@13socalmizuno You are 100% wrong. That's Patricia Morrison aka 'Pat Bag' on bass. She was later in The Gun Club, The Sisters Of Mercy & The Damned. She is also married to Dave Vanian.
alice bag band rules all of music--this is the best music since elvis--if you dont like this music your gay--hell yeah this is rock n roll at its finest
imo the most important thing is personal philosophy
early punk music was all about exploration and experimental ideas, then as punk began to get labeled as simple fast loud songs around the mid 80's bands like black flag and bad religion started to define a singular sound for punk that seemed to make everyone believe that this one spectrum of punk was the only and true sound
bands like the bags X the screamers, and the germs became unknowns while bands like offspring, green day thrived
Great song....looks rather bizarre to see the band "all dressed up", Alice looks like she was on her way to the office, well, except maybe for the hair and makeup and ATTITUDE.....cool stuff.
survive, babylonian gorgon, we dont need no english, we will bury you, tv dinner, violent girl, animal call, chainsaw, 7 and 7 is / 1,2,3 / gluttony, in love with romance, car hell, real emotions, bag bondage, disco's dead, prowlers in the night, nothing going on here
was this filmed at The Whisky or Ivar Theatre? remember all the bands that would play The Masque on any given night...RIP. gawd, to think all the punks of yore have become the hippies of today!!
Check out "the bags - best of the bags" video it has classic studio tracks from the bags, some quite rare. We Don't Need The English, Disco's Dead, We Will Bury You, and Survive are included. And see "the bags - car hell" video, it has 2 rare demo tracks.
I have vids of TSOL, FEAR, LA's Wasted Youth, Red Cross, Sin 34, The Vandals,Symbol Six,Rik L Rik, The Chiefs, 45 Grave, The Faction, D.I., The Middle Class,China White,Zero Boys,Eddie and the Subtitles,The Germs,Necros,Circle Jerks...
"punk" is much more about the message and not as much about the sound. Green Day sound "punk", but a band that sells shoes with their logo on them are not punk. I consider everything from the Velvet Undrground to Devo to Dinosaur Jr. to the Moldy Peaches to be punk not as much because they sound like the sex pistols or black flag, they dont in this case, but more cause they believe in the same things that those bands do. its more about how they think than how they dress, or even how they sound.
Sure. But "punk" is nothing but a label itself. It's all about rebellion, do it yourself attitude, and having the balls to do it no matter what forces are trying to stop you. Those values have been a part of humanity for thousands of years. The music? It's just rock and roll. Labels are vital in our consumer culture. Witout a label peple wouldn't know what to buy. That's why the media and record companies threw the word "punk" around back in the late 1970's. Label something "punk" and it...
...would sell. The "message" has always existed, it just keeps changing it's name. If a band puts their logo on a corporate shoe company's products, we can judge them however we see fit. But, it is pretty loathsome and anti-rebellion to associate with corporate entities. I have made my comments because I despise labels. But I despise the misuse of labels even more. The morons throw around terms like "proto-punk" and "hardcore" and "indie" and they have no idea what those labels refer too...
...or did refer too at one time. I also think that if you go around saying things like: "fuck labels, dude!" you are not seeing the whole picture. No matter who you are, labels have affected you at some point. You have to ask yourself seriously what those labels mean and then come to a decision. It's not that difficult. Mohawks, leather jackets, studs, spikes, and combat boots are just fashion, a uniform. Music is just music. Attitude, spirit, and integrity are the most important things.
I loved The Bags and have the Dangerhouse 7" of this song. And, of course, Patricia was the Hottest Thing Evar.
My best friend (of 30 years) once jammed in a Joy Division-esque band with Patricia, Ward, Terry and a singer during their "hiatus" from The Gun Club back around '82 or so. I was in his house on the Boardwalk in Newport Beach, and I hear this "clump, clump" down the stairs, and I'm thinking, "WTF?" Then suddenly Patricia appears around the corner ...
Pretty cool band, although the guitarist always looked a bit like a pedophile to me. Out of the Decline's line-up, though, i felt The Bags (or alice bag band) and the Circle Jerks were the worst (Penelope captured the incoming, over-hyped hardcore scene coming into the arena, and passed over The Screamers, Weirdos, and Dills, who would have been more fun to see) the Bags were the only band from the original Hollywood/LA scene that i never cared much for.
dills and screamers i think are more proto punk, weirdos are more like early hardcore, they get a one sentance mension in the american hardcore movie which pissed me off. and i like circle jerks alot, i thought that the decline was supposed to be about the hardcore scene and the just happen to have some of the leftover punk bands like germs and bags. and as far as worst you think fear's better then circle jerks?
I wouldn't say the Screamers were proto-punk... they were right along the first wave of spiked-hair art-school punks, you know? I could MAYBE see the Dills as being proto, but eh. I just thought the Circle Jerks show was a bit dull, is all... and Fear live? Hell yeah, I'd kill to have been able to see them, Circle Jerks could never match 'em live. But on a recording, I'm not as into Fear, they didn't have a good live-studio transfer, you know?
yeah everybody i know's got fear the record and i traded the not so good american beer, my only fear album is live for the record, that album's so fuckin bad ass. circle jerks flipside was bad as fuck, the drummer in that one is killer he changes up like every song to over drive. red tape, Coup Detat, back against the wall, operation, leave me alone those songs are so bad ass. hardcore skate rock classics.
the screamers were more synthpunk than anything - a term that became popularized much later and includes other CA punk bands like nervous gender and units. plus bands like suicide, black randy, human hands and the primitive calculators. but whatever. it is all punk in the end.
Proto-punk? Um, do you have any clue what the word "proto" means? I would call Iggy and the Stooges or The Ramones proto-punk bands. They are considered two of the first so called "punk" bands, the original punk gangsters, if you will. Screamers and Dils certainly were among the first punk rock and roll bands, the classic era, but proto-punk? Some more proto-punk examples include: Electric Eels, Simply Saucer, MC5, Deviants, Pink Fairies, New York Dolls, Debris, etc.
The Weirdos, hardcore? I don't think anyone ever considered The Weirdos a hardcore band, least of all themselves. Their sound, fashion, etc. is more rooted in that classic proto-punk milieu. Screamers were just an arty punk rock band that happened to use keyboards. Sure, we have to classify everything nowadays, so the kids won't panic while they shop for their CDs at Wal-Mart. "Synthpunk" is the new label for the morons, and I guess The Screamers fit well within that pigeonhole.
The Germs and The Bags are pretty hardcore, wouldn't you say? Hardcore happened when the kids decided to take punk up a notch. Black Flag, Butthole Surfers, Dicks, Big Boys, Middle Class, Minutemen, Husker Du, etc. It is only when the meatheads and jocks started to show some interest, New York hardcore comes to mind, that hardcore began to be seen as some sort of shaved head, big muscle, little brain, Nazi bullshit. That wasn't the original intention.
Joan Jett on bass!!!
13socalmizuno 8 months ago
@13socalmizuno You are 100% wrong. That's Patricia Morrison aka 'Pat Bag' on bass. She was later in The Gun Club, The Sisters Of Mercy & The Damned. She is also married to Dave Vanian.
Joan Jett played guitar & had much shorter hair.
hndsmepete 7 months ago
alice bag band rules all of music--this is the best music since elvis--if you dont like this music your gay--hell yeah this is rock n roll at its finest
gkooooz 8 months ago
hell yeah this biootch rulez.. fuck all rock and roll --bag band rulez.
gkooooz 9 months ago
The lead singer looks like a school teacher gone punk.
KathyArtist 9 months ago
MArry me alice bag
dank2791 10 months ago
@LFrontier I wish they would release the bags comp on CD!
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tonawaldschmidtnmd 1 year ago
imo the most important thing is personal philosophy
early punk music was all about exploration and experimental ideas, then as punk began to get labeled as simple fast loud songs around the mid 80's bands like black flag and bad religion started to define a singular sound for punk that seemed to make everyone believe that this one spectrum of punk was the only and true sound
bands like the bags X the screamers, and the germs became unknowns while bands like offspring, green day thrived
TheFacelessK 1 year ago 4
Patricia Morrison, at that time, late 70's, was the sexiest creature on Earth, along with Siouxsie Sioux.
Refrescospepito 1 year ago
alice bag is defiantly one of the best stage performers of our time >_<
TheFacelessK 1 year ago
incomplete!
mondocaneman 1 year ago
Great song....looks rather bizarre to see the band "all dressed up", Alice looks like she was on her way to the office, well, except maybe for the hair and makeup and ATTITUDE.....cool stuff.
TeatroEquis 1 year ago
has anyone the lyrics of this song?
irenoidee 1 year ago
have read theirs and alice bags bio countless times
bought and worshipped their re-issue of all bagged up, everything from' 77-'80
they are just the best of the best
joeygarage77 1 year ago
I love this the Bags but i can't believe that i can't find any music from them to download. I know Limewire dosen't have any.
000500006 1 year ago 2
Why can't you just order a CD? I have some Bags stuff.
drslobulus 1 year ago
Buy music, jerk! There's two Dangerhouse comps on Frontier and a Bags comp on Artfix
LFrontier 1 year ago
the teabags lolz!
skatezombie83 2 years ago
survive, babylonian gorgon, we dont need no english, we will bury you, tv dinner, violent girl, animal call, chainsaw, 7 and 7 is / 1,2,3 / gluttony, in love with romance, car hell, real emotions, bag bondage, disco's dead, prowlers in the night, nothing going on here
TheFacelessK 2 years ago
yea i think we all know that story darby and alice were good friends
TheFacelessK 2 years ago 2
The Bags are so fucking good. I wish I had some of their music on vinyl.
ragingharlot13 2 years ago
Darby from the Germs took off the bags they use to wear over their heads during a show. That's why they stopped wearing them.
neoninja669 2 years ago
i have all bagged up on vinyl, this song from this show is on it
TheFacelessK 2 years ago
I wish they had the bags over their heads like when they started...that was so awesome.
DroogMonkey 2 years ago 2
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the teabags
doogrisa 2 years ago
hahaha
jesselakerr 2 years ago
oh shit i cant believe it! ive never seen them live
xuangelxa 2 years ago 2
was this filmed at The Whisky or Ivar Theatre? remember all the bands that would play The Masque on any given night...RIP. gawd, to think all the punks of yore have become the hippies of today!!
robodoll 2 years ago
1978 i guess, cult shitte! Thanks.
stogref 2 years ago
What year is this?
LeLimeLine 2 years ago
I love this.
MALINFAN 2 years ago
Craig Lee was an amazing guitarist. Thanks for posting this.
etch47 3 years ago
Check out "the bags - best of the bags" video it has classic studio tracks from the bags, some quite rare. We Don't Need The English, Disco's Dead, We Will Bury You, and Survive are included. And see "the bags - car hell" video, it has 2 rare demo tracks.
I have vids of TSOL, FEAR, LA's Wasted Youth, Red Cross, Sin 34, The Vandals,Symbol Six,Rik L Rik, The Chiefs, 45 Grave, The Faction, D.I., The Middle Class,China White,Zero Boys,Eddie and the Subtitles,The Germs,Necros,Circle Jerks...
philochs 3 years ago
omg i wanna fuck darby so bad thats why i act bad so when i die i could go to hell and darby will be there and we could fuck 4ever
xujessexa 3 years ago
i hope you're a guy cause darby was gay hahaha literally, love the band, and i have no problem with gay folk (gotta be PC nowadays hahaha)
UdontDeserveGGAllin 3 years ago
"punk" is much more about the message and not as much about the sound. Green Day sound "punk", but a band that sells shoes with their logo on them are not punk. I consider everything from the Velvet Undrground to Devo to Dinosaur Jr. to the Moldy Peaches to be punk not as much because they sound like the sex pistols or black flag, they dont in this case, but more cause they believe in the same things that those bands do. its more about how they think than how they dress, or even how they sound.
PieceofMindmusic 3 years ago 2
Agreed.
rcknbkr403 3 years ago
Sure. But "punk" is nothing but a label itself. It's all about rebellion, do it yourself attitude, and having the balls to do it no matter what forces are trying to stop you. Those values have been a part of humanity for thousands of years. The music? It's just rock and roll. Labels are vital in our consumer culture. Witout a label peple wouldn't know what to buy. That's why the media and record companies threw the word "punk" around back in the late 1970's. Label something "punk" and it...
mdgarmager 3 years ago 3
...would sell. The "message" has always existed, it just keeps changing it's name. If a band puts their logo on a corporate shoe company's products, we can judge them however we see fit. But, it is pretty loathsome and anti-rebellion to associate with corporate entities. I have made my comments because I despise labels. But I despise the misuse of labels even more. The morons throw around terms like "proto-punk" and "hardcore" and "indie" and they have no idea what those labels refer too...
mdgarmager 3 years ago 2
...or did refer too at one time. I also think that if you go around saying things like: "fuck labels, dude!" you are not seeing the whole picture. No matter who you are, labels have affected you at some point. You have to ask yourself seriously what those labels mean and then come to a decision. It's not that difficult. Mohawks, leather jackets, studs, spikes, and combat boots are just fashion, a uniform. Music is just music. Attitude, spirit, and integrity are the most important things.
mdgarmager 3 years ago 6
exactly
PieceofMindmusic 3 years ago
@mdgarmager Fuck yes
consityis1 1 year ago
I can tell you petty assholes are from L.A.!
FatwNker 3 years ago
and we also read American Hardcore while watching "the Decline of Western Civilization". So hey man!! we are experts!!!
thelegendarymotts 3 years ago
lables are so fucking lame shut up
dooshgooch 3 years ago
you people are so funny always trying to define everything. this is punk. stfu.
mickfang 3 years ago
I don´t care about the quality as long as I can watch amazing Patricia Morrison (the bass player) ^____^
carlamccoy 4 years ago
good shit
d0L0R951 4 years ago
Produced by Mike Lastra
BVM0Experim0Indus0TV 4 years ago
I loved The Bags and have the Dangerhouse 7" of this song. And, of course, Patricia was the Hottest Thing Evar.
My best friend (of 30 years) once jammed in a Joy Division-esque band with Patricia, Ward, Terry and a singer during their "hiatus" from The Gun Club back around '82 or so. I was in his house on the Boardwalk in Newport Beach, and I hear this "clump, clump" down the stairs, and I'm thinking, "WTF?" Then suddenly Patricia appears around the corner ...
I almost fainted. :D
RiotNrrrdUTube 5 years ago 2
i love alice bag!!
smac929 5 years ago 2
Pretty cool band, although the guitarist always looked a bit like a pedophile to me. Out of the Decline's line-up, though, i felt The Bags (or alice bag band) and the Circle Jerks were the worst (Penelope captured the incoming, over-hyped hardcore scene coming into the arena, and passed over The Screamers, Weirdos, and Dills, who would have been more fun to see) the Bags were the only band from the original Hollywood/LA scene that i never cared much for.
MyTunnel 5 years ago
dills and screamers i think are more proto punk, weirdos are more like early hardcore, they get a one sentance mension in the american hardcore movie which pissed me off. and i like circle jerks alot, i thought that the decline was supposed to be about the hardcore scene and the just happen to have some of the leftover punk bands like germs and bags. and as far as worst you think fear's better then circle jerks?
GGAllinIsGod 4 years ago
I wouldn't say the Screamers were proto-punk... they were right along the first wave of spiked-hair art-school punks, you know? I could MAYBE see the Dills as being proto, but eh. I just thought the Circle Jerks show was a bit dull, is all... and Fear live? Hell yeah, I'd kill to have been able to see them, Circle Jerks could never match 'em live. But on a recording, I'm not as into Fear, they didn't have a good live-studio transfer, you know?
MyTunnel 4 years ago
yeah everybody i know's got fear the record and i traded the not so good american beer, my only fear album is live for the record, that album's so fuckin bad ass. circle jerks flipside was bad as fuck, the drummer in that one is killer he changes up like every song to over drive. red tape, Coup Detat, back against the wall, operation, leave me alone those songs are so bad ass. hardcore skate rock classics.
GGAllinIsGod 4 years ago
the screamers were more synthpunk than anything - a term that became popularized much later and includes other CA punk bands like nervous gender and units. plus bands like suicide, black randy, human hands and the primitive calculators. but whatever. it is all punk in the end.
arrrprivate 3 years ago
yeah i was just saying they weren't "hardcore" which is what eugene explains in the beginning, the difference in punk and hardcore i mean.
GGAllinIsGod 3 years ago
Proto-punk? Um, do you have any clue what the word "proto" means? I would call Iggy and the Stooges or The Ramones proto-punk bands. They are considered two of the first so called "punk" bands, the original punk gangsters, if you will. Screamers and Dils certainly were among the first punk rock and roll bands, the classic era, but proto-punk? Some more proto-punk examples include: Electric Eels, Simply Saucer, MC5, Deviants, Pink Fairies, New York Dolls, Debris, etc.
mdgarmager 3 years ago 2
The Weirdos, hardcore? I don't think anyone ever considered The Weirdos a hardcore band, least of all themselves. Their sound, fashion, etc. is more rooted in that classic proto-punk milieu. Screamers were just an arty punk rock band that happened to use keyboards. Sure, we have to classify everything nowadays, so the kids won't panic while they shop for their CDs at Wal-Mart. "Synthpunk" is the new label for the morons, and I guess The Screamers fit well within that pigeonhole.
mdgarmager 3 years ago
The Germs and The Bags are pretty hardcore, wouldn't you say? Hardcore happened when the kids decided to take punk up a notch. Black Flag, Butthole Surfers, Dicks, Big Boys, Middle Class, Minutemen, Husker Du, etc. It is only when the meatheads and jocks started to show some interest, New York hardcore comes to mind, that hardcore began to be seen as some sort of shaved head, big muscle, little brain, Nazi bullshit. That wasn't the original intention.
mdgarmager 3 years ago
Fear or Circle Jerks? Kind of like comparing syphilis and typhoid.
mdgarmager 3 years ago
yeah dude XD
PieceofMindmusic 3 years ago
how bout both?
thelegendarymotts 3 years ago
for real punk rock wreckords from the seventees go to stoopidrec dot gemm dot c o m
libertarian1 5 years ago
Alice Bag never lived in my neighborhood and I never knew her or her bandmates friends friends cousins dog! I'm so cool.
Chuckjagermeister 5 years ago
Hi Alice, your band was amazing, used to see you with suburban lawns and possibly with the Germs. seeya.
janitorbri 5 years ago
Great vid...I loved the "B" side of the 45rpm. I used to listen to it when I was really pissed at my parents...lol...seems silly now. '-)
UtilityDrag 5 years ago
yum. i'd love to be in the early punk scene...I wish I could have been born sooner. damn.
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ASHLEYSCHISM 5 years ago
i miss L.A punk :(
Lowerclassadict 5 years ago
Maybe someday....
alicebag 5 years ago
According to Alice Bag's site, there's supposed to be a high quality vid being released.
av1d 5 years ago
No freakin' way. Hands down the Best LA punk band.
Melowgold 5 years ago
alice bag used 2 live in my neighberhood
DKJello 5 years ago
killer!!!
soulpony 5 years ago
So amazing to be finding all these old clips, glad to see they still exist
myfukinggod 5 years ago
Alice.....Pat....Craig.....>Holyyyy sheittttt!!!! What more could you want?
fuzzymode 5 years ago
nice clip thanks for sharing it! one of my fave Bags songs too
malco23 5 years ago
I love Alice Bag!!!!!!!!
smac929 5 years ago
LA punk is the best punk!
kaiserwilhelm 5 years ago 6
True. But especially all the Dangerhouse stuff.
Degenerateen 5 years ago