If you’ll recall, last week’s Wino Wednesday clip was of pre-The Obsessed rockers Warhorse rocking out a Led Zeppelin cover at Wootton High School in Rockville, Maryland, in 1978. Well, the last in the series of four videos uploaded from that set happens to be interviews conducted with students and faculty in the aftermath of the concert, which apparently was a bit of an ordeal.

The reason I most couldn’t resist posting this video for this week’s Wino Wednesday is because I watched it front to back and I don’t think anything’s changed in doom. It’s the perfect analogy for who the doomers are and who the doomers aren’t. For example: The jocks are not doomers. The administrators who say, “No, I don’t think we’ll ever be doing this again,” are not doomers. The male and female students complaining that the music was out of date and/or should’ve been disco are — you guessed it — not doomers.

But the kids hanging out back of the school smoking cigarettes who look like they’re just biding their time before they can go get loaded in the woods somewhere? Yup, those are your doomers, and they loved it. Hell yeah, they want another show. They’re the ones shouting that Warhorse rules, and the ones for whom rock and roll clearly never went out of style. We should all aspire to be those kids.

And yeah, Wino‘s not actually in this video, but I think it still says something crucial about the people who’ve always gotten it and the people who never have and never could. Next week we’ll get back to some tunes.

Happy Wino Wednesday:

It’s not a word I use often, but this one is unfuckwithable. The year is 1978, and Warhorse, the band that would later become The Obsessed, is playing a rock concert on a stage set up on the field at Thomas S. Wootton High School — appropriately enough — in Rockville, Maryland. I don’t know who the full lineup in the band was at that point, but if you look at the stage, which is positioned right beyond the track while the clip is being filmed from the bleachers, you’ll find one Scott Weinrich wearing a black jacket and ripping what would over the years become a characteristically Wino solo as the band covers “Moby Dick” from 1969’s Led Zeppelin II.

This one’s a treasure, and I mean it. The video is grainy, obviously, and near as I can tell it was shot for some kind of school project or something like that. As you can see below, it’s a four-part series, and the last of the parts is an interview a girl conducts with students, faculty and (I think) also vocalist Vance Bockis, who says the show went alright but that, “Scott‘s guitar was way too loud.” Hilarious.

Honestly, I might have to make this a four-part series, but at very least that interview clip is going up next week. In the meantime, here’s a direct look at the roots of one of heavy rock’s most pivotal figures getting his bearings in what would become a landmark band. Happy Wino Wednesday: