Bow Wow Wow - C30, C60, C90 Go (live)

[billconner718]

Your video is popular on Tokyo

[Tuxie]

M.P.3., O.G.G., F.L.A.C., Go!

[trextrextrex]

Well the drummer brought his Adam Ant rolls with him. In fact the song sounds like Ant music with the exception of the vocalist

[bbarathy]

@trextrextrex - that's because it is! These where Adam & And The Ants who left Adam to form Bow Wow Wow

[212transport]

Saw them at the Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY. After the show I fucked a girl I met at the show in the parking ramp on Market Street. Never asked her name... those were good times!

[leengrinder]

yeah great song! The burundi beat was there!

[prosko34]

Is this in DC with U2?

[dinoblackgrape]

they dont make songs like this no more.....shame realy cos they were unique in their own way

[Staggercfc]

Blinding!!! Saw them at the Lyceum in London around this time and this is first footage I have seen from that tour. They were a tight band. Cheers.

[junkyturd]

Cassette, cd, mp3 GO!

[flaxonx3]

These days technology changes unnecessarily just for commercial reasons not practical or progressive ones.

[helenga666]

apparently there was a race to see who could release their 'burundi beat' single first and BWW won! Malcolm gave the burundi record to Ant just before McLaren formed BWW... they also shared the same Westwood wardrobe and pirate gear. I love them both!

[joeydim1]

was this show at the ritz in NYC? I was at that show. they shut it down after 5 songs by the fire marshall. it was too crowded. anyway, they were wairing the same outfits, thats why I ask.

[arrowz12]

Haha...it's amazing that the younger generation doesn't know about cassette tapes...and what an improvement they were over 8 tracks....and not to mention LP records !!

[quelbaloney]

I remember it well. "HOME TAPING IS KILLING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!!!" with skull and crossbones....

[edward2962]

Ha! I remember too! I was a kid thinking "There's a recession going on,but home taping is why you're losing money?" Almost like now..."DOWNLOADING IS KILLING THE MUSIC INDUSTRY!"

[witchman67]

Just out of curiousity, what is a c30, c60, c90?

[Mareklug]

@witchman67: Those are designations of cassette tapes. C90 would have 45 minutes to a side. There was also C120 and even C180, but owing to thinness of tape prone to breakage and other problems.

[pickbaum4]

back in the day there where things called casette tapes. They came in different speeds c30 casette 30 mins c60 =60 mins and so on there was even a c110!.. this song is about using those tapes to record off the radio..like pirates...anything else you wanna know ?

[lrd9999]

@pickbaum4 They actually sold sizes up to C240 over the years, but C90 was the longest tape you could trust to an an unknown deck. The C120s were likely to get eaten if the deck was anything short of pristine. I think the biggest incentive for home taping was the horrible sound quality of high-speed-duplicated commercially pre-recorded cassettes. I only bought one of those in my life; lesson learned.

[zkxv]

@lrd9999 My dad gave me his cassette collection. Some of them were blank tapes that he recorded albums onto. There are a lot of TDK hi bias SA C90s and they still sound pretty good 35 years later! I listen to them when I'm driving around in my 1991 Ford Escort. With a cassette player of course.

[lrd9999]

@zkxv I was always intimidated by those "hi bias" tapes like METAL and CrO2; always worried that the settings on my deck wouldn't be right for them. They must have been good if they lasted that long though, not like the old 8 tracks with tape that slowly turned to dust!

[dacritter]

shes 44 and still fuckin HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[number8mikee]

Music seems to have gone full cirle. This was 28 years ago. If you went back from 81 to 53, that would be another musical world. But from 81 to now, things havent really moved on much.

[goodmorningcapt1]

Actually bands like Bow Wow Wow and The Stay Cats and the Go Gos and even punk bands like X were basically playing souped up version of early rock and roll and rockabilly, which were gestating in 53. Structurally there isn't much difference between this and any number of Bo Diddley songs

[chookter1]

U missed match box, showaddywaddy, shakin' stevens etc etc

[dacritter]

your a retart

[goodmorningcapt1]

learn to spell, then insult my intelligence.

[dacritter]

How about idiot good enough.

[KevL75]

Yeah I think that sums you up just fine.

[dacritter]

AND DROP DEAD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[KevL75]

Yep that too.

[Skulldini]

Well, THIS particular song here does NOT sound similar to anyting that Bo Diddley had ever done.  Some of this goups other songs are stylisticaly derivative of his stuff though, I know what you mean. They had that jungle style in allot of their music, which he'd originaly brought to modern music.

[chookter1]

Theres ALOT more diversity now, hence the charts meaning next to nothing because people are buying absolutely everything and anything released now and in the past.

[DickVain41]

There's a lot more crap that's for sure nowadays! I have been buying music non-stop since 1978 and let me tell you no matter what you picked up that was not mainstream was great!

[chookter1]

Me 1980, I know!

[Anglovox]

....and there was that little thing of her being ONLY 15 YEARS-OLD at the tme!

[Anglovox]

I saw them open for U2's October Tour, 12/11/81, in DC. Though she WAS wearing a short mini-skirt, Annabella didn't see fit to burden herself with panties that night.....It seemed like a very ODD choice of opening band at the time...Glad I saw them, though.

[prosko34]

@Anglovox I was at show TOO! is this that show?

[magicalex2007]

Excellent! Truly original band. Amazing rhythm section. Saw them twice way back when! Great to see this. Thanks for posting.

[leftylion]

Larry Lessig needs to see this

[DBRGroup]

clever meaning he steals money from his bands and leaves them for broke...?

[jon3m2007]

clever malcom

[genlob]

Nice one kinburst. Pil and these were my favourite bands back then. I remember being astounded by Gorman's bass when I first heard this.

[realitycheck333]

i luv the way she sweats. mmmm good. hot.

[petrolhead67]

Fantastic, we loved Annabella when we were 15 years old. Funny to think kids nowadays probably have no clue what the codes C30 C60 C90 even relate to. I'd use a chrome BASF for tapin' off the radio, holding a crappy mic up to the speaker for 3 minutes!! Home taping is skill in music!!

[medwjet]

and what the codes mean? thx

[petrolhead67]

amount of recording time you had on each cassette. a C60 gave you 30 minutes each side, C30 had 15 minutes each side etc. C90 was the best for all round recording, you could fit an album each side if lucky, there was a C120 too but I remember they were prone to stretching and breaking so were a false economy. Sounds sad now, but in 1979/1980, I could only afford to buy one blank cassette a week..

[dietcoke1z]

petrolhead67 I still have my cassettes and remember how hard it was to copy the songs off the radio-to get it right.my friends and I didn't have the discretionary income kids have today.if one of us had bought a new record we'd group together to listen & beg to borrow it.I remember how hard I had to work to save the $99 for a cheap turntable/radio/cassette player cuz everything else before was sold as components for $2000 for everything and the speakers! Thanks for bringing that up!

[petrolhead67]

hey dietcoke1z, we must be from the same era. My first turntable was an old Dansette from a jumble sale (UK version of a garage sale!), but man, it sounded good to a 12 year old punk. We too used to share records, in fact the reason I continue to play so many of my 45s is that most of them have various scratches caused by various friends who had borrowed it, and it just brings back memories of good times when I listen now. The excitement when I ordered a 45 into the shop to collect a week later!

[spartanz101]

Same good memorie's as you,more fun back then.

[HarryUpHarry]

Agreed: what a time!

[shealways]

i hadnt thought aboutthat..yeh on reflection it would seem adam ripped of anabella..hmmm..back to my laboratory

[stover75]

one of the most influential Bands of the 1980s

Used to love her, when I was young

Great attitude and gotta love those calypso-Punk rhythms.

[captainhorseshit]

Adam Ant is a fag. Whereas, on the other hand Annabel Lu Win is sexually-attractive.

[Timmybear]

I'm confused. Are fag and sexually attractive mutually exclusive? ;)

[HarryUpHarry]

Not to everyone. It's a lazy and dumb attempt at dismissing another human

[britneyspearsx]

annabell alwin is so hott, i loved her so much

[GimmeBWW]

The impression I get (from watching and reading BWW interviews, so it could be biased) is that the musicians (Matthew, Leigh, and Dave) were writing all the music. When they kicked Adam out, Adam got to take whatever recordings they had made up to that point with him, so that this song and Kings could be descendants of the same early songwriting stage.

[britneyspearsx]

nobody would rip anything off from adam ant, he sucked

[Kinburst]

Funny thing is that Bow Wow Wow released this before Ant released his Kings single. He himself said they worked harder to get the sound right after hearing this song....so a rip off?

[shedsoundsuk]

@Kinburst untrue, this recording is 1982 NY Eve, McLaren persuaded guitarist Matthew Ashman, bassist Leigh Gorman and drummer David Barbarossa (also known as Dave Barbe), of the then line-up of Adam and the Ants to leave founder of the band Adam Ant and form a new group. Adam had been previewing Kings etc in 1979, a few months later Mclaren took the heart of the ants and their sound and just pipped adam to getting a release.

[astroboy1915]

to think this is one of the most controversial songs in the history of rock...stealing songs fromt the radio...Silicon Valley should erect a monument featuring Malcom and Annabella...I bet the suits in NYC, LA and London wished they could have succeeded in banning my cassette pet...Bow wow wow was awesome when they did their reunion tour; man can they rock

[ptgibson]

The drum beat is a blatent rip off of Kings of The Wild Frontier by the Ants. After all, it is an Ants ex drummer and an ex Ants manager in charge. Ant music for sex people, sex music for Ant people.... You may not like it now, but you will, the future will not stand still.........Don't be square be there...

[jackthegroove]

Ripoff? Who? Adam Ant is the ripoff of these guys. These were the Ants!! They kicked him out.

[sitjar]

this must mean there are songs played from the cassette pet......if anyone's got them please post them asap as this is by far their best era

[dbvve]

Is this from the MTV New Year's Eve show?

[sectmaniac]

CLASSIC!!

[anthonydevito]

Taping, songs from the radio? But that's ILLEGAL!! ;-)

[careypeak23]

Yea, just watch the videos for FREE all you want on you tube, download 'em, make comments on them , all for free. The most free music that people steal 9 out of 10 times are the biggest selling anyway. 12 dollars from every CD sell goes to the suits in the offices anyway. My band is named the C60s after this song! I'll give you a FREE copy of our music if you promise to burn a free copy for a friend. Its art, not a job!!! If I want money i'll work at the factory, or for Lars and the suits!!

[kirkmreed123]

you're right

[Dagarvs]

yep, making and packaging cds costs less than 2 bucks for the companies that charge you 16 dollars.

[dyingbride]

yes, I love this song!