We join the action here in nutsille USA, and we're greeted with an opening scene of live-on-stage antics from TED "look at me, I'm mad" NUGEBNT, Tommy Shaw (guitar vocals), along with Jack Blades (bass, vocals), and Michael Cartellone (skin masher and cymbal reshaper). Yep, it's them DAMN YANKEES.
When I first put this into the old black box, it came across as more of a vehicle for Ted's ego. What, with him shooting real life cardboard cutouts on stage and doing various poses that leave you wondering if he's for real. But as it progresses, it gets better.
And it's straight from live shots into the video version of "Come Again," which happens to be a darn good song, plus there are some interesting shots taken from behind the sound hole of an acoustic guitar and from the back of a Perspex fret board, as the "mad one" throttles solo out of his fiddle.
Now, if you've ever wondered what it's like to be inside a recording studio, well, now is your chance to find out. This time the song is "High Enough" (yes, thanks), and the scene skips from studio to video and then back again...
This goes on for a couple of turns, making me feel quite sick because everything else in the room was moving as well. But we are swiftly transported to where they shot the movie of the song, and we meet stupid neighbours who don't mind if their neighbourhood is blowing to pieces. Then some sweet girl sticks her face in the camera to complain that Ted (remember him?) is too mellow. She wanted to see a mad person (well, honey, kick him in the nuts!). Honestly, some people.
Oh no! Teddy has come bursting through the door in a real imitation zebra skin cape, wielding his guitar in a fit of guitar wielding thingy stuff. Zap, and then we're back in the studio for a second, then it's over to a dead stupid presenter on MTV's Unplugged (he should be).
"Hi guys," says Mr Silly with a dumb grin on his face. But, to cut a long story short, we are presented with "Coming of Age" (unplugged, of course). Much laughing and cheering ensues among twingy twangy sounds.
Then we're backstage before a show with custard pies flying at Thomas Shaw.
Up onto the stage: Ted "I've lost my head" insults someone in the crowd. Straight back downstairs for the wind-down. and then a nifty bit of editing drops us in the front row for "Coming of Age" in super cinema scope. Flippin' Nora, I'm knackered! Good vid though.
Peter Grant
Riff Raff
October 1991
Now, if you've ever wondered what it's like to be inside a recording studio, well, now is your chance to find out. This time the song is "High Enough" (yes, thanks), and the scene skips from studio to video and then back again...
This goes on for a couple of turns, making me feel quite sick because everything else in the room was moving as well. But we are swiftly transported to where they shot the movie of the song, and we meet stupid neighbours who don't mind if their neighbourhood is blowing to pieces. Then some sweet girl sticks her face in the camera to complain that Ted (remember him?) is too mellow. She wanted to see a mad person (well, honey, kick him in the nuts!). Honestly, some people.
Oh no! Teddy has come bursting through the door in a real imitation zebra skin cape, wielding his guitar in a fit of guitar wielding thingy stuff. Zap, and then we're back in the studio for a second, then it's over to a dead stupid presenter on MTV's Unplugged (he should be).
"Hi guys," says Mr Silly with a dumb grin on his face. But, to cut a long story short, we are presented with "Coming of Age" (unplugged, of course). Much laughing and cheering ensues among twingy twangy sounds.
Then we're backstage before a show with custard pies flying at Thomas Shaw.
Up onto the stage: Ted "I've lost my head" insults someone in the crowd. Straight back downstairs for the wind-down. and then a nifty bit of editing drops us in the front row for "Coming of Age" in super cinema scope. Flippin' Nora, I'm knackered! Good vid though.
Peter Grant
Riff Raff
October 1991
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