Lydia Lunch Interviews on Videowave -- Oct. 1983, Nov. 1985

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  • čas přidán 26. 12. 2010
  • Lydia Lunch, punk rock/no wave poet laureate is interviewed by Merle Ginsberg regarding the Immaculate Consumptive tour in 1983. She is interviewed again by Julia Masi in 1985 regarding promotion of The Right Side of My Brain. The 1983 segment was done in Young Filmmakers Studio with the great help of Martin Toub, Brett Landow, Ed Tooks, Lance Tooks, Robert Barry Francos and many others. These are 2 excerpts of 2 much longer pieces.
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    The 1985 segment was done at New York Video Workshop with the great help of Bonnie Pollack, John Zaff, Ed Tooks, Susie Byrnes, Seth Brown, Robert Barry Francos and many others (including NYVW owner/operator Bruce Spector). Videowave is a TV and Internet program featuring artists and music ignored by the mass media. #LydiaLunch #MerleGinsberg #nowave
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  • @Syntox
    @Syntox Před 11 lety +160

    Wow, people complaining about the New York scene being dead in the early 80's, while today everyone in NY complains about how they wish it was the early 80's again...#irony

    • @tartanhandbag
      @tartanhandbag Před 2 lety +5

      it feels dead when people stop inviting you to the cool new thing. most large melting pot cities have their perennial underground scenes. sometimes they come and go so fast the mainstream never even hears about it. the trick is to publicise your scene by populating it with plenty of photographers, journalists and a peppering of famous people passing through

    • @ktiitfa2491
      @ktiitfa2491 Před 2 lety

      @@tartanhandbag lol underground in the rehash & phone addiction era

    • @RobertoReyesChHC
      @RobertoReyesChHC Před 2 lety

      @@absrene Thats really odd because NYHC was exploding and evolving or at least was about to...

    • @CarinaPrimaBallerina
      @CarinaPrimaBallerina Před rokem

      Yeah, it's a relative thing!

    • @newwavepop
      @newwavepop Před rokem +2

      i am just some dude i dont matter, but this has always been my opinion or view on things. and this sort of goes for all musical subcultures that have come and gone, pretty much when they first start they are very small and the people in them are strange and creative and it is interesting, then as it starts to get any exposure at all more and ore people slowly then quickly flood in. but it is a different quality of people, essentially it is followers and not leaders or creators and scenes become watered down very fast and with in a very short time of just a couple of years the truly creative people that made that scene will have moved onto something else. for me personally by the time the 80s hit the interesting people in the punk scene had moved on and it had turned into the hardcore scene which i have never been impressed with, and yeah now that scene was exploding but we all know it was just tons and tons of boring uninteresting suburban kids exploding with youthful angst but no creativity or originality. now through the years i constantly meet people that were those youthful suburban hardcore kids and they all want to argue and picture themselves as having been so cool and interesting, i thought i was so cool and interesting when i was young too but i have gotten older and i have gotten over myself.
      lets try another view, i have for decades always heard people ask what was the difference between the American punk scene and the English punk scene. and this is how i have always seen it. the American scene at the very start of it all was made up of people that were already in their 20s and even 30s, it was people that really were sort of outcast and had already spent years in weird art scenes. where as the English scene was primarily a lot of young rebellious teenagers, they saw it as something new nd exciting and it exploded fast. and the publicity was off the charts as young arrogant kids courted the attention , and hey when we were skinny teenagers with weird hair and clothes we looked great and took nice pictures and really influenced our peers. and so the chaos of the media coverage made its way to America and our young angry rebellious teens were excited by it and thats what led to that big hardcore scene, as people took the most simple and basic aspects of punk "fast and simple and hard" and extreme it. to me that was boring and uncreative and so were the majority of kids i would have been meeting that were into it. so again while the kids were flooding into the hardcore scene and it was exploding, the slightly older more creative and interesting kids had moved on from punk and were playing what would come to be called post punk, still experimenting and growing.
      so yeah im sure for Lydia who had been there early on, the early 80s hardcore scene was probably boring as hell and filled with people that were already much younger than her and what the hell do they have interesting to say to her? what complaining about Reagan and Thatcher, or their parents, teachers and the police. what riveting conversation.

  • @wesbeach69
    @wesbeach69 Před 3 lety +65

    This explains where courtney love got her persona

    • @walterkleinander858
      @walterkleinander858 Před 3 lety +6

      They are not in the same building.......

    • @--..__
      @--..__ Před 3 lety +2

      @Kitty Foreman criticizing women is sexist

    • @andcircuit2020
      @andcircuit2020 Před 3 lety +8

      I’m not so sure about that. Courtney probably pulled from a lot of different people, but frankly if she was ripping anyone off if was very obviously Kat Bjelland, though they were at one point friends.

    • @ninetwoo1doorman415
      @ninetwoo1doorman415 Před 2 lety

      That aint true by this time Courtney Love was already probably tryingout for Sid And Nancy plus her dad was the Deads manager/acid connect id bet her personna was locked in by the time this aired

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Před rokem +1

      Courtney Love, that's a laugh. It's pretty bizarre she was once in Faith No More.

  • @chelseapoet3664
    @chelseapoet3664 Před rokem +16

    Holy crap Merle is like a Pre Raphaelite painting.

    • @VideowaveMusic
      @VideowaveMusic  Před rokem +2

      Didn't notice it until your comment but her pose in the thumbnail confirms this!

    • @isrulius
      @isrulius Před 9 měsíci +1

      She’s extremely homely

    • @christianrokicki
      @christianrokicki Před 7 měsíci

      @@isruliuspoppycock!

  • @bestfrogs247
    @bestfrogs247 Před 11 lety +7

    Thank you for posting "Lydia Lunch Interviews on Videowave -- Oct. 1983, Nov. 1985."

  • @frankensplean
    @frankensplean Před rokem +3

    quality pair of clips. really captures the spirit.

  • @Randyh9
    @Randyh9 Před 8 lety +19

    "When something becomes a totally extreme and intense and intimate, it's usually I guess filthy. That's where I tend to come in"

    • @axelcats
      @axelcats Před 4 lety +5

      so deep huh? gosh i feel like an adult among emotionally inept teenagers

    • @aa-mh3dn
      @aa-mh3dn Před rokem

      @@axelcats LMFAO

  • @raimywinter2309
    @raimywinter2309 Před 6 lety +25

    I fucking adore her

  • @steveroby413
    @steveroby413 Před 4 lety +16

    The 1st interviewer is Merle Ginsberg she was the female judge on season 1&2 of RuPaul's drag race before Michelle visage came aboard

  • @zoehansen_
    @zoehansen_ Před 2 měsíci +2

    Love her so much!

  • @goldencatpants
    @goldencatpants Před 8 lety +13

    This is def one of my fav Lydia interviews

  • @reghunt2487
    @reghunt2487 Před měsícem +2

    OK I'm convinced Kate Micucci studied Shirley Temple, and Aubrey Plaza studied Lydia Lunch.

  • @lamercado
    @lamercado Před 8 lety +17

    how she plays with words, concepts and rhetorics..Awesome! Why every comment here have to do with if she is "nice" or a "bitch"? fuck it.

  • @babyirene3188
    @babyirene3188 Před 5 lety +14

    She gets it.
    It’s lonely getting it.

    • @atomaalatonal
      @atomaalatonal Před 3 lety +1

      but sometimes out of nowhere someone seems to understand. and thats enough for the next decade.

  • @juliacatharina2316
    @juliacatharina2316 Před 7 lety +3

    so lovely

  • @pumasgoya
    @pumasgoya Před rokem +2

    There was definitely a scene in LA in '83.

  • @billygoat9381
    @billygoat9381 Před 2 lety +5

    bahaha I love her so much

  • @ComeToThySelektor
    @ComeToThySelektor Před 5 lety +35

    lydia would have been a perfect role in clerks

  • @berlinesquelove1360
    @berlinesquelove1360 Před 4 lety +1

    powell!

  • @gregdahlen4375
    @gregdahlen4375 Před 3 lety +7

    underground arts scenes are such fun

  • @alexandradewinter9775
    @alexandradewinter9775 Před 7 lety +19

    She's fucking amazing.

  • @KristaAMartin100
    @KristaAMartin100 Před 7 lety

    Cool!

  • @toyaquiyvoyaya
    @toyaquiyvoyaya Před 10 lety +11

    The interviewer is beautiful, Lydia is amazing.

  • @beandipcartography
    @beandipcartography Před 3 lety +1

    Dude, whatever happened to the New York scene ??? Duuude ....

  • @Bouncingballwilly
    @Bouncingballwilly Před 6 lety +4

    The second interviewer....is that the mother from A Nightmare on Elm Street?!

  • @ameliasmith4292
    @ameliasmith4292 Před 4 lety +5

    Love to see Marc’s interview! Anyone got it? :)

    • @VideowaveMusic
      @VideowaveMusic  Před 4 lety +6

      It is on schedule to be converted and restored, but given the current circumstances, within the next century

  • @arcrs40
    @arcrs40 Před 3 lety +1

    amazing.... loveeeeeeeeeeeee

  • @Scuba_Bro
    @Scuba_Bro Před 2 lety +13

    Wow she’s always been so miserable and grumpy even when she was younger 🤣 I guess it’s her trademark persona…

  • @lucianofigueiredo4877
    @lucianofigueiredo4877 Před 4 lety +1

    Essa é lenda💙💙💙💙

  • @EarlyLAPunk
    @EarlyLAPunk Před 12 lety +13

    I am glad this exists. Holding up to friendly cross examination. She is beautiful and terrifying inside and out. Here's to the truth tellers.

  • @DickUrduh-wm5yk
    @DickUrduh-wm5yk Před 7 měsíci +1

    There ain't enough to go around so kick rocks lol.

  • @mikeymumblesreal
    @mikeymumblesreal Před 3 lety +10

    One of the sexiest women ever. Hatred for typical roles and for music which should be a joke anyway. She's great. I love her. Always have. People are too serious about music and art piss off

  • @abstractwater
    @abstractwater Před 10 lety +1

    una grande

  • @deftonestoadies
    @deftonestoadies Před 10 lety +9

    she was so fine

  • @Saygoodbye130
    @Saygoodbye130 Před 3 lety

    Nice

  • @jamesmusings7169
    @jamesmusings7169 Před 11 lety +5

    hot, hot, hot!

  • @Dylan230393
    @Dylan230393 Před 12 lety +11

    there's no doubt she is gorgeous here, and still is in her 50's

  • @ritamilan82
    @ritamilan82 Před 7 lety +25

    courtney love looks exactly like her but in a blonder version. well just physical

  • @BoneViolyn
    @BoneViolyn Před rokem +5

    HORRIBLE CLUB??? I hope she isn't referring to the notorious gothic batcave club. That club was hella cool.

    • @jauxsef
      @jauxsef Před 8 měsíci +1

      They were talking about Daceteria

  • @Eric-dn9bx
    @Eric-dn9bx Před 3 lety +14

    this is the cringiest comment section i have ever seen lmao

  • @thesleepinggiant6457
    @thesleepinggiant6457 Před 6 lety +5

    That poor host. lol. I love you Lydia.

  • @thelaw1441
    @thelaw1441 Před 4 lety +4

    Whatever happened to Merle Ginsberg?

  • @urwholefamilydied
    @urwholefamilydied Před rokem +2

    3:08 what was that?? Was "truth beauty love filth" a song or zine or book or quote from someone that she accidently ripped off before correcting her self to, "oh, whoops, haha, I meant truth, beauty, love... my bad". That seemed like a really awkward and specific fuckup. Weird.

    • @fulanderson
      @fulanderson Před 23 dny

      Cuz that's smt she had said in previous interviews w the Immaculate Consumptive. I guess she just changed it on the spot because it was no longer applicable at that moment

  • @jameskennedy721
    @jameskennedy721 Před 2 lety +9

    She was miles ahead of a group like the Police or Elvis Costello . A decade later she was getting even more brutal and intense .

  • @asong4thedead
    @asong4thedead Před 4 lety +18

    The 80s were a tragic time for hair

    • @hjjabaljlaka5695
      @hjjabaljlaka5695 Před 2 lety +4

      no offense but have you seen the hair in your videos

    • @asong4thedead
      @asong4thedead Před 2 lety +2

      @@hjjabaljlaka5695 none of that is my hair, genius

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Před rokem +5

      The '80s were a magical time for hair; you're just envious because there was so much.

    • @EvilCat-EnergyCatalyst
      @EvilCat-EnergyCatalyst Před 8 měsíci +2

      The '80s were the BEST time for hair; Blixa, Genevieve McGuckin, Rowland S. Howard, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Foetus, Beate Bartel, Gudrun Gut, Daniel Ash - I could go on.

  • @Buelligan88
    @Buelligan88 Před 7 lety +25

    Merle Ginsberg was hot.

    • @stevenroby1667
      @stevenroby1667 Před 6 lety +7

      Buelligan88 she still is Merle was a judge on first few seasons of rupauls drag race

    • @SuperRobertoClemente
      @SuperRobertoClemente Před 4 lety

      See my response to Bart Tare above.

    • @davedogge2280
      @davedogge2280 Před 3 lety +3

      she has dark smokey looks that almost belong to a past more classical era

    • @Qrayon
      @Qrayon Před rokem

      No, she was cool. Beautiful lady, though.

  • @StevieZero
    @StevieZero Před 2 lety +5

    She was gorgeous

    • @TheBigMclargehuge
      @TheBigMclargehuge Před 2 lety

      I mean maybe if you have been in a Turkish prison camp for the last 30 years she might look about as appealing as a cold bowl of boiled lentils

  • @SpaceIsThePlace_
    @SpaceIsThePlace_ Před 5 lety +2

    The interviewer was a judge on the first two seasons of drag race.

  • @edmund184
    @edmund184 Před 5 lety +1

    0:56 I doubt that somehow though these days it would be believable. It's a more dangerous city than New York.

  • @DarlingPhenylethylamine
    @DarlingPhenylethylamine Před 7 lety +7

    How loveably narcissistic. Or narcissistically loveable.

  • @marinablack181
    @marinablack181 Před 2 měsíci

    2:22

  • @terenceshannon4731
    @terenceshannon4731 Před 8 lety

    Like a Matt Lucas character

  • @nicecutie
    @nicecutie Před 6 lety +30

    is this the same woman joe rogan started screaming at?

    • @corduroykumquat
      @corduroykumquat Před 5 lety +5

      unknowntuber unknowntuber you know it

    • @rebeccalopez2997
      @rebeccalopez2997 Před 4 lety +2

      Yep

    • @deathmetaldouglas69
      @deathmetaldouglas69 Před 4 lety +6

      Yes. That video turned me off to Rogan for a long time.

    • @varanchio
      @varanchio Před 4 lety

      @@deathmetaldouglas69 gosh, what? i thought his stand up was okay, but when his podcast came out, it turned me off immediately.so I'm not really surprised though..

    • @barrbarr31u
      @barrbarr31u Před 3 lety +9

      He put her in her place. Screw her.

  • @hcanderson3787
    @hcanderson3787 Před 2 lety +4

    What a wonderfully awkward interview. Was she always this way?

  • @user-kn7fy6tr3t
    @user-kn7fy6tr3t Před 2 lety

    Жаль я не понимаю английский

  • @Shadowx011
    @Shadowx011 Před rokem +1

    Wow that first Woman (is she from the UK) is beautiful. I am a gay male yet I cannot take my eyes off her…she looks so pure and friendly…❤
    EDiT

    • @frankensplean
      @frankensplean Před rokem +1

      Merle Ginsberg? see description

    • @Shadowx011
      @Shadowx011 Před rokem +1

      @@frankenspleanyes I researched right after I posted that comment.

  • @Woodpeckersnest
    @Woodpeckersnest Před 11 lety +1

    & bang-banged by henry [the] rollings !! P00F!!

    • @Qrayon
      @Qrayon Před rokem

      Really? If that's true, Henry must have liked her taste in music.

  • @TheMrmojo23
    @TheMrmojo23 Před 3 lety +4

    She killed the new York scene

  • @frog_king8383
    @frog_king8383 Před 3 měsíci

    This is dopey talk

  • @Laura-kg9le
    @Laura-kg9le Před 10 měsíci +1

    Uuuuugggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ....nice hair tho

  • @bwlamorte
    @bwlamorte Před 11 lety +11

    What's not to like about Lydia Lunch?

    • @Qrayon
      @Qrayon Před rokem

      Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

  • @stuntmangMUSIC
    @stuntmangMUSIC Před 3 lety +20

    funny how this losers biggest print she left was being a rude to a extraordinarily nice man.

    • @SrSacaninha
      @SrSacaninha Před 3 lety

      @Kitty Foreman Nardwuar

    • @stuntmangMUSIC
      @stuntmangMUSIC Před 3 lety +1

      @Kitty Foreman His name is Nardwuar, and is a very 'unique' and talented interviewer. Who once interviewed this lady(Among many artists like Kurt Cobain, Snoop dog, DaBaby ect. ). And she might be one of the most disrespectful and bratty geusts to ever be on his mega successful string of interviews. Search Nardwuar on CZcams.

    • @stuntmangMUSIC
      @stuntmangMUSIC Před 3 lety

      @Kitty Foreman and your a manlet. go cry now manlet

    • @stuntmangMUSIC
      @stuntmangMUSIC Před 3 lety

      @Kitty Foreman Sure manlet, i geuss thats just your normal interactions with other people LOL. Back to ur grandmas basement

    • @hjjabaljlaka5695
      @hjjabaljlaka5695 Před 2 lety

      what the fuck are gamers L O L and people into mumble rap even on these videos WHAT THE FUCK

  • @Quinty5555
    @Quinty5555 Před 11 lety

    mean mean meany! owen meany!!!!

  • @quickthunder86
    @quickthunder86 Před 7 lety +4

    truth beauty love filth

  • @zoologistsnightmare
    @zoologistsnightmare Před 3 lety

    “People say that you‘re a bitch“ hahahhaa

  • @americancitizen748
    @americancitizen748 Před rokem +4

    Interviewer is better looking.

  • @PerfectSnowball
    @PerfectSnowball Před 3 lety +7

    She seems coked out of her head in all of these interviews

  • @iwishiwasananteater.3205

    Uhg...what an annoying personality. "Look at me...I'm so different. I'm always annoyed at everything. You just don't see how good I am."

  • @marcosmiranda6120
    @marcosmiranda6120 Před rokem

    Doidinha, coitada.

  • @monicasmadhouse9278
    @monicasmadhouse9278 Před rokem +1

    x yawn

  • @travistytoday4031
    @travistytoday4031 Před 5 lety +1

    boring

  • @MAXIMILLIANgoodchild
    @MAXIMILLIANgoodchild Před 10 lety +2

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz boring

  • @Roberto-nm8sw
    @Roberto-nm8sw Před rokem +1

    little girl trying to be so .......

  • @loadspiller
    @loadspiller Před rokem +1

    NOT PUNK AT ALL

  • @barrbarr31u
    @barrbarr31u Před 3 lety +4

    It took Joe Rogan to put this lady in her place.

    • @QuadMochaMatti
      @QuadMochaMatti Před rokem

      Joe Rogan is the king of the hyper-testosteroneated douchebags. What has he ever contributed to society?

    • @barrbarr31u
      @barrbarr31u Před rokem

      @@QuadMochaMatti More than Lydia Lunch.