Heavy? Just a tad

 

 

 

Named after its lead singer Tad Doyle, TAD was one of the first bands that was picked up by influential Seattle grunge outfit Sub Pop. According to the label, Tad was the last Seattle band from the late '80s to be signed to a major label.
 

When a controversial album poster for their album "Inhaler" on Warner Bros./WEA came out in '94, with Bill Clinton, this time inhaling, and a caption reading, "this is heavy shit;" that was it for their deal with the Brothers Warner.
 

This DVD has not been reviewed.
 

TAD
"BUSTED CIRCUITS AND RINGING EARS"
Available on DVD February 19, 2008
Through MVD

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"Sex, Drugs, and Rock N Roll with a side dish of lawsuits and in-band turmoil, Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears chronicles the band's rise and eventual disintegration. It contains archival footage spanning the band's entire career, from the club days to the arenas. The documentary also utilizes insightful interviews from some of Seattle's most respected musicians including Krist Novoselic (Nirvana, Flipper), Chad Channing (Nirvana), Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Mark Arm (Mudhoney), Mark Felchtone (Zeke), and many others.

"The audience will be taken on a musical journey from the highest of the highs, to the bands all time lows. It's truly a frustrating story of the band's repeated bad luck juxtaposed with a close-up look at their influential musical approach. . . ."

Track Listing/Features:

• 'Behemoth' (God's Balls)
• 'Helot' (God's Balls)
• 'High On The Hog' (Salt Lick)
• 'Wood Goblins' (Salt Lick)
• 'Jinx' (8-Way Santa)
• 'Stumblin Man' (8-way Santa)
• 'Plague Years' (8-way Santa)
• 'Grease Box' (Inhaler)
• 'leafy Incline' (Inhaler)
• 'Dementia' (Infrared Riding Hood)

Bonus Materials:

• 'Leafy Incline' Music Video
• 'Grease Box' Music Video
• 'Plague Years' Music Video
• 'Stumblin Man' Music Video
• 'Woodgoblins' Music Video

$14.95 
93 min
 

 
From the press release: "TAD took the idea of playing LIVE very seriously; it was a life or death matter. This DVD not only stands as testimony to that claim, but it's also a cinematic document of the world's HEAVIEST band EVER (as Bruce Pavitt so incisively puts it) bodily stretching that assertion beyond any previously known limitations. Better than a tattoo, it's an open scar that roars, a broken alarm bell ringing from the lost event horizon of a long-dead star, one we could never see--that is, until this DVD clipped it back onto the light box of the silver screen, where it can be deciphered and viewed anew. This documentary telescopes the musical pathology of TAD down into the image of an electrocardiograph recording the minor-mode melody of a final infarct, a demented soundtrack that is neither tame nor de-clawed. It was never meant to be. Dare to feel it, and, like me, risk bleeding internally.'"
- Kurt Danielson, bass player in Tad and Valis
 

Produced by King Of Hearts Productions.
 

Sent by from Clint Weiler, Director of Publicity MVD Entertainment

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