Not Fade Away

One of the pics shows a what I think is a record store with a guy holding a Stones LP. Every period movie I've seen with a record store has always had records and displays that are way too modern for the store. It would be interesting if someone would actually get it right for once.

I'm not sure how good a movie like this could be. An 'authentic' story of a local teenbeat band would have many scenes of kids practing how to play 'Midnight Hour' and other hits of the day. It had better be rather fun and light in tone, I don't need to watch some kind of 'dark reimagining' of a 60s band.
 
buckeyebeat said:
One of the pics shows a what I think is a record store with a guy holding a Stones LP. Every period movie I've seen with a record store has always had records and displays that are way too modern for the store. It would be interesting if someone would actually get it right for once.

I'm not sure how good a movie like this could be. An 'authentic' story of a local teenbeat band would have many scenes of kids practing how to play 'Midnight Hour' and other hits of the day. It had better be rather fun and light in tone, I don't need to watch some kind of 'dark reimagining' of a 60s band.
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Which album?
 
I saw this over the past week. It's mediocre. I don't feel like writing a long review, but if you're looking for a good story about a 1960s teen band, this is not it. There are some good scenes in the beginning but doesn't go anywhere.
 
I personally think Tom Hanks' movie 'That Thing You Do' is far more faithful to the garage band story, than 'Not Fade Away' which as someone stated above is mediocre and a total rock n roll cliche movie.

With Tom Hank's movie, I feel Hank's first hand experienced garage bands, as the clothing, the story and the times are portrayed very well, there is no long haired folks who resemble later rock bands, there is no bell bottoms, the movie is very clean cut, even the guitar amps they use are faithful to the period.... heck there is a scene in the movie where the band cut their demo in a movie theatre and probably is an as realistic account if anything of what The Fenton label recording studio must have looked like at Great Lakes studios.

Another great scene in the movie... was when the band first heard their own song on their local radio station, the scene is what I imagine many bands experienced, especially in the garage genre.

also another thing great about 'That Thing You Do' compared to 'Not Fade Away' no exaggerated drink or drug use.... teens in 65/ 66 were running more on teenage frustration than any drugs, well thats the story told to me from every 50 something American guy I've spoken to.
 
Yeah, "That Thing You Do" was a better movie about a 1960s teen band.

The most annoying thing about Not Fade Away was the constant cigarette lighting up and smoking. I know first hand that the majority of people smoked back then. It was way overdone in the movie though. I'm not sure what strange condition prompts people to think that smoking 'looks cool'.
 
paul messis said:
I personally think Tom Hanks' movie 'That Thing You Do' is far more faithful to the garage band story, than 'Not Fade Away' which as someone stated above is mediocre and a total rock n roll cliche movie.

With Tom Hank's movie, I feel Hank's first hand experienced garage bands, as the clothing, the story and the times are portrayed very well, there is no long haired folks who resemble later rock bands, there is no bell bottoms, the movie is very clean cut, even the guitar amps they use are faithful to the period.... heck there is a scene in the movie where the band cut their demo in a movie theatre and probably is an as realistic account if anything of what The Fenton label recording studio must have looked like at Great Lakes studios.

Another great scene in the movie... was when the band first heard their own song on their local radio station, the scene is what I imagine many bands experienced, especially in the garage genre.

also another thing great about 'That Thing You Do' compared to 'Not Fade Away' no exaggerated drink or drug use.... teens in 65/ 66 were running more on teenage frustration than any drugs, well thats the story told to me from every 50 something American guy I've spoken to.
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If you're talking to guys in their mid 50s, they were only 7 or 8 years old in the 1965/1966 time preiod. Try talking to some guys in their early to mid 60s & you might get a different viewpoint of what the scene was like.

While I'm at it, I think it is easy to loose track of the fact that most bandmenbers from this era are in their early to mid 60s, not their mid 50s.

Ned
 
Ned, most folks who i've conversed with including members of 60s garage bands, have all told me they didn't touch a joint until they were in their twenties, which by then would have been the 70s.

I have spoken in depth about these things with actual members of 60s garage groups, as it highly interests me on a deep level and from what I've heard from folks, the whole "psychedelic" and hippy movement was almost entirely a media fabrication.... from my sources, you'd have not seen a long-haired bead wearing hippy in a mid-west school until at the earliest 1970, even as late as 69 kids, wore short hair and wore straight legged pants.

Obviously, we all know the 13th floor elevators story, which for Texas is extra-ordinary... however I am getting the opinion different regions related to drink and drugs differently.

Ned you sound like a guy who was around the time-frame, I am genuinely interested to hear what it was actually like from your point of view, please PM me, I find everything about the 60s American culture/society fascinating.
 
I grew up in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wi. (Franklin) and in my little subdivision of little pink houses I didn't see a hippie until around 1970/1971. I'm sure in the city it was different but in the burbs they were late growers. I did know hoods as early as 65/66 that wore iron crosses and had longish hair and were cooler than any hippie I ever saw.
 
Wow, the hoods sound cool as hell.... last year, I begun to don an Iron Cross, I almost got into a fight with some dumbass square who was trying to make a point about me being a nazi or some bullshit, he was coming from a British-Pride skinhead stance and felt I was insulting Britain what the fuck???... it was the first time, I thought I was gonna get my head kicked in for simply being myself.
 
paul messis said:
the whole "psychedelic" and hippy movement was almost entirely a media fabrication....
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So true. And the myth continuied with the "psych" comps in the 80's (with stupid graphics and all).
People STILL think that 'Journey To Tyme' is a teenage homage to acid. :lol:
They weren't even allowed to drink root beer.
 
paul messis said:
Wow, the hoods sound cool as hell.... last year, I begun to don an Iron Cross, I almost got into a fight with some dumbass square who was trying to make a point about me being a nazi or some bullshit, he was coming from a British-Pride skinhead stance and felt I was insulting Britain what the fuck???... it was the first time, I thought I was gonna get my head kicked in for simply being myself.
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In this PC world a Iron Cross would not go over well in most areas. In the 6ts, it wasn't that big of a deal.
 
If they come to a party in Spain where we played 60's punk, they would all freak out compared to the "psychedelic years"
 
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