{"id":15954,"date":"2012-10-10T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15954"},"modified":"2012-10-10T18:38:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:38:31","slug":"rock-n-roll-holy-grails-prime-time-pere-ubu-video-found-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-holy-grails-prime-time-pere-ubu-video-found-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#8216;n Roll Holy Grails: Prime-Time Pere Ubu Video Found on YouTube!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxelXtP_bF8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong><em>NEWS FLASH!!!<\/em><\/strong> An actual <strong>Allen Ravenstine-Scott Krauss-Tony Maimone\u2013era Pere Ubu<\/strong> video other than <a title=\"Pere Ubu's &quot;Birdies&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9qnRzCWFgd4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Birdies&#8221; from <em>Urgh! A Music War<\/em><\/a> has been found on YouTube! Enjoy this performance of &#8220;On the Surface&#8221; from my favorite October day album, <em>Dub Housing<\/em>, before the fog lifts. I believe <strong>David Thomas<\/strong> is highly protective of the band&#8217;s appearances on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>As a special bonus, this performance is from the band&#8217;s 1988 reunion tour, featuring second drummer\u00a0<strong>Chris Cutler<\/strong>.\u00a0In my frequent searches for video evidence of the many great shows I&#8217;ve witnessed by this band beginning with this particular tour, I have had trouble finding anything involving these key members other than the excellent performance of &#8220;Birdies,&#8221; with a boyishly trimmer-than-usual Thomas looking like a plump <a title=\"Liev Schreiber\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-9mwv1hnw2fY\/TqAHYST9WlI\/AAAAAAAAB6c\/6NJNXGbCdgk\/s1600\/11802273.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Liev Schrieber<\/strong><\/a>. Usually, all I find is stuff from their appearances on <a title=\"Pere Ubu on David Letterman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X7dhvuq0cEY\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David Letterman<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>David Sandborn<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Night Music<\/em>, a couple of years later, when they tried cleaning up their sound and core members began moving on. That stuff&#8217;s not as exhilarating, although shows I saw during those years were strong.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>UPDATED<\/em>:<\/span> HERE&#8217;S ANOTHER PERFORMANCE FROM THAT TOUR!<\/strong><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6LyLW_vGCvY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS FLASH!!! An actual Allen Ravenstine-Scott Krauss-Tony Maimone\u2013era Pere Ubu video other than &#8220;Birdies&#8221; from Urgh! A Music War has been found on YouTube! Enjoy this performance of &#8220;On the Surface&#8221; from my favorite October day album, Dub Housing, before the fog lifts. I believe David Thomas is highly protective of the band&#8217;s appearances on <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-holy-grails-prime-time-pere-ubu-video-found-on-youtube\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[323,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}