T/S: Lou Reed "Live: Take No Prisoners" vs. Andrew Dice Clay "The Day The Laughter Died"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMQolgT_3UM

“The Osmonds/Hot Mama” section - a comic that would put that into an actual release these days has to be close to nil. A+++ crowd work

Well....

I don't know the Dice Clay album.

Take No Prisoners features great versions of Berlin, Satellite of Love and Coney Island Baby with a minimum of comedy. The spoken word parts are memorable even if you wouldn't want to listen to them very often.

Funny timing on this revive: Jay Ruttenberg's new issue of Lowbrow Reader just came out and it has a lengthy piece about Dice and about the ending of The Day the Laughter Died II, which i had never heard before. It was a good enough read that I gave it a shot and holy shit that album is the character completely out of control and a warning of the dark future we found. It's a helluva listen.

^Yeah, I was gonna mention this (for anyone particularly interested in Dice or that album). The entire piece can be read online (though you should buy the issue; it's just a few bucks).

it's a great piece by Jay. I love the connection he makes with Pee Wee Herman as a contemporary who split the Andy Kaufman schtick in a different way

Pee-wee the wimp, Dice the barbarian—the comics had cleaved Andy Kaufman in two. Reubens became Foreign Man, Silverstein became Elvis; Reubens embodied Julius Kelp, Silverstein embodied Buddy Love; Reubens was Clark Kent, Silverstein was Superman. One man a schlemiel, the other a schmuck. The aesthetically inclined is constitutionally pulled toward Pee-wee, that camp child of John Waters, crowned with his halo of goodness. The character is aligned with punk rock—born in 1977 itself, months ahead of “Rock Lobster.” Dice, clad in his leather armor and dopey fingerless gloves, comes from cornball hard rock. He’s repugnant, a heel, a repository for the sins of the ’80s. And yet it is Dice I come back to, again and again. Dice, Dice, always Dice.

Wow, that is amazing, thanks

That piece really is fantastic.

Happy Daylight Savings Day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJH1KjvCiKI

wow that Lowbrow Times thing is a really terrific piece about one of my least favorite people alive

great writing wow

What's funny is that Youtube comments on the ADC clips I watched are pretty much all along the lines of "Wow the eighties,when people could actually take a joke!!!", "The thing about watching these comedy shows is that you get a glimpse as to how much of our freedom of speech was stolen from us, and how weak society has become in 2019", "so that's what freedom looks like", "Every Gen Z kid in here just had a stroke" (actual samples from comments on "The Diceman Cometh"). Did these people just forget he was so controversial in his own time that he was banned from MTV, a regular SNL cast member boycotted her own show (along with the musical guest) when he hosted, and his career petered out soon afterwards?

I tried watching one of his hbo specials a few years ago.. it was weird seeing this really upper class dressed up waspy audience just totally losing their shit for his limericks

I love/hate the fact that when I read nursery rhymes to my kids (thankfully a rare event), I have to resist the urge to deliver them Dice-style.

Ha, yeah. I can recognize the craft of what he was doing a little more now that I don't just associate it with 12yo boys repeating racist jokes but I'm not sure I actually find him funny. I still kind of got creeped out when the biggest laughs and cheers and a standing ovation came for a tirade about Asians and Arabs that concluded "there should be a sign at the airport that says 'if you don't speak the language, get the fuck out of the country'".xp

this is the greatest christmas album.

Feel like "Metallic KO" belongs here too.

^ the piece linked above about dice and pee wee is great, thanks for posting

Just reread it. Amazing stuff. What else should I read by that guy?

I just ordered the lowbrow reader compilation book for $4 used on Amazon and the latest issue too (also $4)!

I just read his piece about Hanukkah Harry.

Feel like "Metallic KO" belongs here too.

That album is audience baiting but with the added element of the audience reacting.

Iggy: "Thank you to the person who just threw this glass bottle at my head. You nearly killed me but you missed again!"

James – you may appreciate this piece.

Just glanced at the title and it looks intriguing, thanks!

Wow, amazing stuff, thanks! That was the best Christmas, um, gift ever!

that was great, thanks

Jay's a good writer; he's at the New Yorker GOAT these days. New Lowbrow supposedly out next year!

I love his interview/appreciation of Gilbert Gottfried: http://lowbrowreader.com/gilbert-gottfried-new-york-punk/

loved that gil piece

can so hear this in his voice, rip king

At one point, Quivers attempts to lure the comic into discussing his life away from his mother’s television set. “Tell us what a person who has a life does,” Gottfried says. “You drink, you’re at an amusement park, and you puke. This is the fun life.”

OMG

I will be quoting that and giving credit.

New Lowbrow supposedly out next year!

New one just came out (#12)

I just ordered the lowbrow reader compilation book for $4 used on Amazon and the latest issue too (also $4)!

Thanks for the heads up, ahma go buy the new lowbrow now!

Where?

This rendering has a nice illustration: http://lowbrowreader.com/white-light/

]Where?
Meaning can you recommend a bookstore or newsstand where I can get it? Maybe I can try whatever usual suspects are left.

it's four bucks (postage included!) on that link through paypal

Oh yeah, saw that, thanks. Guess the newsstand thing wouldn’t work for various reasons.

Okay, I ordered the latest issue and the book to keep up with the Jones.

Joneses.