Minutemen - Live @ The Starwood, LA 11/8/80 [VIDEO FOOTAGE!]

[@prudencefitzenstein4916]

It took BALLS to be a band like the minutemen in the early hardcore scene where individuality was becoming very unpopular. They were the ultimate fuck you to those creating guidelines for punk rock

[@theDutton]

Their chapter in Our Band Could Be Your Life talks about this. Everyone is making shorter more aggressive records? OK double album with slow interludes. Everyone is adding distortion and layering up guitars? OK strip everything back and play it clean. Just 3 dudes constantly taking wild left turns and unapologetically being themselves. Great band man, great band

[@trinalaios734]

Individuality has never been popular in hardcore punk. Least of all then. Such a puritanical scene

[@mercyfulmick2120]

Just saw Mike Watt tonight and asked him about this show, he was stoked and then signed my JOY album. One of the best shows ever. Such a genuinely nice guy and still kicks ass.

[@stevencopley5487]

I have not seen Mike perform but I'm going to catch him at two different performances in July and August in San Pedro. Also hoping that I can get him to sign my copy of Craig Ibarra's book.

[@Steve-bv6bt]

George is murdering those blue vista-lites. Great footage thank you

[@vermillionmusic9630]

This is absolutely amazing footage. Thank you for posting. These people don't realize they are witnessing one of the greatest bands to ever exist in the history of music, IMHO. I had the good fortune to see them about two years after this in Long Beach. They were already so revered that this kind of reaction would never have happened. Those guys heckling them would have been thrown right out. It was at the Golden Bear. D Boon actually sat at my table for the opening band. Changed my life forever. And then I got to see, from about ten feet away, D and Mike and George just obliterate the stage. I've never seen anything like it. So original, powerful, weird, precise, rocking, fearless. Totally life-affirming. This is the music I go to when I need to realign my priorities.

[@BradyDale04]

They belong in the hall of fame

[@imthegrk]

Absolutely.

[@jarrelsixtytwo3993]

Damn they’re young here! I was lucky to see them 4 or 5 years later not long before d boon left us. I’ll never forget how that big man played and danced.

[@bassimprovjams3772]

Dude, u are so blessed so see them.. mike watt is a damn beast!!!!

[@boogieboy75]

D. Boon is 22 here

[@SubaruWRXspdManual]

you're so lucky to have seen them live. I got into them only about 8-10 years ago. I was the drummer in a punkish type band and the bass player(josh) who became one of my best friends said hey, check out this dvd. It was we jam econo. He's said I'm sure you'll like this band. He was correct. They were so damn good. RIP D. Boon

[@peewhocantbeaimed6954]

Haha no shit! I was 16 in 1980. WHERE'S MY TIME TRAVELLING DELOREAN!!

[@teethgrinder83]

​@@peewhocantbeaimed6954 fuck I was but a twinkle in my parents eyes and wouldn't be born for another 3yrs till after you turned 19 😂 anyway exceptional band for sure-i just stumbled onto them last year after reading that when Slint wrote their "Spiderland" album they had been listening to a lot of Minutemen and I'd never heard of them before at that point-I'm from the UK so I'd been more likely to hear other bands I'm really into like Gang of Four and other post-punk bands from over here but the internet changed all that. Anyway I gave them a listen and I've never looked back, they really were something else. I've just gotten into NomeansNo recently (especially their live+cuddly album) and that's knocked me off my feet

[@klairedelune9]

Their grace under the fire of those imbecilic hecklers is simply awe-inspiring. DBoon "don't throw them out...." MWatt "Peace and love " amidst the pure genius explosion that was their music/art gosh, what a band. RIP D Boon. TYSM for posting

[@SilverHammer1]

Good to see they never bothered to mix the 2nd mic even back in the 80s never change shitty sound guys

[@nitroxsam66]

The Minutemen were so awesome the audience was dumbfounded and couldn't move or speak...lol.

[@quaidkeith6616]

Ahead of their time

[@HermanWaldorf]

first two chords and it's history of rock. They were so good. I am speechless

[@KravMagoo]

After this show, the mics lit cigarettes and chilled.

[@dsussman]

Greatest 3-piece fucking EVER

[@blonieamw2998]

"Issued you a new #, you POSER!" hahahahaha best mike watt quote ever!!

[@noelfisher1829]

Please locate footage from Huntington Beach in this year. I signed on as partial roadie and partial after show party connector and hooked this band up to my orange county friends band's. Really vital show was near the power plant.

[@noelfisher1829]

Pretty certain the Huntington gigs were prior to this los Angeles section. I'm here in this show, I helped check sound and cleaned contacts, and asked crowd where from, and talked with a 21 Jump Street friend .

[@thecitizenjoan]

I’m really happy someone recorded this

[@stevencopley5487]

Absolutely fascinating. I have never seen this video. I did not move to be Pedro adjacent until 1986, so missed everything that had gone on and at that time punk wasn't my vibe. Now many years later I have learned to appreciate it. Currently reading Craig Ibarra's book, A Wailing of a Town...such history. I have seen George Hurley play recently (still banging away) and will finally catch Mike Watt in July and August (2024) at The Sardine in San Pedro. And D. Boon...you left us too soon. Play on man. ❤️🙏

[@mordantfilms]

It's too bad that The Minutemen were a shade late for The Decline of Western Civilization. They would've been the most powerful band in the film.

[@JohnSmith-ij6ms]

really a shame

[@jacksonfritts2988]

You’re absolutely right

[@KravMagoo]

Prolly a good thing...they were the beginning of the Re-ascent of Western Civilization.

[@russellhenrybieber6620]

literally

[@DEADRABBIT8]

Definitely but I thought the circle jerks had a great set in that doc and a lot of crowd energy, also fear with the way lee ving started antagonizing the crowd very pleasurable to watch

[@tonyjones2612]

Germs would play their last show there about a month later

[@CyberMelon]

It was on a TV!

[@LemontreeFarms]

Wow. Just wow.

[@pandabck]

greatest band of all time.

[@matthewvaneyk4679]

Art in motion.

[@3340steve]

Sound is great...i love this band...

[@BenjaminPritchard911]

Holy cow this is amazing

[@FelixWheatfield]

These guys, Flipper, and Black Flag got me through my adolescence.

[@scottowens4162]

i heard the tour with black flag in europe was brutal.

[@trinalaios734]

Musically speaking one of the greatest American punk bands of all time. 3 virtuosos

[@bonanza27]

the way these guys stand up in the face of adversity melts my heart every gd time. blazin performance

[@mrmo4176]

How fuckin brilliant was this show? Holy balls, those guys had COJONES, and only a few people in the audience were even brave enough to actually enjoy the utterly unprecedented musical cavalcade of unbelievably great musical concepts and ideas being presented in such a frenzied manner. R.I.P. D. Boon, you were an inimical genius (not to take anything away from Mike and/or George, they're geniuses too).

[@salvie5]

This takes nothing away from Hurley or watt. But I always see it as boon the genius and George and Mike are the master technicians

[@EyeTunz]

Incredible band. Great footage!

[@lunasrojas_]

I fucking love this band

[@martinjdsanchezsalva7527]

La mejor banda de la historia

[@PK-gi2qh]

This is incredible jamming!

[@H1N1777]

Thanks for posting this!!!!

[@robertposusta537]

at ...6:39/40...Contained...boon and watt singing together is just beautiful...is the best word I can think of...if only we could of experienced what they had for us next?!?? ..they probably didn't even know either but damn if it would of been good!

[@williamranson-b3v]

Suburban Lawns were uninvited because we didn't sign w Slash because we were told the Germs were giving a Pizza upon completion of their album. Yes The Minute have stood out for their risk taking and originality.

[@williamranson-b3v]

Minutemen Tribute at Sardine April 1st Easter Monday for D.Boon

[@brad5699]

Quite possibly the worst audience ever at a h/c gig. 😂

[@samuelblinne6040]

Awesome

[@theslimemolds5099]

Fukn greatness

[@Tracks777]

Brilliant work! Keep it up!

[@Tom-ub7ti]

Keep it up. brilliant! Band ended in '85 due to a death.

[@chlum6295]

14:27 pick goes flying

[@1tchyb1tch1]

man i woulda lost my shit seeing them live, how do you not move to this??

[@SubaruWRXspdManual]

Punk was a new genre at the time and people had no clue what they were listening to. Or that they were listening to one of the best punk bands that would exist.

[@1tchyb1tch1]

@@SubaruWRXspdManual id still be dancing tho x(

[@Psychoholic_]

Cmoooonnnn that was a pretty difficult public. These guys were totally amazing and the crowd didn't even got hyped or anything, unfair.

[@davidmaholchic6146]

They would grow to make some of the best post Punk ever

[@pedrocardiel6746]

intro sound like the doors light my fire

[@motherbrain86]

Yes i hear it too, awesome

[@prudencefitzenstein4916]

Its a great way to piss off the crowd

[@JMarinelli]

"The measured distance between centuries issues you your number, you poser."

[@campzzyzx9792]

WoW!! XOXO!!!

[@eddiem5997]

Fuck yeah.

[@H1N1777]

I noticed during “Definitions” instead of singing “burn your dictionaries” they sing “tear up your dictionaries”. Thought that was interesting.

[@thehardcorepunkarchive]

I always thought "tear up your dictionaries" was the original line.

[@quaidkeith6616]

Rusty Shackleford are you deaf? It has never been burn

[@H1N1777]

Juan Cena I must be deaf

[@zakaryhenderson9512]

Dont think I've seen Mike playing with a pick other than this video

[@mlwsf]

Also can't remember the last time he played anything other than his SG bass.

[@phillipford2216]

I gave up bass about 25 years ago, but remember Watt in interviews talking about starting to play with fingers on Double Nickels, and he wondered why the hell he'd wasted all this time using picks. Also he played a Tele bass for a while. Actually found some forum talkbass dot com where he goes into detail about this minutia, if you want to learn more. He plays picks if Mascis or Iggy want it.

[@adderon]

D's playing his Strat from the Reactionaries days too. The Gibson Melody Maker and the Tele's were soon to follow. :)

[@juliehosier1777]

the audience was acting like a bunch of posers. if you can't mosh or vibe to minutemen don't boo them and rip their mic cables and spit

[@wa8d4g8i7]

minutemen are for dancing. the crowd are just lame

[@wa8d4g8i7]

this ones for ronald reagan, hah

[@raelockletree3858]

😂

[@scottowens4162]

the best version of that song in my opinion

[@brandonhendrix7223]

Their first real gig. Bet the Black Flag set was also taped. That I love to see too but...

[@mlwsf]

Cool, a tuning video. I always get scared when these things start this way. Lol

[@MastaSquidGT5]

Tuners are for posers

[@RealAsaMitaka]

I thought "Mike Watt Vs. The Audience" was a song lol

[@harrymay2528]

Wasn'T the gig on the 18th?

[@gymnastiarsantini3673]

What happened at 13:27?

[@wa8d4g8i7]

d. with 2 broken strings hanging off his guitar

[@in3rcia218]

this is what you call dynamite in his pure acting of explosion

[@elmoblatch9787]

It's like that audience is attending church. No mosh, no pogo, no stage dive. Are they staging a protest? Mike Watt playing with a pick here. I think he started playing with fingers fairly soon after this. Not sure.

[@kelechi_77]

Pentecostal churches have more moshing going on than this gig lol

[@chaambler]

This one’s for Ronald Reagan

[@SK-le1gm]

…all enslaved to the Fascist 😢

[@EricBichan]

"You suck!"

[@salvie5]

Minutemen sucks

[@fukallpoliticians9111]

tf is up with the crowd why are they not slam dancing I guess it was to experimental for them what happen to punk haves no rules