"Rockin' the Wall" (film by LS) to Premiere at March on D.C.

self ^ | 7/25/2010 | LS

[LS]

Our documentary film, "Rockin' the Wall," how rock ripped the Iron Curtain, will premiere in Washington, D.C. at the "March on DC" sponsored by the Tea Party and other affiliated movements, Thursday September 9, 7:00 (and there will be a matinee on Friday, September 10, 1:00) at the Omni-Shoreham Hotel. I will briefly introduce both showings, and will have a short speaking spot at the Mall on September 11.

The film features interviews with 60s-70s rock and rollers from both sides of the Iron Curtain, particularly those who played near or behind the Iron Curtain, including members of the Doors, Vanilla Fudge, Quiet Riot, Yellowjackets, Mother's Finest, Hungarian star rocker and student leader Leslie Mandoki, legendary record producer Shadow Morton ("Inna-Gadda-Da-Vita," the "Shangri-las"), plus "witnesses" who lived under Soviet and European communism who discuss the power of music to keep their hopes alive and to subvert the system. We also have interviews with a historian who took a group of students there in 1986; with a Romanian black-market record dealer; a Hollywood score-writer; legal counsel for Voice of America in the Reagan Administration; and many, many others. The film has a powerful and rockin' soundtrack of original music and music of the day, including original new songs by Mark Stein of Vanilla Fudge, Mother's Finest, and a young killer group called Mays Gone, as well as tunes you'll instantly recognize.

The trailer is available for viewing here: www.rockinthewall.com

and our sequel, already in pre-production, is "Other Walls to Fall" where we explore the penetration of rock into Korea, China, and Islamic countries.

As always, I'll also have books to sell and/or autograph.

If you can make the March on DC, please plan to attend one of the movie showings. It will be the event of the year. (Last year, "Generation Zero" was the premiered film, and it went viral).

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Glad this is finished, Larry!

[NormsRevenge]

“Inna-Gadda-Da-Vita” .. the long version lasted almost as long as the “Iron Curtain” did.

Good Luck!

[LS]

Hmm. I think I've "read extensively" (on this particular subject, perhaps more than you?). I also was "living during the period." When you get testimony from Reagan-era appointees who worked on VOA who had actual CIA data about the impact of western music (a topic we mine in depth in the film---which you haven't seen) and similar evidence from Soviet and E. German bureaucrats, not to mention statements from Gorbachev to Leslie Mandoki that rock was critical (course, can't trust him, he's a commie), then you might think twice before calling it exaggeration.

Then again, you've not read the book nor seen the film. You just "know." I think that's sort of what the "global warming" people argue---they just "know."

[Sir_Ed]

We’ve got an awful lot of armcahir commandos here who know nothing of what they speak...I was alive during that era and fascinated by the whole samizdat/black market movement and I remember reading over and over what our Rock N Roll were doing to win the hearts and minds of the oppressed.

I look forward to seeing this film, Larry!

See ya’,

Ed

[BufordP]

DC Chapter ping

[bmwcyle]

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[GOPJ]

Thanks for the ping.

[GOPJ]

... another brick in the wall...

[dfwgator]

Being familiar with many Polish acts from the 80s, I am very anxious to see this.

[LS]

Thanks. We couldn’t begin to include in the film all the people we interviewed. Alice Cooper’s producer said people came up to Alice with tears in their eyes thanking him for his music that, quote, “was our lifeline” during the 1980s. Very, very few of these people knew much-—if anything-—about Reagan or Thatcher or even the Pope, but they heard music through short waves, through Radio Free Europe and VOA, and through a massive underground smuggling culture.

[big'ol_freeper]

Excellent! Rock on!

I was stationed in Augsburg, Germany when Pink Floyd played at the Berlin Wall.

[LS]

LOL. Floyd would have had them all mellowed out and thinking their Kalashnikovs were giant flower-pods.

[Bigg Red]

I saw LS on C-SPAN recently addressing the Eagle Forum. He did a great job. Looks like a great film.

[Bigg Red]

Saw your Eagle Forum presentation on C-SPAN. Nice job, sir!

[LS]

Thanks. They didn’t give me much time and I forgot my “stick” with my images, so I had to wing it!

[Bigg Red]

Well, if that was winging it you wang it masterfully. “Wang” is the past tense of “wing”, I suppose. :)

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump!