A while back when I posted Graham Bond Organization's "Wade In the Water", my brother hepped me to a clip from a film called Gonks Go Beat. I keep going back to it because it's kind of bizarre, it's got so much going on. The film is a musical so there's dancers and assorted peripheral folks freaking out. Visually it's chaotic from both the editing and the camera angles. All the movements by the band are exaggerated. There's Graham Bond, organ and vocals, hamming it up, with an OG version of the look Jerry Dammers had back in the day. Jack Bruce on bass and harp, and some rather embarrassing moves. The coolest, Ginger Baker is shown briefly a few times. I love the way he's all hunched over. The clip as a whole is corny as hell but the song is so good and the style so cool that you get sucked in. Check the home made trailer that someone made advertising a showing of the film. It shows another clip with seven drummers playing the same solo (one of them, Baker). At YouTube one comment says of the film, "'The worst British film ever made', 'the Plan 9 From Outer Space of musicals' and 'So bad it's actually watchable'...None of these descriptions do justice to the sheer awfulness of this film." Maybe not, but all of those descriptions make me really want to see it.
Video:
Graham Bond Organization - Harmonica at YouTube
Gonks Go Beat - Trailer (unofficial) at YouTube
Visit:
Gonks Go Beat - Entry at Wikipedia
2 comments:
It's very reminiscent of the TV show "The Prisoner" down to the british dude and his nautical tee. If you've never seen it, a late sixties psychedelic spy show with a what the fuck was that ending. Thanks.
I have sen The Prisoner! Great show! It used to creep me out when I was a kid.
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