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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Crime and Punishment.
This is a video of the legendary San Francisco punk band Crime, playing a show in an exercise yard in San Quentin prison. The Target Video tidemark says 1984, but I think it’s actually 1978.
As usual, Crime perform in police uniforms, and make a brooding, audience-baiting racket, rich in implied violence.
A solid wall of convicted felons stares back, some of them grimly holding up xeroxed “CRIME” posters for the camera. A very small number of guards look on apprehensively from the sidelines, hands on their weapons, presumably wondering who in the hell thought it would be a good idea to let this band play in a prison.
At the front of the stage, a lone woman dances to the music, seemingly oblivious to the seething male aggro all around her.
Crime are doing a song called “Piss on your Dog”.
Frankly, the whole scene looks pretty uncomfortable.
I’ve not heard any stories about the time Crime started a prison riot, so I’ll assume everybody got out in one piece.
Some lo-fi audio of more of their set is hear-able here.
: February 5, 2011 9:17:00 PM GMT