guest post by Burstein!
“Heavy Metal Parking Lot” is a documentary by John Heyn and Jeff Krulik about metalheads tailgating in concert arena parking lot at a 1986 Judas Priest and Dokken concert in Landover, Maryland. To quote a fan from their website:
Videotaped in a concert arena parking lot before a Judas Priest show in ‘86, HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT is truly the most magnificent portrait of dirt-rockin’, headbanging, booze guzzling, dope smokin’, trailer trash America has ever seen. It’s truly an ingenious masterpiece, made complete with the vast display of bare feet, muscle shirts, bare-chested guys, bleach blonde frizzy perms, Mullets From Hell, BIG hair, bad teeth, scar tissue, and by far, the largest collection of late ’70s Camaros ever seen in one location.
All that on the DVD! What else can you ask for?
Then a decade later in the very same parking lot, the filmmakers shot a follow-up documentary: “Neil Diamond Parking Lot”.
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That is awesome! I remember those days. The fervor and the fan dom. And you could see multiple bands a year because prices weren’t too high. Lowering ticket prices doesn’t marginalize the band, it makes it accessible to the masses. If a great band priced a tour just to pay for expenses and kept the prices low, fans would go, and they would lap it up because of the disposable income saved. Then send a text or email with show download links afterwards for free or $2 for HD and you’d see the returns. $150 for nose bleed seats is never going to keep the casual fan going.
Classic. Also see “Neil Diamond Parking Lot,” shot at the same parking lot 10 years ago before a Neil Diamond show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYvIpQE82Kc
I forgot about that one, I’ll update the post.
What we really need now is a “Where are they now” companion DVD.
She’d jump Rob Halford’s bones. I wonder how Rob would feel about that?