WASP - Videos ...in the raw (1987)

perverts no great and 11 outrageous sex a bunch of sex you guys are [ __ ] even guess this one yeah get the [ __ ] excuse me man these guys make me crazy wasp was actually something that was a brainchild of both myself and Chris Holmes that didn't really come to pass until about almost 7 years after the fact we had a band originally called Sister Sister was the first band to do things like using a five-pointed pentagram a symbol that's now used where the people are showing the horns of the devil out of the sister experience I met a guitar player this tall blond young man 19 years old named Chris Holmes oddly enough believing that I was coming through a copy of Hustler magazine and there were there's a section in there if you're familiar with would hustler there's a section in the back called beaver hunt which is where all these voyeuristic mints and these somewhat less than professional snapshots of their wives and what have you and they always have one for the ladies usually this is for ladies only well I looked at here's this blonde thing standing there and it's uh up on the knee that says rock-and-roll animal and I showed it to the drummer at the time I says look at this cute it gives this guy character or what real funny called me up he says well I hear your guitar pressed yeah play guitar because he saw the ad in the magazine and first thing I said to him was uh al told you he said six five I said how long is your hair he goes about halfway to my room says you got any zits he goes no I said come on down sister broke up in 1978 we went back to the drawing board and a few years about four years went by uh from the time of Sister to wasp and wasp then incorporated this idea of psychodrama which I've since been told the psychotic people doing drum at the time we first started playing uh with Tony Randy Chris and myself we started playing at a club in Hollywood called the troubadour somebody's asking me the other day I got the idea for the song animal so hooked up a video take my bedroom rolled it back made a rhyme within the first few gigs that we had played at the troubadour early on we were showing signs of making progress on leaps and bounds uh this show came about largely by a series of mistakes we had an idea for a type of theatre that was being developed called psychodrama where you try to take what's happening on the stage and put it into the audience as much as possible to get the audience involved now that's where the meat came from we used to chop up the meat and throw it into the crowd and to us the reasoning behind that was that yes it was a very crude form of theatre but it was like going to a baseball game you had to pay attention for fear you get hit with a foul ball in other words what we were doing is we had no money but the object was to make it look as big as it could the object was to make wasp look like it had a million dollars whether it did or whether it didn't say I'm intense I should have been born triplets I got three times intensity three times the sex appeal be tired of macho any man live you know why the guys all come to these shows you never see girls cuz all the guys got the girls home locked up they don't want to come home city or see us cuz you go home getting Vasiliy and thinking about it that's why they never come out here anymore whilst we did the Troubadour shows we had the sari with lost sign big letters and had these flames I'd go up around it but we had different heights that we could put this sign different places well at that time we got down one clicked to low or black he went up and started with the torch his hair was up and I had all the hairspray and when he lit it his hair lit and these kids up in the front they're going yeah burn Blackie burn to create controversy we staged a blood drive with the American Red Cross in Los Angeles and they brought down a semi tractor trailer with a dozen beds and a half a dozen nurses and I remember on the last day I went into the to this truck this mobile unit that they had and they lined about a hundred pints of blood up on all and I took a photo in front of it and it hit me at that point what we had done but even then that was showing stages that wasp were the kind of band that were not content with status quo as far as the been acquiring attention we had been on the cover of four major international music magazines by then and then that's what started the interest at that point major labels were starting to pay attention to us there's a club here in Hollywood called rainbow Bar n grill and it's I was born in the kitchen and display something I live there when I brought it home and I was walking through there through the bar area one evening and there was a girl there that I knew and she was sitting with this guy named rod and he says aren't to such and such because I had been on the cover of an issue of an English magazine called Koran which she was familiar with and he says on says yeah I've seen you guys and he starts going on and on and on about things that he didn't like about what we were doing and I thought how are you you know I mean I never met this guy before so about three months goes by and we were getting ready to play a show in Hollywood at the troubadour there's a special Halloween show and this magazine I spoke about crank had sent a photographer Ross Hoffman out do some photos them and Ross shows up and he bring his rod along with him to this Halloween show and rod said he was coming along for a goop you didn't think he didn't take it seriously laddie two days later after we played a Halloween show I'm walking through this rainbow Bar & Grille again and there's mr. rod Smallwood sitting there again and he grabs me by the arm and he pulls me down the seat he immediately starts in on me about what I'm doing wrong you're doing this wrong you're doing that wrong you're not marketing right no I got no [ __ ] you you know I says here I'm managing this band by myself and I'm doing this and I'm promoting and I'm doing all this stuff by myself and I have no help and no money and I said where are you coming off from to tell me this up now the first time I met the guy I hated him the second time I met him I liked him even less because now he's really coming down on me heart well after we talked for about an hour it dawned on me that he had design minds on what we were doing he saw something by March of 1984 we had landed the deal with capital and we had commenced recording the first album in that first album was what was later to be regarded as maybe the most controversial song we've ever done a song called animal I [ __ ] like a beast animal was a song that because of its highly controversial lyrical content was the song that people said would never get a lot of attention we got a gold disc for it the first album was called wasp and it was a collection of songs that had happened within the first year of us playing together Tony Richards played drums on that first album but Tony was not to go on any further with us after that and walked Steve Riley who at the time was was a godsend for us it was he was exactly what we were looking for at the time uh animal was probably the first song animal being I [ __ ] like abuse was probably the first song that really caught on for the band but I want to be somebody was the first real anthem something that could be exposed over all exposed so to speak it came from an idea of if you remember the old Barney Miller show there was a guy on there named Ron Glass who played the part of our guy named detective Ron Harris and over the course of the run of the show the show ran for 11 years over the course of this show after about the fourth of this season uh Harris started writing a book called Bob or blood on the badge and at he had labored labored over this book and he finally got it published and he's just going to his first autograph signing party and he's he's already asked Barney he was Hal Linden he asked him he goes can I get off early at say noon time to go and do an autograph signing for my book and he says sure so he's Harris is talking on the phone he's talking to this publisher and he's just about getting ready to leave and mugging detail comes in over the phone and Barney says Dietrich you and Harris go check it out and Harris goes but Barney I have to go to my other guy says he said Harris I said now and he slams down the phone he says god I want to beat somebody and I watched that and I laughed my ass off and I watch it but then I thought about the genius of it I thought there's got to be a lot of people to feel like that out there oh that is lame right out Hey No and right out ah ah I wanna be somebody be somebody soon I wanna be somebody be somebody down hey Love Machine those those chicks Wow I just chick next to me right like we were filming and this poor bride she was religious I'm saying stuff her like she was cringing her eyes are red and stuff and she say she was getting paid 300 bucks a day and she had to sit there and listen to my [ __ ] all day long for three days and she was pissed off I put this way I made 300 she got a day I made it worth it I made it work for her damn money and she was okay looking I hope she sees this goodnight you know me the love traffic beam us back Nick what can I do for you am i oh and um how would I see try I say ah I ah in September of 1984 embarked on our first world tour which took us to England Europe Japan and then back to America and we were gone for about nine months the first time we started on the UK leg of the tour and that's where the live at the Lyceum video came from that was a landmark video at that time because it shows people exactly what went on but nevertheless when you're doing a show like that but that is that visually intense I think people are going to come out thinking they see things that never really happened which is one of the beauties about rock and/or theater a heavy-metal child thunders he is the alcohol arrives he is yeah you if you know what waa SP means fine and if you don't that's fine too it was the kind of thing that was designed to give everyone something to expand on to give them something some food for thought so to speak I give them somewhere to go uh in that sense the name has worked perfectly for us I don't really foresee or I don't see myself the connections with the occult or what have you because to me well I studied the occult for three years and I know exactly what that stuff is about hmm I don't study this stuff anymore because I've sensitive determine that it's not for me but for anyone to say that wasp isn't our cult or a satanic band or anything like that personally speaking I think that's a bunch of [ __ ] after we finished the first world tour we got ready to start our second album which was called the last command out of that came some great songs uh one of them being the first video from that which was a song called blind in Texas uh blind in Texas was the song and thereafter the video uh was an idea of something that happened to us on our first world tour we actually it's a true story the things that happening we had about three days off there and we met a guy down there who owns a a record store named Texas tapes and records and Houston Texas a fine young man by the name of Jeffrey hammer and Jeff is Jeff is probably spuds Mackenzie reincarnated you know I mean this guy likes to have a good time uh we got down there like I said the three days off this guy was was playing the host to the max down there so we had a good time we kept on him having a good time and the song actually came about I wrote it in the middle of a blinding snowstorm in Minnesota one night so it didn't actually the event took place in Texas the song was not written in Texas it took I guess that long to recuperate after it was all over to try to figure out what was going on after the song was recorded it we made our first video for the for the album last command out of it and I would say largely if you look around my house here what have you you'll see things that are direct influences of that video that here's the city boy coming from New York you know it's where somebody would have told me 10 years ago I'd be living you know Here I am out here the cowboy at Calabasas the the Ben Cartwright of rock-and-roll I would have told him you were out of your mind and I wouldn't have give it a second thought but here I am today oh I couldn't get high and for sad I drank my brain what I said he is and context my brain Boston cream pie what I said is index down risen about a year and a half after the debut of our first time we were commencing work of the second AMA called last command and right about that time there was this a wonderful organization that cropped up called PMRC and the PM RC stands theoretically for the parents music Resource Center it's in effect an organization which is now defunct as we speak they're an evil organization and sense that whenever you dictate to someone how to live their lives between now and 20 years ago things should be left to the individual as to what they think they should or should not listen to if you don't want to listen to what we're doing or you don't want to watch it then don't buy don't go see you but there's no reason in the world for anyone to try to put a label you cuz I'm don't the next ow tell it Oh Sokol tell me all I'm a while my moms and eggs while I'm naked Oh where does is today sucks we're in Finland we're playing there and we go offstage he'll force on corn old people are like no Astra or screamin come back through and right all of a sudden we come back on right black he's gonna tell her about the song we had a song called animal with a F like a be sore your afternoons [ __ ] I [ __ ] like a beef so you know I'm standard and there's no lights on I can barely see anything and all of a sudden the next thing I remember is I was looking at the ceiling and my roadie drugged me offstage and I was looking at my amp and somebody had carried a rough road about about this big around and it was like about 30 I'd say about 22 degrees outside of his frozen and this kid had thrown up onstage and smacked me in the face that's like getting hit with about 50 pound rock Bob boom when I was out and they drugged me offstage and next actor Miller was just waking up my role is shaken we go let's get up you got a play you screw me back out on stage guitars attitude everything and I just went out and played a song out of tune laughing I think there next day had a big welt on my head I look like a cyclops great scene my eye we knew like Randy was going to be leaving the band we knew that already so it was a perfect opportunity for me to go back and play guitar so I told Chris I said I really don't want to play bass I called basic tool of ignorance and so I said well I let me go back to playing guitar cuz I'm a guitar player by trade I was in a band called King Cobra for about two years we toured education a and then we was we went on I went on tour and was King Cobra wasp and Ted Nugent into it so we were and we were finishing up the tour in Texas right and I talked to Chris a little bit at that time and and became friends with him but I didn't really know anything about the day at that time they were going to make a change in the band so when I got home by three weeks later somebody left a message on my machine I came home one night and it was all garbled as messages some guys too died it's just quite rough on the call call me at that so a number and ice I'm not going to call it fulsome a day I can I don't know it is I didn't called man then about three three days so I waited about three days later and then I came home again and it was message on the machine this time he was speaking clearly I think he was sober at that point anyway so any sure this is Chris home from what and give me a call so I called him up next day and he told me that they were interested in having me in the band when I come up and check it out come to talk to black you know some sugar man I'll check out anything you know I'm ready Freddy I'm ready to check anything out you know so I went to talk to black and tell me what's happening and stuff and I said sure I'm interested so I went I went and auditioned my audition about a week later and after the audition they they held the gun to my head you know they said I said okay listen I listen that you're gonna join the band if not it's all over for you ass I said okay man okay [ __ ] the third album called inside The Electric Circus was an attempt to go back to where we had originally started with the original sound the whole idea of inside The Electric Circus is what the band's viewpoint was when we stood on the stage and looked out at the audience because it became a three-ring circus at that we have seen things on a stage that the average audience participant will never witness because we get the whole picture out there about Donington and dining well and people they like to get this customer we like to to fill a plastic like containers full pissed right and in fact the foot make the throne with the stage and see where they can hit man yeah okay can't afford better but anyway no man I got it yeah right I got hit with an apple in the face or anything else but man because I thought I'd put a piss at us and it hits a stage and exploded you so we so we get pissed off and refresh the stage you know and we decided throw it throw the [ __ ] man I was trying to hit some kid down the front with Marshall cabinet but mentally it's who you know go Oh you the video was directed by David mallet in London it was done at Hammersmith Odeon it was shot on the same day that we played Hammersmith Odeon later that night when we played the actual show we recorded for the BBC and there were no overdubs on or anything well I had to go back to London a couple of days later after that and I mixed it and I was surprised at how good it really was and I went back to the guys and I says I think we have something I think it's time to do what it is that we do best which is a live performance we were then looking for a video to come out of this and we were approached with an idea for a movie for Ghoulies - we went we looked at the footage and we decided then at that point that scream until you liked it would be the perfect song to showcase an idea like this to me it's one of the better experiences that I've had because the people that ran these these creatures made them come to life when we were doing this video and after it was done in all honesty to watch these little guys where he put in the Box left me with a strange feeling mr. they were haha you yeah ah god I which direction you guys going now how's the band coming what's out I'm next that direction gone w went thattaway for coin op or the ledger we're going to be touring Los Angeles and the greater LA area in January we're doing Pacoima that's warrants OD Hawthorne Palos Verdes County remind me of a girl I went out with one time she told me she wanted a kitchen with its melphalan so I took her the thorns yeah this is the son of animal this is the windy I'm possession Oh the Oh besides and some the way the process where ah my hands sweat my eye that's what my soul I feel Oh this isn't the stuff we normally do for guys that are fine it's just what happens Oh I suspect is that makes the I got through the a rat to the Jews bad news yes it me I'm not just back

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Rating: 4.9100256 out of 5

Keywords: WASP, Videos, in, the, raw, h264, 50p

Id: MU6tw5KXxHo

Length: 57min 13sec (3433 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 13 2012

Reddit Comments

[u/CrimsonCassetteTape]

One of my favorite home videos from the 80’s. I’ve seen this so many times and it never gets old. I think this is one of the first times where we really see how intelligent Blackie is. It shows that he’s more than just the ‘fuck like a beast’ or raw meat guy. Also some classic drunken Chris Holmes clips in here as well.

I still have my VHS copy of this somewhere. Gotta dig it out and watch it again sometime.

[u/peezozi]

We are sexual perverts.