Where Eagles Dare -The Misfits
This is a song by New Jersey’s own The Misfits. A great band with a very ‘live’ (single track recordings in studio only) raw and retro sound (at the time in 1977). They were alternately praised and criticized for obstinately refusing to ever record in stereo, and were also known for producing, pressing and distributing their own records along with other bands of the period like Minor Threat. Singer-songwriter Glenn Danzig has been credited along with others like Mink Deville for the Rockabilly revival in pop music in the late 1970s outside of mainstream music, although The Misfits are often identified exclusively with the hardcore bands of the era like Black Flag, and punk bands like Detroit’s FEAR; it’s largely agreed they were probably closer to The Ramones in style and execution.
The video is a black-and-white ‘animatic’ (a slide show styled animation with limited movement often used as a pitching tool or rough draft) I created based upon my comic book ‘Marley Davidson: Bronx Exorcist.’ It is an extremely violent action-adventure piece, so turn away if blood and gore put you off, but give it a listen because it’s scored by a liberating, beautiful song about breaking free that always turns my day around no matter how many times I hear it over the years.
After all, how can you dislike a song that has a chorus like “I ain’t no goddamn son of a bitch?”
-SJ
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Great animation SJ (you did that, wow) fits so well with the song.
Thanks Holte, you should have been there when I pitched this animated series to Cindy Abrahamson at Sci Fi (now SyFy) network in 1997. I presented that animatic and this one:
http://randomrobothamsandwich.blogspot.com/2010/03/vladek-vampire-detective.html about a vampire detective. She was absolutely flabbergasted, shcoked and offended and assured me that nobody would ever care about anything related to vampires.
Yeah I didn’t dicover them until High school, but I remember those skull posters all over New York when I was little.
I’m surprised this goes back so many years. Glad I got to read about and hear this SJ.
Thanks!