You Took My Heart And You Hocked It
Last Thursday, October 19, Naked Raygun played a semi-unannounced warmup show at a small club in Chicago. I was bummed I couldn’t go, this was the first Chicago performance of Naked Raygun I’ve missed since September of 1986. Thank you, however, to the kind soul who posted this video on YouTube. The sound is for shit, but it really captures the spirit of being at a Raygun show with every goddamned freak in the crowd screaming WHOOOAH HOHHH with every last breath of air they can squeeze out of their almost-crushed lungs. I can not wait.
It is no coincidence that this is the second post in a row regarding YouTube, the site has consumed untold hours of my life these last few months. Where else can you find a long lost video by Tar, a Philadelphia dance party overdubbed with Naked Raygun and Husker Du, Siskel & Ebert outtakes (audio not safe for work), David Yow getting knocked out cold by a flying bottle, the history of XTC as told by puppets and hundreds of those music videos you loved from past and present. So many I can barely even begin to enumerate them. And this doesn’t even bring into account the gag videos and even serious short films. I <3 YouTube.
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October 24th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
That was the most amazing show of my life. I am still giddy, but no longer sore from the mosh pit.