Soundproof - Alternative Music Videos in the 80s

Airing in Vancouver on Shaw and Rogers Cable in the early 80's, Soundproof hosts Dave Toddington and Buzz E. Miller (Martyn Stubbs) each week featured alternative video and luminaries of the local music scene. Featured here, Province Music Critic Tom Harrison, K.D. Lang, Skinny Puppy, DOA, Paul Mackenzie of the Enigmas & The Real Mackenzies, Gord Badanic of Zulu Records & Go Four 3, the Animal Slaves, Much Music's J.D. Roberts (now CNN's John Roberts), Marv Newland of International Rocketship, Bob Your Uncle's Suk-Yin Lee, muscle rocker Thor, Snakefinger, Barney Bentall, Joolz, the Dayglow Abortions, 54-40, Bill Mullins of CITR radio, J.B. Shayne, John Makie of the Vancouver Sun, Braineater Jim Cummins, No Fun, Husker Du, radio guy Doc Harris, Vancouver perennial entertainment favorite Terry David Mulligan and even Tony Parsons of BCTV News. Hey, even Nardwuar got his start here!

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[harrysaxon23]

@NOmeansnoFAN "Amazon Women on the Moon" is a 1987 sketch comedy film, mostly by John Landis and Joe Dante. It was loaded with stars, and sometimes funny and sometimes bad, but Ebert had nothing to do with it. I think you're thinking of "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", which was a 1970 Russ Meyer spoof of "Valley of the Dolls" which Ebert co-scripted, and (like many Meyer films) was intentionally campy and bad. So you clearly don't know what you're on about, even if Harrison IS a douche.

[nazaxprime]

Van where? WA or BC?

Not that matters.

;P

I was a little young back then but it reminds me of... dang it i cant recall and i want to look it up...

P-town...

Bohemian afterdark! Thank you neurons.

[8jaime8]

God I loved this show and the whole Vancouver scene in the 80s. If anyone has a recording of any full Soundproof episodes, please let me know.

[BiffScooter1]

A Dorf Gdansk sighting amongst all that insanity! Holy Tony Parsnips!

[ThereGoesMark]

Wow, I can't believe I found this here! Watched Soundproof without fail - great great memories of university years staying up late on Friday night watching this with friends. These guys made me aware of tons of great groups!

[dirty30jr]

Yeah Death Sentence!

I think I saw them at about 8 straight shows, opening

[Adrian22]

Well, you know, there's more to the measure of a person. I don't get to movies, so, I've never seen "Amazon Women on the Moon". There do seem to be people who enjoy really bad movies - at least they excel. I know of Roger Ebert as being the first film critic to receive a Pulitzer Prize - and a very decent person. He loves movies which isn't a bad thing to do on earth. Tom Harrison is also a very decent human being, and one who loves music. These are things to celebrate in life.

[NOmeansnoFAN]

by whom then?

ohhh it is BGM's theme-ish song?

Ebert wrote a screenplay "Amazon Women on the Moon" and is considered one of the worst movies ever.

Tom Harrison, from BGM, is a critic for the Province paper and only gave "thumbs up" to trite radio play bands.

Hence the comment "those that can't do critique"

Now Lumpy sucks ass, his new band

aptly named. Being a bunch of Lumpy 50 somethings themselves.

[Adrian22]

It was a song, too - with such rhymes for Bruno Gerussi's Medallion as "hung like a stallion" - the band BGM, yup, was a band and they performed the song - lots of fun!

[Adrian22]

It was a song - with such rhymes for Bruno Gerussi's Medallion as "hung like a stallion" - the band BGM, yup, was a band

and maybe I don't watch movies, but I didn't know there's any problems with Roger Ebert