Apparently, there was no E True Hollywood Story or A&E Biography shows in ‘63 and the case lies dormant for twenty years when the Cruisers begin to enjoy a resurgence of popularity.Įddie and the Cruisers has a nice feel for Rock and Roll, and it does a pretty good job of revealing the damage done to the survivors when that larger than life figure in your life disappears forever, but the thing that makes this movie lovable to me is that Eddie wants to do something great. Pretty soon Eddie’s car is in the Ocean and the master tapes are gone. Response to Eddie’s big creative achievement is decidedly negative. I will claim that my lead character can’t possibly be derivative just because he’s doing Elvis’ whole act since he will have been doing it 28 years earlier. If I ever make a movie about a Rock and Roll singer, I will have him doing Elvis Presley songs in 1928. Brian Wilson didn’t have a nervous breakdown trying to out do the Beatles until a number of years later. The film makers desperately wanted to make Eddie to appear way ahead of his time. For the follow up Eddie decides that he is going to record his Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Eddie (Michael Pare) feels pretty lousy about it but he eventually just goes out and gets another Black Saxophone player.Įssentially, Eddie and his crew recorded one classic best selling Rock and Roll album. on heroin, most likely because that’s what the writers felt Black Saxophone players do. Wendell never says a word but he does O.D. It makes for a pretty amusing Behind the Music episode.Įddie and the Cruisers essentially pops Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band into the year 1963 right down to the Black Saxophone player, Wendell Newton. To make things fun, the master tapes for the band’s never released second album, A Season in Hell are missing too. Instead of the nonsense of the sled, we have Ellen Barkin trying to find out if Eddie Wilson really died when his car went off that bridge. I tend to doubt that you will ever see this movie double billed with Citizen Kane, but the two movies are structured pretty similarly. It made for a nice fairy tale, and it’s actually not a bad hook for a movie. Did Elvis die mysteriously in France reading spooky poetry? Well, no but nobody could stand to see the big guy dead either. Pretty soon the Elvis fans got jealous and started talking about John Burrows appearances at Michigan Burger Kings. It’s how he stays something of a rock star. Ray Manzerek was and is forever happy to talk about Morrison to anyone who wants to listen. After all people hadn’t cared about the Doors for years. The three living Doors didn’t really do that much to squelch the rumors. He even made the cover of Rolling Stone under a headline that ran something like “Jim Morrison: He’s hot, he’s sexy, he’s dead!” There was a time when everyone I knew seemed to be madly flipping through the book “No One Here Gets Out Alive”, which suggested that the Rimbaud worshipping Lizard King had faked his own death. I actually saw it in the theater, but everyone else waited for cable where endless playings eventually led to “On the Dark Side” becoming a big hit for John Cafferty, whose Beaver Brown band gave Eddie and the Cruisers’ music its New Jersey sound.īack in the early ‘80s there was something of a Jim Morrison craze. I have a bit of a soft spot for this movie. Sal Amato: Why? We ain’t great, we’re just some guys from Jersey.Įddie Wilson: If we can’t be great, then there’s no sense in ever playing music again. Eddie Wilson: I want something great, I want something that nobody’s ever done before.
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