The Wipers – Portland’s All-Time Best Band

This week the Boston Phoenix rates rock and roll by geography and give the award for best band for Oregon to The Wipers.

Read – 50 Bands 50 States / Oregon

Watch the video below, a clip from Mike Lastra’s documentary Northwest Passage, with comments from Toody and Fred Cole from Pierced Arrows, Steve DeShazer From the Styphnoids, Mark Sten from the Oblivion Seekers, Brian Lee from the Cleavers, and the late Tom “Pig Champion” Roberts from Poison Idea.

Greg and company perform Over The Edge from the second Wipers album. This is one of only two or three existing videos of The Wipers in performance and shows just a fraction of their raw power and influence.

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5 Responses to “The Wipers – Portland’s All-Time Best Band”

  1. cathy Says:
    July 2, 2008 at 5:21 pm | Reply

    My computer doesn’t play well with others or your video is whacked. I’d love to watch it, but alas, the technodweeb isn’t in right now.

  2. cathy Says:
    July 2, 2008 at 5:39 pm | Reply

    Computer fixed, watched video. Wow. They are amazing.

  3. Andrew F. Moncrieff Says:
    July 7, 2008 at 6:56 pm | Reply

    “Greg and company perform Over The Edge from the second Wipers album. ”

    Over the Edge is from the THIRD Wipers album. The one called OVER THE EDGE.

  4. Fanny Fandango Says:
    July 18, 2008 at 9:35 am | Reply

    oh you forgot Dave Corboy is interviewed in that film too, and early footage of Sado-Nation with John Shirley.

  5. andrez Says:
    August 26, 2008 at 3:49 am | Reply

    Wow. That was amazing. They’re my favorite band ever.

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