Pioneers of Punk Show

Don't miss this great show! July 26th at the Fillmore, SF. Flipper! The Avengers! The Mutants! Negative Trend! and us, Target Video! I am not sure what the Mutants have in store, but if their show is anything like the Fab Mab Reunion it will be an extravaganza. MC for the evening is Neil Hamburger. Target tapes open the show so get there early. Click on the show title above for tickets.

Target Video at PFA/Berkeley Art Museum

Sorry to all of you who were turned away from the PFA show last Saturday. It's exciting to have a sold out show, but a drag for those who missed it. Try again at the "Pioneers of Punk" show at the Fillmore on July 26th. Tix in advance from the Fillmore. Target Video is up first, so get there early!

We were glad to see many old friends including Sam Edwards (Target,) John Gullack (The Mutants,) V.Vale (Search and Destroy,) legendary photographer Ruby Ray and former Damage Magazine writer Shoshana Wechsler.

See you at the Fillmore!

Target Video Rocks the MOCA Crowd

Henry Rollins, Joe Rees & Cliff Roman at the Target Video show at MOCA June 7,2008. Photo by Jackie Sharp

Thanks to everyone who came down to Geffen/MOCA on Saturday night! It was a great show that kicked off with 2 hours of great classics from back-in-the-day provided by Henry Rollins. It was cool to hear such clean versions of the music.

The crowd of 1200 was totally enthusiastic about the cavalcade of videos from Target that flowed for the next 2 hours. We'd love to hear from you which your favorites were. Well, we have an idea, but tell us anyway!

Don't know if anyone knew the shirts were for sale in the store. You can still pick one up.

Next show is at the Pacific Film Archive at the Berkeley Art Museum in Berkeley on Thursday, June 19. Be there!

Target Video T-shirts

Target Video tshirts are available for sale in the museum store at the Geffen/MOCA (Central Ave., Little Tokyo) . Get them while they last!

Henry Rollins @Black Flag shoot at Target Video studio,
SF/CA 1980's

Schedule for Geffen/MOCA show June 7, 2008:

7-9pm Henry Rollins plays "old scho0l" punk music list from his vast music collection

9-11pm Target Video shows their classic videos from around the Western World 77-81

Go!!!!!!!

Target Video show at Geffen/MOCA, LA/CA

Peter Murphy/Bauhaus from the Target Video taping at University of London, 1980.

Get to Geffen/MOCA in Japantown on Sat. June 7th for the first full length Target Video show in over 25 years! Henry Rollins is putting together some classic old school music that will play from 7-9. Video starts around 9pm. $10, or free for MOCA members. Be there!

The Dils in SF. Photo by Jill von Hoffman.

Target Video is showing a full 2 hour program with punk rock classics from the Dils, Avengers, Black Flag, X, the Weirdos, Gun Club, Screamers, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Bauhaus and many more.

Target Video at Geffen MOCA June 7, 2008 7-11pm. Henry Rollins is putting together some great music from his collection for your listening pleasure before the show (7-9). $10 or free to MOCA members.

Target Video show at Geffen/MOCA June 7, 2008

Join us at Geffen/MOCA in LA on June 7th for a 2-hour Target Video show. Henry Rollins is putting together some music for us and will be on hand. Music is from 7-9 and the video show is form 9-11. It's been decades since Target showed a full length video show in LA. We're packing in alot of material for the night!

Jackie's Target party

Jimmy Wilsey and Penelope Houston. Photo Jackie Sharp.

Well, it was Jackie & Jill's birthdays...Joe was in town...friends were in LA for the Getty show party...so hell, "Let's have a little Target Party!" While it could never match the huge parties of the past, it was really great and we all had a blast. Flipper was in town for the Getty show and their gigs at the House of Blues. Penelope Houston decided to stay over for the party too. We were so glad she did! Others that came: Cliff Roman, Edward Stapleton, Michael Ullencott, Hector Pinolosa, Paul Roessler, Chip & Tony Kinman, Jimmy Wilsey, Brendan Mullen, Michael Ostendorf, Alan Korn, Bill Anderson and many folks who's names are swimming still in my brain....

Awesome Getty Opening of "California Video"

l to r back row: Lora & Chuck Dukowski, East Bay Ray, Dix Denny, Brendan Mullen, Joe Rees, Don Bolles, Steve De Pace, Chip Kinman, Toluca Scarfo.

l to r front row: Grace and Cliff Roman, Jackie Sharp, Ward Williams, Penelope Houston, River & Ryan Rees, Jill Hoffman, Ted Falconi, Brad Lapin, Guiliano Scarfo & Lisa Kinman

Photo by Lynda Burdick

March 13, 2008: The Getty opening for the "California Video" show was a total blast. So many old friends turned up for the festivities. Not everyone made the photo...missing in action was Bruce Loose who was downstairs doing God knows what. The show is brilliant. It really is quite a feat of art and electronics. Get yourselves over/up to the Getty Center and check it out. The show runs through June 8.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Target will be showing a full program at the Geffen/MOCA in Japantown on June 7, 2008. No reservations necessary. It will be a fun night of video outside (projected on a big wall) and a party atmosphere. Be there!

Target Video at the Getty Museum

The poster shows the lineup for the Target Video (aka TargetVideo77) exhibit at the Getty show. The lineup includes the Cramps at Napa State Hospital, the Mutants a the School for the Deaf and Crime at San Quentin Prison. It going to be a great exhibit!

Target Video Tape at the Getty

Jill Hoffman, Sam Edwards, Jackie Sharp and Joe Rees at the SF Target Video Studio, 1970's.

The Joe Rees/TargetVideo77 station at the Getty will bring Target Video's historic punk rock footage to Los Angeles. The video station will run footage of the Cramps at Napa, the Mutants at the School for the Deaf, Crime at San Quentin prison, Avengers, Dils, Dead Kennedys, Circle Jerks, Weirdos, Black Flag, Flipper, Diamanda Galas, X and Survival Research Labs (S.R.L/Mark Pauline) and more. Vintage show posters will be part of the station.

TargetVideo77 material appears in Los Angeles at the Getty Museum in "California Video." The exhibit opens March 15, 2008.

Getty Museum's "California Video" exhibition catalog

The Getty Museum's "California Video" exhibition catalog is available through Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/California-Video-Histories-Glenn-Phillips/dp/0892369221

The show opens March 15 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles.

Flipper DVD Release

The Flipper DVD contains two live shows from the early 1980's. The first is from Berkeley, CA where they spent a few weekdays playing for friends and fans at the Berkeley Square. The second show is their set opening for Throbbing Gristle's last show at Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA.

So you get a club show and a stadium show all on one DVD. How great is that, OK?