"Watusi Rodeo" (Video 1983) - Guadalcanal Diary

This is the original 1983 video for Guadalcanal Diary's "Watusi Rodeo". Here is the introduction (   • "Watusi Rodeo" (Intro-Video 1983) - Guadal...  ). Someone else has uploaded the version that aired on MTV's Basement Tapes. It has received an impressive response. This is the better version. It placed third in an "American Film Institute" competition in 1983 and last in the aforementioned (1984) MTV Cutting Edge. MTV did air it several times though, including in the early '90's as a "Closet Classic". All footage is from Marietta, Atlanta, Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, and Charlotte during my first road trips with Guadalcanal Diary. The "cowboys and natives" were the only planned shots and captured at the "Much Ado About Midtown" festival In Midtown Atlanta 1983 (during that era there were many mid-town cultural events that sprang from more of a community-driven ethos and less from the cynical corporate-fests that followed). Editing was performed in Atlanta on industrial VHS decks. The first version cost just under $200. This is the second edit and there are two others, including one with the album audio track. The audio on this version, however, is from a 1983 performance at Atlanta's 688 club. I always preferred it. (I see several shrinking violets that don't approve - whether it's the raw video style or found footage approach - whatever. Expand your mind and eschew the pc approach to life - see what it is). Murray Attaway vocals, guitar / Rhett Crowe bass / John Poe drums / Jeff Walls guitar, vocals / Warren Chilton video.