Show Notes
This week, I'm joined by an absolute music video legend, Graeme Whifler, who created iconic work with The Residents, Devo, Sparks, Tuxedomoon, MX-80 Sound, 45 Grave, Oingo Boingo, Red Hot Chili Peppers & Renaldo & The Loaf, to name a few. Get ready for some of the most hilarious, dark, and mind-bending stories that have ever been unleashed on the show.
We discuss Graeme’s jawdropping story of first meeting The Residents when they were just starting to talk about doing music, how my seeing an interview on Night Flight with Graeme’s as a 13 year old kid completely changed my life trajectory, shooting the B/W feature length Residents filmVileness Fats, the creative stamina of youth, his haunting and mind-searing film Hello Skinny, how he embraces the horrors within your psyche in every music film he made, where he found his incredible talent pool, how Graeme built all the elaborate sets for all the Ralph Records music films, the unique choice of putting title sequences and end credtis for his music videos, pulling teeth to get MX-80 Sound to come up with a concept for their video and how he embraced their thin concept, David Lynch taking element from the Why Are We Here video for Blue Velvet, the making of Tuxedomoon’s Jinx video and how it got banned in the UK, The Cockettes, smearing shit over the walls, where were people finding these films before music television, Snakefinger getting played on MTV, the insipiration for the upsetting & epic Renaldo & The Loaf Songs For Swinging Larvae short film, breaking the hearts of the kid actors in the 45 Grave video, Graeme working with Devo on the R U Experienced music video, why there was an unlikely controversy buried within Sparks’ Cool Places video, writing the screenplay for Dr. Giggles, making people think about upsetting things they don't want to think about with his film work, and much more.
So join me on this wild trip with one of the absolute legends of music videos and film. Be ready.
The Restored Films Of Graeme Whifler: rumble.com/user/graemeww?e9s=src_v1_cbl
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