


She’s later seen riding half outside the passenger side window, clearly violating front seatbelt laws, before deep-throat kissing him while he attempts to drive down the road. Fish Heads 80s MTV video by Barnes & Barnes. That’s enough to make any paint finish freak cringe. The video opens with D-list actress (and former front man David Coverdale’s wife) Tawny Kitaen doing cartwheels in lingerie across the hoods of a pair of Jaguar XJs. “Here I Go Again on My Own” - Whitesnake (1987)

approved novelty MTV hit Fish Heads, but this video for a ballad. The entire video is a parable of the devastating consequences of drugs and the illusion of being able to outrun a BMW in a Volkswagen. Since most 1981 videos were shot before MTV even existed filmed to be shown on proto-MTV video programs like. He later appears in a 911SC cabriolet, only to get nabbed by the Feds and then killed by a fake cop, who’s really just one of the guys from the 2002 chase. Their “deal” goes south, the chase is on - Frey in a VW Thing and the other guys in a BMW 2002 - and he somehow outruns them. He later appeared in the Barnes & Barnes clips “Love Tap” and “Soak It Up” he played the role of a Nazi (alongside another young and rising actor, Judge Reinhold) in Pat Benatar’s popular 1982 video “Shadows of the Night” and he had a cameo with Rae Dawn Chong in New Order’s 1987 video for “Touched by the Hand of God.We open on Frey and his compatriot in an undisclosed South American locale, which is really just an alley in Miami with a couple of palm trees for effect. But this wasn’t Paxton’s only foray into the wacky world of new wave. “Fish Heads” aired for two consecutive weeks on SNL in 1980, and it later became a cable fixture during the early freeform days of MTV. “And then, God, they must have put it in the machine right away, and obviously they played it, because they came out five minutes later and said, ‘Come on back, we want to put it on next week’s show.’ And I’m suddenly in like Flynn.” And then finally they came out to take the 3/4-inch tape, one of those big honking f***ing things, and I started to get up with them to walk in the back, and they said, ‘Uh, no, you stay here.’ I was like Rupert Pupkin!” Paxton recalled in a 2010 interview with Bullz-Eye. “Ultimately, I took it to New York, and I literally had to wait in the waiting room at Rockefeller Center for two days before anybody would even see me.

Paxton, cinematographer Rocky Schenck, and costumer Joan Farber shot the video with a Super 8 camera and hand-crank Bolex camera for about $2,000, and Paxton campaigned to get the video played on Saturday Night Live, long before the days of Digital Shorts. Fish heads is a novelty song by comedy rock duo barnes barnes released as a single in 1978 and later featured on their 1980 album voobaha. Demento radio show and a music video for the song made in 1980 was in regular rotation on mtv. First, “Fish Heads.” This utterly bizarre but charming clip didn’t just star Paxton as the eccentric host of a tea party for decapitated, decomposing fishes - Paxton, who was close friends with Barnes & Barnes (aka musician Robert Haimer and Lost in Space actor Bill Mumy), also co-directed. As the leading youth entertainment brand, mtv is the best place to watch the network's original series, see the latest music videos and stay up to date on today's celebrity news. The legendary barnes and barnes 80 s classic fish heads video. Fish Heads / Fish Heads / Roly Poly Fish Heads / Fish Heads / Fish Heads / Eat Them Up, Yum This now rare music video from the early eighties was indeed a big hit when music television (read: MTV) came into our lives with a vengence.
