(musical) Reasons to rent the movie Hair.

Actually, a much better idea would be to put a blanket across the screen and just listen to the basslines.

The movie has to be some of the most idiotic, hippieistic (is that a word?) acid tripplin (cool, another new word) movie I have ever seen.

Although the part where they sing about acid droppin is pretty funny... it just is.... boring.

 

hooray for the red, white and blue... and yellow friiinge!!!

 

How about the original recordings to Jesus Christ Superstar? The one with the brown cover, not black?
Great basslines IMHO.

 

JCS: both the 'Original Cast" and the 'movie sound track' version are happenin'!

I do wanna see Hair...is this movie really as "bad"(as "surreal")as, say, The Monkees' Head?
'Cause, honestly, I can get into Head(sans chemicals, too!).

 

Yes, the movie Hair is terribly bad, but in that good way that makes it fun to watch. Some liberties were taken with the original Broadway storyline, but a lot of the tunes transitioned well - for a real kick though, get the soundtrack to the original Broadway cast and listen to that. Fantastic basslines and excellent music - Walking in Space and The Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine In still bring a tear to my eye and goosebumps to my arms to this very day.

Two things that are in favor of the movie version, however, are Beverly D'Angelo's boobs!

-72
p.s. rent it? I own it on DVD!

 

I've had the original soundtrack CD from the Broadway play for years. I saw the play 3 times in Chicago in 1969, the movie doesn't do it justice.

 

No, it certainly doesn't do the play justice, but that doesn't make it a worthless movie. Just like Robert Stigwood's Sgt. Pepper movie (with Frampton and the Bee Gees) hardly does justice to the Beatles' monumental album, it's still a great movie because it's so horribly bad, and <i>some</i> of the tunes were actually redone well. They're both keepers, just don't expect more than a passing familiarity between the originals and the movies.

-72

 

Thanks-
...so the nekkidness is there? Then I'm there, too!
DVD, eh? I see you're a fan of the 'freeze frame'!

 

I've not personally experienced those, but I hear that the construction and attention to detail is first-rate, and have led to the development of many stiffer truss-rods!

 

Still single, eh Jim?

 

and lets not forget the marvels of the 'Zoom' feature.

btw, I think the bass player on the movie soundtrack is Larry Graham.

 

...uh, yeah.
Pathetic, huh...


How 'bout dem Bengals?!

 

The wheels haven't fallen off yet, but them nuts are mighty loose.

 

Hair Rocks!!!
It is one of my all-time favorite plays/musicals.
I agree the movie sucks, but the play is phenonimal. I have seen it in both large and small/local performances. The basslines (espcially on the Broadway recording) are really funky. The movie recording has more of a Disco feel to it (which is cool too, but just not the same "hippie" vibe). I also have an original recording on vinyl of the original production way before it went Broadway. It is really hippie and funky. Can't hear the bass as much on it though. I now have it framed and hanging on my wall as it is very rare.

JCSS original has some really cool basslines as well.

-KB