'ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL' w/ Craig Finn

This week, we talk to CRAIG FINN of THE HOLD STEADY & ’That’s How I Remember It’ podcast about the legendary cult classic ROCK ’N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL! We discuss how discovering THE RAMONES is a young person’s game, reading THRASHER magazine in the school library, not knowing what bands sounded like, KTEL record complitaions and ROCK 80 LP, the Summer of 1980 AM Rock Radio, Craig seeing STYX’s KILROY WAS HERE tour, vomiting at a DEVO show, $1.92 new wave shows, fantasing about where bands are getting coffee in your hometown when they come through on tour, the VHS release of the film, ROAD TO RUIN LP, Craig getting guitar lessons from punk legend Chris Osgood of The Suicide Commandoes, the singleminded yet 4 headed songwriting beast that was THE RAMONES & the cultish nature of the band, Joe Dante’s script, how producer ROGER CORMAN wanted to cut out the middle of The Ramones songs, DISCO HIGH, teaching the Ramones to walk in the film, staying overnight to get concert tickets, getting punished by your parents by them forcing you to go see a LAURIE ANDERSON concert, our big Ramones regrets, the trouble with filmming the Ramones' live footage and how it almost started a riot, learning about Chicken Vindaloo through the band’s song lyrics, getting the courage to go to a punk rock show, Violent Femmes, our first punk/new wave show we went too, clove cigarettes, The Replacements, ticket prices vs. record prices, under attended hardcore matinee shows, Clint Howard, PJ Soles & Vince Van Patton, does the movie hold up as a cult film, High School permanent records, how the soundtrack turned us on to the MC5 and ENO and the search for those records, Mudhoney & Tad, how the film smartly adds more and more Ramones to the film as it goes on, the Americana side of the Ramones, what Ramones lyric would Craig wished he had written and what lyric of his is the most Ramones, what would a Roger Corman produced Hold Steady movie consist of and what role Clint Howard would play in it and so much more!!!

So, let’s tear up our permanent records on this episode of Revolutions Per Movie!!!

CRAIG FINN:
https://craigfinn.net/
https://theholdsteady.net/

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