Nothing's From Today - The Vipers

One of the best underrated bands of the '80s. The Vipers had a lot of energy and were great on record as well as on stage.
I saw them once, and I bought their lps in '86 from Record Vault (thanks Zary) and Midnight Records.
This is my tiny tribute - dig the song (truncated format).

Category:

Music

Tags:

• garage
• psych
• 80s
• fuzz
• Vipers

[iosian]

great to see this up here - but why not the whole track?

[usedMTVpromos]

@iosian

This is all I had readily available. Somewhere I've got it complete and eventually will repost it in full!

[mosoul65]

Nice esoteric montage and S-T-E-R-E-O too!

[usedMTVpromos]

S-S-T-T-E-E-R-R-E-E-O-O!!

[JPGR66]

Did I see a pic of Cyril Jordan and Ertha Kitt?

[usedMTVpromos]

you did indeed... good spotting!

[SeanLaw]

This clip-show has all of my favorite stuff!

[mosoul65]

The Vipers were an obscure '80s band that was transfixed with '60s garage/proto-punk, often drawing comparisons to such similarly styled outfits as the Chesterfield Kings, the Cynics, and the Lyres. There was also an Irish Vipers. These guys sound great.

[usedMTVpromos]

The Vipers were from NYC.

You might be thinking of The Wipers, who were from Portland. They played gigs with Irish bands Stiff Little Fingers and Boomtown Rats.

[mosoul65]

Is this the Irish new wave group from '78 that toured with The Boomtown Rats?