He searched for a copy of the movie and even sent his daughter souvenirs he found on the internet with the Heavy Metal Parking Lot logo. Ludwick says metal gave him a way to rebel against his family’s strict observance of Judaism. And the shirtless, 17-year-old central casting stoner who introduces himself as, “Graham, as in gram of dope!” At a time when much of the nation was embracing President Reagan’s “Just Say No!” puritanism, Graham of Dope tells the camera that drugs should be legalized. “Mike Heath became the Johnny Appleseed of Heavy Metal Parking Lot,” says Krulik. Vermillion says her father, who died in 2005, got a chuckle out of Helvey’s confession. Years before he’d had any contact with Heyn or Krulik, Schaffner designed packaging for the movie and pushed it on his clientele like he’d done for few films. David was a total gentleman! They all rule! You'd have a tough time trying to find 2 bands that are less metal than Priest and Dokken.
“My girls are into One Direction and, what’s her name?”, “Yes,” he says. The blotto 15-year-old delinquent is now 45, and works in Baltimore as a financial fraud investigator. Suburban dirtballs of the 1980s are a lost culture, worthy of academic study, that disappeared abruptly, leaving mysterious artifacts for future generations to work over. For even more, visit our Family Entertainment Guide. “We started telling everybody, ‘We’re from MTV!’” Heyn recalls. And, objectively speaking, that kiss is, to use Prof. Schnitker’s parlance, repelling.
“We were egged on off camera. Official Poster FOR SALE by Tom Pappalardo, All DVDs are postage paid w/shipping included. To wit: When Krulik designed a simple label to put on the VHS tapes of his movie, Zebraman was the only character in the graphic. While on safari through that concrete jungle outside the Capital Centre, Krulik and Heyn found a cast of real-world misfits united by their love of metal and the garb and highs that went with it. “The movie shows a different world,” says Ballard, who grew up outside D.C. in Falls Church, Va. “You could buy beer at 18, so everybody could get beer. Zebraman still listens to metal, but more Iron Maiden than Priest. A few alumni have RSVP’d in the affirmative. “I was at a party where everybody was sitting around watching crazy tapes,” says Dalke. “I spent a lot of nights at Janine’s when I was 15. They didn’t fantasize about earning a cult audience, or merely regional popularity.
fans in a concert arena parking lot in suburban Maryland. Wine didn’t respond to phone messages, so they showed up at his house with a camera. She says family obligations could keep her away. He was a regular at Hammerjacks, the coolest heavy metal club in the Mid-Atlantic states before it was demolished to make room for Ravens Stadium.
But Dalke vouches for the Nirvana frontman’s love. David Helvey says he never made it into the Air Force like the guy in Heavy Metal Parking Lot was planning, but declines to say why other than, “It didn’t happen.” Now 50, he says he’s been living out of his car in California since last year, driving up and down the coast from San Diego to the Oregon line and back as a driver for an unnamed ride-share company. “I wasn’t going to wave it around my employers,” Krulik says, “and we had higher aims as burgeoning documentary filmmakers.” . “If I was the parent of me, I’d have been mortified. Payne recalls getting third-row seats to the Judas Priest show by successfully sneaking out of her house the night before tickets went on sale to camp out at the box office. This short was included on the official DVD release in 2006.
Krulik is certain that without Heath’s work, his movie would have none of the celebrity endorsers it’s accrued through the years. raises the horns to the best documentaries ever made about that mightiest of all musical forms: Heavy Metal, The mini-documentary "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" is inadvertently a, The unlikely history of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Award-winning director Todd Rohal will host the HMPL 30, Anniversary talk & history lesson at SXSW, Judas Priest's 'You've Got Another Thing Coming', Jason McMaster and The Barton Hills Choir. The way they talked, the way they looked, it was like all the kids we went to school with.” (For the In Utero tour, incidentally, Nirvana was using Pat Smear as second guitarist for live shows. “They were saying, ‘Why don’t you guys give us a kiss or something?’” says Helvey, now 50. Redd Kross’ members had parties dedicated to screening funky videos. Looking for a movie the entire family can enjoy? “I try to live a life with no regrets,” he says. The guitar riffs, the lead solos. Graham of Dope will be there. “I know people have been saying on message boards for a long time that ‘That guy should be put away!’ and ‘What a creep!’” she says. Col. “That thing is the Citizen Kane of wasted teenage metalness,” says Rick Ballard, who makes a brief appearance as part of a gang yelling curses at the moviemakers. Checkout through Paypalâall credit cards accepted, no paypal account needed. The film has been referred to as the "Citizen Kane" of Wasted Teenage Metal. Producer. “I sound old if I say he was ‘vulgar,’ but I found him loud and obnoxious. All DVDs are postage paid w/shipping included.
The heavy metal years were quite something in the history of popular music, and the movie offers you a glimpse of this really distinctive, fascinating and kind of repelling working class culture that shares a love of a certain kind of music.”. He says he couldn’t afford to carry a guitar with him, but the inspiration of his art is now “the music in my head.” He’s listening to Bob Marley a lot lately. He’s self-publishing a memoir. “The movie is a really fascinating primary source,” says Laura Schnitker, an ethnomusicologist and curator for the libraries at the University of Maryland, explaining the school’s push to procure the Heavy Metal Parking Lot papers. It never gets old, as all great things. The last rock show he attended was Metallica in the early 1990s. Asked if she would change a thing about her own adolescence, Steinbacher says, “Oh, god no! Itâs a definitive cultural touchstone for the 1980s metal scene: spandex, big hair, denim, mullets, muscle cars, and beer. And Madonna can go to hell as far as I’m concerned! Ludwick runs an acoustic instruments repair and retail shop, Ludwick’s House of Violin in Silver Spring, Md. And it’s a great example of somebody going out and doing their thing and then distributing it, like DIY with punks.
We tracked down Zebraman, too—he’s a plumber outside Baltimore now—and asked those very questions. Heyn says he’s thankful for the academic appreciation his documentary is suddenly getting, and that his movie deserves it. But he turned out okay.”.
But Heyn and Krulik established a relationship with Schaffner. He asked Krulik if he could take some copies of HMPL with him. “My dad told me they went to the kitchen and David said, ‘Sir, I kissed your daughter and it’s out there on video,’” Vermillion says. So Pat Smear, now a member of the Foo Fighters alongside Grohl, in all likelihood watched Pat Fear’s copy of Heavy Metal Parking Lot.). And, Schnitker points out, members had shared rituals, such as getting fucked up. Heavy metal definitely rules! Schaffner closed Mondo Video a Go Go in 2007, But the legacy of his advocacy of the movie to Southern California cognoscenti lingered on. Directed by John Heyn, Jeff Krulik. Along with being a documentary filmmaker of his own, Ballard is owner of Acetate Records in Los Angeles, where he moved in 1992.
“Movie festivals back then only took film, all we had was videotape,” says Krulik.
It’s a definitive cultural touchstone for the 1980s metal scene: spandex, big hair, denim, mullets, muscle cars, and beer. “I saw Slayer at Hammerjacks,” says Zebraman. Heavy Metal Parking Lot Alumni: Where Are They Now?
Turns out there was no consensus favorite among the intoxicants.
The stockpile also covers Krulik films such as Led Zeppelin Played Here, a movie that explores the legend of the band’s concert at a small recreation center in Wheaton, Md., just before becoming the gods of hard rock, and Hitler’s Hat, about an American World War II veteran who in the mid-1990s began showing off a top hat he’d claimed to have swiped from the Fuhrer’s Munich apartment half a century earlier.
Meet some of the stars of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, twenty years later. “That would be an excuse for me to have to go, too,” says Zebraman.
“It was always tense between punks and heavy metal kids at school,” he says. There I am, 15 years old, trying to grow my hair out, hanging out in the parking lot at Cap Centre drinking with a friend who was inappropriately older. They wanted to stick with rock and roll for their second outing. They did get an apathetic Judas Priest staffer to give them the okay to show Heavy Metal Parking Lot over the Capital Centre’s video system, called the Telscreen, which hung from the rafters and was hailed as the first in-house replay system in the country. “Does he understand that he’s the Olympic decathlon champ of teenage idiots? “John had the idea, and I had the equipment,” Krulik says. He shows up in the movie standing near his canary yellow 1979 Chevy Chevette hatchback, now accepted as one of the crappiest vehicles to ever roll off a Detroit assembly line. We had the privilege of growing up in the greatest music era. Oh, that day was so fun!”, Helvey is a little more circumspect. The chain starts in January 1992 at the offices of the Discovery Channel in Silver Spring, Md. Dawn was plenty old enough to know better by the time she learned that her kiss, directed or not, was in a movie. How Many Cars in This 1986 Judas Priest Concert Parking Lot Can You Name? John Heyn. I asked several cast members what kind of things they put into their bodies in the arena parking lot. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist. 5 of 8 people found this review helpful. (Video 1986). “I was supposed to work that night, and it came down to my job or that show, and I wasn’t going to miss it.”. But wait! Three decades after the fact, both halves of this May/December (January/December?) Ludwick, “then you weren’t really there.”. This singular document of metal’s heyday got talked up by, among others, Nirvana, the very combo credited (or blamed) for killing that era by ushering in grunge, and whose members’ stamp of approval gave HMPL the sort of credibility in certain rock circles that Pope Francis’s endorsement gave Mother Teresa’s sainthood campaign. June 17 Anthology Film Archives, NYC Heavy Metal Parking Lot Turns 30! UPSTAIRS "METAL MONDAY" - DJ'S SPIN THRASH, DEATH, STONER, CLASSIC METAL, ETC! It was really the age of pre-awareness. Live for today. Heyn gave Coppola his blessing, though her show got canceled just three episodes in and before the HMPL chapter ran.
The metal clique also had its symbols—the devil’s horns were flashed at the moviemakers throughout their parking lot foray. I see how my kids have grown up and they react to things immediately. Krulik and Heyn weren’t Priest or metal fans—their musical tastes leaned more to new wave—but they’d seen enough kids with mullets and black t-shirts at the mall to surmise that the band would attract an interesting demographic. “And I’ve got security clearance,” she says.
“And I’m humbly proud of myself for getting it out to the world.”.
“I remember a woman took off her shirt and then her bra. “I wore it to school a couple times, too,” he says, “and then for a KISS concert.” He doesn’t know what became of the costume that helped make him a cult legend; only that he doesn’t have it anymore. Kevin Fitzgerald, a drummer on the LA punk scene and avowed HMPL devotee, is convinced, and quite proud, that Zebraman was attempting to slam one of his former bands when he stammered through the, “This punk shit, circle shit” portion of his speech. “The tape I had was handed to me directly from Bill Bartell,” Dalke says.
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