Since signing to Vice Records in 2006, the Black Lips have found a little more of everything: exposure, music videos, and world travel. Also included: a sponsorship from Vestal Watch. Ian seems to be the main guy in the band showing off Vestal on his midget bike.
I’m glad I found this! Before the Walkmen became the Walkmen there was this band, The Recoys, based out of nowhere other than…Boston, Massachusetts! They only lasted three years –> 1996 to 1999. Well, here they are playing at the Middle East in Cambridge! As you can tell by listening to them for no longer than two minutes, they played faster garage (punk). For instance, Hamilton Leithauser is singing in a style that would be foreign in comparison to his later work (minus “Tenleytown” off 2006’s A Hundred Miles Off). And also he hasn’t aged in thirteen years. He’s probably in his early twenties at the time of this performance, but he hasn’t changed at all.
Bob Log III
“Ladies and gentlemen’s… We’ve all got boobs people, look between your, your, non-boobs… what you’re going to find is a nipple! No matter if you’re a man or woman, OR an angry woman.”