WASP - Videos ...in the raw (1987)

11:01 I Wanna Be Somebody
15:30 L.O.V.E. Machine
21:07 Hellion
28:29 Blind in Texas
33:28 Wild Child
41:53 I Don't Need No Doctor
46:26 Scream Until You Like It
50:27 The Manimal
(Thanks to "Bloody Kisses")

[@cyrusreign]

Just turned 60, and still metal runs through my veins. Awesome band, still rocking in 2022.

[@MetalHeart8787]

me too. I haven't seen this in Years. i gotta do a Talkin about WASP video sometime soon.

[@lorenzoyoung7542]

Cool

[@glenngoren4566]

Me 2 buddy 60 @ still rockin

[@bobsmith7373]

I just turned 64 and I still love Metal and W.A.S.P. more than ever! M.U.Y.A.! (Metal Up Your Ass) \m/

[@fuzzynuts8129]

And they’re still my favorite band since 1984. I’m 46 and still listening to W.A.S.P.

[@christopherwardlaw7037]

Mayor McCheese I am 53, saw them open for Krocus in Seattle. Loved the band every since.

[@r6-basher]

Live in the Raw! Awesome album

[@cosadico2248]

And me 48

[@robertsawatzki3722]

I'm 48..I stole their first album when I was 14.. and got caught.

[@PerpetualArt]

Been a fan since the beginning! The way they mesh melody and balls is fantastic!

[@angelarigido7161]

I'm 53, and still listening as well. In the 80's WASP was one of my favorite bands...Black Sabbath always my very first..WITH Ozzy. A year later it was Slayer, Metallica,Venom. Today it's still Black Sabbath first, Burzum, then Mayhem.

[@solarneddy]

W.A.S.P may well have saved my life. My childhood/teens were miserable. Rock helped me survive. The Crimson Idol encapsulated my trauma and to this day is my personal favourite rock/metal album.

[@Chris-lz1fs]

Yep, my teenage years were miserable as well and I always felt like an outsider. Metal and rock helped me through it all as well, bands like Iron Maiden, Wasp, Metallica, all of them that I began discovering in the late 80's.

[@tjlightningbolt]

most everyone elses' teen years were miserable to welcome to America! I got the smallest record player in the world playing my heart bleeds for you! NOT!

[@stllover25]

It’s a masterpiece

[@ModernDayWarrior2112]

They really took what Alice Cooper did to the extreme. A lot of Black Metal bands definitely looked at WASP’s stage show and adopted some of those ideas. Blackie was definitely a visionary.

[@thomasharmon5710]

I was 17 when Alice did 18, schools out, in 12 th. Grade. It was like looking into the future.

[@ferox965]

And Blackie definitely nicked a lot from Gene Simmons in the beginning.

[@genevieve396]

It was only their look.

[@angelarigido7161]

When I first saw them, I thought they reminded me more of KISS than any other band

[@tjj.f.9394]

I'm 51! And from Long Island,New York! And still love Metal and Rock and Roll!

[@dragnasty540]

49 yrs old and still loving WASP!!!!!!

[@jordonlane9942]

Your so old 😂

[@richardwade1566]

Feel like a teenager again! What a great band. Had this on VHS. Live in the Raw best live album ever.

[@LordFilth]

Had the vhs too. Live in the raw was the first album I ever bought.

[@andmetalforall2763]

I still have my LP & play it every now and then, Blackies voice is so good on the album, thanks to Blackie & Chris for getting me into playing BC Rich guitars!!

[@aleast9484]

Agree 100 %

[@pliersbittaker]

i got given this vhs when i was 5 and pretty much wore it out still loving w.a.s.p in 2022 cant wait to see them next year!!

[@ronbridges678]

Blind in Texas is my anthem!!!! Blind drunk in Texas that is!! I'm a Texas boy born and raised!! HELL YEAH

[@georgeworshington4120]

I’m 22 and discovered wasp about 2 years ago. By far my favorite band

[@sabbath1229]

I bought wasp debut album in 84 and to me I've been hooked since.

[@tjj.f.9394]

Thank God for the internet I had this on tape back in the day!

[@sgt.bulldog4147]

I saw WASP open up for Kiss, these guys rocked the house. Blackie Lawless is so underrated, he also took on the PRMC and Tipper Gore who were trying to censor music, especially metal back in the 80's.

[@ctbmxbingeandpurge4977]

He was scheduled to go to court with Dee, and he bailed

[@sgt.bulldog4147]

@@ctbmxbingeandpurge4977 Well Blackie was still right, in America we still have freedom of speech. In other words hypocrite liberals like Tipper Gore can't dictate what we listen too.

[@starieyes7390]

@@ctbmxbingeandpurge4977 and Dee did a great job...

[@ctbmxbingeandpurge4977]

Absolutely!

[@darkestdarker3726]

Thank you so much for this post, man. Had this on VHS back in the days, and now it's all coming back to me... WASP rules. Thanks again.

[@arnomeeuwisse6692]

I am a fan since i wanna be somebody, and still a fan (58 years)today of the best band ever. Blackies voice is the best.

[@billystone5776]

Wait till you hear GOLGOTHA

[@Steve-cm2ys]

How can his voice be the BEST if it's exactly the same as that guy from Quiet Riot? LOL

[@aaronbuchanan-Belfast]

been listening to wasp since i was 8 years old!!! im 39 now and i still think they kick ass. Headless children is still my all time fav album of all time

[@robertplante8858]

Headless Children is an absolute monster of an album...always teeters as my favourite along with The Last Command. Special albums in my books man...👍👍

[@aaronbuchanan-Belfast]

@@robertplante8858 very very special indeed youre so right. Kicks ass on anything nowadays. If i had a time machine id be outta here lol

[@danflory6340]

Yes!

[@fletchlives4763]

I’m 49 years old. I was in seventh grade junior high when the first album came out . Love them then and still love them today. Huge fan.

[@scottjustscott3730]

I'm pretty stoked to see a bunch of guys that are my age reminiscing about this killer f**king band! There wasn't anything like WASP anywhere!

[@fletchlives4763]

@@scottjustscott3730 dam time flies Now 51 since that post : gosh dang it That was a special time in our life we’re lucky to have lived it

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

49 also been into this music since early 1990s (a bit late in Australia) , still think nobody wrote rock hooks like these guys and that voice - no one sounds like him.

[@user-ye9ph5iq5z]

So many great songs, I’ve liked them since 85, brings back so many great memories listening to them.

[@akinadownhillace]

A band so good their first album sounded like their third!

[@charltonmcmillen7422]

rented the hell out of this back in the day at the local video store. wasp kicked ass

[@robertplante8858]

"Rented this video" THAT is old-school my friend!! I remember those days well!!

[@CanOwhuppass]

Goosebumps. I'm 12 years old again.

[@агент05-о7ь]

СССР и Россия до сих пор слушает W.A S.P.!!!! Мне 48лет, брату 51.

[@BerserkersBattle-816]

I never got into then I was into harder stuff like Megadeth and Slayer and bands of that genre. But a few years ago I started listening to them and realized that they rock!

[@JesusLenin66]

Just turned 15 and they’re still my favorite band since 1984's Fock like a beast

[@hollywooda111]

This was the air I breathed growing up... fucking awesome times.

[@metricdeep8856]

80's metal hair still looks normal to me in 2021.

[@SavyBajaBuster]

52 yrs and still here🤘😆🤘

[@williamberry8895]

Chris Holmes solo in I wanna be somebody is so fuc**ng badass

[@ЮрийЛысак-с9ф]

Круто!слушаю с 86г!Юность,молодость,зрелость с ними😎🤟👋!!!

[@Eldorado42]

Да! Всю жизнь с ними! Рад встретить единомышленника!🤗🤝

[@alexeydmitriev1163]

Сам 79 г.р с 1988 душу ими соседей. Самая первая и навсегда!

[@Eldorado42]

@@alexeydmitriev1163 А соседям весь РОК поперек, им только Зыкина с Кобзоном кайф ☹😲

[@stevenlochrie3951]

Every song I have heard from wasp I have never disliked wasp are just amazing hope one day I get the chance to see them

[@billjannusch]

I fucking love W.A.S.P.

[@cameronfoster3314]

Man, sooo many memories WASP brings me of the 80s. I still play them. Legends.......!!!!

[@gladiator22666]

Had this vid when it first came out .......fantastic. Great band . WASP is what KISS should have been . One of the best debut albums ever ! 🍺🥃🤘👍

[@randallfloyd4476]

what kiss should have been?....what the hell does that mean?..

[@gladiator22666]

@@randallfloyd4476 in my opinion Kiss should have been more like Wasp . Kiss aimed for a mixed audience……Wasp was more of an adult band …..they made horror movies live on stage ! Let me just point out I’m a fan of both bands …..have been for many many years .

[@chrisoakley5830]

I've always said that WASP were the KISS of the 80s. The live shows are very similar.

[@onceonlyaz]

WASP took what KISS did and cranked that shit up to 10. Plus it was the 80’s, they could get away with anything. Different times. Both bands are great and both have major influence on me. KISS just a little bit more than WASP.

[@Ghoulische]

WASP just make KISS look and sound like wimps. A toddler’s band.

[@robertstewart1223]

No doubt in my mind. WASP is one of the *very best* heavy metal bands to EVER take a stage or record an album. Die hard fan since day one...57 years old still listening to Tormentor at full blast rollin' down I-94.

[@MusicMixerXX]

today the music is shit today but WASP music rocks forever,, hardest band in the whole world

[@mussunmussun3536]

Helvetin hyvä!!!

[@anthonyrowland5681]

Still got foo fighters

[@bobravenscraft5376]

I respect Chris. He's a pure blues metal guy like zakk Never used flash only blues scale. PURE GUITARISTS IN MY BOOK JUST LIKE ED. VH forever!!!!!!

[@garrywitcomb2334]

Brilliant footage,some great memories of better times,WASP are still in my top five Bands of all time, Live. . . In the Raw,bought for £11.50 on Vinyl from Woolworths . , . Amazing !! Thanks for posting. 👍👍👅👅👅👍 made my day !

[@aleast9484]

Friends I'm 66 and W.A.S.P. are the best. "Live...in the raw" is a masterpiece. Rock hard - ride free !!!

[@kissthefox9141]

Never understood why they never did Scream Until You Like It live. What a great song.

[@frisbeeshawn5356]

That first W.A.S.P debut album ranks right up there with first L.A Guns and Guns & Roses Appetite for Destruction .. .. 🔈🔈🔉🔉🔊🔊🔊

[@chrisoakley5830]

I like it better than either one of the Guns albums.

[@cinnafloof8967]

I honestly think this is my favorite line up, Blackie, Chris, Randy, and Steve \m/

[@timnolan4803]

I'm 57. I saw them live in 84. It's crap being older. But at least i got to see them at their

[@timnolan4803]

Best Randy Piper and Chris Holmes.

[@dcraexon]

Thanks tony for selling me that guitar for 60 bucks at the phx bar in 86 after shredding on it The black one with the skull on first album ,just needed some new tuning keys and a bridge. they tried kicking us out because we were under age 😂👍

[@dennishuffman785]

I saw them for the very first time when they opened for Iron Maiden on the World Slavery Tour 1985 in response to the Live After Death album for IM which took 18 to 20 years to produce for the DVD and I thought they were phenomenal, Blackie Lawless' head looked like it was on a pivot while he was shaking his headbanging self. I will never forget that!

[@seantravis9095]

A great video from a great band. Seriously underestimated band. Loved them then and now. Golgotha not their best but still ok. Best album in my opinion THE CRIMSON IDOL. Videos... In The Raw is the best rock doc I've seen. Very informative and awesome videos especially wild child and hellion live 1984 at the Lyceum.

[@barkosa.8960]

Nunca parou, belas composições, sem plágio, apenas talento... Os melhores álbuns, para mim, The Crimson Idol e Golgotha. De 92 até aqui, excelentes trabalhos. Wasp é foda! 🌵🇧🇷💚💛

[@jasongnrfan7374]

I had this on VHS

[@hiroshi138]

Back at the WASP dressing room for the Wild Child video shoot: "so, what's it gonna be this time, Blackie - leather, studs, chains, whips?" "Nah man...feathers".

[@garethsavin4464]

Loved this band up to the Crimson Idol album,after that it became more of a Blackie Lawless show.

[@roblamb5468]

Awesome my man I am still listening to wasp since 1983 and I am 54 awesome !!!!

[@drummerw17]

Excellent classic. Tony Richard, Chris Holmes, Randy Piper and Blackie. Mega great line up 83'!

[@JL-bs6yz]

Me and Tanya are still WASP fans 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@staffkiel1657]

One of the greatest live albums ever :-)

[@badmonkey2222]

My band played back in the early nineties at the Troubadour a couple times drove all the way across the country to play there.

[@Smith7077]

W.A.S.P. - ALBUM 1986 SUPER BEST ...

[@ruimpa]

From Azores Portugal! Ouço Wasp, desde os meu 16 anos. Tenho 45! Aínda adoro ouvir esta grande banda! Wasp "Forever Free"

[@spencerrebelo4884]

I was in Graciosa this summer! 😂

[@andrewbidwell2250]

Thank f##k I was born in the 70's. Hail WASP

[@kevinpatrick8788]

saw Wasp open for a few bands back in the 80s in toronto. they are great and still putting out some kick ass albums . golgotha and babylon in particular .

[@nimba1966]

I love WASP

[@ComputersFromPashaplays]

Вот я и услышал голоса настоящих музыкантов!!!

[@ESPecialEntertainment]

I never understood why Manimal wasn't released on a studio album.

[@johnconnell4503]

Me either!!!!!!!

[@motleydude73]

One of their best! 👌

[@angusorvid8840]

I could never understand why "F**K Like A Beast" wasn't played a hit with the yacht rock set. It's so Christopher Upsidedown Cross, know what I'm saying?

[@johnbarrert3732]

And no studio version of harder faster?

[@Roger8176]

The Manimal actually was a studio recording it was just made to sound like it was live. Look at all their setlists from that era...it was never played. Harder Faster was only played a couple of times. Both great songs!

[@Gear_rack]

Hands down, use to hav this on vhs, luv me sum WASP .....

[@renopereira1434]

W.A.S.P. what a band back in the day, and i met mr #blackielawless what a nice guy 🤘😎🎸

[@joannedeal3418]

I've been a big fan of WASP for decades and the music is still brilliant. They're brilliant musicians and I don't think there's another group like them! Keep rocking Blackie!

[@rawnbadillo9886]

WASP'S debut album, Leppard's Pyromania, Crue's Shout At The Devil and Kiss's Lick It Up are thee Mount Rushmore of album releases

[@robertplante8858]

If i had a nickel for every time i spun all those albums...well, i would have a lot of nickels!🤘

[@billystone5776]

KISS SUCKS NOW,AND I GREW UP LISTENING TO THEM

[@bigmaxy07]

83-84 what a time! Great albums for sure

[@VanceKauffman]

Very underrated band love these guys.

[@arieswildchild]

Underrated? They are the one of the best bands for all the time!

[@jei2574]

They weren't very mainstream most casual metal fans most likely have no clue who they are. They never had a big hit or anything but they should have. I think that's all he's trying to say. Tipper Gore helped them gain some fans for sure haha

[@donnariddell9202]

My favourite band ever 💋plus I had the biggest crush on blackie 😍

[@robertplante8858]

@@jei2574 you nailed it. They became a bit of a niche band once metal went to the pop charts. One of the reasons they get overlooked. I have always loved this band...killer tunes galore!!

[@sabbithablood5219]

Thanks for this! Always loved their music but I didn't know just how articulate and funny Blackie is👍🤘❣

[@denmyos]

I was surprised as well. Very surprised 😊😯

[@Guitar387]

I had a friend at school when I was 14 who introduced me to wasp I’m now 46 and still love them

[@jozy5154]

They're a great band, they had 4 great albums

[@guentherhunter]

Kfd is one of the greatest albums of all time. Blackie and Holmes just going insane.

[@AUTOPSY666]

Way more than 4!

[@jozy5154]

@@AUTOPSY666 I won’t disagree 👍🏻

[@filled_soda]

I used to watch this daily on VHS. I nearly wore the tape out I saw them on their Headless Children tour. Ideally I'd have seen them in their shock rock era, but I was too young.

[@jei2574]

Man I wore this cassette out and I believe the first tape I ever owned that had the weird folder like cover.

[@badboy-kp5oy]

Great video always been a fan. Thanks for posting!

[@robertmirabilio5356]

Miss seeing Blackie at our Pharmacy! Haven’t seen M.R. Lawless in about 4-5Years now! I believe he stills lives in Malibu? Or Calabasas? Who Knows? But have not heard from him. Hopefully he is healthy and Well... Long Live Chris Holmes!!

[@thedevilsownson]

Remember having this on vhs great memories

[@bobsmith7373]

Hellion. One of the greatest Heavy Metal songs ever! Great love to ya Blackie!

[@jesusmendo8984]

Great Band, Great Music Thks Mr. Lawless.

[@skspajdalfsks]

Today Johnny Rod works like rescuer ... respect for him ... love this guy

[@TheBdomijan]

he's such a character and great musician!!!! would love to hang with him and just pick his brain for tour stories from those W.A.S.P. Electric Circus days!!!! Johny Rod is the man!!!!

[@santannavalter]

Really??

[@stevec9580]

Johnny Rod is still crazy to this day!

[@ingridfry4139]

Блэки всё также круто❤🤘🎸🎶.Со школы его помню,слушаю.Heave metal жив!!!

[@Chris-lz1fs]

I really enjoyed watching this video and it reminded of some great songs Wasp had back in the 80's. 'I Don't Need No Doctor' was the first song of theirs I ever heard and it was great. It was really hard to find any of their albums in record shops back then as well but luckily enough tape trading got me their first few albums. Bloody great seeing this video!

[@foreverunsaved6661]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news - but 'I don't need no doctor' is a Humble Pie song.

[@Chris-lz1fs]

@@foreverunsaved6661 There ye go! Ye learn something new everyday! Cheers for enlightening me!

[@skinwearingmaniac9856]

I used to own this VHS in 1989, wish I still had it. Thanks so much for uploading! : )

[@fundhund62]

Whenever I watch a clip of early WASP I cannot help but think "oh look, that was the inspiration for Spinal Tap"!

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

fuck yes kick ass videos of wasp in the raw, and hear the cool metal gods speak. good shit. blackie we love you man. \m/ wasp i think could be the best american metal band ever. well ratt and wasp my top 2 best american metal bands easy.

[@spiritwarriorstudios]

Haaaa!!! I'm effin 61, & I'm still kickin the can around with W. A. S. P.

[@simonhunter3430]

thanks for uploading this. its never been put out on DVD to my knowledge

[@michaelronquillo7376]

F@#K Like a Beast was the first tape l bought from WASP...back in the 80s I was only 12yrs old and the record shop sold it to me....ahhh the good ole days....🤣😂🤣😂

[@JInfinity7]

...back when it was okay to have fun with rock music

[@shanericketts5799]

50 years young and still listing

[@tomservo5347]

Respect to Blackie for being a 'Barney Miller' fan. A dialogue driven show with only ONE set. I was introduced to WASP in the late 80's with their great remake of The Who's 'Can You See The Real Me?'.

[@hollywooda111]

Thank you so much for the upload I had this on an old VHS! love it. Cheers

[@soundzofnoize8603]

Very Cool......................!

[@ivicadjokic7207]

Legends!

[@leesacotton7401]

Did anyone notice on the song I don't need no doctor Chris guitars change in between shots one

[@FANTASMAHOUSEPARANORMAL]

Awesome, I used to have this on VHS 🤘💀🤘

[@christheghostwriter]

What WASP had over many of its contemporaries was songwriting and musical craftsmanship. The multilayered vocals were a precursor to what Alice in Chains would go on to do in the following decade, and Blackie has a genuinely great and unique singing voice. A lot of bands from the hair metal era sound interchangeable, but WASP stands out from the pack

[@MichaelDouglasSkewes]

I have all those old WASP posters! By the second album,I was gone! Steve Riley ruined that band! And the "I wanna be somebody" story is bullshit,he told me he got it from Paul Stanley when KISS was being interviewed for an ABC special on the band. Paul Stanley says "I Wanna be Somebody" ! That is where he got it! I was drinking buddies of Randy and Chris and eventually was in a band with Chris Holmes in 1992/3. Now he just lives off some wierd artist millionaire that gave him new teeth and everything he could want,but he has to stay sober,except weed,that apparently is ok !! Yep,great band,at first.

[@gasso4]

w.a.s.p foreverrrr

[@morbidbreath]

Very thanks for this excelent video of WASP,infernals greetings

[@edwardwilliams6514]

I’m watching this thinking why the hell isn’t there a Live In The Raw concert video. The footage is there, somewhere.