Heavy Metal Parking Lot is one of the greatest things ever, period.
Get the DVD. It's inexpensive and some of the "bonus features" are cool (directors commentary and the footage where they track down some of the people who were featured in the original film for a "where are they now" segment.)
What would of been awesome is if the interviewer somehow got video footage from the future of Rob Halford's coming out. Then played it to Graham and Zebra Man and documented the reactions.
What would of been awesome is if the interviewer somehow got video footage from the future of Rob Halford's coming out. Then played it to Graham and Zebra Man and documented the reactions.
I went to a HMPL anniversary party about 10 years ago in Hollywood...there were dudes there that were in the movie, it was cool...the best was when they interviewed Rob Halford and played the clip of the red head chick wanting to jump his bones and Rob just laughed and said..."how did you not know?"
I must have been pretty bored one day, but I looked up a few videos of the two groupies from Anvil: The Story of Anvil -- Cut Loose and Mad Dog, one of whom in the movie drinks a beer through his nose (!). There was some heavy Heavy Metal Parking Lot vibes in the videos. In one video, one of their buddies, if I remember correctly, gets a ticket for lighting a jean jacket on fire. Anyways: Mad Dog and Cut Loose are a couple of true-to-the-core devoted fans.
One of the DVD extras is a visit to some dude who's got every record priest ever made, they go into his bad ass heavy metal basement which looks like a record shop and he goes through every single fucking one of them and loads of memorabilia to.
I just kept wanting him to show some other stuff... but he never did.
I went to a Slayer/Megadeth show just a couple of weeks ago. Megadeth did the entire "Rust in Peace" LP start-to-finish and Slayer did "Seasons in the Abyss" for the 20th anniversary of each album. They both played other stuff too, of course. It was actually a pretty awesome show for a hockey arena. Slayer have had the same line-up for almost the full 30 years they've been around (drummer left for a few years in the 90's) which is pretty impressive for a metal band!
Anyway, the parking lot was pretty dull but people-watching in the arena between bands was definitely entertaining. Worst metal shirt of the night went to a kid wearing a "Shadows Fall" basketball jersey with Shadows Fall written like the 80's Beastie Boys logo on the front and "Licensed to Ill" on the back in the old BB font with a bloody "K" in front of "ill" ... it was atrocious.
hahaha I said the same exact thing after the show!
well, I said "whenever I see Slayer live it becomes really obvious that they only have 4 songs, and endless variations on those same songs over and over - but somehow it still shreds!"
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best shit ever, i was floored at a screening of this about ten years ago, people falling over laughing.
love the dude who smacks himself in he teeth with the mic. great to see it's on hulu now.
i still havn't seen this and seeing as hulu only display content to America, looks like itll be a while still.
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"Grahm, man... like Gram of dope!"
Get the DVD. It's inexpensive and some of the "bonus features" are cool (directors commentary and the footage where they track down some of the people who were featured in the original film for a "where are they now" segment.)
Man, those were the days.
I went to a HMPL anniversary party about 10 years ago in Hollywood...there were dudes there that were in the movie, it was cool...the best was when they interviewed Rob Halford and played the clip of the red head chick wanting to jump his bones and Rob just laughed and said..."how did you not know?"
I just kept wanting him to show some other stuff... but he never did.
Anyway, the parking lot was pretty dull but people-watching in the arena between bands was definitely entertaining. Worst metal shirt of the night went to a kid wearing a "Shadows Fall" basketball jersey with Shadows Fall written like the 80's Beastie Boys logo on the front and "Licensed to Ill" on the back in the old BB font with a bloody "K" in front of "ill" ... it was atrocious.
but they are.
they are real.
SLAYRSLAYRSLAYR
Slayer's four songs are good, by the way.
EDITED TO POST MY FAVORITE PIC OF ALL TIME:
TWO HAPPY ROCKERBROTHERS IN SHORT SHORTS. 1984. AT LEAST ACCEPT WERE A RIPOFF OF PRIEST.
NOW YOU GO. I LOVE THESE!
hahaha I said the same exact thing after the show!
well, I said "whenever I see Slayer live it becomes really obvious that they only have 4 songs, and endless variations on those same songs over and over - but somehow it still shreds!"