It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
There were some hilarious Spinal Tap style scenes (such as the artwork in the toilet)
Cheers!
I don't remember anything specific, but what I found sad was their absolutely unshakeable belief that their big break was just around the corner, even at such personal cost and after so many rejections and failures, and when their music just wasn't that good.
I get that people want to hear those "follow your dreams" stories, and for them to have a happy ending, but the film didn't seem to have that happy ending, and in reality there should probably come a point for some people following some dreams where they realize that it's not going to happen, and it's time to do something else. It was the story of two old men who had already dreamed most of their lives away and weren't about to stop.
Sure, I found some bits really funny, but I kept remembering that these were real people living their real lives on camera (or at least some version of them), and suddenly it wasn't so funny any more.
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
I know what you mean, but for the most part - and I may not be remembering this accurately - it seemed like they remained naively optimistic and didn't really care that they were working as school janitors (or whatever they were). It must be better to be school janitors who've had some great times touring with big bands than just to be... school janitors who never did anything else.
And when you look at some of the bands who did make it - like the current incarnations of Ratt, Warrant, Quiet Riot or whoever - they're now stringy (or paunchy) old men with dyed hair, in age-inappropriate trousers, playing on "Rock'n'Roll Kruize" ships. That seems pretty much equally sad to me.
I agree. If the only options open to you are "school dinner delivery van guy" or "international rock star" and nothing else about your life will change regardless of which one you become then I don't see any harm in continuing to pursue "international rock star" til your dying breath.
I wasn't sure that was the case though. It's been ages since I saw the film too, but I got the impression that they were only doing the menial jobs they were doing because they allowed them the freedom to carry on pursuing their music however and whenever they needed to, and that a great many things about their lives- financially and relationally- would be better (or at least very different) if they accepted that they weren't going to be famous and set about being "normal".
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones. Your royal highnesses.
True, there's no way of knowing what else they might have done in life had things turned out differently.
***
Sad news about Bobby Liebling.