#the coconuts

[duskofthemind]

i'm posting the whole sequence bc i find it hilarious

Benz and Garfield gently washing each other face, Lee voice being gone making him sound little a little frog and then the cut to the coconuts???

[ultravodkacollins]

Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ “Practice Of Silence” Japan tour 1990. All star lineup- Alan Merrill, Hiroshi Oguchi, Robin Lemesurier, Shinohara Nobuhiko, Adriana Kaegi, Donnie Kisselbach, Janique Svedberg, Cheryl Lee Poirier

Photos Yuji Hashimoto.

[doctordts]

I told @the-flustered-fox not to tempt me because I’d make it, yet here we are.

[thesobsister]

Coati Mundi with the Coconuts and the Kid Creole band, "Que Pasa/Me No Pop I"

Playing before audiences in NYC and London, Kid Creole and The Coconuts were inspired outliers, stylistically, musically, thematically, and just-about-every-other-way-edly different from anything on the scene. Here, playing for what looks to be a theater full of German high school students, the band, fronted by percussionist, singer, and songwriter Coati Mundi, had to have been seen as beamed in from another galaxy.

The very talented and apparently inexhaustible Coati Mundi aka Spanish Harlem's own "Sugar-Coated" Andy Hernandez, in tandem with The Coconuts, the hardest-working backup singers in the business, and the shit-hot Kid Creole band, presents his semi-hit (#32 in the U.K. in 1981) in a frenzied, funky performance of singing, flute-playing, and acrobatic dancing that could've powered a small town.

Just excellent.

[ultravodkacollins]

Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ “Practice Of Silence” Japan tour 1990. All star lineup- Alan Merrill, Hiroshi Oguchi, Robin Lemesurier, Shinohara Nobuhiko, Adriana Kaegi, Donnie Kisselbach, Janique Svedberg, Cheryl Lee Poirier

Photos Yuji Hashimoto.

[ultravodkacollins]

Vodka Collins ウォッカ・コリンズ “Practice Of Silence” Japan tour 1990. All star lineup- Alan Merrill, Hiroshi Oguchi, Robin Lemesurier, Shinohara Nobuhiko, Adriana Kaegi, Donnie Kisselbach, Janique Svedberg, Cheryl Lee Poirier

Photos Yuji Hashimoto.

[thesobsister]

Kid Creole & The Coconuts, “Going Places/In the Jungle”

Live at The Ritz in 1981, the hardest-working band in show business gives a master class in focused energy. Like, enough to power a small city for a week.