Cycles Per Second - the dB's

The appearance was taped a few days before its March 7, 1981 broadcast. The city was London, UK. The show was a national broadcast on the nation's largest network. Three top-notch performances, one by each songwriter and with an instrumental thrown in.

The dB's road manager on the tour, Dave Boxall, added genitalia to the show's logo of a performer's silhouette. This is clearly visible on the left of the screen. On "Big Brown Eyes" Will wore a pair of gag glasses with eyeballs on springs that bounce all over the place. Not so clearly visible. The eyeballs only came in blue, and Albion's publicist painted the irises brown. (Too bad they couldn't get the eyes to come out brown on the single sleeve!)

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[turnaroundphraseNY]

like kind of maracatu.

[TimmytheGeek2009]

love this band

[edgardscandurra]

the real drum and bass!!!

[gnarsky]

Yay. This is one of my favoritist bands.

[thedps1998]

The Velvet Underground of New Wave.

[Ulissesdefreitas]

Geniais os DBs. O que é isso? Um samba-flamenco-power-pop?

Muito bom!

[jat13]

has anybody got the vide for "Amplifier"? i would love to see it, i heard it got banned by mtv

[v8volvo]

Love the dB's, FYI, Big Brown Eyes is available here: http://www.thedbsonline.net/mu­ltimedia/index.html

Enjoy :-D

[randyboring]

This is great to see the band when Chris Stamey was in it. I saw The dB's as a trio in '84 in Columbus, OH. I also remember seeing an animation for Big Brown Eyes. (Sorry for the brain dump there.)

[xamve]

thanks a lot for that video;it would be so great to find"bad reputation"!!