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

I tear into some old notes I wrote up with in the early days of planning what would become this very series of shows. Rolling Stone's history of its stupid self is covered, and I give you my recommendations for great rock history books and writers I believe are more than worth paying attention to. Special appearances by Raymond Chandler and Stephen King, naturally.

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I'll be back with episodes on Chuck, Janis, Jim and Gram very very soon, I promise! It's been a wild month of watching weird films and I have more books to look into before I commit these intense episodes to "tape".

We got ourselves a long, satisfying road ahead of us, discussing the Chuck Berry in a variety of celluloid presentations. Today's episode will delve into the Chess Records biopic, "Cadillac Records" with a preview of "Go Johnny, Go" which will be our next episode about Chuck.

We talk plugging, payola, Alan Freed, Leonard Chess, Chuck getting ripped off, taking your own music back, moving beyond "playing for the neighborhood," and which authors seem to have it out for Chuck vs the ones who focus on the impact of his musical and lyrical output. Overall, we'll discuss what sets Chuck apart from what might laughably be called his peers along with his portrayal by Mos Def in this 2009 film.

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I just go for it with some of the best bits of the Motorhead story. I can't do it all justice, but there's enough media out there for you to fill in the rest of the blanks yourself, don't you think?

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After recording the Airheads Watch-a-Long Commentary I decided to devote an entire episode to the main man himself, the King of Rock n' Roll (according to me, your lovely host, anyway) Lemmy Kilmister. If you haven't heard the Airheads episode, just pop over to it really quickly and give the first 5 minutes a listen, if you'd like to be a completist about this.

I yammer about my cunning misdirections used to victimize my own audience, my self-serving deviations from the methodology of any semblance of appearing to be a proper historian, and I provide you with some tools to evaluate whether or not the music podcast or youtube channel you subscribe to is a complete waste of time. Support me here! https://linktr.ee/justtheworstever

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It's gonna get SO VERY in depth this time! Part 2 of at least 4(?) on the making of Singles. I'll discuss the musical and personal lives of roommates Chris Cornell and Andrew Wood. Soundgarden and Mother Love Bone were radically different bands that meant drastically different things to the Seattle music scene and the worldwide rock scene of the 80s and 90s. I cannot do it all justice, but I think you'll enjoy the many many details explored in this episode. It was recorded in multiple parts over the course of the last month and kinda knocked me on my ass, emotionally.

Resources I drew from include Corbin Reiff's "Total Fucking Godhead", Mark Yarm's "Everybody Loves Our Town," RollingStone.com, "Malfunkshun: The Andrew Wood Story", "PJ20" and "The Love Bone Earth Affair".

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Cameron Crowe would be so proud of the award I've bestowed upon him. This episode allows me to take some meandering paths. You could go so far as to accuse me of being unfocused and noncommittal to the high calling of delivering sharp, energetic and intentional content that is immediately actionable, were you an uncouth swine who cared not a'tall for the recognition of the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things. Melvins, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and more in this and the next (likely) 3 parts to come.

My pal Dan and I spent X-mas watching this rock n' roll favorite beloved by rockers and radio station employees to this day. We break down the making of the film, the many musical considerations involved in the soundtrack, the stellar comedy cast, and overall how the guy who directed Heathers and Hudson Hawk + the guy who wrote XXX, The Jerky Boys movie, and the Motley Crue biopic for Netflix worked very hard to make a rock movie for the 90s that reflects almost nothing about 90s rock except for when it tries to pretend 90s rock sucks and should be overturned entirely by 3 guys who clearly came from a Motley Crue concert circa Dr. Feelgood. Special notes about Lemmy, Kurt Loder, Vince Neil's manslaughter trial, and NY Hardcore band Reagan Youth almost getting ripped off by an LA band submitting their "original" song to the movie producers to be the Lone Rangers hit single that Chazz wrote before HE EVEN MET YOU.

We tear deeper into what made this movie the kind of movie it is and what made Jerry Lee Lewis an eternally conflicted player in the war for human souls!

In our first episode we delve into one of the later examples of the 50's nostalgia boom of the 1980's. This film is packed with quality components with a final result that hasn't decided what it wants to be when it grows up.

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