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A funny thing about PG is that they got to play one of their tunes for an East-coast TV channel.
The thing can be seen on "Maximum Penetration", a video on Atavistic that ain't quite good since it shows a black & white gig, the camera directed towards a TV set showing the band, a painful thing to see. And the lyrics are buried too.
Still, in the middle of the tape, you've got that TV host (was it New Brunswick?), introducing the band, about to play one of their tracks from their "Pussy Gold 5000" EP.
Cristina Martinez had already been sacked, and you've got the 4 remaining members :
Neil Hagerty, hidden by his hanging hair, Julie Cafritz, torturing her guitar chords, Bob Bert, eyes closed, happily achieving not to hit any cymbal or drumkit, and Jon Spencer...
Spencer wears a leather coat fit for a tall muscular guy. Spencer, at that period of time, was even slimer that these days, and the coat seems to weigh a ton on his shoulders.
He's got a nice heavy looking guitar he barely touches. The guitar hangs low, and he can't lip-sync the song properly, for it was quite impossible to do so as all came out impulsively or spontaneously on record (same for gigs, regarding material prior to JSBX Acme). All he seems to be thinking of is "when will my recorded voice spurt out? shit, too late", with that weight on his shoulders, and the weight of his guitar bringing him down.
To cap it all, when the music ends, his guitar falls to the ground, its suspender (?) cracking.
This, the falling guitar part, is to be seen in the video Sonic Youth made for Teenage Riot.
As for Right Now, I don't know it; just heard and liked a lot NYC1999 (from the video).
EDIT : "funny thing" I wrote. I didn't mean to laugh at the man. My jaw dropped when I first saw it for Spencer had gathered every single cliché about rock'n'roll when he didn't seem to fit for the part. His desire to become THE number one could be seen and I respected that a lot.
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