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gila monsters are fun!

posted 19 years ago by gilbynziggy
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this movie was fun. except...
if i every hear someone singing "laugh children laugh" i will have to slit their throat.
what was up with the mini-banjo thing?
and even in the 50's people didn't go from dancing to rock 'n' roll to awing to cheesy children's gospel. that was a disappointment.
from,
--Rob.

p.s.: i only know of this movie because it was in the Elvira's midnight madness series, which i love! cassandra peterson rocks!

"Ninja kick the damn rabbit!"

[–] mikethemuzz 18 years ago

... I saw this one on 'off-beat cinema', last weekend....
The off-the-cuff songs performed by Chase Winstead in
the film, reminded me of some attempts I made when I
was younger, to make up my own goofy songs (Note: It's
not as easy as C.W. made it look)!

[–] Attillio 18 years ago

Chase Winstead: The next Gordon Lightfoot or, possibly, even the next Scott "Chaci Arcola" Baio!!!

[–] porfle 18 years ago

what was up with the mini-banjo thing?

Wasn't it a ukelele?

(edit: I just watched this again, and it does look like a little banjo. But it sounds like a ukelele.)

I think Chase would have been awesomely cool onstage with a double-necked ukelele, playing it with his teeth and running a violin bow over the strings for a psychedelic effect during his big solo, and then setting it on fire.

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[–] rwsmith29456 16 years ago

I think Chase would have been awesomely cool onstage with a double-necked ukelele, playing it with his teeth and running a violin bow over the strings for a psychedelic effect during his big solo, and then setting it on fire.

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[–] rainbowgal15 16 years ago

LMAO!!!!!!

[–] ninfar 16 years ago

They are even more fun in "color" :>) I really like the colorized verson

[–] silovik812 15 years ago

Rock and roll was by no means the only popular music around at the time, there was also "pop music" (Patty Page, Johnnie Ray, etc.) and folk music (The Weavers, Kingston Trio, etc.) Then as now, people liked more than one kind of music, and it's not at all unbelievable that at a small, local get-together like that, they might play, say, "Rock Around The Clock", followed by "Tom Dooley".

And I agree with you about that song. I just finished watching this movie on Hulu.com, and had to fast-forward through that part.

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[–] Attillio 15 years ago

It's too bad that Chase's recording career did not apparently last until the 1970s; Chase could have adopted the Rolling Stones' (and David Bowie's) so-called 70s' "glitter look" as he performed his heartfelt song on stage at CBGB's. "And the Lord said, 'Laugh children, laugh.' And the Lord said..."