Bongwater on Nightmusic

[theylive23]

Ann Magnusson / Shirley McLaine - separated at birth?

[shamanicmischief]

This is amazing! Screamin J.H. Bongwater, F.P.W. with BoB Weir. It's like laugholympics from my record collection. They're summoning Rocky Erickson~!

[TheMrbob2011]

Love this very much

[cheddar21]

Wish I could've been there.......on acid.

[moderndarkage]

70 people drank the kool-aid/bongwater

[zenkalia]

2:00 for the song to start.

[willowmistacres]

WHY DOES DAVE RICK HAVE A DRESS ON??

[mtailgator]

@willowmistacres It's called "Free-Ballin'!".

[OnWebCulture]

Man, I know I'm supposed to leaving a comment along the lines of "Awesome" but...not really aye. I got absolutely nothing out of this. Good luck & good night!

[LunaSeaSane]

Rock with brains. I'm all for it.

[ZenGangster]

Does it for me. Unceasingly.

[bv141a]

what happend to Shimydisk?Kramers label,these guys

[DTD110865]

This is the version I think of whenever I think of this song. Not the original by Roky Erikson, not even the cover from the tribute album "Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye!"

[albadore]

Oh wow. 

[raydoast]

Bongwater's great cover of "You Don't Love Me Yet" by Rocky Erikson and the 13th Floor Elevators. Best performance I ever saw of the song.

[alan8653]

This was the the greatest collaboration/jam I've EVER seen on Television (ever!)

[wisesatyr72]

ann magnuson is a WILD Woman...

[seonachan]

This is everything that was right about the 80's.

[ashetonpop]

Wow, blew me away. What great event!

[renadewalt]

With her "celebrity compass" Ann found Robert Plant's party, and Robert, proud as a peacock, carried her around the room like a huge, new, blue vacuum cleaner!

[1111spanky]

Isnt that Jack Black playing guitar in the B&W skirt?

[wolffish100]

@1111spanky  It's Dave Rick - also played git w/ King Missle

[jsoknuldt]

@1111spanky ...and also played with the great Phantom Tollbooth.

[txjoseph]

Best show ever.......Charlie Hayden, The Residents, Conway Twitty, Sonic Youth....most eclectic showcase of talent I've ever seen

[tomonsterboy]

I first saw this when it aired! thanks so much It's definately on my fav list!

[bigpanthis]

Oh my god! It's Bongwater AND Screamin' Jay!!!!

Thanks so much!

[partweed]

Thank you so much, bobby4000!

I couldn't ask for anything more out of a performance. Ann Magnuson is so beautiful! I want a paisley chromosome from her! She is poetry in motion! I hope Roky is as thrilled every time he sees this as I am. Just great. Thanks.

[noisejoke]

The show hadamazing and bizarre pairings, preceding Rap/Rock hybrids and "mash ups." But the band was Bongwater, four people doing a beautiful Roky song. Ann added a fantastic but largely inaudible opening spoken bit. Screaming Jay was fun but superfluous. Bullock covered the slide part, Weir and Wasserman needlessly injected into the whole affair. Credit Willner and Gordetsky for the whole series, and the latter for shoehorning in a band that was nowhere near the accepted music industry.

[Thejbirdy]

Isn't that Screaming Jay Hawkins?

[DoctorSapperstein]

yep...he appeared on this episode as well.

[noisejoke]

Bob Weir and David Sanborn had nothing to do with this. It's TV. Why do you think a couple talking heads poorly reading off prompters and being told to riff would be involved with production? The producer was Hal Wilner and the Head Writer was Eddie Gortetsky. Look it up.

[cryptsub]

Bob Weir is totally superfluous here. Fuck the Dead.

[cpchehaibar]

Qué buen pedo arman estos weies!! Nomás por eso está chido!

[goldenagenut]

That was incredible,wow! I'd almost forgotten about Night Music!

[Pooklette]

That was far and away the most unhinged and fabulous thing I have ever seen.

[beeb44]

The other guitarist in this shot, Hiram Bullock, died a few weeks ago from throat cancer. What a drag, he was a massive player. A lot of people forget that he was also the original guitarist in The World's Most Dangerous Band when Letterman first went on the air.

[JPMahler]

Thank God for this. :)

[blaketv]

This video needs a disclaimer: "Warning, do not watch this unless high."

[jeansbass]

fantastic!!

[tbzeee]

in a perfect world, this show would still be on the air. i remember watching and thinking damn this is awesome, hope it lasts. it didn't. where's the dvd? oh, and nightmusic was on sunday night around 11-12 (in chicago)

[zardozy]

Man this was a truly awesome show. It opened my ears to so much interesting music--especially jazz. I really looked forward to it. Today there's nothing like this to look forward to--at least on free commercial TV.

[Ruefbomb]

Awesome!! Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Bongwater, April March, and Bob Weir.

[h0b0ch1c]

AND Roky Erickson, through his song that they're covering. ;D

[dotsetloops]

I should add that one of the back-up singers is April March, the francophone singer.

Since I was a little girl when this was on the air, so this was on way past my bedtime. For anyone who was familiar with this show, was this broadcast Early Sunday morning following "SNL", or Sunday night into Monday morning?

[buysometrysome]

those three backup singers are the coolest. thanks for posting this.

[slunky1]

This is an old Roky Ericson tune he did with the 13th Floor Elevators and Bongwater do this on the Ericson tribute album

[tuskedbeast]

That was a great show... some really surreal moments, of which this was obviously one. I'm pretty sure David Sanborn was the motivator for pairings like this (not Bob Weir). And... that's Screamin' Jay Hawkins singing over Four Sticks, am I right?

Awesome. Welcome to the 90's.

[puncheroo]

I want to marry Ann Magnuson.

[WEIR4EVER]

Woaw!

and I thought I had eclectic taste!

I love Bob, and I'd go far to see him

but... with these guys???

I'd have to think about it!

(Well... Peter, ya right...

probably would!)

[WEIR4EVER]

After all these years Weir can still surprise me with his Musically OOOOOOOOpen mind. Geez, and I thought I had eclectic taste!!!

Well ...I love Weir, that's a given, but would I go see him play with this band? GOOOOSH! Been all around for him, but the jury's still out on that.

Or I'll just chalk it of as outlandish anthropologic RESEARCH!

[nojrevned]

boy,this was such a cool show. who can forget hank williams backed by the Residents or Todd Rundgren and Christian Marclay doing HMS Pinaffore.Awesome!

[bigim]

Hey hey hey - what year is this from? She's so cool. I never realized just HOW cool, though.

[bambibunny]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[wollzie]

wow I don't know what's cooler bongwater or sanborn's huge hair

[Paley]

This is the goddess who sung Folk Song?

[friendlier]

Ann Magnuson. It's truly amazing, right?

[theledzeppguy]

Yes it is. That's Ann Magnuson (Bongwater),

[56BUICKRiviera]

Ann Magnussen & Sceaming Jay. Wow man Bob Weir. Night music was magical. I'm still looking for the Hank Ballard episode. Willie Dixon & SRV too!

[cryptsub]

A point off for audio sync - what a surprise to find this!

[Filmcode]

woah...I've never seen this!!