Oingo Boingo - Hey!

This is a live performance from rock band and avant garde group Oingo Boingo performing the song "Hey!" from their 1994 album "Boingo". The performance is also from '94 on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
Boingo is the last studio-album to be released from the group as Danny Elfman, the lead singer, decided to focus his career on scoring film. He also quit music due to beginning hearing impairment. The sound on this album was different as the horn section and the keyboards were much less featured than on releases prior to this one. The tracks on this CD are also very long and this song has also been shortened for the Leno performance. The outro that is played at the end is repeated several times on the studio recording both in the beginning of the track and the end of the track, it's the "please mother, don't be angry with me"-part.
At this point the band has also shortened their name. Now it was just Boingo. It was sort of a thing they did. They started out as The Mystic Knights of The Oingo Boingo, shortened it to Oingo Boingo and at this point it was down to Boingo.
It's a very good live performance, and the song has a pop-feel to it while still being strange and bizarre enough to be Oingo Boingo.

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Guns N' Roses - Dead Horse

This is the music video to the song "Dead Horse" by Guns N' Roses. The song appears on the 1991 release "Use Your Illusion I".
The song starts out with a slow acoustic piece with a riff written by singer Axl Rose. Then the electric guitars hits with a much heavier sound which dominates the song until the end where the intro is reprised for another bar. The song ends with an effect of fast-forwarding the song.
The music video was made in 1993 and it features live footage and behind the scenes footage sliced together with fast edits and cuts. The video appears on the "Welcome to the Videos" compilation.
I think it's a very good song and a pretty good video, though some what a model that's been seen before. I like the grand scale of the song and the climatic end that then reprises into the intro repeated.

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Aerosmith - Back In The Saddle

This is a performance from classic hard rock band Aerosmith performing the rock 'n' roll song "Back In The Saddle". The song was written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry aka The Toxic Twins. The song is from the band's 1976 album "Rocks" and was released as the third single from the album in 1977 and peaked at #38 on the Billboard charts.
The song was came about from a bass riff that Joe Perry came up with which gave the song the heavy bass sound. It is also one of the songs to feature Brad Whitford on lead guitar and Joe Perry on rhythm guitar, changing it up a bit.
Another characteristic of the song is the slow build up from the drum, to the bass kicking in, to it finally taking off into the song that is "Back In The Saddle". It's a great rock 'n' roll song, and a good performance.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Honey Bee

This is a 1984 performance from a German festival. It was back when Double Trouble was a trio consisting of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon.
It's a great performance, and Stevie really gives a lot. Plus "Honey Bee" is a great little up tempo blues song, with a smoking intro.

There's also a little interview afterwards which is also pretty interesting.

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