Once a screamers fan always a screamers fan ✊

I love the screamers!

I was lucky enough to see the Screamers at a club in San Diego called Abbey Road in the summer of '78. Gary Myrick and The Figures was the warmup. I remember a guy was walking a blonde with a dog leash. She was wearing boots, gem-studded leather garters and a bustier. Saw the Screamers a year later in L.A., but I can't remember the venue. I love their sound. I love the urgent sound. So original.

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I come here frequently. Absloutely one of the best live performances ever. Glad this was caught on film.

They were never about to kill any hostages anyway, they tried to free the red army fraction prisoners and they themselves said that they don't want any civilians killed in solidarity actions with them.

WOW....I never knew that....thanx for that.....I did have the pleasure of seeing them nce at the Masque

They must have been quiet then

spice is the variety of life!

How often did he scream at you to be quiet or be killed?

@@adhhxgxhhg you better shut up and paint

Art is subjective, I quite enjoy his paintings! @@Soundeagle3456

Art is not subjective, that’s the biggest cop out modernity has to offer. If art is subjective, then art has no value. How does one become a teacher? How does one choose the curriculum to teach students if it is completely subjective? Do the students decide or does the teacher? Beauty is a binary, without ugliness then beauty does not exist as then everything is denigrated down to the lowest form. As such, is everything and everyone beautiful as well? Your open mind has created a metaphysical prison for everyone to operate within by force, thanks for that there Mary.

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I’m starting to make synth punk

with the new Devo-esque, egg-punk wave of bands that´s hittin everywhere I dunno if this statement is still valid

you have to check out gee tee one of the best bands rn. also satanic togas and cherry cheeks and snooper and prison affair and research reactor corps

@@park7854 Have listened to them all my friend. Also went to a Prison affair gig last month, got super bored, everything seemed the same. Check Finale from Valencia

Luiz Claudio Thanks!

Thanks I love this song

Thanks!

Like first, punk rock shit

Matt·Dylan Islamists gonna Islam.

Still doing it? :D

@@snc9297 I know I am

I blew up tomatos face in full color on good quality cardboard, laminated it and it hangs on my medicine cabinet mirror so I wake up to Tomato every morning instead of me.

@@billyodamit8062 damn dude, sounds like some shit I'd do too. Tomata was the shit.

Wow! What a show!

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@@toneyrush49 that's the live at the man show from 1978 .look for an annoyed Jello Biafra getting on stage in a striped shirt during the 2nd song, vertigo Footage of the screamers from the whisky in b+w video exists along with the dull population one outtake footage. Asmall amount of footage from the masque exists and is a treat as you see a who's who of first wave LA punk!

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Lotto Ball of The Phantom Limbs (and several other projects) ALWAYS stayed in character on stage too. Saw them live about 200 times between 1999 - 2008 or so. The Phantom Limbs were probably the most Screamers influenced band I've ever heard.

Same here! My jaw fucking dropped listening to this!

Hail Yourself!

Thanks to the internet for exposing us to these artists. Born in the right generation lol

Same here. Same exact here!

Yea! It's not about having some expensive Les Paul's or martins! It's about having two 1000$ oberheims....right?

i always wish there were more recordings, live or not.

They believed the future was video so recorded and sold videos on Beta cassettes rather than LP or tapes so there is very little of them. They were really influential in SoCal but outside of that they didn't catch on partly because of the Beta tape thing.

KR T Mabey someone'll find one of them, and work out a way to release it on modern formats.

Anything is possible but they are pretty unknown, their existing recordings are poor quality and to be honest 122 hours is the only great song. Maybe someone will put a documentary together.

Maybe it's just me but I have been going to punk shows since 1987 and toured with punk bands 1996 to 2008. I had seen the logo but didn't actually hear The Screams until a few years ago while in the west coast on a t.v. at a small Chinese restaurant next to a punk club. Kids that grew up with youtube, cd burners and bands like Green Day may not understand but real Punk has always been really regional, spread on copied cassette tapes. An LA band that doesn't tour and put out their stuff only on Beta tape is harder to share.

No, they never released anything because in addition to being total control freaks.. they wanted to do a video album .and MTV was still 5 years away. They cut some demo recordings but I'm glad in a way because I like the screamers like my heroin .. raw and uncut!

I grew up in Orange County and worked with a lot of punk bands doing road work, TSOL, The Crowd, Manic Hispanic and The Cadillac Tramps to name a few, and it is crazy how many times I have had my favorite bands tell me this is their favorite band. You hear the term a comedians comedian or a musicians musician, in that same respect I feel like Tomata and Screamers are the punk rockers punk rock.

+gasmaskboi19371945 Trivia- both Kira Roessler and Screamers drummer KK Barrett were nominated for Academy Awards (Kira won, of course)

+gasmaskboi19371945 There is a graphic out on the internet that shows how connected all the early LA punk bands were...

More Trivia: Kira also played a bass duo with her then husband Mike Watt from Minutemen.

+Pedro Padron She even kept on doing it after their divorce. And some of the stuff they did together got turned into Minutemen songs

Which keyboard player? Un, deux.

thats h9ow it is

+Joey Whiteside Right? I was too young when these guys were playing but never heard of them until recently. Fuck!

I saw them in San Diego at a club called Abbey Road in '78. I was in the Navy at the time. They were warmed up by a band called Gary Myrick and the Figures. I was just stunned by the Screamers. I saw them again in L.A. a few months later. I had a really cool Screamers show poster (with a cartoon graphic of Tomata's head, screaming) that I kept for 3 or 4 years and gave it to a friend. Wish I'd kept it.

+Shoot First Man, that's cool, I think I know what poster your talking about. I am still happy my dad introduced me to them.

+Lance Goodthrust Man, I wasn't even born. But seriously, screamers are the best.

Joey Whiteside Yeah, its good stuff and lasts for a reason. There's a certain scratchy authenticity to it that a lot of bands will never capture. I started to going to high school when Nirvana was the thing. (Personally, I thought they were overrated lol. ) But groups like Dead Kennedys and such never really made it into the mainstream. Which I actually love. To listen to the Screamers and be a small handful who knows about them? It feels like I'm in a special club or something. But I love to see a friend of mines face when they hear for the first time and ask in a good way "Who are these guys?"

They are the absolute definition of Unique. No other band even comes close.

anonymousDerp 2 synths and drums. that's it

A compelling, unsettling front man and a video that could be filmed in his padded cell....

anonymousDerp - You got it right. The Screamers were the unsung heroes of first-wave West Coast punk. They never released any albums, ep’s, or singles (besides posthumous bootlegs), yet they influenced SO MUCH of what came later. Another early West Coast punk band that had a similar “special quality” was the Sleepers from San Francisco. Check them out if you haven’t already. Their singer Ricky Williams was a true original. He also played drums in CRIME and was the original singer for Flipper (he came up with their name), though he was kicked out of Flipper for being “too weird”. Being too weird for Flipper has got to be like some lifetime achievement.

They influenced so many bands to come later.

+oxrjbizzle1984y The band Suicide were playing protopunk with keybords back in the late 70's. Look up Suicide - Suicide 1977 .

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IAN m True, although the major diffrences between *Vega, and **Tomata's vocals really help set the 2 bands apart stylisticaly. *The lead singer of Suicide **The lead of The Screamers

The Screamers were 1975-1981. Suicide predates them but they were most active around the same time.

Same haha!

Eh punk was more like the damned or the weirdos. The screamers were a synth punk band. They were post punk long before it was cool!. This band literally started off the "Goth Genre" in my opinion.

Anonymous Duckling - What? If any one band was responsible for inventing Goth, it was The Damned! Maybe Siouxsie and Joy Division too, but The Screamers? I don’t see any connection to goth whatsoever. This was considered PUNK at the time... not “synth punk”. In the early days, punk didn’t have any rules, other than ‘anything goes’ and not going for some tired commercial sound/image. Bands like Screamers, Weirdos, Germs, Dickies, Bags, Black Randy & The Metrosquad, Controllers, and X all co-existed together in the same tight little scene as punk bands... even though they all sounded and looked different from each other. Things got a bit more codified a few years later when hardcore took over, but in the context of the era in which the Screamers existed, this was just straight-up punk.

@@Brewzerr I get what you're saying mate. The Damned were the first goth band. However, if this song existed in the 80s, it would simply be a goth song(post punk). I don't pay attention to at what generation the song was released in. I pay attention to the atmosphere and the composition it gives out. There's a band called xmal Deutschland yeah?. They have a song called "Mondlicht" and it sounds identical to this song you're listening to. That was the point I was sending across.

@@Brewzerr Also, the screamers were synth punk as they had synthesizers instead of guitars.

Anonymous Duckling - Ok, but you’re still missing the point... which is that NO ONE was calling this “synth punk” when it was happening. It was just PUNK. Labels like “synth punk” didn’t start getting tossed around until long after punk had splintered into a million different categories. I mean yes, obviously they used keyboards instead of traditional guitars and bass, and that was what set them apart from other punk bands, but they still shared much more in common with bands like the Weirdos and the Bags than they did with other then well known all synth bands such as Kraftwerk. In those early days of punk, attitude was everything.... and few bands had as much punk attitude as the Screamers.

Nice profile picture, is that one of the guys from She Past Away?

S.C.R.E.A.M.E.R.S

Kinda rad decade if this video is any indication :)

Yeah, I seriously doubt that.

Mistah D as much as I want to agree, id say Spain and England were more prolific during those years,

Punk died in 82.

Bwaaaahahahaha!

I was there! I printed their flyers in 1977 while living in Hollywood. Tomata picked up his printing in Hollywood in his underwear. WOW WHAT A SHOW!

Кстати, первый альбом The Horrors это чистая калька со Скримерс и этой песни в частности

Ah! The healing power of music!

It will come back