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Post by ironwill on Mar 16, 2006 17:13:07 GMT
Don't know why I've never bothered to check this documentary out before, but what a great piece of work!
For those into the early L.A. punk-rock scene this is one surely not to miss. Early footage of bands like Black Flag, X, Catholic Discipline, the Circle Jerks and so forth really gets across the pure frustration and self-loathing that I can only assume was endemic to the youth of Los Angeles at the time. This is pure speculation on my part as I've never even been to California, but it appears to be a real hell-hole for some and paradise for others.
Any other good punk rock docs out there that people can recommend?
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Post by rosko on Mar 16, 2006 17:41:35 GMT
That was a great documentary.
The director did a later documentary - I believe it was "Decline of Western Civilization 2" - about the metal bands in L.A.
All I remember from it is the guy from Poison (or was it Motley Crue?) sitting by his pool guzzling liquour and talking about what a drunk he was and some of the stuff he did.
Cool.
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Post by ironwill on Mar 16, 2006 17:46:31 GMT
Poison, Motley Crue, they all look the same behind all that feathered hair, make-up and spandex pants!
I will have to suss Part 2 out it seems as I was quite the little metal-head in my pre-teen years. God, what my parents must have thought at the time....
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Post by lankou2 on Mar 16, 2006 18:33:16 GMT
part 2 is disastrously funny:that one after Final Tap makes for a good video party! vol 1 is great, i used to have the LP but someone stole it. there are other good documentaries, one is a video tour diary of bands such as 7 Seconds and Youth Brigade.there are more good ones but done on budget equipment, some were released by the CA Flipside magazine back in the days. books i just must recommand as they exactly deal with that era are the Love & Rockets comic book series: pure californian teenage angst. Yep, seems like places like Oxnard and Orange counties really were (are?) shitty places for kids if they didn't want to conform to the all-american way of life.funnily enough, such areas were never short of great hardcore bands (that is, if you like the genre).There are lots of other similar places over the US.I really wonder what the liner notes will be like when those scenes start to be anthologized like what we have at the moment on those GREAT regional funk comps, like those on Stones Throw. there are quite a few thick books documenting the HC Us scenes.There are also writers who originated from said scene.One guy i really have to suggest is Aaaron Cometbus, a great story-teller, though he mainly writes about his daily life, kind of reminiscent of a punk John Fante, sometimes.A few collections of his writings have been published in book format but he also publishes his own zine.
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