Band of Susans - "The Pursuit of Happiness"

Band of Susans' video of "The Pursuit of Happiness" from their 1989 album Love Agenda. Footage was shot by Chris Metzler and Robert Poss, assembled by Robert Poss and Susan Stenger.
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[@kjsp94]

THE best punk\alt band ever to come out of NYC. Every time I hear wall of sound guitar wanabes I have to back to the orignial! Sorely missed. Drone On!

[@MacDougalPuppy]

So much G&L in this video. YES!

[@MacDougalPuppy]

The guitars they're playing are made by G&L Musical Instruments, a company formed by Leo Fender, the creator of Fender guitars.

[@RickyTenSleep]

But no Domino. Just wait.

[@kingblind]

GREAT BAND!! God I miss them!!

[@myzenthing]

Awesome! One of my favorite bands. More videos please!

[@oskrlune]

Que buena banda de rock!!! Poderosos riffs,solos de guitarra esplendidos,Bajo cautivante,profundo ejecutado magistralmente,las voces se acoplan perfectamente al sonido apabullante,LAS GUITARRAS LO VALEN TODO Great,great great ROCK BAND :) LOVE AGENDA it's amazing

[@arnaudbroussel]

Love Agenda is one the best LP I know.

[@sean2me]

Cool! I wish I could get a hold of there stuff! I loved the wire cover they did, on the wire tribute album. That was an amazing song! Ahead it was called, brilliant stuff!

[@nitpicker]

Thanks! Nice clip !

[@Racosz]

Definitivamente Robert Poss sí sabe para qué es una guitarra eléctrica. Se puede rastrear acá la influencia de Rhys Chatham/Glenn Branca/Arto Lindsay. Qué grupazo.

[@AppleTreeAdam]

Best band - All hail Aunty Susan

[@ShlomirBareket]

Great drone rock!

[@str8soundsmusic]

congratulations. today this video was selected by the NYC Punk Rock Evolution Foundation.

[@distortiontruthBOS-RP]

Yes, that really is Monument Valley.

[@duckface524]

Fucking underrated band

[@guodade2239]

Amazing song, as much a precursor of the post-rock movement of the 1990s as anything of its time. The Susans' music might be heavy and visceral, but its flowing nature reminds me a lot of Roxy's masterwork "The Thrill of it All". The short solos, too, add to the song a great deal, whilst the idiosyncratic, "androgynous" character of both Poss and Stenger as vocalists fits the material well but is not likely to appeal to most listeners.

[@stevenwonder3171]

The mighty 💕 susans

[@distortiontruthBOS-RP]

Shot while on tour with cheap video camera, cassette deck in the van playing for sync. Edited on VHS..... ands then a bad transfer.

[@Dunbar0740]

Perfect.

[@nickfanzo]

g&l. the best guitars.

[@rustinpieces]

I guess the guitar-plant would have been G&L's? Leo Fender was a huge fan of BofS's. My all-time fave track of them is Hard Light - I can play that five times in a row when I feel like it.

[@distortiontruthBOS-RP]

And the G&L Guitars factory....

[@sdmcnca]

Sonic Youth...yeah.....good comment......they were all from like the same NYC blocks doing their thing!!!!!! Isn't if fucking beautiful!!!!! YESSS!!!!! Page Hamilton is in here as one of the three guitarists guys....he went on to form / be in Helmet and is just a super musician to be respected! Shane Duhe

[@rosiechanel]

Well, Shit! THis fucking rocks!

[@spensert4933]

Those three bass notes.

[@georgioskapa]

G&L !!!!!!

[@NegFi]

@fortyeightdeadguys only Page played with Glenn with any regularity (though I think at least one of the Susans played on Symphony no 13 in London)- most of them were a lot closer to Rhys Chatham and performed with him. Same general influences, from an intellectual standpoint, but specifically from Rhys and not Glenn (Sonic Youth would be the exact opposite).

[@tiki_trash]

G&L factory tour

[@birdrescueostend]

Is the live footage in this clip from the I-Beam in San Francisco 1989? If so, I was there.

[@distortiontruthBOS-RP]

Actually Chatham not Branca, and labelmates/contemporaries to Sonic Youth but not influenced by them....

[@abortionrock]

i was hoping that Zwan would do something like this, as far as layering goes, since they had 3 guitarists also...but i guess you can't cover that much ground when your band only exists for 2 years. i wish i had an SC-1...

[@hamupinhere]

Wow, that's a name I haven't heard uttered in years (Zwan), and trust me when I say that the irony is not lost on me that I'm replying to a 9 year old comment. I remember back in like 2001, one of my friends (a Billy Corgan fanatic) was hailing them as the next big thing. I suppose the subsequent Smashing Pumpkins reunion--or depending on one's definition of a "reunion", that is--ensured that Zwan would end up a footnote.

[@hobbsk]

so dissonant...great sound. anyone know what distortion pedals were they using?

[@distortiontruthBOS-RP]

Sorry, a recent comment was inadvertently deleted when I deleted a spam comment.

[@volscho]

where's page hamilton?

[@sgebhardt100]

A bit of Ted Nugent Wango Tango? Nothing new under the sun..

[@distortiontruthBOS-RP]

61k views and you are first one to bring up a reference to a guy who makes music for persons who know precisely how much Sudafed they can get for a stolen catalytic converter.

[@ZRN959]

um.... Sonic Youth?