The X-Men TAS Podcast: Episode 18 – Repo Man + Spider-Man Homecoming Review!

Posted in on July 10th, 2017 by Willie

Sonia’s on a trip so I fly solo to Canada to witness Wolverine take on the scruffy pack known as Alpha Flight! Join me north of the border to discuss…

  • Alpha Flight’s desperate longing to bask in Wolverine’s shadow!
  • Wolverine’s heavily edited for television never-nude backstory!
  • Adamantium made Wolverine illiterate???
  • Plans for a Spider-Man TAS Podcast???
  • My rambling overly enthusiastic review of Spider-Man Homecoming! (beware of spoilers!)

I really fly off the rails on this episode but it’s a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy all the bonus Spider-Man content! Make sure to subscribe to the podcast via iTunes or Stitcher and tell all your friends about it! Also, find us on Facebook!

The X-Men TAS Podcast
The X-Men TAS Podcast
The X-Men TAS Podcast: Episode 18 - Repo Man + Spider-Man Homecoming Review!
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The Beatles, Live at Shea Stadium

Posted in The Beatles, Youtube Favs on January 6th, 2012 by Willie

On August 15th, 1965, the Beatles arrived in New York City, to play a massive sold out show at Shea Stadium, the former home of the New York Mets.  The concert was a big deal for many reasons.  First off, it was the largest rock concert to date, setting the stage for Woodstock, Altamont, and all the mega stadium rock tours that would follow.  At the time, it was the highest grossing live event in the history of show business, raking in 304,000 dollars from 55,000 plus crazed fans.  Lastly, it was the apex of the “Beatlemania” phenomenon.  The Beatles were live, in New York City, playing to the largest live audience then imaginable, a live audience frenzied beyond comprehension.  Girls were fainting, screaming, rushing the field, and peeing themselves.  Police Officers were deafened by the noise, and outside the screaming girls, everyone else was stunned into hysterics by the absurdity of the event.  The Beatles, loaded up with fresh 100 watt Vox amplifiers, couldn’t hear themselves or each other, and the concert itself was broadcast to the crowd over the tinny Shea Stadium PA system.  The Beatles did the best they could to just plug away and hope they were playing together.  They did somehow manage to pull off a coherent performance, considering the circumstances, bashing through their most raucous rockers in the middle of a sustained chaos.  The videos capturing the event have been highly edited and bootlegged over the years.  The Beatles manager Brian Epstein, in concert with Ed Sullivan’s production team, filmed a documentary of the event that has never seen an official release, outside of a TV broadcast in 1967. The documentary itself was overdubbed with vocal retakes on some songs, some more jarringly out of place then others.  The entire concert, in documentary form, does exist on youtube, but its incomplete and the quality isn’t great. What I have below is first a rare HD look at the part of the documentary showing the Beatles getting ready for the show, selected scenes from the Beatles Anthology, and documentary footage I found stitched together as concisely as possible. While edited and incomplete, they represent the best image and sound quality of the show available on youtube.  It’s still a lot of fun, and I’m waiting for the day to get my hands on the final HD remaster of the show in full.  Until then, enjoy one of the greatest events in the history of live musical performance…




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The Ramones, Howard Stern On-Air Fight, I Wanna Be Sedated

Posted in Howard Stern, The Ramones, Youtube Favs on May 29th, 2011 by Willie

Part 76 of my youtube countdown closes down punk week in a hilarious fashion.  It’s an old interview from the Howard Stern show featuring Joey Ramone and Marky Ramone going at each others throats with juvenile comic viciousness.  Marky calls up Howard complaining that Joey called Marky a drunk the other day.  Joey gets on the line and accuses Marky of having spread rumors about him on the internet.  The fight intensifies and devolves from there into petty name calling, a question into who is sober and who is not, and a cutting accusation of wig wearing.  It’s so funny because its a real fight and gives you an idea as to what band fights are like, the insecurity amongst members, and the fragility of their massive egos.  Happily, the fight does resolve fairly amicably, but probably because both Joey and Marky started to get embarrassed.  This is a great moment in punk rock history and a must listen.  Oh, yea, I included, “I Wanna Be Sedated” as a bonus video to serve as a nice chaser to the hilarious antics.  Enjoy.


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