At The Drive-In - One Armed Scissor (Jools Holland, 2000)

At The Drive-In performing their song "One Armed Scissor" from the album "Relationship Of Command" on the televesion show Later With Jools Holland in December 2000.

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[ohwellwhateverr]

Any guitarist who can say "fuck guitar, what this song needs is some tamborine" is someone to aspire to.

[ohwellwhateverr]

3:12

[TheWho58]

Musicians have always been like that, Jerry lee lewis burning and smashing his piano, The who, kiss, the clash, nirvana etc. Same goes for the "look how cool we are! we don't give a fuck" thing....been around for ages, you had jazz musicians in the 40's/50's so fucked up on heroin they couldn't play lol.

[mockingbirdred]

Since when do you have to posture to be emotional and professional? I know plenty of artists that can play the songs the way they were intended and deliver a performance 10 times as emotional as this.

All I get from this video is "look how cool we are! We don't even give a fuck about playing the song we're so cool". I'm sure it was fun for them, but if I was in the crowd, I'd want a refund. But then, their fans are the types of people who think this sort of thing is meaningful.

[punkmusicmetal]

You think this what this is? It's about pure emotion. This an example of breaking on through to the other side. They are sick of playing it right and pretty and posturing to look all emotional and professional. This is what happens when musicianship and being a tightly packaged product is co-opted by pure expression.

That, or Omar's probably on drugs.

[punkmusicmetal]

lol. I love this performance. NO FUCKS GIVEN.

[durussel78]

that is how they are live! throw my guitar and pick up a 2X4 and start slammin - fucking genius - raw!!!

[durussel78]

Awesome seen these guys open for Rage Against the Machine (Battle of Los Angeles) in Detroit.

They came on stage and just started slammin shit, the lead singer kept bangin the mike on the ground droppin it, but it was awesome, the whole crew was jumpin off speakers laying on the stage and convulsing! I thought it was awesome I went and picked up their cd the next day! Those guys live is insane! Fav group!

[neiltay2002]

Yes.

[AlexelA]

"performance?" Is this their jumping around like alt rock god stage? At least now they sound good live!