Video: Mission of Burma, 1980, at the Underground

Published Nov 06 2007, 06:44 PM by Carly Carioli

From KinoDV's awesome archive of punk- and postpunk-era vids -- ~~captured by MIT geeks with some of the first portable video equipment~~ at a slew of long-lost Boston rockdives -- comes this month's treasure: Mission of Burma performing "Manic Incarnation" live at the Underground in 1980. If you ever wondered where Shellac and Big Black got their guitar sound, now you know. Indie rock starts here.

UPDATE: Jan Crocker corrects our description of how these vids were shot: "I am not a geek and it wasn't portable video equipment. Portable video equipment wasn't even on the market when I shot this stuff. Yes I had geeks filming...but they were very cool geeks!!"

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