yesterday. I don't know what I was thinking. I'm finding I like bands at certain points of their time and can get overlooked.
What band was pleasant in i forgot they were kinda cowpunk
Screamin Sirens