Retro Commercials

Bangles – No Mag Commercial. Short audio commercial recorded by the Bangles for LA underground zine called ‘No Mag’. Released on ‘The Radio Tokyo Tapes’, a compilation of early 1980s LA bands. The song is actually a variation of their song “Getting Out Of Hand” with different lyrics about ‘No Mag’ and was actually recorded when the Bangles were still known as the Bangs. It was at the release party for No Magazine’s issue, Vol. 2, No. 7, which featured an interview with The Bangs themselves, that the girls had re-written and performed the first verse and chorus of their tune “Getting Out Of Hand”, to coincide with the magazine. No-Mag co-founder Bruce Karlberg was so impressed that he had The Bangs record their new version and it was distributed on LA radio for what is now considered their infamous “No-Mag Radio Commercial”. (Above info and lyrics below courtesy of www.TheCompleteBangles.com.) NO-MAG RADIO COMMERCIAL Written by Vicki Peterson Main Voice SUSANNA From the compilation ‘The Best Of Radio Tokyo Tapes’ (1983) -Here’s The Bangs for No-Magazine! It came out the other day (other day) A new No-Mag is out on the stands, yeah Read all about The Bangs (about The Bangs) Descendents, Channel 3 and The Bangs. And I say to my friends “beware” There’s a new No-Mag (No-Magazine) There’s a new No-Mag (hitting the scene) Pop, Trash, Noise music, Nancy Reagan Yeah.

Filmed: October, 2007 My award winning commercial from film class. It’s just an ad for an agency which supplies priests to your home (for a fee) in order to rid your home of demonic possessors. FUN FACTS: – Influences/spoofs “The Exorcist” (1974) and “Scary Movie 2″ (2001). – My original idea was to have two priests (an old and a young) just as in “The Exorcist” but I only had two actors (me and James) at hand at the time so we had to settle for one. – No real script was written for this. Starring ——————————— James La Chase as Seamus McCready ——————————– John DeVito as Possessed Girl —————————- Joe DeVito as Zombie #1 —————————- Jerry Roth as Zombie #2 —————————- Joe Rullo as Zombie #3/Satan worshipping trick-or-treater —————————- and the voice of Bryan Isaia —————————- Cinematography: J. La Chase & J. DeVito Written by: J. DeVito & J. La Chase Edited and Directed by: John DeVito Award: Best Commercial (Period 2) 2008

Promo for NBC’s February 27, 1980 prime time lineup of “Real People”, “Diff’rent Stokes”. “Hello Larry” and “The Best Of Saturday Night Live”