I suppose not really movie news, but it is related considered the subject of this story, Anvil!, is the focus of one of last year’s best documentaries, Anvil! The Story of Anvil.
According to an article in The Toronto Star (written by Lips himself) Anvil! found themselves playing to a crowd of over 40,000 people at Gillette Stadium – rather than the 20 or 30 that usually show up in the local bar scene. If you’ve seen the documentary you know how big of a deal this is.
“I was thanking him as he shook my hand saying “great show, great show!” He then shook my son’s hand as he was being whisked away in his SUV. Wow! I had just met Angus Young, lead guitarist of the mighty AC/DC. It was such an honour to be able to thank him in person for his big heart and generosity for letting Anvil have an opening slot at the biggest and most meaningful show we’ve ever done in America….
What a night! What a show! We so appreciate these kind of moments. It’s been a long, hard road to this destination. Next stop, Giants Stadium in New Jersey!”
The story of Anvil! just gets better and better and couldn’t happen to a more devoted group of guys. Head over to the Toronto Star article and read Lips experience for yourself. He’s like a kid in a candy store finally realizing his dreams – with not even a hint of egomania. Keep on rockin in the free world guys. We in the third row love ya.
Oh and Brookly Vegan has a bunch of stills from the show.
Movie laboratories are one of my favorite things ever. Metropolis,...
last year? I thought it came out this year.
need to see it before year’s end.
It had a couple festival dates last year, but got actually released I think sometime this past March.
Goon is right, although it played very heavily on the fest circuit before its commercial launch. The guys behind the film were pretty classy in that they showed up and did a Q&A anyway (and gave out posters and signed stuff) despite it being the 3rd screening (behind 2 festival screenings) in Toronto.
for Torontonians, Anvil are doing an instore at Sunrise Records in Toronto Sept 24, helping promote the DVD release as well as their most recent album which finally got put out by a major distributor
http://www.bravewords.com/news/122244
this evening I saw and met Anvil in Toronto as indicated above, got autographs, they performed around 6 songs, crowd was great for them, the two old school fanboys from the movie were also there. Really nice guys, just hanging around talking to everyone who wanted to get in their faces. They announced they’ll be on Conan O’Brien next week.