AWSOME!
This movie is awsome. I first saw this film in 1983 when i was 15 on a TV show called "Night Flight" (anybody remember it?), fell head over heels in love w/ teenage Diane Lane & have never forgotten the impact this film made on me & watching it recently brought back many memories. I have been looking for this film for 20yrs & i finally found a copy! It basically tells a very cynical & realistic tale totally bashing the music industry. Young female nobody has ambition to be somebody, forms a band called The Stains with her cousins (one, a very young Laura Dern), goes on the unglamorous rough & lonely road with 2 other very chauvenistic rival male bands--a has-been-on-its-last-legs headliner & an up & coming punk band. Fee Waybill of the Tubes is great as the has-been & Paul Cook of The Sex Pistols has another great role as the lead singer of the punk band. BTW, the songs in this movie are very good & very catchy---you will find yourself singing "We're the...
FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!
Next to "The Great Rock n Roll Swindle", and perhaps equally as "D.O.A.-A Right of Passage", this film is a top must have for any punk aficionado. The fictional band in the film, The Looters, features 2 sex PistOls (Paul Cook and Steve Jones) and Clash bassist Paul Simonon performing incredible rock, with 2 songs unavailable on any recording. It's worth it for that alone.
The film also stands on it's own. A very young Diane Lane (pre- "Outsiders") turns in a solid performance, and The Tubes Fee Waybil is funny as a Paul Stanley type rocker. Also of note is Brit actor Ray Winstone, who plays the Looters' frontman. As far as underground rebel rock movies go, it doesn't get much better.
Rhino to release "Fabulous Stains" on DVD this fall
Rhino is working on a fall 2008 release, tentatively set for Sept. 30. Restored transfer, anamorphic widescreen 1.85:1, with commentary tracks featuring Lou Adler, Diane Lane and possibly Laura Dern. More info available elsewhere on web, but it looks like our prayers have been answered.
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