Down from the Mountain!

Green On Red - Live at CBGB's, New York, NY (12/10/83) Part 1
Green On Red - Live at CBGB's, New York, NY (12/10/83) Part 2

Green On Red - Live at Glastonbury, UK (6/21/85) Part 1
Green On Red - Live at Glastonbury, UK (6/21/85) Part 2

I'm too nice to you guys. Charlton Heston is dead and I can't think of anything better to do than give you damn dirty apes TWO Green On Red shows in one day? What would Moses do!?!


It must be the grief. You'll have to excuse me. Shit.

Personal Musical History Endnote: First live band I ever saw was a bunch of grade school kids playing 50s rock 'n' roll covers in the local elementary school gym - "Splish splash I was taking a bath!" I wasn't even five years old. They were all dressed in perfect homemade replica costumes, down to the masks, of the gorilla soldiers from Planet of the Apes. I think I was permanently screwed from that moment on. Could a concert ever be better?

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Re-Runs Already

Green On Red - Live at Glastonbury, UK (6/22/85)

What a funny little picture of Green On Red, eh? Awwww. They look so cute! How do they hold those big guitars in their little itty-bitty hands? I dunno, I just dunno.

You lucky childrens, to quote our beloved President (who evidently watches too much South Park), you all get a treat today for being so good in class this week. Two posts in one day! And neither one of them about boring old Barack Obama, who you should really vote for if you care about the future of this country and want to save the world and feel good about yourself and be able to dance on Ellen because he has promised that every American will have "The Chance to Dance!" if he is elected President. So vote, ya knuckleheads! See, nothing political in this post.

Sending You a Postcard

Green On Red - Live at Zeche, Bochum, Germany (10-4-1985) Part 1
Green On Red - Live at Zeche, Bochum, Germany (10-4-1985) Part 2

Yowza! I still get goosebumps when I listen to Green on Red - great hackleberry sized buboes all over my body that itch and swell and eventually explode in glorious Technicolor. No, wait, that's the Plague.

Okay. There are bands that define moments in the pop culture zeitgeist and Green on Red were one of them. The early 80s actually had quite a few bands like this, but GoR did it best. They put a whole bunch of stuff together - garage, punk, psychedelia, country, blues and old fashioned rock 'n' roll - and created a pure beast from it, a slouching, lumbering, screaming drunk of a beast but pure nonetheless.

From the first moment I saw the cover of Gas, Food, Lodging I knew something special had been achieved. That record just FELT right! And LOOKED right! And, boy, did it SOUND right! Still does. And this live recording (transferred from a vinyl bootleg, I think) is a near-perfect summing up of GoR from that time. Listen to the album and listen to this live show back-to-back, it'll do ya good.

Oh, yeah - go buy their shit!