Bruce Springsteen versus Cinderella! Hair Metal is alive and well in The Wrestler
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Bruce won for his end credits tune, The Wrestler, at the Golden Globes the other night, but for me, the hair metal was a fantastically hilarious and realistic touch in that very moving film.
Cinderella, Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Ratt, and even Balls to the Wall by Accept were featured.
My girl friend was looking at me like I had two heads while I was grinning from ear to ear, and banging my head ever so subtlely during some very powerful moments in that film. But I couldn't help it!
It also had me thinking of Jimmy Superfly Snuka, Junkyard Dog, Bob Backlund and George The Animal Steele. Oh the memories. What a strange decade.
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man those names, and I could only imagine how enjoyable that movie must have been. I have to throw the name Baron von Raschke, who could forget the claw? Little side note here, this guy lives in minnesota now and drives the monorail at our lovely zoo. Next summer I am going to get a picture
I'm looking forward to seeing Mickey Rourke 2.0. Or is that 3.0? When I was just starting out in writing, Blue Thumb records (does anyone remember them?) took us all down to the Olympic Auditorium for a night of unforgettable wrestling mayhem - one of the best company shindigs I ever went on. One name still stands out: Gorgeous George.
oh the glory days of wrestling, i wanna see that pic kev! sounds like the same kind of character as Mickey Rourke's in the film. he worked at a deli counter in a grocery store. depressing. they should do one of those films about an over the hill rocker.
i guess it's 3.0, but i would say 2.5 is sin city, john. great performance by him, unrecognizable and the animation or whatever it was they did, was very kind to his impressively beat up face.
I'd forgotten Sin City....3.0 it is! We should all be so lucky.
Over the hill rocker story - there are a couple of those....maybe it should be "GOOD over the hill rocker story" ha ha.
alright now you've got me thinking
the cinderella singer lost movement in one of his vocal chords for a few years, don't ask me why i know that
but one could take that as a kernel of an idea and expound upon that sort of sampson like experience and follow said singer's downward spiral into vocal-less oblivion!
There's a Brit film about a group famous in the 60s or 70s who get back together after some 20 years with all the attendant hates and problems very much in place. It's suposed to be fairly good but it has some Brit actors in it that I really dislike. I can't think of the title....Bill Nighy plays the singer and when I came across it on TV a week or so ago, the scene was of the band on stage. Nighy was doing an excellent impression of a rock singer posing with the mic stand - being a rock and roll singer really is acting!
didn't he play an aging preening rocker in love actually? he was fantastic in that.
i saw that film you are referring to, he fronted the band, strange fruit!
the movie was called still crazy
You are clearly a student of disctinction. Yes, yes and yes to all of the above.
There was a tv series about 8 years ago about a struggling band and a couple of episodes centred on where they became friends with a retired rocker. I'm trying to think whether it was Nighy because it was a great impression of Lemmy by way of Jagger. Best bit: they're at the rocker's mansion fatasising about what to do when they make all the money and whatever it is that the young guys come up with, the old guy just smirks and says come with me. He's got a room with nothing in it but a band setup, centred on a giant Marshall stack, sitting on a stage in front of a huge video wall of a festival crowd going mental. One of the best and funniest ideas ever!
that is a room i would love to rehearse in, but the stage would need leopard print shag rugs all over it
speaking of lemmy, my friend is currently finishing up a doc on him that looks fantastic
he deserves the rock n roll medal of honor for dealing with that quirkster
http://www.lemmymovie.com/
That's a scary looking movie! Loved the shot of the decibel meter. And I think I heard Lemmy tell that joke when he was in Hawkwind!
Leopard print shag rugs.....I'm trying to visualise it.
my friend was relaying the hawkwind guys kicking lemmy out story due to his preferred choice of drug to me a while back
to everyman their poison
the leopard skin shag rug is just another royalty creating opportunity for our ever expanding trans-atlantic coffers
I may hates the hair-metal, but the Springsteen song is a beaut. And "The Wrestler" was one of the three best English-language films I saw this past year.