Product: Flipper: Live - Target Video 1980-1981 (2008)
Rating: 5.0
I believe I already reviewed this product when I first received it, but oh well what the heck, I'll review it again
Flipper is Cool! Back in the day when rock and roll was dying again, Patti Smith saved it. The Ramones were like Chuck Berry and the Beach Boys on speed. The Sex Pistols turned everything upside down. Then came Flipper. And you had a meddling of all three into one. Of course, PIL (Johnny Rotten after the Pistols disbanded) was already meddling disco into punk, basically the way the Clash did with Reggae, and somehow Flipper never went beyond their initial outings. But who really cared! They were great!!! I remember seeing them all the time in San Francisco, even at Bill Graham's old Fillmore ballroom, where they used to make fun of the hippies and then turn around and call themselves the "Grateful Dead of Punk" because some of their songs were so long and Ted used to grind away on his guitar like Jerry Garcia on a good night playing "Dark Star" or "The Other One" or during a "Space" segment of their latter shows or going farther back during a "Feedback" segment of their earlier shows. This video doesn't really "capture" the true spirit of Flipper (the Kesar portion is much better though) because the amps aren't turned up HIGH to really hear Ted go at it. He's sort of background in an attempt to make everything seem like whoever recorded these videos was giving everyone a piece of the pie. But that wasn't really the way it was. Not by any means! Sometimes Ted was all you heard. And that's the way I liked it. un hun un hun.