2000 Pride of Arizona: Danny Elfman/Oingo Boingo

It’s a good day at band camp when the music you’re practicing comes from Oingo Boingo.

The rules are written in the stone
Break the rules and you get no bones
All you get is ridicule, laughter
And a trip to the house of pain!

“No Spill Blood” by Oingo Boingo

Whoever the band director is that added Oingo Boingo to the marching band’s performance repertoire, gets massive props from me.

Earlier this week, a Youtube search somehow brought me to a 1976 The Gong Show appearance from The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo.

Once again, more stuff that I probably never would have discovered, had it not been for Youtube. So Oingo Boingo has been in the musical rotation this week, and on my mind. While digging around on my hard drive, I found some fun Boingo stuff that I had forgotten about, that I would like to share with you all in the spirit of Halloween!

I’ve got a super-cool DVD of Oingo Boingo’s performance at the legendary US Festival in 1983 that is a definite treat, and here’s something for you that is no trick. I’ll send the first 5 bloodsuckers, er Addicted to Vinyl readers a free copy of this rare hour long pro-shot Boingo performance.

Just drop me an email, and I’ll happily send it your way.

Good luck!

P.S. – Thanks to Dan’s Boingo Page, I found out that there is now an official DVD of Forbidden Zone, the 1980 Richard Elfman classic featuring music by Danny Elfman and the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo.

There’s a brand spankin’ new colorized version, movie posters, collector’s pins, and all sorts of other Forbidden Zone-related stuff that you can find here.

I want one!

Oingo Boingo – Gratitude