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[Diesel]

Just watched Back To The Future for the umpteenth time with my 7-year-old Metallica, Purple, Zep, Sabbath loving daughter and the scene where Marty plays "Johnny B Goode" and then starts shredding, to the utter bewilderment of the 50's audience, had us both in stitches (gets me every time!). Not to mention all the other rock/metal references.

It got me thinking of other movies with a rock theme or good cameos.

Do you guys have any faves, good examples (embarassingly bad examples)...

Starter for 10...

• Back To The Future I & III
• Rock Star
• Wayne's World I & II
• School of Rock
• Calender Girls (Slayer Cameo - honest!)

DZL

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by dieselfeet

Just watched Back To The Future for the umpteenth time with my 7-year-old Metallica, Purple, Zep, Sabbath loving daughter and the scene where Marty plays "Johnny B Goode" and then starts shredding, to the utter bewilderment of the 50's audience, had us both in stitches (gets me every time!). Not to mention all the other rock/metal references.

It got me thinking of other movies with a rock theme or good cameos.

Do you guys have any faves, good examples (embarassingly bad examples)...

Starter for 10...

• Back To The Future I & III
• Rock Star
• Wayne's World I & II
• School of Rock
• Calender Girls (Slayer Cameo - honest!)

DZL

Correction - it might have been Anthrax in "Calendar Girls". Remind me, is that who Scott Ian plays with?

[scottST]

Top Gun. nuff said.

[Van Cruden]

Detroit Rock City featuring Kiss.

[Biz]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105306/
at least I got paid to see Greta Scratch Fanni and her body double get their baps out.

[Metarie]

Spinal Tap! The most obvious of all rock films.
Rock and Roll High School featuring the Ramones. Classic.
Almost Famous as well I suppose. Although I haven't seen it in ages and remember thinking it wasn't as good as it should have been.

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by Singingstarfish

Spinal Tap! The most obvious of all rock films.
Rock and Roll High School featuring the Ramones. Classic.
Almost Famous as well I suppose. Although I haven't seen it in ages and remember thinking it wasn't as good as it should have been.

Good call!

I thought "Almost Famous" was just OK first time around, but and 2nd & 3rd viewings, I thought it was brilliant.

[incredibledisc]

Originally Posted by dieselfeet

Good call!

I thought "Almost Famous" was just OK first time around, but and 2nd & 3rd viewings, I thought it was brilliant.

Try "Untitled" Cameron Crowe's Director's cut version - much longer but in a good way.

"American Grafitti" has one of the coolest Rock 'n' Roll Soundtracks ever
"Dazed and Confused" has a (sort of) Kiss cameo (if you've seen it you'll know what I mean)
"The Decline of Western Civilisation pt2: The Metal Years" is flat out hilarious - from a hungover Ozzy making a fry up to Aerosmith confession to snorting up "all of Peru" its the last word in real rock excess from the 80s

"Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and "Bogus Journey" are worth a mention too

Not forgetting "A Hard Day's Night" and "The Rutles"

Also, look out for Guns 'N' Roses blink and you'll miss it cameo in "The Dead Pool"

For those with stronger stomachs there is the truly awful "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band" movie starring the Bee Gees to seek out and "Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park"


oh, and does anyone remember a low budget 80s horror movie called "Trick or Treat"? it featured a whole host of hair metal cameos including Ozzy as televangelist and Gene Simmons as a DJ (if my memory serves me right)

[psydoll]

The Big Lebowski is amazing and has Flea from RHCP in it as well as a great soundtrack and some rock references in it as I recall.

Airheads raised a chuckle at the time it was released as well but that was ages and ages ago and might be shite if I watched it these days.

'Singles' anyone?

[Edgar Graham]

Aren't Cannibal Corpse or some other similar band in Ace Ventura?