The Dead Milkmen Archives

Here’s a couple of shots from the video shoot for “The Thing That Only Eats Hippies”. This was our first video and in fact the only one shot on video tape. The first photo shows Rodney in between two hippies played by David Wildman on the left and Chris Coccia on the right. David was a local show promoter and music fan. He used to book shows at the Kennel Club and later became partners with our manager David Reckner and formed Raw Productions. They managed us and few other bands as well as promoted shows in the area. Chris was a friend and our first band photographer. He’s been a a professional comedian for many years and recently MC’d the benefit reunion shows we did to honor Dave Blood in November 2004.

The next shot shows Rodney and Joe performing as the rappers TDM. This was shot in an upstairs parking garage which would later become the home of Third Story Recording. We recorded Eat Your Paisley here.

The last shot shows Dave Blood and I dressed as the “punk rockers”.