The Original Rock Bottom Remainders

May 25, 1992 at the Cowboy Boogie in Anaheim, California, Stephen King, Dave Barry, Matt Groening, Amy Tan, Greil Marcus, Ridley Pearson, Dave Marsh and a bunch of other writers playing a charity concert of rock classics, including "Louie, Louie"

[@stephenbertino8373]

Amy Tan looked spectacular on stage. She was totally killing it with those shades etc. Damn!

[@pamelalagree-kanotz6845]

Love all these authors! So great to see them having so much fun!

[@CCTH-86]

Finally got a hold of the VHS of this show recently. YES!!!!!

[@katiezee2]

In one of Dave Barry's books he told the story of the band traveling by plane, when Stephen King, 'Mr Blood-and-Guts', saw a spider and 'screamed like a little girl'. . hahahah

[@pamelalagree-kanotz6845]

Which book?

[@elkabong6429]

What fun that must have been!

[@PhaedraLuver4SoraFan]

TX SO MUCH FOR SHARING THESE R.B.R.'S VIDS! KNEW ABOUT THE BAND FOR A LONG TIME & AFTER ALL THESE YRS GET TO C THEM PREFORM. TX STEPHEN, DAVE, RIDLEY, AMY, MATT & ALL OTHERS. THESE VIDS TURNED MY DAY AROUND! (*pls note, Y.T. acct. sublet/ high jacked by the (bom bom boooom!) the Mom. [spiritquest] o_@

[@bizzyslivovitz7306]

Nobody puts the Rock Bottom Remainders in the back . . . except for every director of every "We Are the Word" video ever. But still . . . more fun than ZZ Top and other bands who phone it in.

[@stefanyorozco4037]

Barbra kinsolver writes about this on page 126 in high tide in suscon :0

[@nre4d]

For your enlightenment and enjoyment, read the two books about the 20 years these writers cheerfully made fools of themselves onstage. Lots of anecdotes. Looking here to see if Steve's version of "Teen Angel" ever got video'd -- an indescribable hoot!

[@mikeylikesit525]

This was recorded 11 years before the exact day I was born.

[@Chops_McCoy]

Berry, who spoke on the subject a while back to a Los Angeles interviewer named Bill Reed, explains the song as the lament of a seafaring man, spoken to a sympathetic bartender named Louie. Here, without further ado, are the "official" published lyrics: "Louie Louie, me gotta go. Louie Louie, me gotta go. A fine little girl, she wait for me. Me catch the ship across the sea. I sailed the ship all alone. I never think I'll make it home. Louie Louie, me gotta go . Three nights and days we sailed the sea. Me think of girl constantly. On the ship, I dream she there. I smell the rose in her hair. Louie Louie, me gotta go. Me see Jamaican moon above. It won't be long me see me love. Me take her in my arms and then I tell her I never leave again. Louie Louie, me gotta go." (By Richard Berry. Copyright 1957-1963 by Limax Music Inc.) Note the subtle shifts of temporal perspective, and the refreshingly arbitrary substitution of the objective case for the nominative and possessive in pronominal situations. As a rock lyricist, Mr. Berry was clearly far ahead of his time.

[@TheLilla100]

ahah are very nice!

[@chrisgoward3771]

Brought here by Al Kooper’s autobiography

[@chernhwei]

😂😂😂

[@hedgehognegative1059]

They gonna record an album?

[@Katy51844]

Whodo you suppose is the one "downer" Probably a non-reader!

[@stefanyorozco4037]

Tucson

[@Kowasi]

Does this feature Warren Zevon too?

[@jennikifm2]

O_O WTF these are all authors??

[@LauraA-iy9gd]

YES Awesome authors

[@diobrando-kv3cx]

yeah no shit Martha

[@NatandGeorge]

Google is your friend; google their name + "bibliography"

[@bishlap]

1:20 robert plant?

[@nikolaymaglov9875]

Absolutely. I thought it was Dave Mustaine but it's definetely Robert Plant.

[@glennhecker4422]

@@nikolaymaglov9875 😂😂😂😂

[@dicksatan6444]

Dave shredding three solo.