In '83 I had lent my new copy of Back from Samoa to my neighbor. Their house caught fire from a BBQ incident. When my Mom called me to see I immediately ran into the blaze to save my record. I thought I was brave and daring. I was 13. I had to go to counselling after this. Still worth it. What a band. What a time.

The greatest and most underrated punk band ever.

jeez. this is what it is all about. no fun, no money, nothing but the music that you have to play.

Someone spraypainted ANGRY SAMOANS on the wall at Pleasure Point in Santa Cruz, CA back in '83. Some DJ at KFJC played Steak Knife over and over for like 2 hours. They were not just a band, they were an institution to us kiddos.

One of the best U S punk bands from the 80's scene.

Bill Vockeroth is a SICK drummer

One of the VERY best bands ever!

Vocal wise Mike's totally on top here...doing his own thing all the time-but when it's needed he's really singing...great!

I remember the first time I heard Angry Samoans on cassette tape, and I live in southcentral Ontario in Canada, and this was back in the mid 80s. Love this band, and to think - they reached us and we didn't even have the Internet then. Great music, great memories.

Fantastic American punk band. I have it all on vinyl.

ill do it. 00:00 Haizmans Brain is Calling (oh my god!) 02:20 I Wanna Be Yer Dog (Stooges--guest vocals) 04:30 Metal Mike Soliloquy 04:55 My Old Man's A Fatso 07:45 Steak Knife 08:45 Right Side of My Mind 10:15 You Stupid Asshole 12:10 Haizman's Brain Is Calling (again) 14:30 Homosexual 15:35 Pictures of Matchstickmen (Status Quo) 16:28 You Stupid Jerk 16:58 Tuna Taco 17:38 Inside My Brain metal mike -vocals gregg turner-sg guitar,vocals pj galligan - stun guitar todd homer -bass bill v. - fuckin' drums

These guys were the best. We used to party and listen to this album all the time. Back when there was still good music.

I am surprised how many people know of this band- this video is raw and hilarious - this epidermises the punk scene

I have a cassette tape of Return to Samoa (live, rarities, outtakes) and it's one of my most prized possessions.

PJ Galligan, Todd Homer, Metal Mike, Bill Vockeroth, Gregg Turner. Love you guys forvever

Saw them at Cal State Fullerton in my history of rock music class...

Metalmike, don't think u didn't reach an audience, I grew up in Virginia beach, Va in 1982 and u were our heroes at age 13 and still love it at age 43.

Oh yeah. Something I love to do: break the ice on a monster. Straight out of L.A. and coming at you full force. A blistering live set I never knew existed from one of the very greatest punk/hardcore bands, The Angry Samoans. Here they're playing mostly songs from the their first 2 classic albums, Inside My Brain e.p. (1980) and Back From Samoa lp (1982). Tremendous musicianship, funny, wise ass songs (that hide real intelligence) and a wonderful guitar sound that was unique. Punk heaven here!

In case anyone is curious as to why about the last third of this video there is a very different approach to the videotaping of this performance. The reason is because starting with the 2nd time Haizman's Brain was played the late David Jove (of New Wave Theatre fame) ripped the video camera off the tripod and out of the hands of the Samoans manager and videotaped this performance in his own very unique guerilla style of videotaping a band.

Loved them as a teenager… Saw them at Burger Boogaloo a few years ago😂 killer band

Fucking love this. I emailed Greg while I was in college in the late 90's. He actually replied super nice guy.

I was PJ Galligans buddy and hung out with the Samoans at bluffside and The practice place next to Hollywood High...gigs at Madame wongs and Club 88...there when they wrote the songs on inside my brain and Samoa...GOOD TIMES !!!

the live sound is excellent, amazing footage.

They had it just right, fast but not too fast. Great tunes....

08:48 Right Side Of My Mind - My All Time Favorite Punk Rock Song

Metal Mike Saunders was nuts

This is great! Love the Samoans, man.

Just posted my annual rave about Angry Samoans and their Back From Samoa album. So how 'bout seeing a live video of them back in the day. It's a band rehearsal with a small audience in attendance. Here's what the singer Metal Mike Saunders had to say about this gig in a comment from one year ago. I think you'll find it quite informative and amusing. "Jan 1982, a private party/gig at some type of big SIR type practice room w/PA. it was basically the one 'band practice' we got to do before my (mike here) first gig back with band since july 1980. which was a Godzillas gig w/the Minutemen shortly before Godzillas closed down. the entire year of 1982 (not counting this party gig/band practice in a room big enough to be a small club) (note, Nov 1982 was the month that we released an album called Back From Samoa) we only got SIX GIGS THE ENTIRE GODDAMN YEAR like what the fuck. but places in LA were shutting down right and left, we had crap for connections in LA (and the only two "big bands" with balls enough to put us on their gigs -- via a viz the very real "Rodney blacklist" -- down around LA/OC were of course TSOL and Fear, during 1982 and 83 before the World's Worst DJ had moved on to the paisley underground bands and didn't care about punke rock anymore. but yeah, Jan 1982. two short sets more or less, with all this random stuff in the middle (that's Mike Snider, later the lead singer/bassist of the Kings of Oblivion/LA, on the really cool cover of I Wanna Be Your Dog) haha hearing this footage i notice that my stage vocals don't suck anymore (now) than they did back then. since i coughed up the $69.98 for a brand new Shure SM-57 vocal microphone (to use at live gigs for the center micronphone up front) on average i might suck even less nowadays (as a singer) ("i'm a drummer, what the fuck do i have do sing for" he said back in august 1978 when the other two "band members" had taken a unanimous vote and decided that THE BAND NEEDED TWO MORE GUYS uh so that the drummer could be "demoted" to up front as singer/guitarist booooooooo shittiest job in the world, slogging through live singing when the sound on stage usually sucks x 10, vocals hard to hear if you can hear them at all in stage monitors that usually don't work for shit)"

Fun!!! Best fun punk band of the 80’s. Love Todd still!

Most of these songs were written around the late 70s. So ahead of their time! Angry Samoans still rock my world daily. These guys make the pistols look a bit shit.

Greetings from the UK..Thanks for the vid..Seen these at the Coconut Teaszer in 1990..my Canadian friend worked at a Bookstore with i think the Bassist ..outstanding gig/band.

Best band ever!

ANGRY SAMOANS FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER

I was in the seventh grade around 1987 I think and I had an older friend who was just out of high school and was a serious punk rocker. I asked him to make me a cassette of what he thought was real good punk rock music. The first side was Back from Samoa. I wore that fucking cassette out listening to The Angry Samoans. It was kind of like that first High you find yourself chasing the rest of your life. I never found punk rock music again that I was that into.

Love these guys

We got hassled by the police out front of a Angry Samoans gig at Fenders ballroom in the 80’s the police saw the bands name on the markee and wanted to know if the band was from Samoa and if they were dangerous they seemed really scared and alarmed that there would be a riot they couldn’t handle lol 😂

damn !!! i miss the 80's and the fab mab...and the on broadway!!! are these guys still together??? sure would like to see them again...FUCK COVID19 !!!

Great stage illumination !

Its all about the celery....and the celery is perfect.

Back in the days my parents said No to punkrock. It never stopped me. I was a little metal punk kid

Magnificent

Was talking to Gregg Turner a while back,super nice guy! He told me he was influenced by Chocolate Watchband,13th Floor Elevators,etc

What a f'n treasure

total balls out fun!

RIP P.J. Galligan

I attended this ridiculous party. Everybody there seemed mentally disturbed, and many were intoxicated on god-knows-what substance(s). It must be embarrassing for all concerned that this video exists. I never felt so much at home while attending a social function. I had a very good time. My dog is white with some black spots--her name is Pinkie--she really belongs to my roommates. (bark!)

7:03 Those screams. 😂 9:46 😂

Sweet!

man, angry samoans live!!!

Epic.

Be there! No, you be there!…

I could SWEAR I recall some of these guys… (headscratch) "Plus ça change, plus c' est la même chose…"

We' re in the core of punk bro!

Stoked

my gawd were those the best days ever?""""

Oh my Gott very old stuff

i just found this a few weeks ago i plwy it every day driving to work i love it. hes got a bathtub for a mouth. hitler cock funny lyrics . i also got into dayglo abortions feed us a fetus album

RIP P.J. !

groovy stuff

HISTORY.

Went to see them in Detroit. They didn't make it. Van problems stranded them in Minnesota or Wisconsin. Never got a second chance. My greatest regret is never seeing the Samoans.

Best punk band ever

Seeing them the 19th. Super

Shoutout Mr Gregg

Mike Synder!!

I have gotten some kind of privacy bullshit saying there is a complaint on this video.It may end up being taken down because of a complaint.There is no additional info.

thats a hamms beer! i know cuz im drinking one also

AAHHHH AHHHH! IT'S THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY BRAIN ? ?

friend named General job and he was the nicest person I have been back in the day when I was a kid going to punk shows roll with him Frankie and Marcos and guys Soul sometimes I miss us guys but that's how it goes I guess for John I guess he got fed up yeah they say that he threw a cop off the top of it Pier something they would have shot him too the band's name Circle wine and his name was John Cena's metal Pico Pica Pico Rivera General John rest in peace brother that's cool thing was I got to see every man there was from Angry Samoans to you and say to shattered Faith Christian death the Vandals I can't even think of most jfa I like lowrider and have to let them right now God bless you all !!!! =)>

is that Daniel Johnston singing i want to be your dog?

XOXO!!!

No phucks given. 👍

LEGIT

😍

This is why I use KZfaq.

tone sounds alot like gg allin. pretty cool

There's like... 6 ppl there tops, isn't there... 😂

Starts At 4:47 the pink floyd joke Can somebody please write in the comments ??

who is haizman lol

Im lost they canged singers like two times

is that eric forman on vocals?

yes yes yes yours is worthy, theirs is not!

Yo, is that really Iggy doing "Wanna...dog"?

who playin bass there? mikes brother?

It’s funny to me that at one point they have three guitars lmao is that truly necessary

Rodney gave this vid a thumbs down.

Fu%$?N Great

Fuck Ya! I got my first taste back in the mid 80s Portland, Or. with "Back from Samoa", at the tender age of 13-14 sporting a jet black, 14" mohawk. Some bitch took my album cover I had proudly displayed and folded it in half and stuck it in her trendy handbag. I tracked her down, saw my album cover was fucked and said, "fuck it, just fuck it". Damn that pissed me off, bitch... I bought the cassette that came out after that. Still had the album though, had to share a spot with The Doors or something.

Did they ever look at the audience? It's a little disturbing...like not much confidence in them selves. ( sorry about my english)

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ja. da musste die ki schon mal einen winzigen moment, aber hier und heute, ist dieses wo0hl kaum noch völlig echt....-uuh vielleicht denn doch, weil i set on my mind...

Anyone else catch this? (15:18) "Homo-Sexual! Darby Crash!"

This is pure génies shit

Much better than Ramones!

This is before Metal Mike was strung out on Heroin.

East Coast Punk and British Punk is good. West Coast Punk is better

Last time i saw metal mike he was a tweaker obsessed with pop culture selling britney spears trading cards and lady gaga bubble gum at swap meets

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This was smashing music, not fucking hip hop!

love this band but wish the lyricists weren't such homophobes