Yesterday I posted a video of Tommy Rogers applying a Headscissor on one of his opponents during a Tag Team match. Let's continue the match from the moment Tommy tried for a second Flying Headscissor only to be throttled across the top rope.
The Midnight Express proceed to torture and abuse the stunned muscle-toy with brutal kicks and whips into the corner. Sweet Stan unleashes his karate moves while Beautiful Bobby gouges Tommy's eyes while strangling him on the middle rope. This will teach the cocky show-off to apply his degrading Headscissor while his partner posed in their corner!
Even their wimpy manager joins in the lesson, bitch slapping Tommy to utterly humiliate him. Damn, I get a boner from classic wrestling violence and dirty fighting, especially when inflicted on a complete hunk like Tommy Rogers!
Gym Leaders aren’t above illegal moves, you can always sneak on a Zen Headbutt
Oh yeah, illegal moves on Gym Leader Pokémon are not uncommon( The Gym Leader rematches and The Battle Tower Master Class in BDSP have A LOT of Gym Leader Pokémon having illegal moves). And honestly, since Hypno-Potamus is a villain, it should make sense for a villain's Pokémon to know an illegal move.
I'm actually quite surprised no Villain team leaders or admins in the mainline games have illegal moves on their Pokémon, I looked on Bulbapedia for any that had illegal moves, and none of them had any, in the anime yes, but in the games no.
Sunwatchers — Illegal Moves (Trouble in Mind)/Sunwatchers and Eugene Chadbourne — 3 Characters (Amish)
Illegal Moves by Sunwatchers
It’s a fresh year and Sunwatchers have come scratching back from their outer-borough lair packing a fresh blast of psychedelicized punk/jazz splatter.
Illegal Moves, their third LP, and second for Trouble in Mind, continues the band’s penchant for announcing their intentions loudly. From the outside in, this comes via artwork by Brooklyn illustrator Scott Lenhardt who provides an epic, gatefold spread featuring the band jamming on as a tripped-out Kool-Aid Man — along with sidekicks the Tooth Fairy and anarchist author Emma Goldman — brings some hurt to a who’s who of creeps classic and contemporary. Uncle Sam, Thatcher, Nixon, Pol Pot, along with more recent fuckers such as Brett Kavanaugh, Mel Gibson, Charlottesville fascists and the general corrupt music industry get battered by the corporate mascot gone good.
And the righteous simmer bubbles on with the music. Illegal Moves is the band’s tightest, most ferocious slab to date. Jim McHugh (guitar/electric phin/saz), Jason Robira (drums) Jeff Tobias (sax/keys/clarinet) and Peter Kerlin (bass) have long semi-secretly been a real sear-your-ear hairs live band, and IM does the best job yet of capturing their shows in a studio pack.
“New Dad Blues” begins with a warning shot of feedback and percussion before igniting into a serpentine melodic assault. Kerlin and Robira drop concrete-thick clumps of bass notes and percussive clatter over which Tobias and McHugh squawk and squeal mightily. It’s an opener that packs the punch of a pair of sparking defibrillator paddles. Clear!
“Beautiful Crystals,” the excellently-titled “Greeneyed Pigmen Get The Blade,” a powerful take on Alice Coltrane’s “Ptah The El Daoud” and “Psychic Driving” toy with the formula, shifting the dynamic down for a breath, then back into a rhythmic pulse-kick—as if the band is working the controls of a colossal organism pumping out a ceaseless stream of this incomparable cosmic-boogie.
When the band cools out, such as on closer “Strollin Coma Blues,” they do so while kicking up enough desert dust to seal the seams between Saharan blues and the Sun Ra Arkestra.
Throughout, it’s as if Sunwatchers’ music is coming from an alternate NYC where instead of being fattened by Wall Street cash and real estate scheming, the City built upon its history of ecstatic art and free expression. Or maybe that is our New York — or still can be — and the music is acting as a bell toll, providing a jolt for those slumbering along under the wrap of punny subway advertisements and single-use plastic.
3 Characters by Sunwatchers and Eugene Chadbourne
Those looking to dig deeper should check out 3 Characters, which dropped late last fall via Amish Records. Here, SW team with legendary avant-garde guitar/banjo/vocalist Eugene Chadbourne for a double album of self-proclaimed modern protest music.
Putting a bit more spit on the curve ball, they took for source material tunes by the Minutemen, Doug Sahm and Henry Flynt — the three characters honored by the album’s title. Mike Watt drops by to add a few spoken word vox and the musicians spit out some vital, ripping versions of these iconic tracks.
Loosely, the record plots a path through the punk politics of the D. Boon/Watt cuts before tumbling through deeply dosed renditions of Sahm’s Texan outsider anthems, and razzling it all up with a caterwauling crash through Flynt’s avant-garde hillbilly blues. There’s enough countercultural vigor contained within to appropriately fry the minds of a whole generation, if only it reaches their ears.
