Posted by Pitstain at adsl-63-195-100-139.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net on September 23, 2000 at 15:24:49:
my absolute favorite thing about Almost Famous (well, after jason
lee... no ass-kissing intended, the man's a frickin giant.) was the
casting of Mark Kozelek as Stillwater's bass player..
His real-life band Red House Painters are absolutely fantastic, but
doomed to mostly-indie semi-obscurity (although Alicia Silverstone
tried REALLY hard to get his/the band's name out (name checked
them on Jay Leno, put a song on her excessively crap "Excess
Baggage" movie soundtrack.
anyhow, Mark K. recently put together a tribute to John Denver called
"take me home" (on badman recordings...
www.badmanrecordingco.com) which features Will Oldham (from
Palace Brothers, etc.), Rachel Haden (whose sister Petra had a song
or two in Chasing Amy... y'know.. the scene where Holden declares
his love for alyssa and she storms out of the fancy black SUV.), Red
House Painters, Low, Tarnation, the Innocence Mission, etc.
anyhow... just thought of that and thought i'd share.
bye
david
(who is presently trying to figure out a way to hack a Jason Lee
character into his "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2" video game... actually,
it's not that hard anymore, they give you a character editing feature.
heh heh.)