dB's ~ Cycles Per Second ~ BBC ~ (1981)

"Cycles Per Second" by the dB's ~ BBC, 1981

The city was London, UK. The show was a national broadcast on the nation's largest network. Three top-notch performances, one by each songwriter and with an instrumental thrown in.

The dB's road manager on the tour, Dave Boxall, added genitalia to the show's logo of a performer's silhouette. This is clearly visible on the left of the screen. On "Big Brown Eyes" Will wore a pair of gag glasses with eyeballs on springs that bounce all over the place. Not so clearly visible. The eyeballs only came in blue, and Albion's publicist painted the irises brown. (Too bad they couldn't get the eyes to come out brown on the single sleeve!)

The dB's - Bad Reputation - Sweden 1982

BTW, gurls, if you like this video, i have a ton of 'em like this in tupperware boxes with precisely the same deteriorated quality which may just remind you of me/turn you on

dB's: AMPLIFIER [PAVEMENT OF THE EIGHTIES]

Wow, if you are really oldish, like me, these last few, and probably, few more videes, presented at 5:40 AM, after the damned sleep of middle-age, should be so nice to wake up to/with/what did brian wilson say? oh, wouldn't it be nice to sleep together...anyway, with only 294 views since sometime early last year, i'm really ultra-mega-surprised [i'm on an 80s' kick] that [what i thought was] the greatest band in the world, dB's' video for 'AMPLIFIER,' HAS NOT been picked up and disseminated by the tipsterAZZI, at least, on the merit of Peter Holsapple's [my Mauryiarty...it's a long story] inclusion in that most underwhelming 80s' band of all time, as mandolin player of REM [OH, THAT'S RIGHT, THEY'RE NOT REMOTELY HIP ANYMORE...No, maybe he did more than that...it's hazy and i NO goin' to no fuckapedia for my facts...BUT WHAT ABOUT STAMEY AND THE CHILTON CONNECTION...IT'S NO USE...ANCIENT JAPANESE SECRET...WHAT ABOUT STAMEY].

Anyway, in case this is just a fluke, or i'm not aware, or it's mislabeled, or it appears somewhere else and is totally labeled correctly, OR, TRULY, NO ONE GIVES A FLYING FUCK EXCEPT ME AND RICK STATON:

HERE'S THE PAVEMENT OF THE EIGHTIES:

dB's

*[DEDICATED TO KAREN (HOLLY/HOLLEY), MY FIRST COLLEGE GIRLFRIEND + HER ROOMETTE, GRETTA? + ANDY McCLENON [NOT SPEAKING] + RICK STATON [SPEAKING OCCASIONALLY] + MATT WILSON [HASN'T SPOKEN RECENTLY...NNNNNNHELLLO] + EVERYONE ELSE WHO USED TO RIDE AROUND IN THEIR CARS LISTENING TO THEIR HOMEMADE dB'S CASSETTE OF FUCKIN' *GIVES THE IRONIC 80s DIO METAL SIGN* [WE FUCKIN' INVENTED IT]:

'AMPLIFIER'

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Bongos: Numbers with Wings [Aired 3-31-84: BPV: YOU EMO-TYPES MIGHT LIKE THIS BLAST]