TAD Crushes Us, You, Everything In Their Path

jharv | November 30, 2007 4:05 am

Just the other day my roommate and I were sitting around eating pancakes and listening to Louder Than Love, and the conversation turned to Soundgarden’s mountainous late ’80s/’90s Seattle contemporaries TAD, specifically their unforgettable frontman, Tad Doyle. “You know, I heard he was dead,” my roommate said with a sigh. Not so! In fact, TAD is about to come back into our lives in a big (small-screen) way.

Because the long-awaited TAD DVD documentary will be coming out in early 2008, according to the band’s MySpace blog.

Yes, you read right: KING OF HEARTS PRODUCTIONS has completed the final edit of the TAD DVD, and it’s now en route to the distributors. Be prepared to buy a copy when it sees daylight, at long last (thanks to the diabolically demented directing and editing of the geniuses behind the aforementioned KING OF HEARTS PRODUCTIONS), in early 2008, so that you too may watch the celluloid saga depicting the cursed career of a band that would not give up, despite lawsuits, illness, catastrophe, decapitation, and alien abduction (not necessarily in that order). See and hear them explode in flames only to rise again time after time. Spontaneous combustion has NEVER been so much fun!

We don’t necessarily know if we agree with the documentary that TAD was “the heaviest band ever,” as that’s a weighty claim to make for any band. But “they weren’t necessarily metal, but they were heavy“? Fuckin’ A.

TAD DVD Short 2007 [YouTube; HT Jon Solomon] Tad [MySpace]