It's like everything Alain has had a part in is forgotten, yet he's always been there playing with some of the greatest over the years. Heck he's the greatest there is.

@larrydavid6852

3 жыл бұрын

People are still learning about him many years later. Me for one 😉

@tamadrummer1nz

3 жыл бұрын

I learned about him threw Queens of the Stone Age, such a great talent

@421bb4

2 жыл бұрын

@@tamadrummer1nz I knew I recognized him from watching PJ Harveys great album live !

Hillel was the fucking man, wish he was still around to grace us with his glorious funk sounds

Just the right age to have caught a glimpse of this scene as a young skater punk it's pure 🔥

I'm just going to say it. Alain Johannes. Alain Johannes. I can't imagine a more important figure in the Los Angeles music scene at that time or ever. This guy had his hand in so much and the people he played with. There is no mistake that musicians find him or want to play with him. And this song. Could there be a better song from that time or today. I'm talking about it forty years later. Put it out. And Alain where ever you might be, you crushed it . What a legacy.

Such an amazing piece of music. New wave but looking ahead 4 or 5 years

This is fantastic

0:46 I love how Hillel Slovak moves when he just rocked all his stuff out!!! It's amazing!! I want to play with me guitar like him

i have this on a VHS and the strobe light in the background is so crazy, i could just imagine someone watching this on MTV and having a sezure

What Is This have been the biggest band of the 80's.

One of my favorite tunes from the 80"s! I hope Alain Johannes finally gets the respect he deserves....

R.I.P. - HILLEL he's is never forgotten still i'm alive

One of THE great forgotten 80s pop gems, along with Let's Active and Icicle Works (anyone out there remember those guys?). Haven't heard this in almost 30 years, thanx for posting...

Did anyone know that Alain is the BEST melody maker, rare tune finder, strangest and most sadest guitarist ever lived. :))

what an amazing great video ! I wish I was already born in 1984 !

sweet music video! hillel's got some good moves :)

Jack Irons Rules!!!

thanks Desert Blitzkrieg for sharing all these amazing vidoes. Every time i find a new one by Alain and friends it makes my day.

Thanks for putting this up!!! Hadn't seen this in years. Used to see What Is This live any chance I got. I remember when I was in a band, one day the drummer put in a VHS tape with a bunch of videos, ( I'm guessing the show was Night Flight), and on comes this hilarious video of What Is This doing "Up Off The Floor", with Flea on bass AND flugelhorn! I'd love to see that video again.

Wow, haven't heard this in over 25 years. Just checked on a whim, and I found it! Thanx. Used to see this on a show called Night Flight in the mid-80s...anyone remember that?

Slovak rules!!! RIP

yes, and he formed with the other guys on high school and he taught to Flea to play bass....

did anyone notice the flea-logo on the the snare drum?

I know the history quite well, and from what I have read there were sparks even in the beggining as they got invited back to clubs from just improving... Your right this singer had his shit together moreso at the time, and it was the safer play...

For the fans - the name of the song must be read backwards which becomes - i still have my mind.

LOVE!!

Barely a trace of this band is ever seen or more importantly HEARD .I have their studio stuff including the 2nd and MAJOR label release produced by none other then Todd Rundgren.They did a good rock take on the Spinners classic "I'll be there"

and proto-Eleven(Alain Johannes,jack Irons and Natasha)

Holy mother-effin good lord. Ive never.. what the mother.. this. is. real. Never knew of this pre super super group. Im still picking up the pices of my mind that was just blown to smithereens. Johannes and Hillel are/were masters. Irons is deserving of cred too of course. Not a fan at all of whatever weird 80's style you want to call this, but it is stil a work of art none the less.

he was member some years of Anthymn(What Is This ), i know,before they signed , i put to make more easy the search

Great song. Alain sounds great as always. BTW, I love the fact the song title is messed up in the song's own video.

i'm happily agree with you ;-)

@Coldacre Anthym. Btw, you are correct about this!

to think that Alain was in Queens too

@soliloqy , i think ,knowing to Alain and his carrier that this band had potential ,but sadly disolve.check the other songs in video responses

I wasn't a huge fan of the early chilis stuff, but how the hell couldn't he figure out which band had more potential... even when the chilis were just messin around...

Holy shit! It's the original Bevis and Butthead!

SEIIZUUUREEE!!! Love Alain though!

Someone should change this discription... Yeah, we have Hiilel, Alain and Jack, but the other guy isn't Flea.

@BagpipeHustler It's very odd to see Alain play in Them Crooked Vultures and than see this.

lit

@k0stil That's Alain Johannes. Give him a search; he most definitely knows how to play guitar.

oh crap my eyes this needs a freaking SEIZURE WARNING

anyone have a link to download the EP? thanks

@TheLeatheryman Are you talking about Steve and Dino, the presenters?? yeah , amazing guys !!!! they present a lot of vids in the earlier community channels as PBS , you can see more vids with them on backporchvideos .

@TeddyLong00 'Hieronymus' takes the cake though! (off the self-titled album)

does anybody know how the cinema effects are done at 2:07 or at 2:50?

@cristobalveasrivera7036

4 жыл бұрын

I know its been 10 years since you asked but it seems kind of obvious, those are multiple photographs put together as a video, so they shot, moved, shot again and so on

@vidrr

3 жыл бұрын

Pixilation

I think I got my headache

❤

That's Beavis and Butthead in the flesh right there.

i know ,he's Chris Hutchinson,i put in more info.Flea go away before they signed.i put his name to made more easy to find the band ,ok ;-)

En todos lados anda metido un Chileno XD

the guys at the beginning look like they come from a comic book

Mine dot matrix.

i don't think so .there are very good bands and almost all of our faves bands evolve and start un the 80's .And this band sounds cool.

Higher Ground?

6/4 time?

or maybe I just forgot that I had posted it..... I'll let you decide. Because it seems like you're just in the mood to rip on somebody.

ALAIN =D!!!!!

Well, shit...I have epilepsy now. :-(

haha this is so random! what year did this song come out?

i think i just suffered a stroke

That's Chris on bass, not Flea.

DONT JUST STAND THERE I'M HAVING A MAJOR SPASM

@desertblitzkrieg yes its truth there are exceptions but tv was full of george michaels madonnas

How long has this song been?

@thehumanoperator

7 жыл бұрын

Thúy Trịnh 1984

Please don’t get weird on what I’m about to say. Because I’m a huge RHCP fan. But Slovak’s guitar playing is much more interesting than what he did with the Chilis

Marioag20 is right, flea was never even a member of what is this but of fear.

@TheOwl

6 жыл бұрын

13Sliver No, actually Flea was a member of What Is This until FEAR came calling.

kk nvm then I don't want to start a youtube fight haha

that is not flea

OMG WOW! its hilarious knowing what became of all these musicians and then seeing this...lol stupid 80s pop.

interesting... proto-QOTSA, AND proto-Chili Peppers.

Wtf

This video could give you a seizure.

the 80s music should be erased

@LovelyDisgracefromInnerspace

3 жыл бұрын

Every decade has music the world could have done without.

I came here wanting to hear Hillel's pre-Chili's work, and Jesus, does this suck. I don't know what you'd call this type of music ( post-punk/new wave), but it's terrible.

@LovelyDisgracefromInnerspace

3 жыл бұрын

Hillel left so it is probably not what he wanted to play. His work on WiT "I Am A House" is pretty awesome though.

thank god hillel died for RHCP's sins not this