Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

[LeeVanCleef]

Ever wondered how the '70s revolutionized American cinema? Ever wondered how the '70s ruined American cinema? All the answers are waiting for you right here in this book! I can't recommend this one highly enough. It manages to take a deep look into the auteurs we've come to know and love/loathe without skimping on the juicy gossipy tidbits that just make reading fun! Such as... did you know that, at the time of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper was an out-of-control psychopath that everyone was afraid of? Or the great one-line quote that was actually a blurb on the cover of the hardback edition in which, Marcia Lucas (George's ex-wife) proclaimed that Francis Ford Coppola was a "pussy hound."
If you've got an ereader or pad, you'll probably figure out how to get this book on there. If you don't have an ereader or pad, I highly recommend this program. It can assist you in getting this book on your device or allow you to read it straight from the computer!

http://calibre-ebook.com/

 

[sleepy]

Oh let me see. The Wild Angels was the start of it, but somebody thought it was too straight, too controlled and bogged down in the formulac staginess of a typical AIP picture to be what he originally suggested for the project; that it Must Not still look like a movie and end on a moral note in order to feel like real bikers.
All of which was based on The Hell's Angels, or was supposed to be.
The Angels were around here and frequently in the news at that time. Sonny Barger riding high.

So the biker group at AIP bailed out of AIP for the Raybert fallout from The Monkees. Note how many of the associates were previously connected through AIP, as was Coppola.
And then, there was Nancy Sinatra on the previous film with music by Mike Curb who then formed Mike Curb Productions which was under the Warner/Reprise (Sinatra) umbrella and pretty much based in my (then) home town of Burbank, Ca.

And that I went to school with the assistant unit producer's (The Monkees) son. Didn't know him, but what an arrogant kid he was. Just saying that they are and were a part of the neighborhood.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

Watch it, sleepy! You just ruined the second chapter! Now, if we're gonna run this book club right, we have to have some order. Tell us your thoughts on chapter one. How did Warren Beatty's portrayal of Clyde Barrow as impotent speak to you?

 

[sleepy]

He speaks to me,
that he might want to be me.
But Goldie, she ran off with the kid!

How would Steven Tyler sing it?

 

[sleepy]

Wow. Now he sings as Neil Young from Burbank, taking on the iTunes.
Burbank + Neil = Warner/Reprise, though the physical recording division was sold to
the Warners in '63 and Warner/Reprise was sold to Access Industries, based in New York, but the main office of Warner/Reprise was originally in Burbank with the NY location second.

That's how the Russians do it. Buy and sell to oneself. Else, sell off the old system,
and let others like Apple improve the old system for their riches,
but when you're The Wonskolasers, keep the next one for yourself:

http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f8-general-forum/neil-young-announces-launch-ponomusic-19703/

The thing that bugs me though is that I was talking to the manager, Mr. Gene Benson, about the development of the Compact Disc in 1977, and he beamed about it and how it was planned as a two channel stereo medium when my wish was that it would be a clean discreet compatible two and four channel medium which was easily possible then.

History often repeats itself, such as HD Radio and how it was formulated to provide discreet surround broadcasts, and yet the rollout only offered two channel tuners.
Which means that everyone who bought the initial stereo rollout will be forced to buy the surround upgrade to get it, that is, if they even want it.
That definitely makes the availability and adoption of compatible surround systems highly problematic, just like HDTV and 4K UDTV. Most of us can't afford that kind of high-priced disposability.

I'm not finding any info about surround capability in this audiophile PonoPlayer system and I'm getting edgy about it.

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

thanks, bill. the smothers bros book was pretty good, so i'll give this a shot. i just need to try it as a zip, because my tablet's not liking the rar. too much like the sound of an angry cat, i guess.


(yes, i couldn't get bluetooth transfer to work from PC to tab, if anyone here is good with that)

 

[Isaac Sauvage]

slow... just getting started, here. chapter one (everyday i write the book?)... random thought:

for some reason i never considered how the baby boomers had such overlap with the hippies. like, if you were born around ’46, you’d be a primed 18-yr around the time of the british invasion. fully loaded, man! yet today, society probably thinks of boomers as addicted to their comforts, out of touch, unintentionally comical, bleeding health and retirement options. etc!

and yet, and yet... many of these folks were cutting-edge at one time, pioneers of their culture, radicals, daring everything and turning the world upside-down... leaving the watered-down 70’s in their wake, eheh.

yea, just a random thought for me, but they must have some pretty damn fascinating stories to tell... these ’boomers. maybe that’s a big sub-theme of this book. :)

...

"Because movies are expensive and time-consuming to make, Hollywood is always the last to know, the slowest to respond, and in those years it was at least half a decade behind the other popular arts."

interesting.

 

[LeeVanCleef]

"Because movies are expensive and time-consuming to make, Hollywood is always the last to know, the slowest to respond, and in those years it was at least half a decade behind the other popular arts."

interesting.

Boy, but that's a line that definitely makes one think. Pre-"Bonnie and Clyde" Hollywood was a pretty bleak place, more or less just doing the same studio crap they had been doing for years, just with bloated budgets. The Sound of Music could easily have been made in 1951. The only two movies from the pre-revolution '60s that I think are worth a damn are Hud and The Hustler. Hud, especially, has the stark silent vistas of a French film, something that Peter Bogdonovitch would "borrow on" for Last Picture Show.
My brother was born in 1948. I've learned that, if you get a Boomer drunk enough, they'll spend all night telling you their stories.