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DAMN! I love that record.

Gotta pick up the reissue sometime soon.

And hide it from the kids, who would probably love it and then run around singing "New York's Alright (If You Like Saxophones)" at school all day.

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And hide it from the kids, who would probably love it and then run around singing "New York's Alright (If You Like Saxophones)" at school all day.

 

That would be better than "Beef Baloney".

 

 

That album was the "official soundtrack" for the Cross-Bronx Expressway on our sundry roadtrips in college to visit friends going to school in New England. (25 years ago :omg )

 

 

 

 

Their Halloween SNL performance is damn near impossible to find online - I wish I DLed it when I saw it on YouTube awhile back.

 

http://www.imeem.com/krokodyle/video/KyuTs..._fear_music_vi/

 

 

 

I don't think I've seen that since it first aired. In retrospect it looks pretty staged. ("go down to central casting and round up some 'punks' ")

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retrospect it looks pretty staged. ("go down to central casting and round up some 'punks' ")

 

I think most of those punks came up from DC. I think at least two were in your avatar's band.

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Watched it again, there's a bald guy who I guess could be Ian. The straight looking guy on the left who shakes Philo's hand could be Lyle Preslar... maybe.

 

I think it was Ian and Brian Baker (I vaguely remember a story about him blowing off a Government Issue show to go to NY to see Fear).

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When all else fails... Wikipedia:

 

The Saturday Night Live affair

 

Their most famous performance was on the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Donald Pleasence. The band was booked at the insistence of John Belushi, who was a huge fan. Belushi initially offered them the soundtrack for his major motion picture Neighbors. The movie studio eventually forced Fear off the project and to make up for it Belushi got them the spot on SNL. Among the politically incorrect nature of Fear's songs, the band's appearance included a coterie of dancers, several of whom had been contacted for the event by both Penelope Spheeris (another avid Fear booster) and Henry Rollins (contrary to popular belief, was not in attendance); among them were Belushi, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat (and later Fugazi), Harley Flanagan and John Joseph of The Cro-mags, and John Brannon of Negative Approach, causing destruction of the set. During rehearsals the director wanted to prevent the dancers from participating, so Belushi offered to be in the episode (it had been a few years since he left SNL) if the dancers were allowed to stay. The end result was the shortening of Fear's appearance on TV. The band first performed "I Don't Care About You". The band started their second performance by saying, "It's great to be in New Jersey", to which the audience booed (the show was filmed in New York). Fear then played "Beef Bologna", "New York's Alright If You Like Saxophones", and started to play "Let's Have a War" when the audio and video of the telecast faded into commercial.

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These guys were a staple on the great, great early '80s L.A. show New Wave Theatre. I taped some of this stuff on VHS back in the day - I have them doing "NY's Alright.." among other things. But the interview segments (with host Peter Ivers) are just nuts. Example:

 

Ivers: do you have a life philosophy?

Ving: yes, my philosophy is 'stay gay all the way'.

Ivers: well, it looks like you've succeeded.

 

Ivers: does God exist?

Ving : yes, God exists...but he's gay. and he's living in a Chrysler on Santa Monica Boulevard.

 

Great stuff.

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