Throwing Muses - Live England 1989 HD

Throwing Muses live and interviewed, February 20th 1989, Recorded from analogue terrestrial broadcast, recorded on Sony DX E180 VHS tape, mono audio.
Throwing Muses are an American alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects.
The group was originally fronted by two stepsisters, Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly, who both wrote the group's songs. Throwing Muses are known for performing music with shifting tempos, creative chord progressions, unorthodox song structures, and surreal lyrics. The group was set apart from other contemporary acts by Hersh's stark, candid writing style; Donelly's pop stylings and vocal harmonies; and David Narcizo's unusual drumming techniques eschewing use of cymbals. Hersh's hallucinatory, feverish lyrics occasionally touch on the subject of mental illness, more often drawing portraits of characters from daily life or addressing relationships.
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[@ScottishTeeVee]

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[@joyceh2721]

Hiya Steevee. smashing. Investigation later on.Xx❤️✌️

[@edmundau-yeung9598]

Kristin is a force of nature.

[@ikemreacts]

I love just how seriously our culture took music back then. It really mattered, once.

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@troygaspard6732]

They predated the riot girl scene, and still sound like few other bands.

[@rumrnr78]

Totally- too bad she didn’t marry a Beastie and park the bank trunk in the front yard…

[@Jessicacaca00]

Love kristin!

[@vermontfun52]

Tanya is a great guitar player and Kristin, I've had a huge crush on you for years!

[@gregorysullivan4554]

I keep forgetting how much I love this band!!

[@keithbate9405]

One of the greatest bands (imo) of any era . Their music was "Pop Music for the 21st c"

[@soniadenny6260]

I remember watching this first time round, so great to see it again!!

[@kungpao-wp2sq]

Muses paved the way for so many great female fronted 90s artists, especially Alanis, 4 non blondes, L7, indigo girls, etc.

[@sorearm]

Ah good to find, always enjoyed Throwing Muses, never managed to catch them live back in the day but this is a good watch, thank you!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂

[@RayFromLUCKYSHADOW]

Great interview, thank you, but the performance of "Dizzy" is literally just the record. I don't know why the producers would do that. I'd bet anything it wasn't the band's decision. They're a great live band, let us hear that. Still, I could watch Hersh talk about anything anytime. When she laughs: ❤🥰😍

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and commenting, I have no idea why the did not do the track live, perhaps lack of time to set up or the record company insisted, they were one of the few bands to mime on this show.

[@StratsRUs]

Thanks.

[@sperlst]

We need more of this ! Thanks for all these treasures on this amazing channel.

[@pickmeupnowineedyousobad]

Tanya is stunning

[@ScottishTeeVee]

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[@j.wilcox3547]

Thanks for posting this

[@ScottishTeeVee]

I'm glad you found and enjoyed it

[@unijaner]

I'm so stoked to find this!!! Thank you!

[@ScottishTeeVee]

You're so welcome!

[@surfaceenvy5497]

I wish so badly that whole Town and Country gig was available. It seems the Pixies set from that night was filmed in full

[@ScottishTeeVee]

It probably was filmed in full, but by a certain bootleg cameraman I used to know, all his video tapes are now with another KZbin channel, I suggest you drop him a message asking if he has that gig or others. Do let me know what he says. kzbin.infoabout

[@Miguel_Noether]

Wow first pristine video I watched of them 👌

[@ScottishTeeVee]

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[@Smuffthemagicdragon]

Saw them live around this time ......

[@redsox3459]

How have I not stumbled on this awesome video before!? Thanks for posting

[@ScottishTeeVee]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment

[@jenniferplantejohnson5314]

Why no mention of their badass bass player?!

[@hirampriggott1689]

Leslie Langston

[@redsox3459]

​@@hirampriggott1689 I saw them back in the day at a long incredibly narrow venue called the Inn Square Men's Bar. Waiting for the show to start I had to elevate my broken & casted-foot and from my seat placing it on the stage was perfect. When they came on, it was right in front of Leslie and I asked her if it was a problem and she was like 'you're good.'

[@hrhcrab]

Easily one of the most underrated bass players. Her work on the first 3 albums and the Fat Skier. is incredible and I wish she had recorded more.

[@earinsound]

@@hrhcrabhighly agree-no one played like her. one of my early inspirations on bass

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Wish the videoof the Dizzy performance had been paired with the actual audio from the performance instead of the LP recording.

[@keomgranger695]

Definitely.

[@jmo13322]

Kristen looks like a girl I dated for several years...❤. Tonya is breath- takingly beautiful😍

[@tomgat6314]

how is called the 2nd song?

[@jonathanwobesky9507]

Mania, it's on there

[@Scunner23]

Snub TV if I recall correctly.

[@zadnor4572]

You can see where this is headed. Tonya looks bored out of her mind.

[@comicnicky76]

Following year, The Breeders!

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Yes, it's easy to speculate about reasons that might be.

[@michaelmcdonald8452]

I forgot Amy Schumer was in Throwing Muses before getting into comedy.

[@Oldmotherhell]

@@ScottishTeeVee ...and there is where the resemblance fucking ends.

[@oliveoil4380]

You are a dick. Pity you.

[@sexobscura]

*Post-Feminism* *whatever that's supposed to mean*

[@duncefunce1513]

She meant fost-peminism

[@chuckschillingvideos]

I guess she's referring to female musicians who don't feel the need to carry the feminist flag and go beyond making music.

[@haberjennings475]

Rubbish really init. It’s a bit naff song writing really tbh

[@duncefunce1513]

Joisus, certain type of American was woke thirty five years ago. Joisus.

[@GrimKardashian]

Almost like we go in circles like wounded animals.

[@ikemreacts]

It was different then, and you have to look at it through the prism of 1989. They were young and didn't really understand the toxicity of feminist thinking. I was also such a person. None of us knew about how it came to be, the inherent contradictions, how the founders of the movement conspired with big business and the state, how they sold ordinary working people out etc. They were wrestling with the brutality of their country and trying to do something new. Although I wince to hear it, I applaud their forging novel directions and thinking aloud in public.

[@duncefunce1513]

@@ikemreacts for sure it was different. The overriding culture was more Conservative, the flaws of progressivism were less well understood, and also, as you say, these women were very young. I was a tediously predictable bleeding heart until I was about 35. But it's striking that the notion of cultural appropriation was alive even back then, although it wasn't named.

[@ikemreacts]

@@duncefunce1513 Feminism: "The fundamental belief that women are human, too." Me: "Are unborn babies human?" Feminism: "No." Me: "K bye."

[@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music]

Kristin Hersh is cute as a button.