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Shane West on Joining the Germs and “What We Do Is Secret”

After years of drama, this Friday sees the long-awaited release of What We Do Is Secret, the biopic that tracks the rise and fall of notorious Los Angeles punk icons the Germs. Formed in 1977, Darby Crash, Pat Smear, Lorna Doom and Don Bolles became notorious for loud, fast songs about sex and destruction which they played with amateurish glee at their riot-inducing live shows. In recent years, the band has seen something of a renaissance, touring occasionally with What We Do Is Secret star Shane West in place of the late Crash. “I never thought so much fun being a Germ,” West says. “But I always remember that Darby was booed off the stage a lot back in the day, too.” Click above for an exclusive clip from What We Do Is Secret. How did you end up in this role? To be honest there’s no great story. I just had an audition the meeting came through, and I jumped up and was like “really, they’re doing what?” I’m thankful it’s so independent, because otherwise I don’t think I would have had the opportunity to do it. It was difficult, but that’s what I feel when the best movies come because you’re not trying to care about foreign rights or who is getting people into the seats. You’re actually trying to make the movie good. Were you a Germs fan before, or did your research of Darby come after you got the role? The real research started to begin when I got the role. I had heard the regular set of punk bands out of the L.A. scene: Black Flag, the Germs, X. I had heard of Darby’s legend, but that’s it. I knew of “Lexicon Devil” and “Circle One.” I might have heard those two songs. Is it difficult playing somebody who actually lived? It seems it’d be hard to keep the balance between the actual facts and you’re interpretation who Darby was. I had never done it before. I think it’s gonna be different for any actor or actress who has that chance. I’m not a method actor, but I feel it’s good to be somewhat method when it has something to do with a character like that. I also feel

Published: 2008-08-06
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Videos

Lyle Lovett Meets Ghostface Killah: How Rock-Biopic-Spoof “Walk Hard” Got Its Theme Song

This week, Lyle Lovett released his thirteenth album, It’s Not Big It’s Large. The title is indeed a joke, but probably not the first one that comes to mind. “We had done these arrangements with horn parts, but I’m a folk singer, basically, so the joke was ‘the large band,’” rather than a big band, he explains. “Any time you have a chance to make a joke, you’ve got to take it.” With that credo in mind, the singer-songwriter was perfectly suited to join up with comic genius Judd Apatow on his latest project, the music mockumentary Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Lovett, who has appeared on film several times in the past (remember his turns in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Opposite of Sex?) will be gracing the big screen once again this December alongside Jack White, Eddie Vedder, Jewel and Jack Black in a spoof that tracks the long and strange career of Johnny Cash-style figure Cox (John C. Reilly). Lovett says he was drawn into the project by its co-writer, Jake Kasdan. “I originally talked to him about writing one of the songs, which I never did,” he says. “I ended up getting to sing [the film’s title song] with Jackson Browne, Jewel and Ghostface Killah, which was really fun, but Marshall Crenshaw actually wrote it.” The track is Cox’s biggest hit, and Lovett and Co. appear onscreen briefly as an all-star band in one of the film’s last scenes, when Vedder hands over Cox’s lifetime achievement award at a Grammy-style ceremony. “We shot one day at the Shrine [auditorium in Los Angeles],” Lovett says. The track, he adds, came together effortlessly. “I had met Jackson years ago and he’s always been really kind to me over the years. And I had met Jewel but I had never sung with her. She was great to work with. And it was the first time to meet Ghostface Killah. It was very cool, he’s very cool. There’s a breakdown in our version, in the middle of

Published: 2007-08-31
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Keywords: Rock News

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Panic at the Disco’s Ryan Ross On Fame, Being Mistaken for Mick Jagger, New DVD

Photo: Gardner/Getty Last week, Panic at the Disco released …Live in Chicago, a CD/DVD capturing their on- and offstage life on their most recent tour. With the help of a photographer/filmmaker friend, the Las Vegas quartet also put together a book of Polaroids capturing their time on the road. As the band winds down for the holidays, Rock Daily talked with guitarist Ryan Ross about the last year and what fans can expect from Panic’s third album (hint: if you liked Pretty.Odd., you’re in luck), which Ross hopes to have out next summer. How did the idea for the DVD and book come together? Shane [Valdés, the filmmaker/photographer behind the project] is a friend of ours who lives with Brendon [Urie, singer] and we invited him on tour. At first he was filming and taking pictures, then he started getting into Polaroid film and we came up with the idea to do a tour diary of all Polaroid pictures. It looks like all of the shots are candid. Most of it was “day in the life” stuff, where we were doing whatever we do — outside eating lunch or goofing around — and he was there as a fly on the wall. There weren’t a lot of staged shots, which I think ended up being cool. Shane dated all the pictures with the date and where we were, and we ended up having 400 or 500 pictures. Then we chose 100 or so to put in the book. How did you pick which ones went in? We each got to choose about 25. We had a day, and then two days and then it was “if you don’t pick now, the deadline isn’t going to be met,” so we had to go over them all in a night. Timelines aren’t always the greatest thing with us [laughs]. We were just happy to do it because we wanted to remember the tour and where we were. And there’s captions written in the book — That’s my handwriting. We came up with the idea to do captions three hours before we were supposed to turn the book in. Me, Shane and Brendan were the only ones there to do it. Towards the back of the book, there’s a shot of you with the caption “Don’t call the

Published: 2008-12-12
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Dave Matthews, Mike Gordon “Join the Band” With Little Feat

Photo: Getty As the story goes, Little Feat keyboardist Billy Payne was recording with Jimmy Buffett in 2004 when Buffet made a suggestion. Do a guest album. Not a tribute album, but Feat songs as well as others. Buffett offered to fly the band down to Shrimpboat Sound studios in Key West with hopes of locking down an all-star lineup to work on the album. The end result is the recently released Join the Band (429 Records), 15 tracks serving up Little Feat with a side of A-list talent. It opens with Dave Matthews doing “Fat Man in a Bathtub” with such commitment Payne says the singer was close to voiceless the next day. “He gave us like 19 takes and we were blown away,” Payne tells Rolling Stone.com. “It was awesome.” But Matthews overdid it and could barely sing the next night on Late Show With David Lettermen. Judging from the sound of the album’s track vocals, a deep and throaty baritone rasp, it must have been the last take. Vince Gill and Paul Barrere share the mike on “Dixie Chicken,” with Sonny Landreth on slide. Jimmy Buffett digs into “Time Loves a Hero” with natural ease, while Chris Robinson lends teeth-gnashing grit to “Oh Atlanta.” Emmy Lou Harris sweetens things up on “Sailin’ Shoes.” Brooks and Dunn do a croony “Willin’” Bela Fleck picks through “The Weight.” Phish’s Mike Gordon lends his bass playing on Woody Gutherie’s “This Land is Your Land.” Perhaps the most poignant track on the album is sung by the daughter of the late singer Lowell George. Inarna George, of the Bird and the Bee, pipes a lilting, heartbreaking rendition of “Trouble.” Meanwhile the band is continuing what seems like a never ending tour. “We love to play and we’re pretty good at what we do,” Payne says. “That definitely helps.” Related Stories: • Phish Play Together For First Time In Four Years at Manager’s Wedding • Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist LeRoi Moore Dead at 46 • Friends Remember Dave Matthews Band Saxophonist LeRoi Moore

Published: 2008-09-09
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Extreme “Rejoin Forces,” Announce Reunion With Extreme Enthusiasm

Led Zeppelin’s doing it. So are the Police and My Bloody Valentine. Now, the latest band to announce they are reuniting is … Extreme! Fresh from failed ventures in Satellite Party and Van Halen, Nuno Bettencourt and Gary Cherone have decided to “rejoin forces,” according to today’s press release, and come together for a reunion world tour and their first album in thirteen years. But can they revive that Extreme sound? Bettencourt promises the new album “will have all the ingredients of an Extreme record. The music is always Funkier than most rock bands — and born a Bipolar Bastard child of Mr. Zeppelin and Mrs. Beatles” (weirdo capitalization and comparisons his, not ours). Bettencourt didn’t end his extreme enthusiasm there. When asking himself why Extreme should “rejoin forces,” Nuno gave an explanation worthy of his former Satellite Party compadre Perry Farrell: “Rock and Roll Famine … I know it might sound crazy, but there is a massive shortage of rock and roll on this planet. It’s almost extinct. I mean the true spirit of quality rock and roll — you know, Musicianship, when you would give up every moment of your day to master your instrument and create your own identity and sound so as to respectfully outdo all your past heroes whilst proudly wearing the badge of their influences.” The announcement also boasted of Extreme’s “Play With Me” appearing in Guitar Hero, a game that strives on the complete opposite of musicianship, where to “master your instrument” is to be really good at hitting four color-coated buttons. Remember the time when the band needed two Greatest Hits albums to truly represent their four-album career? You can reminisce about those halcyon days when the reformed Extreme kick off their world tour by playing the Boston Music Awards at that city’s Orpheum Theatre on December 1st. Are you Extremely pumped, or could you Extremely care less? [P

Published: 2007-11-27
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Keywords: Rock News