I went to Van Nuys High in '79, right off of Van Nuys Blvd, and I remember some hacks on campus giving out Angel tickets. They literally couldn't give them away, and after seeing the movie, I could see why. Talk about a bunch of lame, hair-metal wannabe poseurs. I laughed when the camera cut to the screaming teenagers in the audience. Yeah right!
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"What kind?"
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How awesome would it have been if the FOXES had gone to a KISS concert instead??
It almost adds to the "70s" appeal though that they went to see ANGEL. I mean SOMEONE had to have been going to see ANGEL, right? Hahaha (And after all: Jeanies father got them all in for free!)
I remember my brother in law had an ANGEL album. He played me a few songs but they never really did anything for me. The only 'funny' thing about them were they were 'the opposite of KISS'!
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That was when KISS was at the peak of their career. The filmmakers probably couldn't afford them! But it would have been totally awesome!
I pretty much said it all in my previous post, but Angel was basically a manufactured metal band, in it for the money. Sometimes that works, like with the Runaways, featuring guess who? Cherie Curry! But Angel didn't last.
Dude! I went to Van Nuys High School. That automatically makes me cool.
I always thought CASABLANCA records had something do with this movie (or at least the soundtrack) which would explain why DONNA SUMMERs on the soundtrack and there are KISS posters all throughout. Thats why I assumed they could get KISS if they had really wanted to.
How bad ass that concert scene WOULD have been had it been KISS> I can see Gene wavin his four foot tongue at them in my mind!
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Back then, Gene Simmons was cool. Now he's just a lecherous old man.
Stacy - "We got a job"
Uncle John - "What kind?"
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Uncle John - "What kind?"
Stacy - "The Forever Kind..."
Angel were considered a poor man's KISS. They shared the same record label and management.
shareAs I recall, Angel was considered the "heavenly" Kiss. One thing Angel had over Kiss: Their logo looked the same rightside up and upside down.
shareAngel did have one of the greatest band logos ever. Angel’s keyboardist Gregg Giuffria had modest success as the leader of the band Giuffria during the 1980s as well as with the band House of Lords.
shareGiuffria and House of Lords were both decent bands. I had expected guitarist Punky Meadows to be the breakout star, but he pretty much vanished after Angel and retired from the music business long ago.
I still have all of my Angel albums on vinyl (plus a CD compilation), and though I can't say they were a top-notch band, they were a lot of fun, with catchy hooks and songwriting in the spirit of Cheap Trick. The albums also had posters and cool fold-outs. They started their concerts by breaking out of pods, which inspired the scene in "This Is Spinal Tap" where the pods won't open. A very cheesy band, but a fun one nonetheless.
I think if they had hit the scene just a little later, they could have been superstars in the early days of MTV alongside other pop-metal acts like Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe. Instead, they're more of a punchline today.
wiki: "Angel was discovered by Kiss bass player Gene Simmons performing at a nightclub and was eventually signed to the same label as Kiss, Casablanca."
"A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through in waves."
I can't believe this was a real band with a record label. Even by crappy-band-scene-in-cinema standards, these guys were awful.
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