Saturday, May 10, 2014

Apache

I was alive in the 70's and I do not recall anything like this.

22 comments:

bagoh20 said...

Holy crap! What rock gods! That is my idea of the perfect band, and I still dream of being a man like that to this day, with the groupies, the natural talent, the poise, and the coolness that's beyond words. The rest of you may aim lower, but I shoot for the stars. Those dudes are hot, and that keyboard player makes me wish I was a woman.

bagoh20 said...

This is from a time when we clearly took Native Americans serious with Rock icons like Cher, and Paul Revere and Raiders promoting sober, realistic portrayals of Native cultures.

bagoh20 said...

"I was alive in the 70's..."

Did you have a pet Dinosaur?

Evi L. Bloggerlady said...

I monstrosity arose during the lull between Zeppelin and Disco.

Although there is some fine interpretive dance that I have not seen since summer camp.

Chip Ahoy said...

Amerinds really do dance like that. I'm fairly sure.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

"The Paradise Syndrome" was unquestionably to worst Star Trek episode ever.

Still, Kirk got to bang a hot Amerind chick so there's that.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Make that "the worst" not "to worst."

WURST!!!

There was a Kliban cartoon where a prison guard was escorting a sausage to its jail cell.

The title?

"A Term for the Wurst."

And yet that guy never got the Nobel prize for literature.

Go figure.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Meh.

close but no cigar.

I hereby award myself three marks out of four.

Damn!

Dad Bones said...

In 1970 I remember standing on the Frisco pier and looking across the bay at Alcatraz that the Indians had just taken over. They probably brought their drums with them.

Apache's have a rep for being bad asses. I don't think that keyboard player would have been too comfortable around them.

Anne in Rockwall, TX said...

Perhaps, like many of us Chip, much of the 70s is lost. Purple microdot took a lot of my memories.

edutcher said...

"Apache" was supposed to have been a big hit in the mid-60s during the British invasion, but I never heard it on the radio (and Philly had some of the best rock stations in the country - WFIL, WIBG, WDAS, WHAT - and we got the NY stations, as well) until years later.

I guess it was one of those Euro things that was a big hit across the pond and caught on in someplace like LA.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

You know, I was pretty embarrassed about the 70's, even while living in that era. But this just tops it, now I am ashamed. How did we let this happen?

My husband and I are laughing our asses of right now.

Unknown said...

The look on the keyboard player's face at .26 is the goofiest look I've even seen in my entire life.

sakredkow said...

Just in case somebody doesn't remember or isn't aware of how great the original was.

Unknown said...

The canned orchestra music -eee gads.

The Dude said...

WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?!?

virgil xenophon said...

LOL! I well remember the song, but THAT VID! Encapsulates a lot of the over-the-top excesses of 70s for sure. Talk about the doubleplusPCungood "appropriation" of another "culture!" Were it made today, the band, the dancers and whoever produced that
vid would all be in jail today in the cell next to the guy that made the anti-Muslim vid, lol

Synova said...

Egad! And these guys were in bands to get women?

Unknown said...

The song is so frightening, Lem won't even hoard it.

Known Unknown said...

Thanks PHX - I have the 45 from my dad. It's awesome.

Known Unknown said...

PHX's link is wonky -- here's the original.

sakredkow said...

Yeah, that was pretty fine EMD. Love the spacey effects.