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Terminal Boardumb => Music Shit => Topic started by: BOOM BOOM BANDITO on September 12, 2006, 11:46:43 AM
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Anybody know when / if this is coming out on video??
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I dunno, but I saw it a month back. It had some amazing footage, but it kept cutting away after showing like 3/4ths of each live performance. Frustrating. Too much heroin talk for my taste as well.
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they did a screening in sf for it, we were at the gris gris show though. the night before the screened a runaways one where layla played, but man that runaways documentary sucked. i think missy and mitch went?
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Right. That's when I "pissed" in that lady's popcorn.
Thanks for reminding me.
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how could you forget? it was perfect until he APOLOGIZED!
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I felt like a fucking sicko.
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yeah, that runaways doc sucked SO bad. Joan Jett had obviously refused to participate, making it difficult not to suck right from the getgo, but fuck, there's not even more than 15 seconds of stock footage of her, that is just ridiculous. That, and they couldn't even get the rights to any of their songs to be used in the movie. The Kim Fowley interview footage is the only thing that makes these even semi-watchable. Its so badly filmed/edited its practically a wedding video and the score by Lita Ford is fucking wretchedly awful. what a fucking terrible film. I can't believe it came even lightly recommended.
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With that Real Kids documentary, I wish they also threw in the Taxi Boys and dropped the creepy mood music backing the glueing-the-scenes-together shots. I kept waiting for someone to overdose everytime they did that transition schtick. I thought this was a celebration and not a burial?! It was like they took a gamble in post-production and assumed Felice would bite it before they were done. Maybe that's why it took so long to come out...because they were holding out...and all they got was Alpo. Well, that's the way it comes across. Forget that tension building and give me a bit on the Taxi Boys backing that Fr'aunchie Marc Minelli on that mediocre 7". Something juicy along those lines. They could have jumped into Bomp, Lolita, and Star Rhythm era for fun/dirt...or dug up more interesting Red Star stuff...like the pretty good treatment they gave for Sponge (even though they introduced that single and, for once, didn't actually play the damn title song off it). I actually know what "All Kindsa Girls" sounds like, I get the connection of that song with the title of the doc, and, no, I don't need to hear it eighteen times. (And, yes, that shocked the fuck out of me because I always thought I would never say no to that song EVER.) Everyone that's going to check out a Real Kids documentary is more than likely going to have a basic grasp of the fundamentals...and if they don't they're going to come out of that documentary never wanting to hear "All Kindsa Girls" again. Plus there were a couple quotes cutting a little too close to word-for-word Norton sleeve/liner notes without adding anything really new and fun. I mean, I wish people talked more about the stupid silly story stuff now and again. Like, what happened after you drank all that Pernod? Did Billy piss himself? And c'mon, Boston, like our youth, isn't in a state of perpetual winter. Unlike what seems like every outside shot in the film the sun does come out, right? I've fucking seen Cheers. I know. Still, the good parts made it good. Like the circa '76 practice footage in the basement with Felice in a Kids shirt or the Live At The Rat footage with everyone actually dancing(!!) in the crowd. Just too bad they didn't show that stuff in the entirety...that is, if still intact. Like, leaning on mostly historical footage rather than heavy on what groups of today think of them...which was uncomfortable for both the audience and the bands being interviewed (for different reasons). I don't know how many times they wound up the documentary just to add another layer of yucks at the end. It was epilogue abuse. Hopefully the DVD will include that live and practice footage stuff in its entirety. All in all, still, the film was a labour of love and I'm glad someone did it. And it's sad to think that John Felice will never be able to play again. If only the Runaways' doc ended on that note for Lita instead.