I remember him with the lounge lizards in 81 opening the newly reformed king crimson* performance in London. The band played 5 songs and he broke a guitar string in each song. When only one string was left, he picked up a saxophone and played a short octave apart duet with the saxophonist which concluded the show. *In this very first live event, the Fripp-Belew-Levin-Bruford King Crimson line-up, played under the name ''Discipline''.
@@movimentodoscacos It was ! And the King Crimson audience were enthusiastic about it and called for an encore although they were so eager to see the legendary main band.
Whooa, this brings me back 🎸🤘youd always know DNA was playing when u saw a line of big haired blondes in leather lined up outside the club 😍😍😍 I remember one ahow Arto was so spun out he forgot the lines to Egomaniac’s Kiss and just started making out with one of the front stage groupies 🤘🤪🤘 big hair, tasty licks, and cool chicks, THAT was a DNA show 🎸😎🎸
@@corduroykumquat I would love to see exactly how Mars made all those unique soundscapes with their instruments! They are massively influential on the way I play music.
My dad just dropped a bomb on me that he once performed in a New York City underground show that opened with Glenn Branca, then my parents Synthpop group called Computone, and then headlined by DNA. Literally blew my mind.
It weird if you listen to the tension and emotion Arto gives of on those 12 strings tuned to the holy grail of skonk you will find riffs and then a complete song will emerge.
@@heaterpie1694 One thing I love about Skronk guitar (IE Aryo Lindsay, Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, Fred Frith etc.) Is how the random chance improvisations can be pretty hyper-melodic at times. I discover some of the craziest chords and melodies by doing stuff like that!
@@iamdamosuzuki_ Absolutely! I've had a handful of people tell me that those guitarists are "way more than mere guitar skronk", but like... who said guitar skronk was ever a bad thing?
Am I the only one that is in love with the bassist and drummer?Bassist's lil dance is freaking sensational and sexy and that drummer is so goddamn robotic.!Gotta love it
Lol John Petrucci, while virtuosic only knows a few tricks and isn't capable of much experimentation. Petrucci is also not an artist in his own right outside of Dream Theater, his solo albums sound the same as DT and LTE.
"A real nugget from my favourite New York band at the time. They had sound so unique and impossible. Try a cover version of this song, I think not!" Sal P from Liquid Liquid.
Honestly I love the skronky guitar tone to bits on this version. The studio version is alright but it's mixed too quietly and all the atonality doesn't shine through
Even though i think it is good i'd like to hear exactly why you think it is good :D I'm not saying anything but there are lots of people that like to pretend they know shit even though they don't? yaknow what im sayin?
Goofmuffin Skittelicious actually a majority of the no wave scene was people seeing other bands like the Ramones and all that and wanting to play music but didn't have the experience to play. Arlo actually bought his guitar one month before starting DNA. Lydia lunch was also fairly new to music when she first started. Less of a response to new wave sucking and more of a response to people just watching bands play and basically learning by watching. But also for Arlo to learn to play the way he did it really created this brand new weird sound that wasn't heard at the time and still isn't all that much even in noise rock. His next band the lounge lizards was some of the most revolutionary avante garde jazz out there I think
The "response" was actually pre-existent to DNA and vastly superior: it's called POSTPUNK and was created by XTC, Talking Heads, B-52's, Wire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke. All these bands have made fantastic albums before the 80's. DNA were NOT precursors. They were hacks.
Lydia Lunch put it nicely. No wave is personal insanity elevated to the stage. I love No Wave because it's teaming with anxiety. With all the noise and yelps. It's cathartic.
That would be right if these people sounded genuinely "insane". But to me they don't. To me their insanity sounds fake, just a gimmick. Contrived. It's not haunted: it's merely Halloween. In the late 70s and early 80s there was far more genuine anxiety and insanity in more "disciplined" bands like the Talking Heads, King Crimson, B-52's, Sonic Youth, Adam and the Ants, Killing Joke, and above all Siouxsie & the Banshees. "No wave" was a mere novelty relying on a single-note trick (pun intended) "check us out we're unlistenable-to extremely disturbed and very special kids, we're so out there". Not different from juiceless, hypocritical punk (Sex Pistols). The fact that no wave didn't survive at all as a musical genre (unlike postpunk that still resonates today) says a lot about its merits. Want anxiety and insanity? Rather check the Residents, Current 93, Coil. Now you'd be talking. Want cathartic? Check out Dog Faced Hermans. Oh and the Banshee's "The Lord's Prayer".
The car and tv being the harlot riding the beast... camera camera everywhere... we don't mind if you wink.looking at the camera is playing the harlot. Nobody's perfect. Somewhere between passive and aggressive is ... assertive
I actually was gonna use this in a taxi scene from my original creation 24 HOUR RENTAL... but unfortunately the director didn't & Still doesn't know how to think Outta da BOX... Ahhh, Good Ole NEW YORK CITY !
This isn’t Blonde Redhead (the song, not the band obviously). The song Blonde Redhead contains a discernible “blonde redhead” in the lyrics and if I recall correctly has no semblance of rhythm like this one.
it is, just a different recording than the version on "DNA on DNA": th-cam.com/video/sRSzGbuhF0g/w-d-xo.html I can at least hear it being the same track.
I always assumed that Arto started off in standard and never really gradually just let everything get detuned. Now that I think about it though, he may have tuned to something specifically. Tell me if you ever find out, best answer I have is from this Night Music video where he shows it but it’s probably different from this song: It’s at 4:49 th-cam.com/video/ChPPW6NbsFk/w-d-xo.html
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No wave is such a splendid genre
I remember him with the lounge lizards in 81 opening the newly reformed king crimson* performance in London. The band played 5 songs and he broke a guitar string in each song. When only one string was left, he picked up a saxophone and played a short octave apart duet with the saxophonist which concluded the show.
*In this very first live event, the Fripp-Belew-Levin-Bruford King Crimson line-up, played under the name ''Discipline''.
This is the king krule wet dream right here
@@ryansanders9273 I love you
no you didnt
sounds fucking nuts! I'm envious now
@@movimentodoscacos It was ! And the King Crimson audience were enthusiastic about it and called for an encore although they were so eager to see the legendary main band.
I’ve been working towards this guitar sound for decades. Perfect
You must be REALLY bad at guitar
@@palsyddadone man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Whooa, this brings me back 🎸🤘youd always know DNA was playing when u saw a line of big haired blondes in leather lined up outside the club 😍😍😍 I remember one ahow Arto was so spun out he forgot the lines to Egomaniac’s Kiss and just started making out with one of the front stage groupies 🤘🤪🤘 big hair, tasty licks, and cool chicks, THAT was a DNA show 🎸😎🎸
This shit is fucking gold
Well I'll be damned if a band like DNA had groupies
@@kelechi_77Arto’s handsome
honestly the guitar sounds so perfect to me ! deadass !
Skronking is the best way to play the guitar!
i want to make music like this
@@elongatedborzoi1160do it!
Same here
@@iamdamosuzuki_ I'm so glad I know that term now
the king of jangly guitar
The film DOWNTOWN '81 brought me here. First time discovering NO WAVE!
My local indie theater showed it tonight! Also brought me here!
The greatest bassline of all fucking time
It's cool to see footage of one of the original no wave bands. DNA is about the only one I've found any footage of.
Jake Fettes Cool indeed. Also there's a bit of live footage of James Chance and the Contortions. Look for "Max's Kansas City (1978)".
:-)
I would nut if Mars footage existed
Wouldn't the footage of Swans count?
The Former Nihilist they are post no wave
@@corduroykumquat I would love to see exactly how Mars made all those unique soundscapes with their instruments! They are massively influential on the way I play music.
Long live No Wave!
its like the noise/avant garde ideas hendrix puts in his solos but an entire solo
Thank you! Great interpretation
My dad just dropped a bomb on me that he once performed in a New York City underground show that opened with Glenn Branca, then my parents Synthpop group called Computone, and then headlined by DNA. Literally blew my mind.
This music synthesizes what it was like to live in nyc
crazy 12 string. Arto genius.
I'm kind of worried that I actually enjoyed this. A lot.
It weird if you listen to the tension and emotion Arto gives of on those 12 strings tuned to the holy grail of skonk you will find riffs and then a complete song will emerge.
@@heaterpie1694 One thing I love about Skronk guitar (IE Aryo Lindsay, Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, Fred Frith etc.) Is how the random chance improvisations can be pretty hyper-melodic at times. I discover some of the craziest chords and melodies by doing stuff like that!
@@iamdamosuzuki_ Absolutely! I've had a handful of people tell me that those guitarists are "way more than mere guitar skronk", but like... who said guitar skronk was ever a bad thing?
I've always loved Blonde redhead's band name. Now it all makes sense lol
Saw them once at CBGBs. Still haven't figured out what I saw.
I love the static sound of the guitar
Am I the only one that is in love with the bassist and drummer?Bassist's lil dance is freaking sensational and sexy and that drummer is so goddamn robotic.!Gotta love it
Tim Wright (RIP)
@@pacu9 thanks !!!
The drummer is Ikue Mori - she joined after her boyfriend got deported from the US unexpectedly and has recorded quite a bit on her own as well.
He's way more creative than John Petrucci...
@Nur Michael shades of Blackie Lawless :)
Lol John Petrucci, while virtuosic only knows a few tricks and isn't capable of much experimentation.
Petrucci is also not an artist in his own right outside of Dream Theater, his solo albums sound the same as DT and LTE.
Why compare?
Trillions of x
Based
"A real nugget from my favourite New York band at the time. They had sound so unique and impossible. Try a cover version of this song, I think not!" Sal P from Liquid Liquid.
weird you mention that, I'm planning on doing a cover with my new band lol
yeah it would be the same thing as covering a children's drawing
I’ve been learning the baseline by ear for months just to try and cover it
If I were to make a band rn, this is most likely what we'd sound like
OTRO GENIO SUELTO INCOMPRENDIDO
Listener of the Bizarre: I could swear I had heard this before and forgotten about it so I must thank a Kim Gordon interview for reminding me. 💀🎧
Oh snap that’s Basquiat painting, gotta definitely have to watch the film this is from
Downtown '81, was watching and just realised that thats where this clip is from
best band ever!! it remains me a bit of Adrian Belew (King Crimson 80's era) sort of...(Airto's style, singing, etc)
Adrian played the guitar,hes one of the best guitarists ,this is just scratches
They toured together when Adrian was with King Crimson (Discipline, at the time).
Vivisective genius. I Love DNA!
No Wave with extraordinary music from DNA.
Honestly I love the skronky guitar tone to bits on this version. The studio version is alright but it's mixed too quietly and all the atonality doesn't shine through
Skronky 👍
Everytime i want to listen to this song this is where i come, the studio version sounds meek compared.
guy on bass is my favorite line dancer
i keep coming back to this
KING OF NOISE ARTO LINSAY ..
Makes my office hours more fun.
great music that normal people would hate
+kdt well shit. u are very right
good music for normal people
you're not quirky because you like something other people think is "cool" - this shit is hella gay
normal music for regular people
@@cleesely who made you god to say?
I was about ready to spam the "skip ad" button at the beginning of the video
Beautifully bonkers
te quiero mucho no wave
And who's the man with the steady hand on the spray can !?!?
Yes it is !!!
NICK MARDEN watch downtown 81! about basquiat. that’s where this’s from
This song was a big hit in Denmark.
I love it when people talk about how horrible music like this is.
Even though i think it is good i'd like to hear exactly why you think it is good :D I'm not saying anything but there are lots of people that like to pretend they know shit even though they don't? yaknow what im sayin?
Goofmuffin Skittelicious actually a majority of the no wave scene was people seeing other bands like the Ramones and all that and wanting to play music but didn't have the experience to play.
Arlo actually bought his guitar one month before starting DNA. Lydia lunch was also fairly new to music when she first started. Less of a response to new wave sucking and more of a response to people just watching bands play and basically learning by watching.
But also for Arlo to learn to play the way he did it really created this brand new weird sound that wasn't heard at the time and still isn't all that much even in noise rock. His next band the lounge lizards was some of the most revolutionary avante garde jazz out there I think
The "response" was actually pre-existent to DNA and vastly superior:
it's called POSTPUNK and was created by XTC, Talking Heads, B-52's,
Wire, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Killing Joke. All these bands have made fantastic albums before the 80's. DNA were NOT precursors. They were hacks.
Lydia Lunch put it nicely. No wave is personal insanity elevated to the stage. I love No Wave because it's teaming with anxiety. With all the noise and yelps. It's cathartic.
That would be right if these people sounded genuinely "insane". But to me they don't. To me their insanity sounds fake, just a gimmick. Contrived. It's not haunted: it's merely Halloween. In the late 70s and early 80s there was far more genuine anxiety and insanity in more "disciplined" bands like the Talking Heads, King Crimson, B-52's, Sonic Youth, Adam and the Ants, Killing Joke, and above all Siouxsie & the Banshees. "No wave" was a mere novelty relying on a single-note trick (pun intended) "check us out we're unlistenable-to extremely disturbed and very special kids, we're so out there". Not different from juiceless, hypocritical punk (Sex Pistols). The fact that no wave didn't survive at all as a musical genre (unlike postpunk that still resonates today) says a lot about its merits. Want anxiety and insanity? Rather check the Residents, Current 93, Coil. Now you'd be talking. Want cathartic? Check out Dog Faced Hermans. Oh and the Banshee's "The Lord's Prayer".
I love this song.
Wow its been a minute since i heard this, amazing!
I love that 12-string noise
I have probably seen this video 5 or six times today. Fucking amazing.
The car and tv being the harlot riding the beast... camera camera everywhere... we don't mind if you wink.looking at the camera is playing the harlot. Nobody's perfect. Somewhere between passive and aggressive is ... assertive
Catchy tune 🎶 I find myself singing it in the shower 🎶
Very cool! - Selina
Amazing! never heard about this film before. Awesome performance.
Former bass player for Pere Ubu, right?
Yep. Tim Wright. He passed away a couple of years ago, sadly.
R.I.P. Tim Wright
I hear Taylor Swift's doing a version of this.
And that's when the scene is dead
That's impossible, thank God
he went for one guitar lesson and teacher said "you're good to go...u have the A minor scale memorized"
he never went back
I would say most definitely he doesn’t even have a minor memorized. That’s not what his playing’s about
I actually was gonna use this in a taxi scene from my original creation 24 HOUR RENTAL... but unfortunately the director didn't & Still doesn't know how to think Outta da BOX... Ahhh, Good Ole NEW YORK CITY !
Pre sonic youth!
I mean ofcourse, we had the velvet underground, weve heard talking heads, joy division, the birthday party.
This is music to my ears
PHENOMENAL
amazing
i hate that I love this
I put a thumbs up just because I can! Lol
This is good! Shellac compared is a christian pop band!
so good!!
I can only find the shreds version. can someone show me where to find the original?
"Yhea, I can listen to every music genre"
yes
Ok, Thanks. I'll check the movie out.
in tune
They were the OG punks
did this go viral somewhere why the hate
Bassist is on something else but I don’t even know what
Growing up in 60s-70s Cleveland does that to ya
Ubu right
@@adderon Yeah he was also in Pere Ubu for their first few years if I’m correct
Does anyone know what bass Tim is playing?
Looks like a Fender Jazz bass.
los inicios del noisegrind
This isn’t Blonde Redhead (the song, not the band obviously). The song Blonde Redhead contains a discernible “blonde redhead” in the lyrics and if I recall correctly has no semblance of rhythm like this one.
it is, just a different recording than the version on
"DNA on DNA": th-cam.com/video/sRSzGbuhF0g/w-d-xo.html
I can at least hear it being the same track.
0:46
When did Bernie Getz start a band?
Awesomeness ❤️😎
Yep, that was him. He stars the movie.
brilliance over dogma. dogma being 1970's corporate .... r,n,r.............
Ah, so THIS is what Pylon sounded like before they learned how to play...
what the actual fuck. I have to learn those basslines.
Is that basquiat tagging?
Yep
It's from a movie called Downtown 81
seen live in 79
my dna
Grimes - Swan Song
Any covers of this? XD
th-cam.com/video/QAtQVzEPd5A/w-d-xo.html
music radar clan
raider klan
what's that 12 string guitar he's playing?
looks like a 60s danelectro dane to me
ahh, so that's where the band Blonde Redhead got their name
This sounds like shit. I love it
OMGGG SWAN SONG by grimes is based in the drum beat
anyone can give me the tuning?
I always assumed that Arto started off in standard and never really gradually just let everything get detuned. Now that I think about it though, he may have tuned to something specifically. Tell me if you ever find out, best answer I have is from this Night Music video where he shows it but it’s probably different from this song:
It’s at 4:49
th-cam.com/video/ChPPW6NbsFk/w-d-xo.html
Came from Pere Ubu
yes,we KANT,skippeR heAd!!!
Dance with me ...uhh!
GLENN BRANCA RIP
RIP Tim! Was that Basquiat?
Yup .
Nice hand with the can eh ?
if you don't like this,
you hate music.
There's a MAD song about that .
better than slint... plus you get the glimpse of some basquiat... what's not to like???
Legit
Foda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone named Dick doesn't deserve 1:38 of their life back.
👍