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The Untouchables in 'Repo Man'.

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Uploaded by on Apr 21, 2008

Legendary Los Angeles ska/soul band The Untouchables make a cameo in Alex Cox's 1984 masterpiece 'Repo Man'.

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  • Man, is this the band that Light plays for Otto in the car earlier in the movie when he talks about managing a pop group and puts on the tape? I always figured it was connected! Didn't know these guys were a "legendary ska/soul band"! Educated!

  • No, this is a different group.

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  • Jerry Miller still kicks it in the scene here and band still plays the occasional show. Real cool cat he is, still rides around town on a Vespa too!

  • didn't she play in 227?

  • @jeffuryca

    so what happened since then? where are you now

  • @jeffuryca by "skas" you mean ska-fans?

  • Ain't much changed, has it? people who don't pay, blame repo men... as if they made the contract, broke it and forced the bank to collect on the debt.

  • @jsmog Maybe LA was different than the OC, but I was a Mod in the 80's & we were very friendly with the Punks & Skinheads. The Skas were generally dicks by nature but we all fought the long haired "Hessions" as a group with Mods, Skas, Punks & Skins all under the same umbrella against the Hessions or The Preppies or New Romantics. I saw the Untouchables many times at Cloud 9 at Knotts Berry Farm. I also saw the Red Hot Chillie Peppers open up for The Untouchables at UCI forever ago.

  • all of the guitar on the soundtrack is Los Plugz, Tito Larriva from that band does a lot music for Robert Rodriguez movies these days

  • The Untouchables don't have any songs mentioned in the soundtrack listing. Most of the soundtrack music is credited to The Juicy Bananas. Some of it The Plugz. also The Juicy Bananas were not a band.

  • PS This also is a memorial to the street fights between mods & punks in Hollywood in the early '80s...any punk given the opportunity to run over a bunch of Vespas would have surely tried it

  • @walkouttowinter Yeah, that's the Juicy Bananas, really never did anything other than "Bad Man"; the band here is the Untouchables, who played around LA for years

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