BEAT FARMERS Live and Interviews 1986

The Beat Farmers featured i The Spin New Music College Tour that aired on Mtv in 1986. Songs include Death Train, Happy Boy, Riverside and California Kid

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Music

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• Beat
• Farmers
• Country
• Dick
• Montana

[uni2ballx]

A lot of your Generation Y types actually think the 1980s were all Duran Duran and Culture Club. This is why I must survive--to tell the children about Country Dick!

[bodiespizza]

Hell just may freeze over -- again! It's definitely thawed a little.......and yes, THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST BANDS EVER!

[rsummitt]

hubbahubbahubba THANK YOU for sharing this---great crazy times with these guys!!

[darbyantle]

one of the best songs ever written

[fgrsimon]

Sheer gold dust!

Underneath the drunken antics lay the heart of a R&R band of the highest quality. Can only agree with the posts that say they were one of the best live bands. Very lucky to coincide with them in Santa Barbara in 1994 whilst on holiday from England. To this day the worst hangover I've ever had the day after but worth it all the same and looking back now, a huge privilege that can never be repeated!

RIP Country Dick and Buddy Blue, the world is a worse place for your passing.

[harrisdel]

best band ever.... period.

[CeVeBeethoven]

I don't know how many times I saw these guys. I'd guess 30 or 40, mostly at Bodies. I was in the Navy and stationed in San Diego.  Shipped out to Gaeta Italy in 85, then back to Norfolk in 87. Just before I got discharged and saw them at the Kings Head Inn in Norfolk. I chatted with Dick and Joey before the show and showed Joey my kazoo, so he had me on stage doing the Happy Boy solo. Then I carried Dick on my shoulders, and true to form we both collapsed in a heap. Great great memory.

[ironman3964]

I just saw Joey, Jerry, Mojo Nixon (and the Farage brothers, and Paul Kamanski) and a bunch of others at a benefit show over the weekend in San Diego. It was a great great time, though a darn shame Joey is not part of "The Farmers." I guess that rift is alive and well, unfortunately. Joey had no trouble playing that night with Mojo, or letting Kamanski sing a couple of songs that he (Kamanski) had written, like Hollywood Hills, during Joey's set.

[michelemmj]

Agreed.. bury the hatchet and play music. We need this now more than ever.

[BluesFan93]

I agree with the poster who said that they were one of the greatest bands he has ever seen. I saw this band 16 times in SoCal. A BF show was like no other--funny, powerful, rockin', wild, bawdy, great musicianship, raucous, great songs, entertaining, . . . . and overall musical thunder and lightning coming off of the stage. I've seen some of the best live: The Stones, the Who, U2, the Clash, Petty, Clapton, etc. The Beat Farmers were right up there with them. Too bad so many never saw them.

[SPARKTABULOUS]

YEP, THAT'S HIM!!!!