This week I am joined by the one and only
@kidcongopowers of The Gun Club, The Cramps, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and Juanita & Juan with
@alice_bag (to just scratch the surface of his incredible career), who picked the iconic 1956 rock n’ roll comedy classic The Girl Can’t Help It!!!
We discuss Kid running the Ramones fan club, sleeping outside for tickets, recording and performing as Juanita and Juan with his bandmate Alice Bag, his first time playing guitar with
@lydia.lunch.official , faking your way through music, Jeffrey Lee Pierce taking acting classes at the Lee Strasberg studio, lying to get The Gun Club’s first show with The Blasters, Kid playing his first show after only a month of having a guitar in his hands, joining The Cramps and recording Psychedelic Jungle with them, The Gun Club’s The Las Vegas Story and unlocking the intro to ‘Walking With The Beast’, William Burroughs and cut-up technique, the art of collaboration, making blobs of sound, Kid discovering The Girl Can’t Help It with the help of The Screamers, the Nuggets comp, cheapo rock n’ roll exploitation films like Carnival Rock & Rock Baby Rock It, the power of Deluxe color used in the film, John Waters’ obsessions and tributes to The Girl Can’t Help It, the mystique, power and performance of Jayne Mansfield, the newly formed concept of the teenager when this film came out, Lady In A Cage, director Frank Tashlin and his animation roots, Julie London, Little Richard’s incredible performance (while seeming to stare out into space), the weird lesser-known bands in this film, The Chuckles in the film standing next to legends like Fats Domino, the dragging up of Jayne Mansfield, Jayne’s legendary home- The Pink Palace- and its wall-to-ceiling carpeting, mob ties in the rock world, Kid seeing legends like Yma Sumac and Eartha Kitt perform, confronting the audience and so much more!
So let’s throw another jukebox out the window in this week’s episode of
@revolutionspermovie !!! New episode out now on your fave podcast app (the only music film podcast by a former member of
@guidedbyvoicesofficial who also owned
@clintonstreetvideo store)!!!
