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Section 11--Commercial Videos
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü)
Title: Flipside Video #1
Format: VA live performances, interviews
Medium: VHS cassette
Producer: Flipside Magazine
ID Number: None
Date Recorded: 14 Jan 1983
Release Date: Mid-1983, 1988? reissue
Location: Mi Casita, Torrance CA
Time: 12 min (of 120)
Notes: Current version (edited reissue) is only 6 minutes
in length.
Contents:
Interviews; live performance footage of:
Target
Everything Falls Apart
Out On A Limb [fragment]
It's Not Funny Any More
[Similar stuff for Social Distortion, D. I.,
Circle Jerks, others]
Excerpt:
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü)
Title: The Tour ** Deleted **
Format: Live VA performance compilation
Medium: VHS cassette
Producer: SST
ID Number: SSTV 02
Date Recorded: 01 Mar 1985
Location: The Stone, San Francisco
Release Date: 1986?
Time: 25 min (of 80)
Notes: Members of SWA, Saccharine Trust, Minutemen,
Meat Puppets jam on "Louie, Louie." Raymond
Pettibon artwork on insert.
Contents:
Diane
Hate Paper Doll
Green Eyes
Divide And Conquer
Pink Turns To Blue
Eight Miles High
Makes No Sense At All
Louie, Louie
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü)
Title: It's Clean, It Just Looks Dirty
(Giorno Video Pak 3)
Format: VA live performances
Medium: VHS cassette
Producer: Giorno Poetry Systems
ID Number: GPS037
Date Recorded: 30 Jan 1985
Release Date: 1987
Location: 1st Ave, Minneapolis
Time: 5 min (of 60)
Contents:
Live performances of:
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
I Apologize*
[Also songs and noises by Cabaret Voltaire,
Diamanda Galas, Einsturzende Neubaten, Swans,
David Johansen, John Giorno Band, Psychic TV]
*Incorrectly identified as "Powerline" both on
the package and in the program.
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Artist: Hüsker Dü
Title: Makes No Sense...
Format: Live concert video
Medium: VHS cassette (stereo)
Distributor: Hendring
Producer: Phillip Goodhand-Tait/Trilion Pictures Ltd
ID Number: HEN 2 029 D
Date Recorded: 14 May 1985
Release Date: 1985
Location: Camden Palace, London
Time: 60 min
Notes: Shot for the "Live from London" UK TV show. This
was a one-off performance, the first ever in England
for the Hüskers. The recording was never meant to
be released as a home video, and by doing so Trilion
Pictures was in violation of their contract with the
band, a breach that led to court action. Nonetheless,
the video remains available and sells in the US for
$20-$50. Sound is hi-fi stereo.
Contents:
New Day Rising 2:01
It's Not Funny Any More 1:41
Everything Falls Apart 1:43
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill 2:40
I Apologize 3:13
If I Told You 1:50
Folklore 1:19
Terms Of Psychic Warfare 1:43
Powerline 2:11
Books About UFOs 3:09
Chartered Trips 3:16
Diane 3:30
Celebrated Summer 3:34
Every Everything 1:36
Makes No Sense At All 2:22
Pink Turns To Blue 2:32
Ticket To Ride 2:08
Recurring Dreams/Eight Miles High 10:24
Love Is All Around 1:34
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Artist: Hüsker Dü
Title: Makes No Sense...
Format: Live concert video
Medium: VHS cassette (stereo)
Distributor: Suncrown (Nippon Crown)
Producer: Trilion Pictures Ltd
ID Number: CRVR-80040 [Japan release]
Date Recorded: 14 May 1985
Release Date: 1985?
Location: Camden Palace, London
Time: 56 min
Notes: Same as the European version except for
packaging and brief Japanese title at
very beginning.
Contents:
[Same as Euro version?]
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü)
Title: Punk Special
Format: VA concert video compilation
Medium: VHS cassette
Distributor: Sony Video LP
Producer: Trilion Pictures Ltd
ID Number: None
Date Recorded: 14 May 1985
Release Date: 1986
Location: Camden Palace, London
Time: 10/51 min
Notes: Released in UK as Punk Overload (Hendring
HEN 2 214 [PAL]).
Contents:
Interview plus the following excerpts from the
Makes No Sense... Camden Palace concert above:
I Apologize 3:13
If I Told You 1:50
Books About UFOs 2:09
[Interviews, live performances by King Kurt, Lords
of the New Church, UK Subs, Flesh for Lulu]
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü)
Title: Best of the Cutting Edge, Volume 2
Format: Music video compilation
Medium: VHS cassette (hi-fi, stereo)
Distributor: Rhino Video
Producer: IRS Records
ID Number: RNVD 2402
Date Recorded: Oct 1985
Release Date: 1987
Location: Unknown
Time: 3 min (of 60)
Contents:
Interview, brief performance excerpts of:
Makes No Sense At All
Something I Learned Today
[Videos by Squeeze, Lets Active, Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Tom Waits, Smithereens, others]
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü)
Title: Best of the Cutting Edge
Format: Music video compilation
Medium: Laserdisc
Distributor: Rhino Video
Producer: IRS Records
ID Number: ID6730RH
Date Recorded: Oct 1985?
Release Date: 1987
Location: Unknown
Time: 3 min? (of 116)
Notes: I assume, but am not certain, that this two-sided
laserdisc combines volumes 1 and 2 of the VHS
cassette Cutting Edge series. Hüsker Dü appears
on side 2.
Contents:
Interview, brief performance excerpts of:
Makes No Sense At All
Something I Learned Today
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü)
Title: Underground USA, Vol 2
Format: Music video compilation
Medium: VHS cassette (stereo)
Distributor: M. U. V.
Producer: Videoflex/PFI
ID Number: MUV #2
Date Recorded: 1986
Release Date: 1989
Time: 4 min (of 30)
Contents:
Generic music video to studio version of:
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely
[Similar videos by Black Flag, DRI, others]
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Artist: Sonic Youth et al
Title: 1991: The Year Punk Broke
Format: Tour Documentary
Medium: VHS Cassette
Producer: Geffen
ID Number: DGCV-39518
Date Recorded: Summer 1991
Release Date: Apr 1993
Time: 97 min (total)
Notes: Bob Mould has a 3-second cameo appearance in this
film shot during a tour of European festivals
during the summer of 1991.
Contents:
Live performances by Sonic Youth, Nirvana, others.
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Artist: Various (Sugar)
Title: Deadeye Music Video Magazine, Issue 1
Format: Music video compilation
Medium: VHS cassette (stereo)
Distributor: Vital
Producer: Headless Chicken Co.
ID Number: DEADEYE 001
Date Recorded: 1993 and/or 1994
Release Date: 1995
Time: 8:18 min (of 120)
Notes: Interview segment appears to have been recorded at
some (unidentified) European summer music festival,
which would suggest a 1993 date (Sugar skipped the
festival circuit in 1994); on the other hand, the
scenes in the background may well be from some other
time and place frm the intervoew. The music videos
date to 1994.
Contents:
Interview plus excerpts from promo videos for:
Believe What You're Saying
Your Favorite Thing
[Similar stuff from Pavement, Radiohead, others]
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Artist: Various (Grant Hart)
Title: Cherry Valley Arts Festival 1998
Subtitle: A Tribute to 30 Years of Beat and Bohemian Influence
Format: Tour Documentary
Medium: VHS Cassette
Producer: Laki Vazakas/Jeffrey Weinberg
Distributor: Water Row Books
ID Number: None
Date Recorded: 07-09 Aug 1998
Release Date: 1999
Time: 95 min (total)
Notes: This is a documentary video of highlights from the
Cherry Valley Arts Festival at Allen Ginsberg's
farm in Cherry Valley NY in August 1998. It
features music and poetry principally by by Beat
Generation survivors like Ray Bremser, Charles
Plymell, David Amram and several others, intercut
with candid scenes. Grant performs one song solo-
electric (audio quality is only so-so), and is
otherwise not in evidence except for the closing
group shot.
There's more info about the festival, along with
the image of a photo-postcard (put out by Water
Row to commemorate the event) showing Grant with
Ray Bremser and Charles Plymell here.
The video is still in print and available for
$29.95 plus $3.50 shipping from Water Row Books
(PO Box 438, Sudbury MA 01776).
Contents:
The Main
[Poetry readings, music by participating artists]
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Artist: Various (Bob Mould)
Title: Burn To Shine, Vol 1
Subtitle: Washington DC 01.14.2004
Format: Video compilation
Medium: DVD
Director: Christoph Green
Producer: Brendan Canty
Distributor: Trixie DVD
ID Number: TRX 001
Date Recorded: 14 Jan 2004
Release Date: 20 Jan 2005
Time: 34:25
Notes: Quoting from the liner notes on the back cover:
This film was shot in 9 hours on one day, January
14, 2004 in the living room of an empty freezing
cold house that was soon to be burned to the
ground. The bands played one song each, without
an audience, performing for the cameras alone.
The sound is live, without overdubs or pre-
recording and the performances are uniquely vital
and intimate. It's an abstract snapshot of a
musical community on a particular day in a place
that no longer exists.
-Brendan Canty 9/21/04
Info posted to punknews.org 25 Nov 2005 by "adam":
The Tripwire is reporting that Fugazi drummer
Brendan Canty has created a DVD series to help
promote notable rock bands from various cities.
The series will be titled Burn To Shine, and will
feature a selection of artists from different city
on each release. Each band involved will perform
one song, but the location of the taping must be
an empty house that faces imminent destruction.
Canty explained to Billboard, "I thought it would
be great to catch these bands doing whatever they
were doing on that day. I said, 'just show up and
do whatever you're interested in right now.'
Using a house that was going to be destroyed
basically marks it in time forever."
The first DVD [...] will feature Ted Leo, Ian
Mackaye's new band The Evens, and former Husker
Du frontman Bob Mould. Other cities slated for
tapings include Chicago, Portland, New York and
San Diego.
Contents:
Hoover Dam 3:10
[Still photo gallery with guitar noodling] :39
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Artist: Minutemen
Title: We Jam Econo
Subtitle: The Story Of The Minutemen
Format: Video documentary
Medium: 2xDVD
Director: Tim Irwin
Producer: Keith Schieron
Distributor: Plexifilm
ID Number: 028
Date Recorded: 1980-2005
Release Date: 27 Jun 2006
Time: 90:57/97:19
Notes: History of the Minutemen, featuring numerous
performance clips, commentary by Mike Watt, excerpts
from a 1985 interview with the band, and numerous
interviews with Minutemen friends and associates,
including Grant Hart and Greg Norton. The second
disc contains three live performances (Starwood,
LA, 1980; 9:30, DC, 1985; Hollywood, 1985), 63 songs
in all.
Contents:
Disc 1
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We Jam Econo 90:57
Disc 2
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Starwood, 1980 18:03
9:30, 1985 58:01
Acoustic Blowout, 1985 21:15
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü, Nova Mob)
Title: First Avenue: Hayday
Format: Concert documentary
Medium: Film
Distributor:
Producer: Rick Fuller
ID Number:
Date Recorded: 1985-1992
Release Date: 2006
Time:
Notes: Lots of performance clips of bands who played 1st
Avenue in Minneapolis, featuring all the usual
suspects (Replacements, Soul Asylum, Rifle Sport,
many others). No home video release as of Nov
2007. "Heaven Hill" is from 30 Jan 1985 gig as
excerpted on the Giorno video above.
Trailer:
Contents:
The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
Interviews with Grant, Bob
[other content unknown]
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Artist: Hüsker Dü
Title: Live From The Camden Palace
Format: Live concert video
Medium: DVD (PAL only; region-free)
Producer: Phillip Goodhand-Tait
Distributor: Outré Oeuvre Records/MRA Entertainment
ID Number: D0969 [Australia release]
Date Recorded: 14 May 1985
Release Date: 05 Feb 2007
Time: 55:30
Notes: Decent DVD transcription of the Makes No Sense...
video. Liner notes lifted directly from this NMEreview of the performance. DVD is PAL format, but
is region-free and should play on most computers.
Screen captures (from the VHS videocassette version)
here.
Contents:
[Same as VHS version]
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Artist: Various (Hüsker Dü)
Title: 7 Nights In The Entry
Format: Concert documentary
Medium: Film
Distributor:
Producer: Harder-Fuller
ID Number:
Date Recorded: Sep 1981
Release Date: Aug 2007
Time:
Notes: At long last a legitimate release of the video shot
at 7th St Entry in Sep 1981. Additional details in
this Peter Scholtes City Pages article, from which
the following is excerpted:
Today, Fuller views his latest labor of love,
7 Nights in the Entry, with boyish absorption.
The documentary, which premieres Wednesday,
August 22, at the Riverview Theater as part
of Sound Unseen, is even more bracing than
his 2006 rock salvage job, First Avenue Hay
Day--which was culled from some 800
videotapes shot at First Avenue between 1985
and 1992 and shelved in the club's basement.
7 Nights began as news-quality video shot in
September 1981 on various cameras in the 7th
St. Entry and edited on the fly by Twin/Tone
Records owner Paul Stark, who manually switched
between cameras in a van parked outside the
club. Fuller hopes the unknown videographers
will attend and get their due credit. "It's
going to be cool," he says, "because people
will come out of the woodwork."
No home video release as of Nov 2007.
Contents:
[specifics unknown]
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Artist: Bob Mould
Title: Circle Of Friends
Format: Live concert video
Medium: DVD
Director:
Producer:
Distributor: Trixie DVD/MVD Entertainment Group
ID Number: MVDV4615
Date Recorded: 07 Oct 2005
Release Date: 09 Oct 2007
Credited: Bob Mould--guitar, vocals
Jason Narducy--bass, backing vocals
Brendan Canty--drums
Richard Morel--keyboards
Time: 111 minutes
Notes: Full band show recorded at the 9:30 Club in DC.
The whole set is there except the final encore,
"(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone." Here are links
to the Trixie blurb and the MVD blurb (if the latter
link won't work, the page can be reached from the
MVD Visual main page).
Contents:
The Act We Act
A Good Idea
Changes
Circles
Paralyzed
I Am Vision, I Am Sound
Underneath Days
Hoover Dam
See A Little Light
High Fidelity
Hardly Getting Over It
Could You Be The One?
I Apologize
Chartered Trips
The Receipt
Best Thing
Celebrated Summer
Beating Heart The Prize
Egøverride
If I Can't Change Your Mind
Helpless
Makes No Sense At All
Man On The Moon
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Artist: Various (Grant Hart)
Title: Lotuk
Subtitle: A Portrait By Hendrik Willemyns & John Roan
Format: Artists interviews
Medium: DVD (region-free)
Director: Hendrik Willemyns
Producer: John Roan
ID Number: POMCD009LTD
Date Recorded: Dec 2007?
Release Date: 15 Apr 2008
Time: 51:42
Notes: Included as a bonus companion disc to the limited-
edition release of the Arsenal Lotuk CD album.
See the discography entry for the CD package for a
more detailed description of the DVD.
Contents: Interview with Grant.
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Artist: Bob Mould
Title: See A Little Light
Subtitle: A Celebration Of The Music And Legacy Of Bob Mould
Format: Concert film
Medium: Video (mp4)
Distributor: Granary Music
Director: Justin Mitchell
Producer: Sarah Skeeters-Mitchell
ID Number: None
Date Recorded: 21 Nov 2011
Release Date: 26 Dec 2012 (mp4 for supporters)
Time: 1:41:07
Notes: Concert footage of the 21 Nov 2011 Bob Mould
tribute show at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los
Angeles, plus backstage scenes and commentary by
Bob. A Kickstarter-funded project with early
release of the film in digital format to backers.
See list below for participants and songs. Jason
Narducy (bass) and Jon Wurster (drums) were the
house rhythm section. "In A Free Land" (Bob Mould
with No Age) and "Hoover Dam" (Bob/Jason/Jon) were
omitted, but all the other songs are present.
Full setlist here. Full credits at IMDb.
Trailer:
Contents:
Britt Daniel-guitar, vox
Jessica Dobson-guitar
The Act We Act
JC Auto
The Hold Steady (Craig Finn-vox, Tad Kubler-guitar
Real World
A Good Idea
Changes
Margaret Cho-vox
Grant-Lee Phillips-guitar
Your Favorite Thing
No Age (Dean Spunt-drums, Randy Randall-guitar)
Bob Mould-guitar, vox
I Apologize
Ryan Adams-guitar, vox
Black Sheets Of Rain
Heartbreak A Stranger
Dave Grohl-guitar, vox
Bob Mould-guitar, vox
Hardly Getting Over It
Could You Be The One?
Ice Cold Ice
Something I Learned Today
Chartered Trips
New Day Rising*
Bob Mould-guitar, vox
Hoover Dam
If I Can't Change Your Mind
Celebrated Summer
Makes No Sense At All
Ensemble
See A Little Light
* Dave Grohl switches to drums and Jon Wurster
switches to guitar.
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Artist: Grant Hart
Title: Every Everything
Subtitle: The Music, Life & Times of Grant Hart
Format: Biographical film
Medium: Film/DVD
Director: Gorman Bechard
Producer: Jan Radder
ID Number:
Date Recorded:
Release Date: Jun 2013
Time:
Notes: Project by documentary filmmaker Gorman Bechard on
the life of Grant Hart. KickStarter funding site is
here. Film's official website is here. A short
video teaser, using footage shot in New Haven in
April 2012, may still be available here. Bechard
has directed a number of independent documentaries,
perhaps most notably Color Me Obsessed, his 2010
film about The Replacements.
Trailer 1:
Trailer 2:
Contents:
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