Stryper on the Wally George Show - 1984

Promoting their current album (or rather EP), The Yellow and Black Attack, Stryper appeared on conservative talk-show host Wally George's weekly program. His program was taped at KDOC Channel 56 in Anaheim, Ca.
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[@Theospeak1]

It's ironic how level headed and sensible the band is and how unhinged and histrionic the fellow in the suit is.

[@LifeProducersofNewJerseyLLC]

Thanks Stryper for being Christian even under condemnation.

[@jonnuanez2843]

Wally George was the precursor to Morton Downey, Geraldo, etc. He was on a really small station from Huntington Beach. All his "fans" were more into the circus aspect of it. Some were into it but mostly it was just frat boys into the circus. Wally knew what it was all about and egged it all on.

[@jasonfreakinbang]

The station was KDOC in Anaheim.

[@jonnuanez2843]

@@jasonfreakinbang Anaheim...thank you. I'm watching the Morton Downey interviews-chopped up into 2 segments-rt now. Oh boy.

[@LUKEOLIVEIRA1]

i am from brazil and i love stryper to death,they are my favorite musicians and this ballad is their best

[@DanHull817]

I'll start with this: I'm a HUGE Stryper fan and protagonist. With that said, I'd be willing to guess Robert and Michael didn't know what they were getting into when agreeing to appear on Wally George's show. He reminds me of Jerry Springer, only he sits behind a desk and incites the crowd. Really weird stuff.

[@BillyBongwaters]

Um Jerry Springer copied Wally George is why it remined you of Jerry.....WALLY WALLY WALLY was way before ... JERRY JERRY JERRY...see the similarities?

[@pierrechareau9466]

@@BillyBongwaters and Donald Trump copied Wally as well

[@senben9180]

Wally Georgevthe greatest TV show host EVER and greatest TV show HOT SEAT ever only possible in rad 80's! I also only learned of Stryper thanks to Wally George never heard of then before! Man 80's were bodacious!

[@billolert4058]

Wow, the infamous puppy lie. No one ever threw any puppies into a crowd. Not Ozzy, Not Alice Cooper, and not Marilyn Manson. No one.

[@calbeza]

I remember hearing about this interview back in '85. Michael and Robert handled themselves well, but what a bizarre scene.

[@USCTROJANFAN1000]

I remember when this first aired Stryper still around they'll celebrate their 40th anniversary next year

[@privateprivate1865]

I dont recall ever hearing of wally George when i was a kid in the 80s when i lived in California, Oregon and Washington???

[@thecreativemillenial]

i think that the only sane and sensible people in this video are Stryper

[@georgemaster9979]

Oh,that duckbill cap in front the guy has on!

[@senben9180]

Rad 80's!!!

[@alnewberry]

Wow. My IQ just went down 1000 points watching this.

[@bobbysox2415]

Wally is finally right about something! And Rock on Stripper!!! We still listen to your music.

[@ronrocker7131]

Stripper lol Haha, that's a good one!

[@USCTROJANFAN1000]

R.I.P. Wally George

[@williamzimmerman7501]

Metal has never caused ppl like this host to appear so angry. That's something else.

[@en5788]

This is hilarious. Funny that Stryper ended up covering a black sabbath song. And the puppy thing shows how paranoid people were back then and how easy it was to spread rumors.

[@ronaldshank7589]

They always compromised. At first, people didn't catch on, because they had no way of knowing what was going on with these clowns! Then, things began to happen that proved to the world just what they were all about. They're even quoting scriptures to Wally, and to the crowd. Big, fat, hairy deal!!! Even the Devil can quote scriptures!!! The only thing is that, every time he does that, it's done to get people to swallow the spiritual poison that he wants them to swallow. It's like hiding a poison pill in some meat, and giving it to a stray animal, just to kill them off, so you won't have to deal with them anymore. Jesus said that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. If somebody is trying to tell you something wrong, even if they use scripture to push some spiritual poison at you, I don't care how right they may sound-get away from them as soon as possible!!!

[@ecgodsmack86]

Heaven and hell?

[@brianeastman3547]

Wally is a great host,give them Liberals hell man,Rest In Peace Wally.

[@ryanleclaire3948]

It's crazy how insane this guy was. Trying to goad this great band into craziness. Even as a Christian band, they deserved better than this.

[@JamesC1981]

12:42 this guy with the sign nearly predicted Wally George's death

[@gilbertflores4341]

These guys are still around too!

[@STRYPERTUBE]

Excellent!

[@rockmusicexclusivez2975]

Love Stryper but Ozzy NEVER threw puppies in the audience and told them to slit there throats

[@N_FORCE_5]

This is great!

[@GlamTamful]

I enjoyed way too many chuckles while viewing this for the first time. At certain points, I could read Mike's mind. Ha!Ha!

[@VahanNisanian]

Can anyone please tell me what song is that during the end credits? It isn't John Coleman's "World in Action", which they began using later that same year.

[@Ataque1984]

TRADUZCAN AL ESPAÑOL ESTA JOYA!!!

[@peteonthefarm]

The dude's glasses at 9:25 is far more offensive than Ozzy

[@janetstephens5578]

I went to junior high school and high school with Robert. I love Stryper.

[@MediaSubliminal]

Yeah! They are from my home town though a bit older than me. Robert worked at a local guitar shop. I talked to him a few times but he was very busy there.

[@uhdudewhy7980]

I worked next-door to where Oz Fox worked back in '80 - '81 before he was in Stryper. Nice guy and we jammed on guitars a few times. He was the first one who told me that Reagan got shot and the second one to tell me that John Lennon died (my dad was the first). The wall dividing where I worked and where he worked (both were warehouses) didn't reach the ceiling so we'd hear Oz screaming heavy metal lyrics while he was working. A few years later we ran into each other in La Mirada and was blown away when he told me he was lead guitarist for Stryper.

[@AndrewsSister75]

Wally was a great memory to me. Of whom I used to be. When I was in denial of my true inner self 20 years ago, I practically worshipped this guy on TV. It is not easy for me to watch him anymore now that I'm happily living the way I should have been.

[@hermananaya2383]

why is the sound so screwd?...this is a great show, it deserves better quality

[@mmode]

In 1984, video was recorded via analog tapes. The quality of analog deteriorates over time until it is converted to digital format.

[@Soundeagle3456]

Wally really got put off by the slam dancing, if only he knew then, that those 'punks' were kids from broken homes and had parental abuse, and violence in their lives, and the whole reason they slammed was for therapy.

[@denebx1]

They fail to mention that God's name is actually El Duce

[@fernando.jesus.arielrescat8127]

Me gustaria q KZbin. Tenga traducion al español

[@tumeh1778]

This is absolutely hilarious

[@tracezachdaniels4264]

4 4 2019.....and ooo wee......so fun....

[@d3hybrid713]

good job stryper and espcially i give credit to Jesus who of courrse ROCKS!

[@SethMcFartlane]

Moses was the original rapper. The Oooh Geee.

[@MetalHeart8787]

very TRUE, Ozyy has a lot of great well written songs & IF anything Ozzy is more like an Angel. Most Real ozzy fans would agree who know his Lyrics

[@AndrewsSister75]

i never got into their music but thinking back and hearing a few of their tracks they weren't bad. good singing voice the lead singer of Styper had. as for wally George i used to like him but renounced his views when i came out as trans. Stryper wasnt a bad band.

[@PBoyB2010]

Ozzy has repeatedly said that he never advocated Satan openly in their music. He has always said that he just makes music and people interpret it as the way they want to. And as for the whole "Prince of darkness" nickname that was given to him by the media. People just blow the music and the image out of proportion.

[@JeffTheHokie]

Black Sabbath the band was named after a Boris Karloff horror movie. The idea was that if people will pay to see scary movies, they will pay to listen to scary music. Some people saw the name and took it too seriously thinking "they must be devil worshipers". The band learned that that type of publicity sells records, and so the devil-worship rumors were born. Ozzy was never any more satanic than a Halloween costume.

[@WPPCProductions]

Love Stryper. Great tunes with a message and great 1980's big hair. Ditto on the comments .Wally George.The father of say it like it is conservative talk radio/TV.Back bone of all that follow then Morton Downey Jr, Now Rush,Sean Hannity ,Michael Savage,Alex J,Tucker C,and so on as the ones I forgot about..

[@Fretworx]

"Black Sabbath?? They're worse than Ozzy Osbourne!" That made me laugh :D

[@mattquiroz546]

Wally was a conservative nut job but Stryper rocks!

[@SoldierUSArmy]

matt quiroz While the members of Styper are polticaly anti-Reagan Democratic Socialists utterly unlike Wally George, who really hates Socialism!!!

[@mustang7603]

Glad he wasn’t he left wing woke sheep lunatic

[@DukieMeister75]

The Uni-Bomber is in the crowd! Baseball cap and sunglasses.

[@jnnx]

That’s how ppl dressed in the 80’s.

[@THECLARENCES]

The Clarences love & support Stryper!

[@GalacticCowboy]

Respect to Stryper, they had balls. Xtian, Satanic, if it rocks it rocks, who cares! Music should be well-written, and if it inspires you or is positive then all the better.

[@davidtaylor9219]

STRYPER RULES !!! 👍

[@ChrisTaylorG]

A rare interview!!! Nice to see This!!! A Stryper FAN

[@ginnyallen4337]

That crap about ozzy is not true if you have ever seen the show the osebornes you can tell the man loves puppies he has like 50 of them

[@karina-zq6zs91kskll]

But that was in the 80s

[@seekhim777]

Rock On Stryper

[@titzit4754]

Stryper are from Buena Park. Just like all these folks from the OC

[@thecreativemillenial]

lol crazy ozzy yet we all love him and his family

[@warrior_9726]

I want Robert sweet shirt

[@davluc1]

this is embarrasing and you can see it all over michaels face. LOL never the less it was very entertaining !

[@tonystreeter9231]

Wow...this is pretty dated...lol But still a huge STRYPER fan...definately early Stryper. But Wally George?!...lol...it kinda looks like they were booked on the Jerry Springer show

[@BillyBongwaters]

Because Jerry Copied Wally George

[@lindamerchant4431]

I don't remember slam dancing and this Wally George video is fuzzy hard to hear audio

[@amibra693]

So cool. Never been another Wally

[@brianeastman3547]

I would love to have seen Wally George run for President, if he was still alive

[@dirtyworks13]

I never heard it before, I think Wally George made it up right then.Ozzy would never do that and if he did he'd have went to prison for animal cruelty.Also no one in an audience would stand for that.If you were at a show and some one threw cute puppies into the crowd would you(ANYONE?) stand there allowing them to be killed.Never,I know no one who would.Even people in prison in KY have cats on the yard and one of the cops said worst thing anyone could do was harm the cats cause you'd DIE!

[@GhostMonkey772]

"Wally in 2004" LOL what? 12:44

[@Soundeagle3456]

time traveller HAHAHAHAHAHAH, hes really pushing for the years there HAHAHAHAH

[@BillyBongwaters]

Sadly Wally Died October 5, 2003

[@senben9180]

They were saying George Bush senior was supposed to rule 8 years and then Dan Quayle 8 years. That's how they came up with 2004. He would have been narly President! Only possible in bodacious 80's!!!

[@09nickels]

A cross between Glenn Beck and Eric Andre.

[@beatleman69]

A letter? Not an "e-mail"? LOL!!!

[@ebud-wv2tw]

Didn't Stryper cover a few secular rock songs a few years back?

[@ebud-wv2tw]

+CRUEHEAD 01 That was a good album!

[@thecreativemillenial]

so true anyone who's seen the osbournes knows he loves animals hes got what 4 or 5 dogs

[@TheMillieBurton]

Wish that the'd had Varg on this show.

[@soulcraft79]

This is hilarious. My, how the world has changed.

[@patmoffit4346]

STRYPER RULES ! AND SO DOES GOD !!!

[@JTThomas82]

Stryper are a band that I like but never got their message. I got Gwar message with no problems.

[@jonnyquest8774]

+JT STAR What was Gwar's message?

[@JTThomas82]

jonnyQuest Damn, I know this is a late reply but if your still alive. Gwar's message is don't trust the government, say yes to drugs, say no to religion and do whatever the fuck you wanna do.

[@bobbidavies7303]

@@JTThomas82 and go to hell.nah thanks.God rules

[@rockmusicexclusivez2975]

Gwar sucks thats why they never made it out the clubs lol shity poser metal !!

[@bobbidavies7303]

Much better than gwar,and not sick and twisted

[@TescoVee]

I think you miss the point to Wally George. He was Jerry Springer before there was a Jerry Springer.

[@BillyBongwaters]

WALLY WALLY WALLY ... people think that was jerry's deal ha ha Jerry stole so much from Wally

[@roysummers2936]

Jesus Christ Rock's Joy fun noise

[@nedbella]

I'd laugh my arse off if Sharon Osborne was off stage. I can picture her charging on the set after hearing that bullshit story about the puppies and tearing him a new one. This bloke just likes to razz up an audience. Those are usually the dangerous ones. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Stryper fan from way back, still am. I'm not religious one bit, but their music and songs are awesome and they are nice guys.

[@LindaMerchant-bq2hp]

Ozzy did poor bat's that way and little animals puppies and cats

[@modspell]

Who were/are "The Hags"?? lol

[@richardjones7793]

The Hags suck!

[@dirtyworks13]

Ha ha Ozzy the Puppy killer! Where the hell did Wally come up with that?Ozzy Osbourne loves animals.That's just out there.He said one time some threw a bat onstage and he thought it was a rubber halloween toy bat and he bit of it's head to find it was real.He had to get rabies shots over that.Ozzy talks about being thankful to God all the time, I don't think he means the Devil.

[@kevin2400]

Would you want fries with that

[@wavingshockster777]

@MR44LOVESHOT Right on dude. There's nothing wrong in listening to Christian and Secular Rock. Bands like WASP and White Lion opened for Stryper back in the mid 80's. I didn't attend the shows, but I realized Stryper rocked hard like all the rest. Only difference: their message. "The Covering" is an awesome album! I liked their version of Kiss "Shout it Out Loud" the best. Stryper does not pass judgement on secular rock music. I say Motley Crue opens for Stryper. How cool is that!?

[@jeremymiller1513]

Stryper has done Ozzy and a sabbath covers...lol

[@Fireglo]

I like how they don't mention how harmful Christianity can be.

[@iconicon7354]

False religions are harmful. Greedy corporate culture is perniciously harmful. The egoism of the rich has a cancerous impact on our health and the health of the planet.

[@lexbeltran1354]

Christians are hypocrites to begin with.

[@Rogue863]

Lx Beltran you're a special kind of stupid. Lol

[@jamesmichaelis1483]

@@lexbeltran1354 Wow Lex that's some real genius insight right there! Last time i checked we are ALL hypocrites the difference is Christians can be forgiven thanks to Jesus Christ

[@lexbeltran1354]

Stryper were heavier than those Glam/hair metal bands back then.

[@frenchfries8594]

Hell naw lmao

[@BillyBongwaters]

Um NO....

[@clintsavagejr]

Wally George-The Last Great American

[@SacredFire777]

That woman at 0:59 looks like Lita Ford.

[@3160jimmys]

you are a star because you want to entertain people not to tell people what to do what a load of crap and i listen all kinds of music and i'm not a devil worshiper

[@GhostMonkey772]

is this like the 80s version of alex jones lol

[@senben9180]

He's the original and sincere unlike the obese liar Alex Jones!

[@MrMarkerickson]

What's wrong with slam dancing? I think that's just another rough way to have fun if you're ready for it, just like football.

[@dirtyworks13]

I have to wonder about Wally George's Crowd,did they take him seriously?Was he serious about all this super right wing nonsense.I mean there is conservative but this dope is off his rocker.I know some of his stuff had to be for rating but in his heart who was this guy?Did anyone watching go to his show?I wonder if you could get a good buzz on beer going and go.that'd be fun!

[@thecreativemillenial]

@Thirdgen83 so true if ozzy did that, he'd be arrested for animal abuse

[@cubby3o5]

In 2011 they covered songs from both Ozzy and Black Sabbath. How ironic.

[@BillyBongwaters]

And now all Drink again as if they ever probably stopped go figure

[@CYOnTheBeat]

great audio smfh 🤦‍♂️

[@thecreativemillenial]

@vwgti99 Obiviously they used the same story for Marilyn Manson if ozzy or manson did that, they'd be arrested and banned for animal abuse

[@dickenya3278]

Bunch of dummies in the comments. Wally George was putting on an act...it's called entertainment.

[@BillyBongwaters]

WALLY was GREAT at it also lol...And just look at all the shows that have copied him so much

[@senben9180]

Pardon... Wally George WAS as conservative as he claimed IT IS NO PARODY or A FALSE SHOW. He was 80's rad like conservative Stryper.

[@thecreativemillenial]

erm no he did not bite birds heads off some threw a bat on stage ozzy thought it was just some prat in the audience throwing a plastic bat on stage tried biting it for a joke and it turns out it was a real bat

[@calebproductions5970]

Lmao 😅😅😅

[@nedbella]

LOL,....Tony Stark made an appearance.

[@jeffblacky]

Heh 😼 heh 😼 ahhhhh heh

[@thecreativemillenial]

everyones a freak in their own way there's no such thing as normal

[@thecreativemillenial]

i know they tried the same stunt on marilyn manson

[@thecreativemillenial]

didnt they try using the puppy story on Marilyn Manson

[@HeadNtheClouds]

Nobody in the audience seems to be getting into the music, haha! 😮

[@BLM_Big_Lipped_Marxist]

Stryper BLOWS SHEET.

[@MichaelABruce-px7ey]

hahahaha

[@thecreativemillenial]

as for the puupy myth marilyn manson was accused of the same both slanders were proven to be false

[@javila6341]

What the Hell is this

[@mr.pickle3650]

You tell me

[@thecreativemillenial]

didnt the media and press use the same puppy story to slander Marilyn Manson as well

[@Paulmatthew22]

Gish,.I bet Stryper wanted to run BACK TO THE WHISKEY after being with this clown

[@BillyBongwaters]

Um Wally's show helped get Stryper Popular