soundtrack
does the movie have one?
it had some excellent musical moments, which i would like to know the origin of.
and listen to again, perhaps.
i did some searching with google, but didn't come up with anything of value on the matter.
does anybody know that song when theyre in the dressing room and the guys with fros are are dancing, that *beep* was awesome i cant believe this doesnt have a soundtrack
sharewatch the credits, at the end they have all the arrangers and performers, Stewart Copeland did most of it.
sharei love the stuff duncan reeds band does, its awesome, is there some where to buy like, a CD or even download the songs?
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Yeah, they should've let Duncan sing more songs. I think the movie would've been a lot better if they'd had more emphasis on the music and less on the relationships.
Also, the black guys who sang in the dressing room should've opened up for Duncan instead of the other guy. It would've been great to see them on a big stage in all those huge fro's and the platform shoes.
The director blew it. This could've been a really great movie.
Six
I watched Sunset Strip last night and it WAS about relationships between 'artists' in California, 1972. The "fashion designer' chick, the photographer, the sullen, suicidal songwriter and the up-and-coming teenage guitarist, trying to make it in the music biz.
The Marty Shapiro character was supposed to be kind of a joke: the white guy with the afro and the "afro pick" stuck in his hair (just like black people used to wear them back then), trying to fit in as a "brother", but he was really Jewish; he was just trying to set himself up as some sort of 'music manager', who really didn't know $h*t about the music industry (note, at the end, it says he was managing wrestlers in Rio!!).
For you to desire that the black group he (mis)managed should have opened up for Duncan Reed misses the point. Those guys evidently didn't make it, 2 went back to Detroit, one Portland, one disappeared. Evidently, the script did not call for the black group w/ platform shoes to be a big part of this story. They were just shown for us to see Shapiro trying to exploit them and tell them what to wear! I'm sure he mis-managed them into not ever getting a record contract.
The kid, Zach, however, had talent...and we see him hooking up with his musical 'soul mate' at the very end.
Plus, back then, in '72, a black R&B group would not be opening up for a regular rock band in Hollywood...unless they were more like Jimi Hendrix, and he was already dead by then.
I thought the film was fine the way it was. No need to confuse the audience with something that never would have happened in reality.
Yeah, I know it was about relationships. That's my point. It should've had more emphasis on the music of that time. In my opinion, it would've been a more entertaining movie if that would've happened.
I didn't really need for you to explain the movie to me like I was six years old.
As far as the R&B group goes, I didn't miss the goddamn point. I just wanted to see them perform on stage. I liked the one song they did and I would've liked to have seen more of them. You act like black groups and white groups never toured together in the 70s. And as far as the audience being confused, I don't think this is the kind of film that could've confused anyone. It wasn't that deep. As far as what never would've happened in reality, it wasn't about reality. It was a damn movie - one that could've been so much better had there been more musical performances, in my opinion.
Just because someone has a difference of opinion, it doesn't mean they're wrong or they are confused. It just means they feel differently about the film. Damn.
Where are all the good men dead, in the heart or in the head?
For you to desire that the black group he (mis)managed should have opened up for Duncan Reed misses the point. Those guys evidently didn't make it, 2 went back to Detroit, one Portland, one disappeared.You didn't read all of the ending: The four guys made several platinum albums then broke up.
~~Bayowolf
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"For you to desire that the black group he (mis)managed should have opened up for Duncan Reed misses the point. Those guys evidently didn't make it, 2 went back to Detroit, one Portland, one disappeared. Evidently, the script did not call for the black group w/ platform shoes to be a big part of this story. They were just shown for us to see Shapiro trying to exploit them and tell them what to wear! I'm sure he mis-managed them into not ever getting a record contract."
The so-called "black group" is never a big part of a story that white directors create about classic rock music, despite the fact that black people invented rock & roll. The "black group" always gets a marginal role in the white man's bigger story. I guess for the "black group" to get a more substantial role in a film, it would have to be directed by a black director and funded by a black producer.
And I would've liked to have seen more of the "black group" in the story, too, FYI.
D.
"...cookies so valuable, they are hand-delivered by uniformed officers."
Is that "Amnesia Valley" and "Temporary wings" from Geneva?
http://www.last.fm/music/Geneva/Weather+Underground+
http://www.last.fm/music/Geneva/Further
OMFG! THAT'S THE SONG!!!
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I can bring whole cities to ruin, and still have time to get a soft shoe in.
Stewart COpeland did some of it, but the guitar riffing for example and advisory on period songs was RObbie Robertson.
PLus ASh does the tracks for NAked Snake and some Suede type band (even on the same label) does the stuff for the brit rocker.
G.
Hi,
Just watched Sunset Strip, and I thought the 2 'Naked Snake' songs were good, though not at all close to the sounds of 1972! It was more like the Pixies/Frank Black!
You say the band's name is 'Ash'? If you know, are they US or European?
And who is Suede? Are these 2 real bands from 2000? Thanks -
(also, the Robbie Robertson dueling guitar riffs through the canyon were the best jams of the film!)
Ash is a Uk band still playing. From the mid-90's.
Suede (or LONDON Suede as they were named in the US) was a band from the UK as well that played from the 90's until a couple of years ago. They coincided with brit-pop but were more of a glammy band in the 70's Bowie and T-Rex mold.
Check the All Music Guide at allmusic.com for some good info on them, discography, etc.
-G.
Hey, I liked the songs 'Naked Snake' did, though it was so-obviously 90's indy music and NOT 70's at all! No wonder the crowd booed them off the stage!
I can live without the Suede/DuncanReed songs, because it reminded me of modern day U2 and NOT someone from the 70's! If you recall, one of the biggest hits of '72 was 'Smoke on the Water'! Put that in context with the Pixi-ish sounding Ash songs and it does not compute!
And show me where Earth Wind & Fire ever opened up for Led Zeppelin or the Who or Aerosmith or.....
Yeah but again, in this case the character is obviously Bowie inspired. SO the timeline fits fine.
For example, this is referenced in Almost Famous, where if i recall correctly there is a scene of Bowie gettting through a hotel lobby followed by groupies and hangers-on.
The Smoke on the Water mention, while accurate, doesn't really reflect the whole spectrum of music in the first half of the 70's. It's like saying the late 80's were the era of the New Kids On The Block, this being the same period in which the Pixies made their best stuff. The mainstream is 9 times out of 10 a crappy gauge of the times.
-G.
You make great points...and I know there were more styles than Deep Purple back then, I guess I was just NOT seeing any simi;arity of the Naken Snake songs to anything early-70's....it was great music though, but too before it's time, even for 80's....thanks for being so 'hip' on all the soundtrack stuff, I'd never heard of 'Ash' before now....I found Sunset Strip for $1.50, so it was a good little gem to find, some good characters.
I'll have to look up Ash, see if their CD's are easy to find in the U.S. -
not sounding like the sounds of the 70's. I think that may have been intentional on the part of the filmakers, and ties in with the conversation between Marty and Glen at the club, how he shouldn't just be doing that country-rock stuff; that's what everyone was doing. He needed to look forward, and find the new thing, and start doing that.
Naked Snake was that new thing, or a small part of it. The music they were making didn't sound like anyone else of the time, it was original, maybe ahead of its time, which is why the audience couldn't understand it, and why they got booed and chased off the stage.
I mean, it's only two years from the setting of this movie until the Ramones began in New York, and a year or two later for the whole New York scene to come into being, with bands like Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television, Blondie, the Talking Heads, etc.
I'm not saying that Naked Snake were musical visionaries, cause they did sound pretty much generic alternative from our view here in 2013, and the music he made with the busboy was pretty basic blues riffage, But I think that was what the writer and director were getting at, that Zach did have talent, even if it wasn't recognized at the time, bu it did became evident by his eventual election to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I mean, it's only two years from the setting of this movie until the Ramones began in New York, and a year or two later for the whole New York scene to come into being, with bands like Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Television, Blondie, the Talking Heads, etc.
Not to mention The Stooges (a.k.a., "Iggy and the Stooges") who, by the time this movie takes place, had been around for 5 years already. In fact, they play the Whiskey in October 1973 where a live album was recorded.
~~Bayowolf
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