The first 10% of this show sums up what we don't get on TV anymore. Technical difficulties. TV Party was live and improvised and this meant casual disaster. This early episode gets off to an artistically agonizing start - the sound person is late overdosing on drugs or both. Or it was the broken down equipment. Once the sound kicks in the show gets lively. Compton Maddux a droll singer songwriter is backed up by Debbie Harry and Glenn; the unique futurist soprano Klaus Nomi does one of his post-modern arias; Adny Shernoff of the Dictators plays the Beach Boys' Be True... to Your School backed up by pom pom girls Tish and Snooky the Manic Panic designers. Downtown legend director Eric Mitchell announces the opening of the now famous New Cinema theater and shows a clip from his film Kidnapped with Arto Lindsay Duncan Smith and Anya Phillips. Brit director David Silver and photographer Kate Simon do the white people talk about reggae segment. Blondie's Chris Stein and Debbie Harry and the Patti Smith Group's Richard Sohl drop in to smoke a reefer and take calls from all the crazies in cable land. Chris explains all this isn't chaos it's art. Tracklist: 1.Glenn on Mardigras 2.'Lil Rico' Amos Poe 3.Nile Rodgers Call In 4.Luigi Ciccolini Intellectual Talk [show more]
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Variety music show presented by Glenn O'Brien in New York. Recorded on January 8th 1979, the programme features a number of interviews as well as live music performances.
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