With Fright Night coming up, how about a few about some of the classic monsters?
First off, I recall an old cowrker’s disappointment that the garbage 1996 Godzilla remake didn’t inc;ude this gem from BOC:
Next up, Bobby Blitz and the boys give a great remake of this Edgar Winter classic:
And finally, Jethro Tull pulls off the improbable feat of making vampires look dorky!
Who ya got?
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Godzilla was a great choice! Oh man do I miss my childhood (except for the authoritarian regime consisting of my sweet, loving, awesome parents. Rules sucked, though I appreciate the discipline now).
I can’t tell you how many times we played Godzilla in our living room. We were always setting up our LEGO sets of the police station, the fire station and the brick yard along with our Guns of Navarone set complete with army soldiers and plenty of Hot Wheels cars for transport then obliterating it all within five minutes as we invoked the spirit of Godzilla right before Mom called us for dinner.
Good times.
I miss the poorly timed soundtracks for all the Godzilla movies too. LOL.
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Overkill’s Frankenstein certainly appealed to my the part of my brain I reserve for my 16-year-old headbanging self. They did some nice work with that one. Have always appreciate the old movies, and I like the way they worked them in.
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Jethro Tull is one of those bands which seemed to have a lot of musical talent but to me just didn’t have the edge I was quite looking for as a teenager. Visually, the video was great, but his vampire looks like he’s at that age where an afternoon nap and a sandwich are more attractive than his next victim. LOL.
Maybe if the flautist had more of Anchorman’s rebel spirit, I would find them more gripping. Will Ferrell’s one of my favorites…just classic.
https://youtu.be/_c_ufaxeSTs
Using the flute to drink and then light it was great!
Thanks for posting!
I’ll give that bad Godzilla remake’s sountrack the credit of Puff Daddy’s “Come with me”, basically remaking Kasmir as a rap song.
I’ll always find an excuse to promote my favorite Jersey Boys in Overkill!
Tull definitely needed soeone else playing Dracula – a chubby, bearded geek just didn’t cut it. A better Drac would have made a cool video near perfect, great song too.
And Anchorman may be one of the most quotable movies of all time. Will Farrell is the Dave Kingman of comedy, and damn was he on for that one
If you haven’t seen “The House” with Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler, watch it. No social justice lectures. Just a lot of fun. I laughed until I couldn’t breathe.
That whole crew headed by Ferrell and maybe Vince Vaughn with the Wilson brothers Owen and Luke, John C. Reilly, David Koechner, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven, and Ryan Reynolds, does a great job. You can tell whenver even two of them get together, they just want to have loads of fun while making other people laugh.
Amy Poehler and Molly Shannon are great too.
I’ll check it out – thanks for the recommendation!
You got it.