In 1983, an extremely significant musical comedy was released entitled Get Crazy. It remains significant not for it's acting or writing, but for its cast: predominantly rock stars and actors portraying rock stars. Among them is Lou Reed, the members of Fear, Malcolm McDowell playing a Mick Jagger-type singer, as well as cameos from Fabian, Bobby Freeman, Howard Kaylan and others.
The story concerns the owner of the Saturn Theater, one Max Wolfe. Max has a heart attack while organizing the Saturn's New Year's Eve celebration and, fearing this year may be his last, decides to make this celebration a major blowout. To this end, he contacts a faded rock star known only as Auden to appear at the Saturn. Auden hasn't left his apartment for 6 years (his apartment being an exact replica of the cover of Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home).
In this first installment, all of the Lou Reed scenes have been spliced together apart from the closing number (I'll get to that later).
Click on the image to view it. Enjoy.
But no, I haven't done a complete transfer. My copy, unfortunately, is the EP version (I think you have the rarer SP version). Those cheap bastards.
ReplyDeleteIt was a struggle getting what I got captured due to poor tracking.
01/31/2008, 22:28:46
Yeah, I noticed the boom mics. I put it down to it being an early video and them not knowing looking up the word "ratio" in the dictionary. It was a brave new world then.
ReplyDelete01/31/2008, 22:26:27
Alright, apparently Showtime/Flix showed a letterboxed version within the last year or so...
ReplyDeleteGod, this is Blind Willie C. You betta get this out on DVD soon or I'm gonna wax yo' ass...
01/31/2008, 19:35:24
There's a guy on IMDb that has counted 6 separate boom mic sightings. Must be a botched matte job in the now prehistoric home video copy we all have. Have you done a complete DVD transfer? Would love to get that, I don't think I've ever shown it to Aura.
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01/31/2008, 19:30:29
Oh my lord! The first thing my (slightly better trained) eyes catch is the fucking boom mic in the first shot of Louis as Robert Z. Who matted that shit for home video? Don't say a crazed cokehead because it's probably true...
ReplyDelete01/31/2008, 19:20:38