Obscure old prog films?
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Topic: Obscure old prog films?
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Subject: Obscure old prog films?
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 06:19
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It would be fun to know what's out there... Recently I saw a film from late 60's APHRODITE'S CHILD. They pretended performing "Rain and Tears", while they had time from posing in their fancy clothes. Vangelis even gave a kiss to a tush of hellenistic statue, etc...
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 06:53
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the movie "Dein Kopf ist ein schlafendes Auto" by Werner Penzel and
Fritz Baumann from 1981 is about the Roman Bunka Band. the movie is
only so-so, but the music is absolutely brilliant (Roman Bunka used to
be guitar player of Embryo; in one episode of the movie they
accidentially meet Embryo on the road and immediately start a session).
the only album of this 3-piece band (Roman Bunka - guitar and oud,
Gerald Luciano Hartwig - bass and sitar, Freddy Setz - drums,
percussion and keyboards) is highly recommended. and it is out on CD
meanwhile (+ some bonus tracks)!
-------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 11:04
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Thanks Jean! I could find lots of references to this film from the web, but atleast not yet any place, where I could order or download it. |
Posted By: Man Overboard
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 14:25
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200 Motels!
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Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 14:39
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I have that already! Do you want to see a movie about dental hygienia? |
Man Overboard wrote:Posted By: NutterAlert
Date Posted: August 16 2005 at 16:09
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Well there's Zabrieske Point with Pink Floyd soundtrack, of which the last minute is the only bit worth watching. And I suppose Floyd at Pompeii & ELP Pictures count as prog films as they were both shown at the cinema in the UK in the early 70's. The Monkey's film Head had a one minute cameo with Frank Zappa walking a cow, surreal! ------------- Proud to be an un-banned member since 2005 |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 01:57
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I could check that out. Thanks! I have the two Barbet Schroeder films with Floyd soundtracks, and they are quite fun. What's ZP about? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 03:16
The story is a bit disjointed and includes a sex orgy in the Death Valley desert to Grateful Dead music. Denouncing the real estate and how they are corrupting everyone out to make a buck , and not caring for the environemen t seems to be the main point. Quite a pleasurable film. Made by Antonioni who had just made Blow-up before this one , about the Swinging London . Great soundtrack with a superb ending to Floyd adaptiuon of Careful With that Axe Eugene. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 03:51
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THAT'S MY MOVIE! |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 08:50
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if you want to see a real porn movie with prog music, I recommend "Body Love" by Lasse Braun, to which Klaus Schulze provided the soundtrack ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 10:49
Cool out , my young friend ! From memory, you do not see that much because their skins are covered in sand, but its suggestive enough! Not really prog , but Easy Rider is one hall of a movie! I always wondered about that Schulze tracked porno flick, though ! Is the music any good?
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 11:16
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Bu! |
Posted By: silvertree
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 14:07
| I didn't know Body Love was a soundtrack ! It's my favourite Schulze album !!!! |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 14:09
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I might just check that out.. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 16:35
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the movie version of "Twin Peaks" has a scene in a kind of bar in which
a band plays some kind of "space blues". the scene is about 15 minutes
long, and all that time this wild space blues is playing. the rest of
the soundtrack is not of any interest, but these 15 minutes really rock. the movie "The Trip", starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, also has a scene with some wild psychedelic music towards the end (featuring some nude female dancers with painted bodies  , and I think the "Twin Peak" scene is influenced by this one)-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: roaryg
Date Posted: August 17 2005 at 19:00
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Pink Floyd did the soundtrack to a movie called "More" in 1969.
Excruciatingly boring movie, but good music of course. Apparently they have an unreleased soundtrack to a movie called "The Committee", some kind of surreal thriller from 1968. ------------- Tim FM, Nash the Slash, Camel |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 03:44
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I bought this two years ago as a DVD from discount campaing for couple €:s, but I haven't yet watched it! |
Maybe I'll try this evening...Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 14:54
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There is a German tv-movie from 1976 called "Notwehr" ("Self-Defense").
It features Guru Guru as actors, who basically play themselves, only
they are named "Rattenfänger" ("Rat Catchers") in the movie. The
line-up is drummer Mani Neumeier (whose acting is superb, by the way!),
Sepp Jandrisits on guitar, Jogi Karpenkiel on bass and Roland Schaeffer
on saxes and guitar. The story is this: The Ratttenfänger band moves into a rural area (into a lonely farm house), but the conservative inhabitants of the village they moved to distrust them. Tension arises, and finally one of the associated members of the band (the girl friend of their manager, who also lives with the band in the movie) is shot by one of the people in the village. Of course there is a lot of music in the movie, and seeng the acting of Mani Neumeier is alone worth watching the movie. ------------- BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: August 18 2005 at 22:28
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Koyaanisqatsi is a real head spinner. Music is by Phillip Glass. Not exactly prog, but comes close.
If you're not familiar with this film, it's basically a collage of natural and industrial images from around the U.S. Some done in time lapse (speeded up). The title is the Hopi Indian word for "life out of balance". Highly acclaimed and recommended. 
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Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 01:26
A history of porn music: 70's - really bad jazz 80's - really bad techno 90's - really bad metal so is the next logical step for the 2000's really bad prog. (no offense to Klaus Schulze, I'm sure he did a fine job, but could prog be the next genre to be bastardized into bad porno soundtracks?) Hey wait a second, now you all know what a pervert I am!  
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 12:54
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yeah nice! just a thing, becareful of the version you watch, I've seen a version of this movie without Schulze's music as the soundtrack. ------------- 
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 12:58
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"Alice in the cities" (by wenders at his beginnings) is not prog at all, but it's a lovely road movie (one of my favorites) which contains a very emotional/ repetitive guitar soundtrack by CAN
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 13:32
there was a German tv-serial whodunnit of 2 or 3 parts named "Das
Messer" ("The Knife"), that had "Spoon" by Can as title melody. seems
they got confused about which piece of cutlery they used; I have never
seen anyone killed by a spoon 
------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: Moody Mellow
Date Posted: August 19 2005 at 18:36
There's the "Tommy" movie, I guess. It's really cheesy, though. It's pretty funny to see Roger Daltrey get smacked about, though. ------------- The word is "Dreamer" And it really suits you... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 22 2005 at 04:05
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good call Friede. Great psych music too! I love that movie! fairly acurate description of an acid trip! In the same genre but much later , Altered states depicts Peyotl trips! Scary but the only two time I did that , I certainly had no nightmarish dreams/visions but halucinate I did! ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 03:29
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^ very soft compared to Morrissey's trilogy -------------
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 05:38
I love "the trip" and "psych out" You talk about a movie called "altered states"? Lt's start a discussion about our respectives power-plants experiences! i never did peyotl, but LSA |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 07:42
Salut Olivier, ca faisait longtemps! I only had the chance to do Peyotl twice in my life. deeply hallucinogenic. I was on the Hopi Indian reserve in SW US for a wedding as one of my buddies was getting married. I stayed on different reseves for two weeks at the time , being treated with the utmost respect as Amerindians have for Europeans-caucasians that are sympathetic to their plights. It is a cactus that you chew to suck out the juice and spit out the pulp (I think you may have serious problem if you swallow it. Some 45 mins later , your trip starts for roughly 12 hours going by a phase of sleep or two. In Mexico , they do another cactus part called Jikuri, I think it is either the flower or a sort of fruit , but can lead people to really crazy acts , sometimes pushing to violence if not properly assisted. I never tried that one although I spent about one year in Mexico , (either for the job or holidays) but I was a little wary also.
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: August 23 2005 at 08:14
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yeah nice! I've worked on an article a few months ago about the current use of drugs in central & south America. I arrived at the conclusion that the way to consume hallucinogenic plants is by far different that ours. Over there every use of plants, mushrooms is strictly codified and resonates as a mystical experience with higher divinites and sacred kinships. I think that for use these these drugs procure no "trancendental" visions, just an other state of consciousness. The reason is that we haven't got a structured imaginary to receive dreamings interpretations. We can only live "vibrations", "flip" but not passing the frontieer of the travel to communicate directly with the cosmos and the nature
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