Atomic TV #17: The “Baltimore Local Music” Episode (archive.org)
Atomic TV presents a sampling of Baltimore troubadours past and present, captured live and in canned videos. Get your groove on with Garage Sale, Sick, Blister Freak Circus, Dirty Sanchez, Berserk, Gerty, The Put-Outs, The Beltways, The Kicksouls, Mark Harp plus DC’s prodigal son Tommy Keene and Maypole’s infamous appearance on The Jerry Springer Show!
Baltimore Band Maypole On Jerry Springer (archive.org)
On Valentine’s Day 1995 the world learned the hissy, slap-and-bicker details of a musical lesbian love triangle gone decidedly sour. It was all in a day’s work for that bastion of highbrow programming, The Jerry Springer Show. Arrayed before Jerry’s camera’s were the three ladies from the Baltimore rock band Maypole, all breathlessly confessing that they made beautiful music together of another sort. The bassist, a shocked Middle America learned, was sleeping with the guitarist, who in turn was jumping the bones of the drummer.
Read more about Maypole at Tom Warner’s Accelerated Decrepitude.
Berserk – My Love Is So Big
Berserk – Ultra 7
A lo-fi music video of perhaps the best song by Baltimore’s reigning ’90s hi-fly purveyors of pop-punk, Berserk. Berserk bassist Dave Cawley believes his life would be different if only he could be alien superhero “Ultra 7” – like, he’d have a mighty ‘morphin girlfriend, fight monsters, and be able to buy his vegan friend Brent “a burrito without any meato.” Berserk is: Brent Malkus (guitar, vocals), David Cawley (bass, vocals) and Skizz Cyzyk (drums).