Sweet; somebody made a movie about the Minutemen: "We Jam Econo"

[RandomKoolzip]

Yay! My favorite band! Someone made a documentary about them!

http://www.theminutemen.com/

I cannot WAIT until this premieres in Chicago, if it ever does.

Anyone who's ever been a Minutemen fan knows the obsessive fascination their supporters felt about them. D. Boon, their late leader, was an amzing man, a working-class left-wing guitar-slinger who could work up a serious froth on his axe while declaiming some of the most quotidian brilliance on the mic....and he was over 300 lbs, too. It was seriously inspiring seeing this guy on TV at an early age.


Again, I say, YAY!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

1. The Minutemen were great!

D Boon was a hero...ah, memories of my youth!

[RandomKoolzip]

2. I cannot wait!

There's no way this film will bypass Chitown.


Boston, however.....(just kidding, Kathy)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. Don't start-I've been very feisty lately!

Have flames will travel! :P

[oustemnow]

3. but does it make a stench?

This is awesome news; The Minutemen were one of those tiny miracles that occur once in a lifetime.

Pedro 4-evah!

[RandomKoolzip]

8. Exactly. They were totally unique.

A real-life working-class left wing punk band....Mike Azerrad talk about how they used to schedule shows early at night so that the working dudes in the audience could get up the next morning in time for work. I can't imagine ANY band doing that before or since....


D Boon musta been from another planet.

[oustemnow]

10. so many awesome Minutemen stories

I remember reading about how the video for "This Ain't no Picnic" was filmed, on the sly, in the office where one of them was working cleaning at the time.

Also read a great Watt quote about how he got dysentery on the road at one point, and he just tucked his pant legs into his boots and let the shit collect as they went from show to show, because there was basically nothing he could do about it.

That Azerad book is amazing; it really details how so many bands went to amazing lengths to get their incredible music out, jsut for the sheer joy and pride they took in creating something they knew was worthwhile.

[blm]

5. Minutemen is mr. blm's favorite band, too.

He still plays them almost every day. Same with Archers of Loaf.

[RandomKoolzip]

6. Wow...I think *I* may be Mr. blm....

Them and Archers of Loaf are two of my top-ten all-timers....and we've had discussions about American Music Club before....and then there's you and Mo'D...

Do you have the other half of this amulet?

[blm]

7. heheh....

next you'll be astaring at my pic in the gallery and wondering why we ever divorced.

[RandomKoolzip]

9. I never go to the gallery.

Too many pics, it's too slow to load on my dial up.

But if your pic's in there, I may have to endure the wait......

[asthmaticeog]

11. NO! FUCKING! WAY!

I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it I wanna see it !

I think it's widely known enough in the Lounge that I'm as obsessive a Minutemen fan as they come (you can have my Watt-autographed first-pressing vinyl copy of "Double Nickels" when you can pry my cold dead hand off my cock), so I'll spare everyone the rhapsodizing, but FUCK YEAH, I MUST SEE THIS FILM!

Edit: misspelled "cock"

[RandomKoolzip]

12. I kinda guessed you would....

Go to the site, it'll tell ya when it's opening around the country (if it ever does).

[asthmaticeog]

13. NYC, Seattle, Portland and --- Albuquerque?

OK.... not like Cleveland's a must-screen city, but Albuquerque?

[RandomKoolzip]

14. Hmmm.... Maybe the filmmaker's family is from there.

At least we in Chicago got the "Jandek on Corwood" doc.

On edit, by the way, I just got the new Karate CD, on which they do four Minutemen covers ("The Only Minority," "BD Wrrote Propaganda Songs," "Colors," and "This Ain't No Picnic") as well as Dylan's "Tears of Rage," and a song each originally done by Talk Talk and Beefeater (?!?).

As much as I looooove Geoff Farina, he doesn't have the lungpower to do a good D. Boon vocal impression. The band kicks mucho culo, though.

[RandomKoolzip]

15. kick for the daytoppers.