TAD - Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears - DVD

TAD took idea of playing live very seriously; it was a life or death matter. This DVD not only stands ans testimony to the claim, but it's also a cinematic document of the world's heaviest band ever (as Bruce Pavitt so incisively puts in) bodily stretching that assertion beyond any previously known limitations over our dozen years, TAD blew circuits and punctured eardrums, herniated discs and damaged vertebrae, pinched nerves and triggered sciatica, incited lumbago here, caused concussions there, a catalog of ailments that we took in stride as occupational hazard-may tinnitus forever unite us - und it was worth every thin dime of the always rising physical cost, an iconic barcode branded into our neural und muscular-skeletal tissues for all time. Better than a tattoo, it's an open scar that roars, a broken alarm bell ringing from the lost event horizon of a long - dead star, one we could never see - that ist, until this DVD clipped it back onto the light box of the silver screen, where it can be deciphered and viewed anew. This documentary telescopes the musical pathology of TAD down into the image of an electrocardiograph recording the minor-mode melody of a final infarct, a demented soundtrack that is neither tame nor de-clawed. It was never meant to be. Dare to feel it, and, like me, risk bleeding internally.