Hi kids, it's your old mouse toll file, with the best of video files.
It's a great tape, but if you paid more than 25 bucks for it, you got stall files.
Not by me either. Next time, deal direct, write to Idiobile.
P.O. Box 101027, Fort Worth, Texas 76185.
Well, that's enough of me. Here's a look at PTV.
Wadabuck, The Legendary Pink Doxy, Sleep Chamber,
NFPM, Henestrant, Chemical People,
Briefing Vanilla Ice, MC-900 for Jesus,
The Haveler Trial, The God Bullies, and Jethro Kelton.
I'm going to hell. I can tell what he's done.
Oh, I love the human race. They're so good boys.
I love the music. Your turn to work.
I'm having ice.
Nice to think.
Although life for a lot of people is getting harder.
As long as it stays ambiguous, you've got the power to decide what's wrong.
And we're pretty good at being ambiguous.
Your videos are ambiguous.
Well, I don't know anything.
I'm going to hell. I can tell what he's done.
I like it better because it gives me control.
Control person.
In 1987, you recorded a record. It was Psychic TV, called Jack the Tap.
Although it wasn't put out as Psychic TV, it was put out as some sort of
compilation of early Asset House bands.
But basically, it doesn't really sound anything like Asset House at the time.
Why was it done in that format? What was the reason for that?
And who really did it?
Well, we were going through a phase in England where we were having a seminal influence
on a lot of people, including DJs.
But the media were always pretending that we didn't exist and not reviewing the records
or waiting until there was a third generation copy and then saying it was a wonderful idea.
We were just getting really bored with that.
So we did an interview with a guy called Richard Norris from BAMCruiser,
which was an old, re-releasing, 60s garage band made in England.
And I was saying what I really wanted to do was to try and expand the frontiers of dance music
and also psychedelic music and see if there's a way to fuse the two ideas,
dance beats and acid music.
And it was him that coined the phrase Jack the Tap in a phone conversation.
And it was him and I together discussing things, basically the things I said in the interview
to determine the structure, and we decided as an experiment to pretend it was a compilation album
and see whether or not the media then treated it differently.
And of course they did.
Suddenly there were like one page reviews and another page saying it was a work of genius.
Everybody said it was wonderful.
And we didn't tell them straight away that it was us.
We left them guessing for long enough to embarrass them.
And Dave Bull from the ETV Soft Cell, he worked on it and members of Psychic TV.
And it was recorded in two days.
And we had nothing written in advance.
We went to the studio and just cut up as we went.
I had a few bits and rhythms that I liked.
And everyone just brought in stuff they wanted to play around with.
And it was made upon the spot.
I'm the top man on the run out the night of night.
Fashionless with girls and I'm the best at all my bandies.
You only fooling around, only fooling around with me.
I said who was, who was, who was.
I'm the top man on the run out the night of night.
I said who was, who was, who was.
Set the tablet on the water, the night of night.
I said who was, who was, who was.
Come on baby don't be cold as I.
Set the tablet on the water, the night of night.
We actually done 8 versions of the single Devil.
They saying that they did 8 faces of the Devil.
Each version has a particular form.
Let it be, we just done it better.
Because this was a sort of necessity for us.
It was not possible to avoid Beatles.
Especially Let It Be, which is the last record of Beatles.
Probably the worst one.
So, trying to do it better.
I think you did it.
Definitely.
Opus day, were you happy with Opus day?
This is the basic record about America.
One blood, one race, one people.
It's about America.
What were your impressions the first time you came to America?
Too much TV.
It's dripping in me a cup.
In a way, a misguided observation.
You got to go deeper into the words.
Realize that it's not actually a cult.
It's just it's own stands by itself.
It's got it's own human spirit.
How do you see your...
It seems like your direction has changed a bit.
Your music seems to have...
There's an evolution to the earlier Pink Dot stuff I've listened to.
And what you're doing now.
Any of that conscious or is that just the way it's come about?
It varies a lot.
The new King Lots is like a three piece with saxophones and fruits.
It's actually heavily electronic now.
A lot more extreme than it was on the Golden Age.
The new record just came out.
That shows a bit of the direction it's gone in now.
The studio side of that.
I think it's more colorful than it was on the old game now.
Which in some ways is the reversion to the very start of the Pink Dot.
Healthy, challenging, heads up and go.
That's how it feels again.
Not that it was ever dying.
You feel like you're flying.
Were you influenced by that continental sound?
That Germanic...
I think we must have been.
Because we started off using synthesizers.
A lot of what we still do use synthesizers.
I think they were really the people to really explore the possibilities of the synth sounds.
Were the German bands.
Because other bands just use them to emulate people's sounds or other instruments.
I think the German bands used them for their own potential.
And I think we've done that.
Bird sounds by Kraftwerk and Space Elements.
Early Kraftwerk was great.
It really was.
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