A History of Rock n' Roll in Film and Rock n' Roll

A History of Rock n' Roll in Film and Rock n' Roll

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  • Lita Ford and Joan Jett | "The Runaways" (2010) and "Light of Day" (1987)

    It's a good episode! If you listened to part one, it's as good as that. Plus lots of Lita Ford shenanigans, like how she obtained her awesome jeans in the "Kiss Me Deadly" video and kept George Lynch from stealing her god damn guitar cables. Also a troubling medical emergency that took place in Tokyo. Like, a disturbing one, anatomically - so consider this a great big trigger warning for the first time in the history of my show, ok?

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    2 hr 20 min
  • mini KISS Episode! - Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park (1978)

    I get all the angles I can find on the envisioning, productionizing, abandoning, distributing, internationalizing and appreciating this picture. It's not the usual burial you may have come to expect from a generation of stodgy rock critics of the time and savage young youtubers of today.

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    1 hr 14 min
  • MISFITS | FEAR on SNL | "The Monster From Green Hell" (1958), "Teenagers From Outer Space" (1959)

    Well this one took some doin'. I'm proud to hand over my 1st Halloween episode, and it's chock full o' weirdness from beginning to end. Sync your teef into it, FIENDS!

    http://waitakerewalks.blogspot.com/2010/11/carducci-man-shirttry-to-lower-yourself.html

    http://waitakerewalks.blogspot.com/2012/01/night-misfits-met-motley-cruethe.html

    Eerie Von via Cobras and Fire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjvp8qAG8HA

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    3 hr 10 min
  • AC/DC and Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive #3

    I do a guitar tone comparison to demonstrate the production style contrasts between Bon era and mid-80s AC/DC. I also discuss more of the happenings of the "Who Made Who" yrs listen to the "AC/DC Live at Donnington" commentary so you don't have to and wrap up the saga with questions about why people guilty of heinous crimes(like Bill Cosby) against others always want you to hate and fear rock n' roll, horror movies, and AC/DC specifically.

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    2 hr 51 min
  • The Runaways (2010) | Joan Jett, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Sandy West, Jackie Fox

    The Queens of Noise! Come and get it, boys! Let's talk about the movie that is inherently biased in favor of Joan and Cherie, but nonetheless a killer rock n' roll film about a band that could be a 7-season HBO series. And the ending would be almost as disappointing as Game of Thrones considering all the potential talent that was "wasted" in more ways than one. (I mean The Runaways as well as the GoT cast and writers, HAW HAW!)

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    1 hr 23 min
  • AC/DC and Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive #2

    More Bon Scott, and more Stephen King. How did the band's first UK tour go? And who ruined it by dying an untimely death? (hint: not a member of AC/DC) Why didn't they take off in America? What song did Stephen King have to sing to convince Acca Dacca to do his soundtrack? And what did he do with the gift that they gave him after the film came out?

    Songs by New American Shame:

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJsK_gUOz0AyS7zSxgnKAWw

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbqOFC0YicoQmUewdvAmem_J-dggAsXRT

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    1 hr 58 min
  • Story Time |The late 60s

    Today's episode is simply me taking us through a handful of reference material and interviews I found extremely interesting and helpful for context, but aren't related directly to any one film I'm reviewing.

    The Rolling Stones finish up an east coast leg of their U.S. tour leading up to Altamont. Hunter S. Thompson helps us understand the Hell's Angels. Janis parties backstage, also gets a tattoo. Ben Fong-Torres is a bore. Pete Townshend looks back on the late 60s from a 1987 interview. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/justtheworst

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    1 hr 6 min
  • AC/DC and Stephen King's Maximum Overdrive #1

    Like early AC/DC? Good! This one's for you. Like behind-the-scenes stories about filming movies that were huge disasters? This one's also for you! There's going to be a whole other episode after this one covering the non-glory that is post-"For Those About To Rock" and pre-"Razor's Edge" AC/DC, as well as more details about the filming and production of Maximum Overdrive. So stay tuned and stay fueled up, friends.

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    1 hr 39 min
  • Jerry Lee Lewis Part 3 For All!!!!!! | High School Confidential (1958) | Great Balls of Fire! (1989)

    AH MAH GAWD, we finally made it to the end of the trilogy! Killogy maybe? Yar, indeed it shall be called henceforth.

    The man and the film that stared out this huge endeavor of an ongoing series of historical audio documents rife with important charismatic commentary. I'm so pleased you made it to the end with me. Thank you!

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    There will be naughty language in this one, much like there was in the Lemmy episode because in both cases I'm directly quoting those particular kings of Rock n' Roll.

    https://www.amazon.com/Nick-Tosches/e/B000APVY46?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000

    https://www.henryrollins.com/podcasts/2017/9/7/henry-heidi-podcast-jerry-lee-lewis

    https://www.elvis.com.au/presley/jerry-lee-lewis-arrested-at-the-gates-of-graceland.shtml

    Jerry tells his side of the "bringing a gun to Graceland after leaving the bar and then getting arrested" story in the link below (while it lasts).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUtlcwVriGM&t=82s

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    2 hr 27 min
  • Janis Joplin | Down on Us (1984) + The Rose (1979)

    This is another intense, long one! A lot of similarities to the Andy Wood story, too. Only he didn't get totally dragged by the film industry twice between '79 and '84. But I came through it all a huge fan of Bette Midler now! What???

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    Alice Echols on Amazon

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    2 hr 52 min

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I review cinematographic products related directly as well as tangentially to rock history and tell the stories of the artists, businesses, and technologies that fueled the development of this…