Filmed in 1968 by Charles Burwell, Deuce Is Wild is a 4-5 minute color promotional film that documented Houston garage band Deuce Is Wild. The film featured the group playing at The Catacombs Club, Love Street Light Circus and Feel Good Machine, among others, and also highlighted other abstract images - as the face on the wall photos below aptly illustrate. Deuce Is Wild performs the song "You're All Around Me." Other than lead guitarist Clark Clem, not much more is recalled about the group. Update, November 2009: Per Charles, "Clark, I had thought...was the frontman for Deuce Is Wild when I shot the film in 1968. But Clark says he left the band a year earlier so the person who was singing lead for them when I made my film remains a mystery. Notice his photo from the film. Maybe somebody will tell us who it is." Anybody? Clark was able to provide the names for Harold Bailey (keyboards) and Gordon Barrett (bass). Update II, March 2012: The Lonestar Music site listed the members as Ricky Slayden, drums; Gordon "Boo Boo" Barnett, bass; Charlie Webb, lead guitar; Harold Baily, keyboards; Paul Viviano, rhythm guitar; and Clark Clem, guitar.
The film was screened at a film festival at Rice University in 1968 where it claimed second place, and was shortly afterwards aired on KPRC-TV Channel 2. According to filmmaker Burwell: "In mothballs for over thirty years, the film, Deuce Is Wild, enjoyed only a few other audiences around that period of time."
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