The Hot Carls: “Planet of the Apes”
We here at Dead Lantern and the Splattercast haven’t always dabbled in the darker arts of filmmaking, blogging, and podcasting. No, sir. We used to play in bands. Attempting to explain the history of those bands is better suited to someone with far more time and patience than I have. As you can tell, we were shitty pop punk. If you aren’t repulsed, there may be more goodies where this came from…
The video is taken from a live performance at the UNL radio station where Jeff’s wife Tina (who you heard on the latest Splattercast) was the disc jockey…or something 
This is footage taken by some local videographer doing a public access show called “Freakout” that aired on February 8th, 2001.
That obnoxious guy with hair (believe it or not) playing guitar is Deejay. The striking fellow playing the bass is Spooky McPhee. The strapping lad doing backup vocals is Braden. The geek playing the drums is I.
For those of you who despise Youtube and its crappy compression, you can also view this video in “better” quality on Vimeo.
Rock out with your cock out.
Filed under: Dead Lantern Music, The Hot Carls
Frank Zanzibar Rose said:
hahhah sweet….I should send you guys some crawdaddys footage or banana hammock ride videos if I ever stop being lazy and post them up…
with out your beard Mat you look like a friend of mind Gaultenstine.
he dose not rip on the drums like you thought sir.
tina said:
Man, that brings back memories! I worked at the station, true, but my gal pal Melissa Stemme led a ‘local inferno’ show featuring local bands and invited you on after I put your ‘album’ into rotation at the station. I’ll find the tape of the video I made for that song. It’s better quality and 7 times more hilarious!
MaT said:
I have a tape with that video on it. In fact, it’s been transferred to digital video and is sitting on my hard drive as we speak.
tina said:
dude, make it happen. here, now.
MaT said:
whoops, i’ve got the Mat’s Drumsticks one. nevermind. I can’t make it happen
tina said:
sucka, I’ll find it for you. I don’t think it got damaged when we had water in our basement. Does Spooky have a way of transfering VHS into a digital medium?
tina said:
and if anyone’s curious, I’m quite certain I’m the one DJ is making faces at in the corner of the room.
Oh the memories….
jackie said:
Holy shit how did I miss this? More!
Deejay said:
There are several of our albums sitting on a spare hard drive somewhere in the house.
Our set list used to be around 30 songs at any given time.
Deejay said:
Also I’m sitting at Denver airport waiting on a flight to Portland.
jackie said:
I’ll be sitting at the Denver airport in the morning. That place is crazy.
T.J.Roe said:
Goth MaT was awesome.
Deejay said:
Its actually not to bad Monday through Thursday. Friday through Sunday is the real mad house.