Live Skull - 1986 - CBGB

Often noisy with peaks of audio power/dissonance
paired alongside
valleys of subtler, melancholy laced interludes;
New York City's  
Live Skull
are captured below on July 1986 playing
NYCs legendary venue CBGB.

Filmed by Greg Fasolino.

Voivod - 1986 - The Ritz, NYC

photo © 1986 Ronald Mc Gregor
Presented below is some nth generation video of French Canadian favorite Voivod's first U.S. show at NYC's The Ritz back in 1986 opening for Cro-Mags and Venom. I have been digging on the Voivod concept, artwork (executed by drummer Away) and sound since first hearing them back in 1986/87. Their live shows were/are always a superb showcase for bringing their "cosmic drama" to the masses.

This footage displays the band taking things from a somewhat more conventional extreme heavy metal milieu (Venom, Motorhead, etc.) into a bit more progressive, thrash centric and more hardcore punk influenced realm. As always, Piggy's guitar transcends the norm with a powerfully unique resonance. He may be gone, but the music he helped create continues.

1 of 5
1. Thrashing Rage
2. Warriors of Ice

2 of 5
3. Korgüll The Exterminator
4. Fuck Off & Die


3 of 5
5. Live for Violence
6. Order of the Blackguards

4 of 5
7. Nuclear War


5 of 5
8. Voivod

Butthole Surfers ...Witness - 1986 - NYC

Recently unearthed, this showcases a performance
from an infamous gig at New York City's
Danceteria, 1986. The story goes that portions
of this footage were used in MTV's 120 Minutes
X-Ray segment on the Butthole Surfers
that aired 31 May 1987.
Happening to hear compilation track
"The Legless Eye" as the audio
towards the end of the clip.







Thanx to bleetingham for posting this on Youtube.