Bush Tetras - Too Many Creeps

[edkollin]

Don't know what possessed me to play this video today but finding out this news is is a shocker. Cliche but don't know what else to say but thanks for the memories and this song one of my all time favorites and the story of most our lives.

[stiffspiff]

Laura was a great friend of mine and I am so fucking glad I got to know her. She is hands down the coolest person I've ever met.

[jennydevildoll156]

Laura Kennedy R.I.P.

[landonewts]

I always loved this song, and this band. since I spun their 45s at a gay bar in the 80s. Never saw the video until today. R.I.P., Laura Kennedy.

[annuhhhz]

love ya LK

[arthurpotato]

Wow! I forgot what the old neighborhood looked like back then.

[oogie11]

Just heard that Laura Kennedy passed away recently, very sad to hear :(

[mulciberus]

Rest in peace, Laura Kennedy. XO

[jeffwhimpey]

R.I.P. Laura Kennedy!!!

[deetheas]

Laura Kennedy RIP 11/14/2011

[josephmarshall]

Rest in peace Laura.xx

[lextual]

Used to see Pat Place walking around the Village in NYC all the time back in those heady, halcyon days.

[cekadah]

spy sunglasses - the sidewalk - watch it later

[johnnorfolk]

anybody know what this was shot on? Video?

[psychicguitar]

the people in this video all look like serial killers.

[gcresap]

I saw these guys back in the day in NYC. Love their sound.

[garbadgegrrrl]

a guy at a bus stop introduced me to this band

[donaldnewmanmedone]

Sure does bring to mind "Gang of Four". Respect from Michigan.

[xPsuedo]

@Raymantico

be quiet.

[JOMMGMT]

MOOT's first song was called "bush tetra song" inspired by bush tetras!

(MOOT 1981 - 1984)

myspace mootnyc

[bobakerone]

there is a cool bar in americus, ga called "pat's place". same town as jimmy carter lives in.

[CosmoCoProductions]

I had dinner with Dee, the drummer, with a bunch of friends of friends three days ago.

[Raymantico]

sonic youth ripped off the hook "i don't wanna"

[avisualfeel]

Now I know why there are no more people out on the streets anymore!!!

[bruisesandcandy]

i love these girls!

[brattycampari]

one of the best concerts i ever went to was Bush Tetras at corsica studios in elephant and castle and note worthy mentions must go to chik budo kasms and jd twitch from optimo and allez allez and promoters stop making sense and baba yagas hut there wasnt that many people there but the people who were took part ( and its all about taking part ) all took home something amazing from that night never have i see jaded fucking sceney londoners jerk around so much - top fucking drawer bush tetras!

[dwemmy]

New York was so beautifully wrecked back then...

[dobsondale]

@dwemmy well said ##!!!!!! england was too, loooooaaaads of good photography opportunities

[GoodSoulDept]

Damn... look at Pat OWN that guitar.

[venusdetroit]

I must add that Pat Place is unbelievably sexy here!!

[genglemt]

Classic! Thanks for posting!

[bobakerone]

this sounds a lot like the band Pylon from georgia. same time period. both great bands!!!

[lixie1]

OMG, the best!!!

[venusdetroit]

Brilliant! My favorite of all the no wave stuff! I wish the Lower East side was still a gorgeous, urban ghost town...sigh...creativity tends to thrive in decay...

[gayandblackin1985]

all the 'cool' kids in the east end of london loose their minds when i play this track at club nites. little do they know they are the most materialistic creepiest, creepity-creepers around. how ironic. but then again everything is ironic to them.

amazing track, makes me want to take amphetamines and shout at people.  dee pop tears this one up!

[diskochimp]

Totally fucking great!! x

[lixie1]

Seminal! Love!

[Artaud1957]

Another great, great band that I never got the chance to see. But to be honest, there were so many great bands around at that time. We got spoiled, we thought it would always be that way. We really believed that a revolution had taken place in the late 1970s-early 1980s, and that the future would be very bright.

[oogie11]

@Artaud1957 I understand what you mean...those bands during late 70s and early 80s were sublime...my favourites at that time were Gang of Four and XTC...mind you, I wasn't alive at that time, but, honestly, new music of today is awful

[lichiputo]

no wave

[fstop77]

Sounds like romeo void "borrowed" a little from these chicks. I have their the Bush Tetras ROIR cassette somewhere in my collection and the bad brains ROIR cassette too!

[lecreepycrissy]

too cute

[jackamo23]

In a sane world Bush Tetras would be bigger than Talking Heads and ten of thousands of people would begin their morning prayers to the sound of Too Many Creeps.

Like ESG & Liquid Liquid, they were far too funky and far too ahead of their time..future sounds casting their shadow back into the present....

[Enron79]

@jackamo23 Nice taste! Don't forget The Contortions.

[MrSKINFLICK]

@jackamo23: If when why what........

[pariahpete]

@jackamo23 Absolutely! Yeah.... and it's been more than a year since you posted this and maybe you're saying "whaaa!!???" I always thought the Talking Heads were boring and David Bryne a poseur. The bands like Bush Tetras were too far ahead to be palatable to most people. Here it is eons later and they still kick ass.

[gunkadin]

Pat Place hardest working guitarist in the biz.

[nuwavegurl]

This song, 'Stand Up & Fight' and 'You can''t be funky' are my favorites. Thanks for posting!

[andrearot]

this bass just le me coming and coming! GOD!!!!

[Nusidy]

Great vid!

[telharmoniumable]

looks like the Puck Building at :29

[japanster]

thanks so much for posting this

[Stigbool]

thanks to Dave Allen for turning me on to this vid. fantastic.

[beowulven]

Dave Allen is king.

[lovesGenet]

always heard about them but never herd them.Guitar like Gang of Four but vocals so different!Drums little similar!

[Mhaza]

love that song and i had that 7 inch T-T  great time thanks

[Giselle62]

my daughter's dressing a lot like this right now ---cool song. If you would have seen my boyfriends back then you would have exclaimed the same thing: "Too many creeps!"

[pglhpglh]

does anyone know what that song finishing before this is? i can't remember and its getting right on my nerves! great track though

[dvrdvr1]

KOOL KOOL KOOL

[gayandblackin1985]

the rapture/bloc party/foals/friendly fires/lcd soundsystem/test icicles et al should be paying this band royalties.

[ThomasJeromeNewton]

hmmm suddenly the rapture and LCD lost points

[babyhans]

How about another Bush Tetras/ Bad Brains/ Gang of Four show? Please come to Los Angeles!

[modeck1]

Heard 'em for the first time today (ROIR site) - great song and vid, thx for putting this up

[traecy43]

I remember hearing this first as I was shopping in the same record store as their label which was 99 records on 99 Mcdougal st.Ed played it & it was a must buy!!

[Khultan]

Creeps in the streets? What the fuck does she expect? And she's one of them....ah, I love the BTs, tho : )

[lwwatterson]

I know it pissed em off, but I always thought it was a cool Typo when the Village Voice would misprint the "Bush Treats" "Cynthia Sley can have my heart anyday!!"and I still got a Music crush on Pat Place baddAss Geetarist!!

[funknroll]

The influence on Romeo Void's "Never Say Never" and Sonic Youth's "Kool Thing" is clear as a bell.

[chicitita22]

what a good band, i wish i could find more of their music!

[hersilentface]

they rip it up! love this song!

[Raymantico]

Still got the 45...but I only play it every ten years ...like when a fellow creep visits...

[Schwejk]

Gosh! It's awfully good.

Fanx to John Peel.

[Khultan]

The 'creeps' are those who fled from the dead suburbs and invaded the cities. Nice beat though very dubious declaration.

[MrChrister84]

Can't wait to see these guys at Nick & Eddie in Minneapolis in January! So unexpected and awesome!

[Raymantico]

and yet so chagrining...because we don't look like that ...no more!

[vaspers]

l \\\ congratulations. this video was today selected by the NYC Punk Rock Evolution Foundation. way to go.

[mamatis]

So happy to hear the update on Laura...I hope she makes a quick and full recovery.

[ManilaSyndicate]

Thanks for uploading this vid. It's good to see the legacy of these obscure but interesting groups revived into the modern age.

[mcquaidbros]

the original bass player, Laura Kennedy, is my aunt and she did infact get her liver transplant this past week!!

[crabstick250]

Ya know...I adored all the Bush Tetras, but Laura Kennedy was my fave Tetra back in the day. A friend just told me about the transplant need a few weeks ago, I had no idea! I wish her a speedy recovery and good health!

[seurat2]

Laura was my fave too, I was lucky to see them play a few times here in Toronto back in the day. Really glad to hear about her recovery.

[zampa111]

@mcquaidbros no fuckin way,for real....!!!!!

[MrSKINFLICK]

@mcquaidbros:

And sorry, Rammstein is and remains creepy music.....LOL

Nevertheless: Greetings to Laura ! ! ! x x x

[electroslutt]

pat place has got to be the coolest person ever to walk the earth. this song is still a dance-floor burner! timeless...

[electroslutt]

amazing!

[angelinakitty]

LOVE BUSH TETRAS SAW THEM SO MANY TIMES GREAT BAND this song has extra meaning these days thanks for posting this vid. brings back so manygreat memories pat place, Cynthia sleydeepop laura kennedy =EXCELLENT so unique

[sobieski0]

Thanks for posting.

[sobieski0]

Wowsa. Takes me back to when I was popping my fingers in lower Manhattan back in the day.....Saw these guys at the Mudd Club and remember Cynthia Sley playing a plastic toy hammer of sorts as she sang. Great band. Thanks for posting this.

[fstop77]

Wow! I remember seeing this video a long time ago on a video show called rockworld. ROMEO VOID ripped this guys off big time.

[Barbaricfellow]

Very nice to see this again after so long!

[dubuffet69]

Interesting point. I tend to agree. spent much time in nyc during late 70s early 80s and found there to be a good many

"creeps". Now NY is full of consumerist clones-. Good band though-will always favor another 99 group-ESG. By the way, is Ed Bahlman back in the states?

[ironduke2000]

Downtown NYC in the early 80s was the hippest place on the planet. And too many creeps? That's far more true of 2008, NYC or otherwise, than it was of 1982. But now the creeps are harder to spot, they're all so busy blending into each other, too scared to stick out.

We're basically living in the 50s again, except worse, and nobody seems to realize it.

Well, I guess I'll go watch American Idol now. I also love superhero movies. I'm normal, just like you. Really! Please don't hurt me.

[angelinakitty]

you are so right. totally agree. we are in a police state worse than the fifties even. yes the creeps are way worse now evil

nyc in the seventies and early eighties was

the best. glad i was there. would not live there now.

thanks for great comment.

ciao

[ObzidianButterfly]

xD!!!!

i like!!!!

[FdInDaAProd]

she teaches at my old school.

[lextalionis2001]

really nice footage of lower east side, washington square park. The song is just plain creepy

[cherdrol]

Love the Tetras and 'Creeps'! Thanks!

[muncher64]

I saw them at the Mudd Club 23 years ago. Amazing

[crabstick250]

I have been waiting 20+ years to see this song again. I just love the Tetras, When this song/video came on at The Ritz, we'd all stop dancing to watch it. I am so happy to see it again! The lyrics are still true only NYC is worse now!

[chaz9966]

They were a great NY CITY band...saw them at The Pep Lounge,Trax,Danceteria.

Yeah Romeo Void's "Might Like You Better" bass line could have been lifted from this great song?

[edhome]

thanks... we did it for about $200 and a lot of running around the city.,

[rayolacer]

dig it!!!!

[rakelpunto]

:D!!!!

[bambiniart]

yea, real cool clip. back in the day. down under somewhere... the limbo lounge. yea, right. i just love it.

[raku217]

I followed these guys around religiously in the early 80's.I'm sure there are many more of these original BT vids out there...whoever is holding on to them please POST! Mudd Club, Peppermint Lounge, Danceteria, Knitting Factory,Irving Plaza, Chase Lounge...where are they!?

[baadpuddytat]

dream triple bill: bush tetras, pylon, romeo void.

[baadpuddytat]

finding this makes me so fucking happy. dream triple bill: bush tetras, pylon and romeo void.

[ishmael39]

This the real shit......listen and learn! Check out that guitar sound.

[pete396johnson]

i remember when the tetras opened up for killing joke at the peppermint lounge back in the day i also have this song on 45 awesome

[Vash397]

I never knew this type of music existed.... Amazing!! I can't stop dancing to this song, please help me. My legs are in incredible pain but I can't stop dancing! I'll be fine

[NewWaver80014]

I don't wannnnnnnnaaaaaaaaa... stop watching this clip.

I know Cynthia & Co. weren't technically No Wave, but they've certainly got the demeanors for it, as evidenced here.

[mariomatadorkempes]

!!!

[edkollin]

Great music from the bad old days of New York. And 1982 was" relatively" good compared to the 70's and early 90's. It is amazing to me that there are people now getting into their 20's in New York who have no idea or know it from clips from "The Bronx is Burning". But they really can't know. This song besides being just great in its own right really did capture that feeling

[jimmystagger]

Thanks for putting this up, one of my all time favorites.

[iskandertime]

I never suspected that this even existed. Just awesome. Theres more rhythmic ideas in this four minutes than most bands can handle in their whole career.

[chaz9966]

Great band from the early 80's Manhattan.

Saw them many nights.

[FrankieDeeEV]

Yeah it makes me flash back to the days when you heard someone with a PR accent saying "works works" again. No, I dont wanna. When I lived down there in the late 70s early 80s it was a miracle I got out alive. Look at it now. Sheesh.

[LadyElainethewitch]

uh-huh.

[drjimmynyc]

That's it! Thanks for posting this masterpiece of NYC paranoid mentality from back in the day before Disney cleaned up Times Square and the Bowery had posh lounges, restaurants and Whole Foods on it. People always ask me what it was like in Manhattan during the heyday of CBGB's and this is it! Watch yer back.....