The Nazz-Open My Eyes (Peter Noone does the intro,with lyrics))

[oybeutu]

All of the real cool camera moves man. That cat behind the lens is groooovy.

[POPAVIDEO]

RARE FRENCH SINGLE (picture sleeve ).

great nuggets!

[Lman9552]

Hey "Boober"... Hey "Not-So-Swift"... Hey Britney... Hey trashtuners everywhere. THIS is what nutritious wiggling air molecules are. Take note. For, whatever our 60's boomer shortcomings, we're STILL and always have been light-years ahead of the bean-counter spew we're forced to endure today.Danka, Todd...

Bearmelt

[vampyros1]

Flange? Of course, but it sounds a lot more like amp distortion than fuzz. Todd's punkadelic 'fuzz' days were pretty much over by the time The Nazz had begun recording their first LP. ca. '68, but he used one a lot with his previous band 'Woody's Truck Stop'. Great band, great song, and a great video. Thanks for posting this.

[1337g33kh4x0r]

This is real Flanging "Studio Trickery" that doesnt use a peda (PS. there is no Phasing)l! The fuzz uses Germanium active components. I can hear the gemanium transistors screaming their beautiful tones!

[artistavailable]

fuzzzzzzzzz we all used to have singles in boxes well the Danny Hayes(Barman manuka footy club)family seemed to have thousands thanks Bernie , stevie never seen the video.wow.Have we regressed or is it more this is where we come from.feel like im in the university of life doing a major in social change and responsibilities and necessaties of proper musical history.Heave away haul away.The Nazz cheers what a time to be here like yesterday

[Galantski]

Power chords courtesy of The Who's "I Can't Explain"!

[mickeymousebiker1]

Thank you, Lenny Kaye (and Little Steven)! 

[mickeymousebiker1]

Believe it, or not -- I first saw this video on American Bandstand in '67.

[MicMacGrass1]

Excellent! Thanx for the upload! I appreciate your time and effort! Peace Up!

[ryler99]

whats up with the jack bruce style bass

[crabshaw]

@getula4003 Jim P was the I`s of Mch and he also did a solo record between the two. If you can find THAT buy it ! ! !

[GranulatedStuff]

the video was a deliberate Monkees parody I assume ?

[crabshaw]

@GranulatedStuff I think not so much a parody than the record companies made bands do this but there was no real artistic development in the video format to that point. The budgets were low and the directors clueless. Even the editing was bad. Note how they focus on the bass during the guitar solo.

[UxUrLuvdK]

Sweet!!!

[bentnosewp]

Everything is better that comes from Philly. This just furthers my point

[KingHellFrown]

sweet fuzz

[Marco33185]

Premier groupe de TODD RUNDGREN !!!

[musiqueconcrete]

I dug it.



[nebulax]

Directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, who also did "Rat Pfink a Boo Boo", "Wild Guitar", and "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies", among many other... uh... classics..

[Rottenhaus]

@nebulax

No *way*! I LOVE RDS!

[thatmuse76]

I taped that song from VH-1 around the same time period (1989 or 1990, I think) and definitely the same program. VH-1 was a significantly better station in those days. My only gripe was Noone would occasionally really screw up bio information (although he was correct about this one). For the video for "Vehicle" by the Ides of March, he stated Jeff Lynne was with the group. Jeff Lynne was with the Idle Race, not Ides of March which were an American Group.

[nccvball]

@thatmuse76

Sadly, Noone is just reading the script supplied by the production company. The researchers that wrote that mistake about Jeff Lynne did some bad fact checking. Considering these were made pre-Wikipedia, it is not surprising.

[MsBkirk]

@thatmuse76 The Move DID cover Open My Eyes, and one of Rundgren's solo albums includes a cover of Do Ya, which was recorded originally when Jeff Lynne was in The Move!

[LOCKED121]

Thanks for posting this! I have this on VCR from this very MTV Classics show from the 80's MTV days and would think there was a Nazz song out there to find but couldn't remember what the name of it was.

[rocknjac58]

Reminds me of the old Monkees Yardley commercials

[stuckinthestation]

the artwork on that sg bass is fabulous :D

[deeeecraig2]

@stuckinthestation The bassist did it himself. He ultimately became a "higher-up" in a Disney art department.

[YouTupeea]

No One

*Is he Herman's Hermit from Mink Hollow???

****

said Peter

No One

with Open Eyes

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[kloratis]

fucking old vid!!!!

[robertoshea1]

Vincent Furnier aka Alice Cooper in this band?

[PhosphorDigital]

@robertoshea1

Ummmm, No. The Google and the Wikipedia will answer any questions you're able to come up with about the band.

[robertoshea1]

@robertoshea1 Obviously you don't google cuz you can read vincient furnier's (AKA Alice Cooper) bio and see he was infact in NAZZ. Maybe it was a rehtorical question, ummm, yes.

[mackb909]

Nazz: melding blue-eyed R & B/soul with psychedelia in Philly, '67-'69. What a great song! I feel Rundgren's post-Nazz career has been a mixed bag, but this song is one of the classics of the '60s.

[midmodgal]

Super-fun video. Good to see the correct use of a Gibson flying V.

[torstn]

nice find - some old vh1 cool song

[Iamheofwhomhespeaks]

@torstn Dude, this goes waaay back before VH1 or MTV; the Nazz albums were late '60, this "film" can't be much later than that. Todd stayed at the forefront of music video production, check out some Utopia videos--I'm pretty sure Todd built a music video production studio as early as the mid-'70's. If he's not a genius, he's definately a pioneer!

[zzyyxxo]

fantastic song. I love this band.

[Rosewater66]

Excellent.

[vampyros1]

This sounds more like distortion than fuzz; great song by a great band. Great vid.

[themonkees1969]

I love this song but, itz like the only good song that nazz has there version of hello itz me is awfull compared to todd rudgrens version, wich came much later much later

[TheChiFlows]

This rocked hard .Boyeeeeee!

[TheGradumate]

WTF vh1 was different...the doors!!!

[mike584]

@TheGradumate Yeah, as the sister channel to MTV, VH1 appealled more to the adult contemporary and/or the older crowds with their chosen formats. They started to change things slowly near the end of the 90's. It was still a cool channel, at least up until a few years ago when they followed MTV in to becoming a reality channel. Sad, really.

[EarpJohn]

I love this video it's so fun!

[kngofqns]

awesome vid! thanks for uploadin!

[NcicHit]

A nugget.