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Insanely RARE screening of Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King featuring a QA with director Jeff Feuerzeig! On original 16mm film!About this Event
Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King (1993) 90 Minutes A Film by Jeff Feuerzeig.
SynopsisJad & David Fair are Half Japanese, “The World’s Greatest Underground Band,” and the most unlikely pair of rock heroes as can be imagined. Half Japanese play their hearts out on rooftops and nursing home back porches while overzealous fans and rock critics plot the next Beatlemania that never comes. A conspiracy of the Corporate Rock world? Perhaps. Hyperbole posing as documentary? You decide.Featuring Penn Jillette of the comedy duo Penn & Teller, Maureen Tucker, Velvet Underground, and noted fanzine publishers and independent record moguls Gerard Cosloy, Byron Coley, Phil Milstein & David Greenberger, and new performances by this power duo and their musical co-conspirators, The Band That Would Be King is as wildly eccentric as the subject it captures. Director Jeff Feuerzeig takes us on a humorous journey to the birthplace of Punk Rock — a world where MTV, Rolling Stone Magazine, Commercial Radio, and the Major Record Labels don’t exist and anarchic teenage spirit and raw, unadulterated passion reigns king. A place where Jad & David Fair’s “Love Songs & Monster Songs” are the sweetest distilled essence of all rock has been and is meant to be.
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Event venue & nearby stays
Shaker Theater, 950 54th Street, Oakland, United States
Tickets
USD 23.18
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