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Nov212011
Kix, 'Tear Down the Walls' - Rare Video
Monday, November 21, 2011 at 12:01AM
The other day, a clip of the Kix song for 'Tear Down the Walls' popped up on YouTube. The clip appears to be the rough cut for what was to be an official video. As you know, an official video was never released, so seeing this rare footage is very, very cool. I hope you all enjoy.
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I also believe that the live footage was actually recorded at St. Mary's College of Maryland. I'll have to check my DVD when I get home.
None the less.. cool video.
Both DVD were very limited.
Viva Purnell!
My ex-lead guitarist has some other cool hyper-rare footage of KIX including a stunning live performance on the then fledgling USA Network on the all night video fest known as "Night Flight" with a live feed from the Seagull Inn in Pasadena, Maryland of Kix doing "Loco-Emotion", their bid for a hit at the time the 'Cool Kids' album was released.
He's also got an unbelievable 3 minutes or so of black & white footage showing the band during rehearsal for that album in someone's mother's basement (natch!) with Purnell joking around plus them jamming through some songs. Simply amazing.
I was talkin' to my bro tonight and he says he's gotta transfer it from videotape. When he does, I'll see if we can get him to post it on YouTube for all to see.
I will keep YOU posted!
p.s. I thought they aired a video for "Tear Down The Walls" on MTV back then before it was all over. Checkin' YouTube for it now...
There are also interviews between the live footage.
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As far as the "Tear Down The Walls" video goes, I was wrong. The footage may have been filmed at Shepherd College. I had it mixed up with the "Walking Away" video which was filmed at St. Mary's College of Maryland.
I'll have to dedicate a couple days to going through all my stuff and see what all I do have.
I also have a BBC4 Documentary called "The Top 10 Greatest Metal Bands Of All Time" that has some of the most priceless interview footage of the usual suspects like Lemmy and Nikki, you have ever seen.
The "Tear Down The Walls" video was shot right before the band broke up, it was never released until the reunion tour where they was selling a compliation of thier videos.
The thing from the Seagull Inn had about 5 or 6 songs on it, it was done right after their second album came out. There is also a vidoe of "Loco Motion" that was filmed while they did a show at York Fair back in the day.