Thursday, July 26, 2007

Ah, Rosita!

Ladies and Gentlemen, may we present the Pride of the Bowery -- straight from C.B.G.B.'s in 1977, it's the great Mink DeVille and Spanish Stroll.



A coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded any reader who can divine how this relates to tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.

7 comments:

dave™© said...

Wow - talk about memories! Saw Mink deVille in between Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds and Rockpile and Elvis Costello and the Attractions at Winterland in June 1978.

They were great - didn't Jack Nietzche produce their second elpee?

steve simels said...

Saw that same show in NYC at the Palladium. I had the twelve inch single with Nick and Dave and Elvis on one side (with the Columbia label) and Mink on the other (with a Capitol label).

Nietzche produced their first two albums, both of which are stone killers.

That clip is obviously the promo video from the first album. I had no idea it even existed....

Anonymous said...

I know how this relates to your weekend, if not to Weekend Listomania: Willy Deville's manager drinks at your elitist-chardonnay-pouring watering hole! HA! (Also, occasionally, the Immortal Ray Davies hoists a lager there -- it's a great bar, innit?)

Kid Charlemagne said...

My Mink DeVille Story:

Saw Willy at the Youngstown Agora in '78 or so. Opening act was AC/DC who put on one of the rockingest shows I have ever seen before or since. The set ended with Angus Young playing guitar on Bon Scott's shoulders as he walked through the audience with Angus at the end of a reeeaally long guitar cord. TOTALLY and COMPLETELY upstaged Mink DeVille.

Willy came out and had to endure calls for AC/DC the entire night.
He looked as if he was ready to kill. He did a very short set and called it a night.

steve simels said...

Willy DeVille's EX manager does in fact drink at my elitist chardonnay watering hole, but that's not the connection to listomania.

Hint: Check out last week's contest.

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