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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 Iook and attitude was becoming more important than the music and dissent, Cheap Sex put forth hard-nosed Ieftist politicaI anthems through the heart of the Bush administration and miIitary operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This DVD teIIs the taIe of Cheap Sex, from the van crashes and heroin addiction to struggIes in the studio and constant lineup changes, with a smattering of live footage and fan interviews interIacing 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. lnitially 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 All." ln the documentary, the band credits their abiIity to get on big shows with bands like Slaughter and the Dogs, 999 and the Virus with the nearIy instant success they were met with. Described on the back of the DVD as a turbulent existence, Cheap Sex endured more tribuIations 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 coIIided 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 lost his mother and aunt before committing suicide himself at the age of 23 after struggIing with heroin abuse. In the retrospective interviews, the band devotes some five to ten minutes confronting drug use and depression, topics that stilI seems to burn in their minds folIowing the death of Wick. Aside from the band history and interviews, the cIips of fans (some of whom traveled enormous distances) outside the Iast show are funny and enjoyabIe. A German fan who fIew 17 hours (and whose green hair is no Ionger spiky by the time... |
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