Edward
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John in Covina said:Even in LA and Hollywood where the rock clubs were it was not as shown in the movies. In the early 80's to mix Punk and metal crowds was a volitile mix not peacefully acheived until the late 80's and a sense of cross over was there, yet in film after film punk and metal was shown as the same club crowd when it was in the beginning very stratified, very separate.
A lot of music was very pigeon holed. At a certain point bands like Motorhead, Metallica, Megadeath and others had achieved that reach across the gulf offering that did a lot to bring those groups closer than before.
The film industry always portrayed the most outrageous looks and behavior as ubiquitous in this era when it clearly was not.
You're not wrong, John. And it's a trend that carries well on.... I remember Lois and Clark characters making incredibly, excruciatingly awful references to Pearl Jam and "going through the mosh pit - twice!". Hideous. and then there's those who pick up on a "youth cult" artist and feature them heavily when they're not at all credible or even current - hellow, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II and Vanilla Ice. (Occasionally they get it right: only a bunch of mainstreamers as utterly bland as the Friends would bother with that Hootie Blowfish nonsense, surely?).
The only nightclub scene I think I've ever seen Hollywood get vaguely convincing was the vampire club in Blade. Oh, and though I was too young to be there, from everything about the Pistols I read as an obsessive fifteen year old, it seems to me that Sid and Nancy had the live scenes pretty nailed.
The absolute nadir of Hollywood nightclub sequences must have been the one Michael Douglas goes to in Basic Instinct.... in his lime green v neck sweater worn with nothing underneath. :eusa_doh: