Thursday 9 November 2017

The Throwback Thursdays Retro Video Project Pres; Destroy All Monsters pt.1

Another in my Throwback Thursdays Retro Video Project. This week; Destroy All Monsters.
Possibly the first American Industrial band, Destroy All Monsters were formed in Detroit in 1974 as an experimental performance art/noise band making numerous recordings (mostly crude instrumentals) but had few actual releases until 1977 by which time most of the original members had left and been replaced with Ron Asheton (ex Stooges and Micheal Davis (ex MC5) who turned the group into a more conventional punk band. This latter version of the band is better known, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore oversaw a three CD box set which included most of the original band's work. Given the band's obscurity it's probably safe to say my videos are the only ones.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS ~ "CHURCH";


This track uses a snippet of footage of an American TV play from the mid-1930's. Almost no TV footage exists from this era and this footage was shot by somebody aiming a home movie camera at a TV screen. Little is known about the actual show.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS ~ "CONGA";


This track uses newsreel footage from the 1904 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS ~ "CRUNCH DRONE";


For this track I used a 1909 film "Airship Destroyer".

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS ~ "SPACE BEAT";


This video uses a short abstract art film by Robert Breer from 1970.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS ~ "THRONE OF CHAOS";


This one uses another Robert Breer film, "Eyewash" from 1959.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS ~ "IT HURTS ME";


This one uses a 1900 Edison Studios film "Faust & Margarite", one of the first films to have a supernatural/horror theme.

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