RIP Morgan Spurlock

Poison said

It is a great movie, and I’m glad they got their fifteen minutes of fame (30 years too late). They even got a tour down here to Australia out of it. Part of the reason the movie worked is because they are such likable, relentlessly optimistic guys.

Truth be told though, their music wasn’t very good. I’ve seen some awesome bands who didn’t make it, or didn’t reach the levels of popularity they should have (Tyketto’s Don’t Come Easy is one of the best hard rock albums I own and yet they are virtually unheard of). Anvil, for mine, aren’t one of them - but I’m pleased for them nonetheless.

I might have to dig the movie out though.

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BTW, soon if you want me too, I'll tell you an interesting behind-the-scenes story about a very tense, nasty confrontation at an early 1975 Australian rock festival between a very young, raw, up-and-coming AC/DC as a support band to one of rock's then-biggest bands in the world, Deep Purple and how Purple's notorious temperamental guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, and one of Purple's managers, nearly got into a vicious fight between Angus Young, Bon Scott and one of Young's uncles backstage.

This concert was one of the last concerts Blackmore played with Deep Purple before leaving and forming his own solo band, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.