Sunday, January 17, 2021

LOCKDOWN THEATER NIGHT 41


Here's some good ol' fashioned cable access for you. Cable access was/is a channel that cable companies are supposed to provide for noncommercial broadcasting by members of the general public. Kind of a precursor to YouTube only less spontaneous. As you can imagine, the draw of free screen time in the pre-YouTube era attracted some oddballs. there was some stuff of serious merit as well.

On the previous post about Sylvain Sylvain, I linked to a video on YouTube. Some of you might have noticed that in the description at YouTube, the poster mentioned a full length video "Paul Tschinkel's Inner Tube", a compilation of clips from a public access show of the same name. The video has Johnny Thunders (acoustic), the Heartreakers (live) Sylvain, Mink DeVille, Levi and the Rockats, Jayne County, Suicide, the Contortions, 8 Eyed Spy, and the Feelies, among others I can't ID. These are from the late seventies to '81 or so. Most are live clips from small venues.

This Paul Tschinkel was prolific. His YouTube channel has a lot of other music clips, along with a lot of art oriented clips. Basquiat, Koons, Sherman, Schnabel, you get the drift. If you dig art, budget twice as much time.

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Watch:
Paul Tschinkel's Inner Tube
at YouTube Johnny Thunders (acoustic), the Heartreakers. Sylvain and the Criminals, Mink DeVille, Levi and the Rockats, Jayne County, Suicide, the Contortions, 8 Eyed Spy, and the Feelies
Paul Tschinkel's Channel
at YouTube

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