Jealous A Ginn

You would be really shocked at the amount of classic punk rock footage you can find on youtube, especially from the 1980's. Everything from old promos(Ex: checkout Mike Watt promoting SST Records release), rare live performances(Ex: Rollins debut concert as the singer for Black Flag), interviews, clips from films which were never released or have since been lost. It made me think about the foresight of some of the people who recorded this material, especially the live performances. Think about it, a bulk of this awesome footage of bands like Fear, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, etc, were shot by young punk rockers with very little cash in a time when cameras were still a rarity. Also, when you think about it many of these bands were just local acts made up of their friends. There was no thought that they were filming the next Hendrix or anything that would be more than a fun memory a couple of years down the line. So cheers to those brave people who brought their super 8 cameras to shows at the risk of having their stuff stolen.

In the spirit of this sharing of classic pieces of punk rock's past allow me to direct you to some of my favorite youtube rare moments.

Black Flag Live on the Damaged Tour in Philly
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6T-1TXc1nxc

Rollins' First LA Show With Flag. For more information on this gig give Rollins Grammy(as if that really meant shit) award winning book "Get In The Van" a read. To sum it up Rollins was surrounded by kids before the show and told that him that he had better be good or he would be beaten up.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ju4DBK_71JQ

Total Request Punk. Live from some kid's basement in the 80's is a brief clip in which they speak about The Misfits and play a live performance of "Skulls"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PefNnWJ6K8w


Fear on SNL. Several legendary punk rockers were at this show including members of Minor Threat and Negative Approach. In fact if you listen close enough you can hear them in the crowd. At the end of "New York's Alright If you Like Saxophones" you can hear Ian MacKaye scream "New York Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks!" in his piercing and unmistakable voice. During the same tune John Brannon of Negative Approach gets up on stage and yells "Negative Approach is going to fuck you up" Classic hardcore.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h75Db2K4NWc

Husker Du on the Joan Rivers Show?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mJ53M7zj9_M

Husker Du + The Minutemen + The Meat Puppets + Live + Early 80's = Genius
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QH-slhl-9NE

LA's first punk rock band, The Weirdos, perform live in 1978 and fucking slay
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e3fuqO1cTEI

Fear from The Decline Of Western Civilization playing the ultimate punk rock heels. The only band brave enough to step up and take a true Andy Kaufman like stand and make the audience and their reactions the true entertainment
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0s2pFo2TA-o


Fugazi destroying at an early live gig, maybe in 1987 or so because Guy wasn't playing guitar yet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJFWirQ3ks


There will surely be more to come. I hope you enjoy the clips.