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I would guess that most people would name "Spinal Tap" as the greatest band to never actually exist. While the movie remains one of my all time favorites, I wasn't that captivated by their actual playing and singing. (I did like "Big Bottom.")
My true favorite comes from a terrible movie, Russ Meyers' 1970 exploitation cheap-o, "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." The film concerned a girl's rock group, "The Carrie Nations" and was meant to be a parody of the movie "The Valley of the Dolls" although you probably would not have picked up on this were it not for the film's title.
The movie stunk big time, but I loved the girl group. It was a truly fake band in the sense that none of the on screen performers were doing any actual singing or playing, they were cast for their looks. (I suppose that Meyers hoped that viewers would be so captivated by the women that the would not notice that none of them are ever changing chords or the rhythm of their strumming on their guitars.)
Two of their songs became big favorites of mine, ones I thought good enough to have been hits on the radio in 1970. They were:
Two years before "Beyond etc" there had been a movie called "Wild in the Streets" which was the ultimate '60's hubris flick, one which postulated a future society where everyone over the age of 30 is executed. It featured a band they called "Max Frost and the Troopers" and their on screen song was:
The band on stage in "From Dusk till dawn" Great guitar playing, swilling tequila on stage and then they turned into beasties and exploded. What a performance! Plus they opened for Salma Hayek and a serpent. What more could you ask for in a show?
Two years before "Beyond etc" there had been a movie called "Wild in the Streets" which was the ultimate '60's hubris flick, one which postulated a future society where everyone over the age of 30 is executed.
Wild in the Streets is where all oldsters are required to live in "retirement homes" where they are forced to ingest LSD, taking the 60s catch phrase "Never trust anyone over 30" to its most extreme consequences.
Wild in the Streets is where all oldsters are required to live in "retirement homes" where they are forced to ingest LSD, taking the 60s catch phrase "Never trust anyone over 30" to its most extreme consequences.
Thanks for the corrections, I only saw the movie once and that was a zillion years ago, it isn't a film you want to see again. I knew it was something bad happening to the over 30 crowd.
There was also "The Rutles", the Eric Idle created parody of the Beatles who appeared in two mockumentarie films. All the songs were original, written to match the Beatles sound as it evolved over the years. They did a remarkably great job, the songs really do sound like they come straight out of the Lennon/McCartney songbook. Here is a scene from their early period.
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