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Its more than music. Its a way of life

Penelope Spheeris The Decline Of Western Civilization was perceived as shocking and outrageous at the time of it’s original release. Today, museums and educational institutions around the world present the 3 movies as a historically significant works of art. Part 2 chronicles the late 80s Los Angeles heavy metal scene. The film features a mix of live concert footage and interviews with established heavy metal performers such as Lemmy, Ozzy Osbourne, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, and W.A.S.P. Several unsigned club bands are prominently featured, such as Odin, Seduce, and London. Many of the struggling, unsigned acts appear convinced that worldwide stardom awaits them, and most appear to have no backup plan in place should this success fail to happen. The film includes several interview segments with Darlyne Pettinicchio, an Orange County probation officer, discussing the dangers of metal culture on children, especially in taking heavy metal lyrics seriously and literally. The film is well known for its many scenes featuring rock star excess. The scenes include: an extremely intoxicated Chris Holmes of W.A.S.P.discussions with various musicians about the way women in general, and groupies in particular, are treated badly in the metal scene. Riki Rachtman and Taime Downe, owners of the Cathouse club in L.A., discuss how girls get entry to the club faster if they dress sleazy, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith talk about spending millions of dollars on drugs, candid and sobering interviews from various artists about drug use, abuse, and dying, or nearly dying, from overdoses. It has been claimed, most notably in the VH1 documentary series Heavy: The Story of Metal, that this film was partially responsible for the death of glam metal, and the subsequent rise of thrash metal and grunge during the next decade. The suggestion in the documentary is that fans, disgusted by the scenes of excess, decided to turn elsewhere. A similar claim was made by Dave Mustaine in his autobiography and in the book Hell Bent for Leather by British author Seb Hunter. This documentary bring out a lot of memories. Some of the interviews are weird to listen to today but it will bring out both good memories and big laughs

Subtitles/Text: English
Language/Språk: Engelska
Format: DVD Region 1 (Usa/Canada)
Country of origin/Ursprungsland: Usa
Bonus material: (see picture)