Spinal Tap is one of my favorites, but I think A Mighty Wind pulls it off just as well and, in some ways, better.
There aren’t as many “cold sores” in “Wind” but the lead female in the New Main Street Singers has an interesting past. ;)
And the color witches are as funny as “it goes to 11”.
So far the movie is getting pretty good reviews.
And I will always at least give Beck a listen.
Wild In The Streets
Bedazzled (the Dudley Moore-Peter Cook original)
Ladies & Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
And none of them need to take cast off songs by a full label band and pretend they were by some film band.
Depends on your point of reference I guess.
Sure it may be difficult to make a credible "indie-scenester" band but then I don't accept that as rock anymore than I did the excesses of the 1970s and 1980s pop music. (see Tapedheads' "Blender Children" featuring Stiv Bators on lead vocal playing a hair metal video band).
(Fake) Rock PING
So easy a roomful of monkeys can do it.
Rock band movie suggestion: “Still Crazy”
A ‘70’s band, ‘Strange Fruit’ reforms 25 years after their ugly breakup. The old problems that caused the breakup originally quickly resurface. It’s very well done with original music by Mick Jones(Foreigner).
I gotta throw my vote in for The Rutles when it comes to fake bands.
Another one that’s more recent, and up there at the top of my list, would be the band Vesuvius, from the movie The Rocker. No, they weren’t playing their instruments, but they captured the glam rock look and attitude perfectly.
The Mosquitoes cir 1965
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0588072/
