I really liked it ALOT. I can't believe I never saw it ever before.
My mom loved it, because she grew up in the 50's and the 60's, and loves the music of that time period.
As I was watching it...I totally remembered The Dark Side and Tender Years being big hits in the 80's. And I was listening to the words to Tender Years and thinking that it is funny how in the 80's in that movie they were wishing to be back in the 60's. And Tom Berenger says to the guy that was the drummer about how he misses it so much...
and the drummer says if you want to go back and remember it, don't forget how much bad stuff there was too, and started listing off all the things that he remembered from that time period that weren't good memories.
And, I realized that everyone has a different outlook on life. People remember what they choose to remember. If you want to dwell in the past and remember the bad, because your life didn't turn out great, then you have something to blame it on.
But, for me...I felt like I could relate to Tom Berenger on how he remembered everything being the best time of his life.
It was kind of sad, because time goes on and things change, and I can relate to that movie and not wanting things to change and when they were singing...don't go tender years....
I love his car in the movie!
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
loved eddie & the cruisers, but steer clear of part 2. it blows.
i remember buying the soundtrack for eddie, and i was a bit disappointed because my favorite songs from the movie weren't on it: tender years and wild summer nights. but i was able to get my hands on them shortly after.
tender years is a great song. best part of the movie for me was when they performed it and tom berenger is playing the solo piano piece at the end of it-beautiful piece.
michael pare... *puuurrrrrrrr*
Posted by ValleyCat (Member # 1322) on :
Eddie & The Cruisers was a cool movie. You're right Ronnie that was a crummy sequel.
Wasn't this a movie that picked up steam after its theatrical release? Like from HBO or something. Because the movie came out in 1983, but it seems like the song didn't gain momentum until a few years later.
Did anyone else love the song "Season In Hell"? I remember watching the movie and going Eddie knows what he is talking about.
Michael Paré was very convincing as Eddie and when I first watched the movie I was totally believing he was singing those songs. But let's give credit to John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band for some truly excellent tunes.
Isis, I'm glad you got a chance to see this movie.
Posted by wallyum (Member # 2746) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ronnie: loved eddie & the cruisers, but steer clear of part 2. it blows.
So did the soundtrack. (Although I have a friend who swears by it.)
Posted by wallyum (Member # 2746) on :
quote:Originally posted by ValleyCat: Wasn't this a movie that picked up steam after its theatrical release? Like from HBO or something. Because the movie came out in 1983, but it seems like the song didn't gain momentum until a few years later.
But let's give credit to John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band for some truly excellent tunes.
The movie became a big hit after being shown on HBO in the summer when everyone was home from school. I was one of the few who caught it before it nose-dived out of the theaters. Then a buddy bought the album and made a tape for me. (One side was Eddie & The Cruisers and the other side was Cheap Trick. They're inexorably linked in my mind now.) John Cafferty & Beaver Brown made a few more albums, but then dropped back to being the bar band they were when the whole thing started. Too bad. I'd have bought more albums if they'd kept recording, and I sure would have seen them live again. They were great! (We saw them at Bogart's in Cincinnati. Ever been there Valley?)
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I loved the song Season in Hell, I was like..what?? They don't like that song. I thought it was cool. But my mom said they wanted Rock N Roll...that song was before it's time, it would have been a great song a few years down the road, but for what people were listening to then it wasn't right.
Michael Pare sure has some nice....arms...woo hoo. He was definately a "greaser" though..fer sure, he did alot of sweating.
I liked when Tom Bergenger kept playing the piano too, and everyone turned around and watched him.
I never saw the girl who played Joanna in anything ever before, but I thought they did a good job on her and Tom Berenger and even the other guys in making them look the age difference. I kept wondering when she was actually ever going to sing, and then she sang when Eddie couldn't and he walked off stage, she was OK. But, up until then all she did was clap her hands and shake a tamborine, and I wondered what she was doing there. I love saxaphone music when it is played like that.
You never see bands like that any more, alot of music is done on computers now too. That's one of the biggest things that is sad about today's music, people don't even know how to sing or write lyrics that are that emotional, that most people can relate to.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Wallyum's comment:
quote:John Cafferty & Beaver Brown made a few more albums, but then dropped back to being the bar band they were when the whole thing started...
They were OK, but they were actually derivative Bruce Springsteen soundalikes!
Posted by wallyum (Member # 2746) on :
quote:Originally posted by StevenHW: Wallyum's comment:
quote:John Cafferty & Beaver Brown made a few more albums, but then dropped back to being the bar band they were when the whole thing started...
They were OK, but they were actually derivative Bruce Springsteen soundalikes!
Woo. Broad statement. And who isn't derivative in some way? I'm sure Bruce got the same thing early on in his career. (In fact, the New Dylan crap almost torpedoed his career before he left the harbor.) I've seen them both live and they couldn't have been more different. Bruce may have had that kind of buzz going for him early on, but he was already an arena god when I saw him for the first time in 1980. JC&BB never lost the bar band feel, which is bad and good. They seemed more comfortable playing Bogart's than Bruce ever did playing Riverfront.
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Posted by ValleyCat (Member # 1322) on :
wallyum, I spent many a buck and many a night jamming at Bogarts in my College Years. I frequented a place called Cooters as well that always seemed to be up on the current alternative dance music of the day.
We hung out at Cooter's a lot when it was Alexander's. The guy who worked the door had an earring made from the foot of a chicken, so we called him "Chicken Man". He wasn't a big fan of ours and when we got tossed out one night, his comment was "'Bout f*%&in' time!" Are you old enough to remember when Burgundy's was The Lighthouse?
Posted by Eddie Wilson (Member # 169) on :
I will go to my grave saying that Springsteen has nothing on Cafferty and I mean that in all honesty. Cafferty is so much better. I never did see the hype for the "Boss." He's ok, but nothing great.
...I had no idea that you had never seen "Eddie & The Cruisers" Isis. Did you know that is where my name came from? Growing up, I thought Michael Pare was the coolest and I always tried to model myself after him. I always thought him and Christian Slater had the coolest hair. My mom had a huge crush on Pare.
...I could talk about this movie all day.
[ 28. March 2005, 18:45: Message edited by: Eddie Wilson ]
Posted by wallyum (Member # 2746) on :
As far as the show each puts on I'm inclined to agree with you. The bootlegs I've heard of Springsteen from his early days are unreal, but when I started seeing him he was past that. His shows had become fairly scripted and somewhat predictable. I believe Cafferty and the band came back for seven encores the night we saw them. They were an exceptional live act, and were perfect for a venue like Bogart's, which is your typical college town concert hall. They were as much into the crowd that night as the crowd was into them. The thing that impressed me about the whole show was it's lack of pretension. A totally unselfconscious performance. Pity that didn't transfer well to the "Eddie And The Cruisers - Live" cd that came out later.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
Wallyum-You must have been really bad to get kicked out with a guy who had a chicken bone in his ear-better than his nose though....what did you do??
Eddie-Have you see The Greatest American Hero??? I just got Season 1, and Michael Pare was in it, and he was really cool, I bet you'd love it. That's why I broke down and finally watched Eddie and the Cruisers, and I did post a picture of Michael on here somewhere. He's pretty cute, I could probably talk about him for at least 1/2 a day. I loved the movie. I didn't know Tom Berenger was in it, he was mighty cute too.
Posted by wallyum (Member # 2746) on :
quote:Originally posted by ISIS: Wallyum-You must have been really bad to get kicked out with a guy who had a chicken bone in his ear-better than his nose though....what did you do??
Believe it or not, I did nothing. My friends had gone to Alexander's on St. Pat's Day and brought green food coloring. (I had to work.) It wound up making a mess and one of the waiters objected to it. When we walked in the next week, he told us that we were on "probation" and that we'd be thrown out if we got out of line. After that it was just a matter of time. (We never could resist a challenge.) I was playing my favorite video game in the corner (Zaxon) when the word came that we'd been tossed. Rick and I had just bought a fresh pitcher of beer, so we each filled and downed a mug, then dumped the rest down the back of the game. It got ugly for a few brief moments, but we calmed down quick when we saw the cops out front. We spent the rest of the night at Fibber McGee's. I think Alexander's changed to Cooter's soon after that, so we went back, but it wasn't the same. They cut back on the live bands, which was the whole reason we went.
