RARE MINOR THREAT video from CBGB's 1982 and my photos from the same show!

All these photos from the same show:

Shogo Kubo at Cherry Hill circa 1980 on my Instagram

Shogo Kubo at Cherry Hill skatepark circa 1978-79, last great days at that incredible park, where Shogo braved a tough winter and became the resident Pro. I made this photo with some silly screw on filter i put over the front of my lens, i used it just a few times, works well here, kinda... I was in 11th grade at the time. #SHOGO #DOGTOWN #Skateboarding #ZBOYS #newjersey #cherryhill #integrity #inspiration #OldSchool #OG #original #SkateBoarderMagazine #highschool

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Adolescents Steve Soto R.I.P. story from my instagram

(These two images above are the only two I made of Steve Soto when we did the photos for the Adolescents 1st album cover)

the ADOLESCENTS - Tony B. (Cadena) and STEVE SOTO when you swipe. The photo of Tony is at one of their very first shows, it was in a bowl at the Marina Del Rey skatepark, you can even see the TurningPoint ramp in the background. They were one of the great bands to first emerge from Orange County, certaily NOT where they wanted to be from, and that angst came out incredibly in most of their songs. When i heard their first demo on “RODNEY on the ROQ” i was blown away. It was at least five or eight songs and Rodney would play the tape all the way through at once (i wish i could find THAT exact tape he would play - the one released is NOT the same, it’s missing WORD ATTACK). After i heard that they were working on an album i reached out to Lisa Fancher at FRONTIER Records who was putting out the LP, i told here i had amazing photos of the band that should be used on the LP, she loved what i had and asked me/hired me to shoot a band photo for the back cover! My first LP cover, i was 18. Well getting that group photo would not be easy or even possible that night after the Black Flag show they opened. Casey the drummer was wearing a swasitka spray painted on his red turtleneck (pure shock value, nothing else) Tony was so disgusted he refused to pose with him, so i had to make individual portraits of each of them and hope Lisa would go for it, she and everyone loved them, more personality in the individual photos. Sadly STEVE SOTO one of the original members of the ADOLESCENTS passed over the weekend. I dug through my old proof sheets to scan this photo from that 1st LP shoot, only one or two frames of each guy, maybe a couple more of Tony. I was hanging out with Tony back in May, he’s really an incredible person. Besides still doing the band thing every once in a while he’s a school teacher. (The most noble profession!) #Adolescents #SteveSotoRIP #WordAttack #KidsoftheBlackHole #PunkRock #OC #WreckingCrew #Frontier #TonyCadena #MarinaSkatepark #MarkAlva #SlamDancing #inspiration #integrity #Abandoned #1980

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Early Beastie Boys photo from my Instagram

BEASTIE BOYS circa 1984/5 in Westchester, CA (on the west side of Los Angeles) at the campus of Loyola Marymount university where i brought them to do an interview on KXLU maybe we made these photos while killing time waiting to go on the air, or maybe it was after the show. The interview with on air host ADAM BOMB was monumental and could be found on the internet, maybe even in iTunes “The Final Countdown” may have been the name of the program, it’s fucking hilarious (as they often were). This was their first time out to L.A. and they were there opening for Madonna on her “Like A Virgin” tour... I’ve told stories from these wild few days several times before, so look back if interested. This day was way before they even started working on the first album, they just had “Cookie Puss” and “Rock Hard” 12” singles out at this time, after their punk “Pollywog Stew” 7”EP... . . Sorry I’ve been too busy to post much of anything this month, been beyond busy. #BeastieBoys #Punks #HipHop #rap #Inspiration #art #fun #boombox #KXLU #blackandwhite #film #35mm #classic #earlydays #merrypranksters #galleria #LikeAVirginTour #TogetherForever

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MC5 - Long Lost video number one from Wayne Kramer

from Dangerous Minds:

Don’t look now, but it seems that Wayne Kramer, of the legendary MC5, has suddenly discovered his YouTube account and decided to use it to showcase some killer footage of the band from its heyday. Over the last three weeks he’s uploaded a handful of videos on his Facebook presence as well as his YouTube account. It’s going to be worth keeping an eye on his account for the next weeks and months.

The earliest video from a chronological perspective is a short compilation of DASPO-CONUS footage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. DASPO was the Department of the Army Special Photographic Office, the “CONUS” bit means “Continental United States.” DASPO recorded footage from the Vietnam conflict as well. This is a true compilation—there’s no audio and it’s just a mishmash of different images, quite interesting actually even if the MC5 only pop up for a few moments. Around the 29-second mark there is a clip of a folk singer performing in the middle of a crowd of people—the singer is Phil Ochs—and then a few seconds later, there’s the MC5 in a similar setting. As I said, there’s no audio: unfortunately it seems that the Army was callously insensitive to the needs of audio bootleggers. According to Kramer, this footage has never been published before. The YouTube caption indicates that the footage has been sync’d to “Wayne Kramer’s original underscore musical compositions.”

The Loneliest Tree in the World

Tucked away in a corner of London's Royal Botanic Gardens, the last of an ancient plant grows. Though it resembles a stumpy palm tree, the Encephalartos woodii is incredibly rare. In fact, it may well be the very last of its kind on Earth. Get to know this Jurassic cycad, the loneliest bachelor on Earth.

Beastie Boys - Too Many Rappers (ft. Nas) video, previously unreleased!

Word is this is not authorized to be released... so peep it while you can, the internets should keep it alive, but who knows?



this is looking very amateur relative to other Beastie videos, i'm guessing it's just a rough off line cut that some one snuck out of the studio...

hot outa the 80's you never heard Z-3 MC's - Triple Threat - Beat Box Convention

This shit was deep kids...





BONUS:

Word of Mouth and DJ Cheese big track was "King Kut" which is part of the long history of basing songs around how great your deejay is.

The song features several recognizable samples and DJ Cheese definitely takes over the track. He won the World Mixing Championships in 1986. "Coast to Coast" was also a well known single.DJ Cheese was originally from West Virginia, but moved to Plainfield, New Jersey to perfect his deejay skills. He debuted on the Z-3 MC's only recording in 1985, produced by Duke Bootee.The Word of Mouth MC's were also from Elizabeth, New Jersey.They were produced by Duke Bootee of Sugarhill fame.DJ Cheese (born Plainfield, New Jersey) was the first DJ(USA) to win DMC mixing championship DJs and appeared in the UK tour with Run-DMC.