CLIP OF THE MOMENT: "VALID OR VOID" VIDEO by SHRINK (1979)

In the fall of 1982 I dj'd a "video dance party" at Montgomery College on Rockville, Maryland. It was the first of it's kind on the campus. I borrowed some portable vcr's from a friend who ran a small business shooting wedding videos. And as for the music videos themselves we had to take what we could find. I had a beta tape recording of the very first MTV broadcast which included Devo and The Buggles. Also someone at Peaches Records donated a couple of promo videocassettes. One had several music video's for David Bowie's under rated "Lodger" LP. The other, I vaguely recall, was a mixture and included this new wave chap who called himself Shrink. I had remembered seeing his mini LP at a record store. He had his face and head painted up gold, the hair on half his head was shaved while the other half was spiked. By this point I was already into The Bad Brains, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, Stranglers, The Residents, Black Flag and so on. And so my friends and I thought this Shrink was pretty goofy at the time. But the funny thing is that when I hear this song now I think it sounds pretty fucking good! Especially when compared to some of the horsehit being passed off as rock music these days. "Valid or Void" has a sort of glam-punk sound that is kinda' catchy. I've dug deep into the Trash Palace archives and dug up my beta tape dub to present you with what I believe is the Internet debut of the lost music video for Shrink's "Valid or Void". The sound is a bit low so crank it up!



I dunno what the story was with Shrink or where he's gone off to. I guess he never made it too big but seems to have a small cult following of people that remember him. He did appear on tv at least 1 time. Check out this live clip which I found online from a Netherlands website. What must these people in the audience have thought?



This is the shit! Come back Shrink! We need you now more than ever!!

TRICK-OR-TREAT TIPS

HORRORWITZ'S HELLISH HALLOWEEN HOO-HAH ROCK-N-ROLL PARTY!

Here it is! Our latest Halloween offering: 80 minutes of wiiiiild Halloween rock-n-roll plus some excellent horror movie radio ads and a few surprises! Fits nicely onto a CD-R disc!!

You can listen to the entire mess right here (it might take a few seconds to kick in):


(If you prefer to play the show from your Media Player click here.)

Or you can download the program by right clicking here and saving the file to your hard drive.

HAPPENIN' HALLOWEEN (RE-BOO-TED)

CLIP OF THE MOMENT: THE RUNAWAYS "CHERRY BOMB" (Japan, 1977)

Of all the performances of the Runaways doing "Cherry Bomb" in Japan I think this one was filmed the best! TURN IT UP LOUD!

SEXI: EUROPEAN EROTIC FILM MUSIC FROM 1969 - 1970

My good buddy Dr. Penis aka The Purple Zombie DJ has just made this excellent comp available for download on his blog at this link. It is approximately 79 minutes of some of the best erotica film music from European movies circa 1969 to 1979. More common tracks are mixed with several rarities. Some really cool and beautiful music here. It is highly recommended!

CLIP OF THE MOMENT: POPCORN (1969)

Here's a hard-to-find pop art montage sequence from the uncut version of Peter Clifton's 1969 movie Popcorn, featuring the song "I'm A Man" by The Spencer Davis Group.