Idolator
Just the other day my roommate and I were sitting around eating pancakes and listening to Louder Than Love, and the conversation turned to Soundgarden's mountainous late '80s/'90s Seattle contemporaries TAD, specifically their unforgettable frontman, Tad Doyle. "You know, I heard he was dead," my roommate said with a sigh. Not so! In fact, TAD is about to come back into our lives in a big (small-screen) way.
Because the long-awaited TAD DVD documentary will be coming out in early 2008, according to the band's MySpace blog.
Yes, you read right: KING OF HEARTS PRODUCTIONS has completed the final edit of the TAD DVD, and it's now en route to the distributors.
Be prepared to buy a copy when it sees daylight, at long last (thanks to the diabolically demented directing and editing of the geniuses behind the aforementioned KING OF HEARTS PRODUCTIONS), in early 2008, so that you too may watch the celluloid saga depicting the cursed career of a band that would not give up, despite lawsuits, illness, catastrophe, decapitation, and alien abduction (not necessarily in that order).
See and hear them explode in flames only to rise again time after time.
Spontaneous combustion has NEVER been so much fun!
We don't necessarily know if we agree with the documentary that TAD was "the heaviest band ever," as that's a weighty claim to make for any band. But "they weren't necessarily metal, but they were heavy"? Fuckin' A.
TAD DVD Short 2007 [YouTube; HT Jon Solomon]
Tad [MySpace]
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I love Tad; Salt Lick/God's Balls is one of my favorite CDs ever, certainly the "grunge" disc I play the most. I even saw them in Trenton, NJ in 1989, opening for Primus of all bands. But couldn't they have found some way to make this DVD without interviewing Charles Cross? That fuckin' guy is the official "Mr. Grunge" as far as VH1 and every other TV journalist or documentarian is concerned, and I'm thoroughly sick of seeing him mumbling about this or that bit of Cobain- or Seattle-related minutiae. Tad deserves better.
I can't wait to see the documentary's segment on the "8-Way Santa" lawsuit, it'll be interesting to see if the LP cover girl is interviewed. Some argue that Tad created most of the grunge stereotypes (flannel, backwoods pervert image, etc.).
I always spring a TAD song on a unsuspecting soul when I make them mix CDs. Heh...
I made an x-mas card for my sister in 1994 by xeroxing the cover of 8-Way Santa and writing "You, on X-mas, 2007"
She thought it was funny. But boy did the gods of irony bite me on the ass this holiday season.
@unperson: Was that Trenton show with Fishbone headlining? I think I was there. Primus was as boring as bone growth. Fishbone on the other hand, and I'm not even really a fan, rocked the shit out us, even shaking loose the nearby nursing home ...
TAD FTW. The 8-Way Santa cassette (original art, natch) blew out at least one speaker in my old Malibu.
tad doyle is super nice. i'm a friend of a friend, and last i heard, he's doing pretty well. TAD rules.
don't you miss the times when things meant something and weren't just retro?
@Jfrankparnell: No, Primus was headlining with Tad second on the bill. They were touring in support of Seas Of Cheese, and I forget why Tad was out - maybe for 8-Way Santa. I did see Fishbone and Primus together at Rutgers University a year later; got in free by volunteering to work stage security. That was fun - pushing wannabe stage divers back with one arm while hauling Angelo back out of the audience with the other.
Fans of seminal early ’90s Seattle band TAD will be delighted to know that the long-awaited TAD documentary will be coming out on DVD in early 2008. If you like your rock and your frontmen heavy (Crowbar aside), this one is not to be missed.
@unperson: Excellence - I was in the balcony. Still one of the better shows I've seen, to this day.
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