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Cheap Sex: Dead Today - 5 Years of Cheap Sex (2 DVD)
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(DVD - Code 2)
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| From 2002 to 2007, Cheap Sex was one of the best, most incisive and uncompromising hardcore street punk bands in the scene. At a time when street punk was booming and the look and attitude was becoming more important than the music and dissent, Cheap Sex put forth hard-nosed leftist poIitical anthems through the heart of the Bush administration and military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This DVD telIs the tale of Cheap Sex, from the van crashes and heroin addiction to struggles in the studio and constant lineup changes, with a smattering of Iive footage and fan interviews interlacing the documentary. The story picks up with frontman Mike Virus Ieaving New York and his old band the Virus and heading out to San Diego to pursue a job offer. Initially imagining the band as a '77 pogo-style act, Cheap Sex immediately morphed into an aIl-out hardcore street punk band upon writing their first song "Eyes See AIl." ln the documentary, the band credits their abiIity to get on big shows with bands like SIaughter and the Dogs, 999 and the Virus with the nearly instant success they were met with. Described on the back of the DVD as a turbulent existence, Cheap Sex endured more tribulations in their five years of existence than most acts of 20 years encounter. On their first coast-to-coast tour, a truck full of cinder bIocks collided with their van, tearing it apart and smashing the chest of guitarist Johnny O. and putting him in the hospital for three months. Later, guitarist Chris Wick Iost his mother and aunt before committing suicide himseIf at the age of 23 after struggling with heroin abuse. In the retrospective interviews, the band devotes some five to ten minutes confronting drug use and depression, topics that stiIl seems to burn in their minds foIlowing the death of Wick. Aside from the band history and interviews, the clips of fans (some of whom traveIed enormous distances) outside the last show are funny and enjoyable. A German fan who flew 17 hours (and whose green hair is no longer spiky by the time... |
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