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It’s time for episode 22 of See Hear podcast. How does music affect you? Are you one of those people who says that great music can transport you to another place? Jazz musician Sun Ra felt the same thing, but he meant it a little more literally than most. In this episode of the podcast, Tim, Bernie and Maurice discuss important issues such as isotope teleportation, transmolecuralisation, and teleporting people from Earth to Saturn via music. Well….they actually discuss the film released in 1974 written by and starring Sun Ra called “Space Is The Place”. Ra was certainly out there with his beliefs that he was born on Saturn and descended from the Egyptian sun god, Ra. On the other hand, he was extremely articulate, very well read and philosophically rational Oh….and he was a true jazz pioneer. The film is a mix of the power of music, blaxploitation and science fiction as Sun Ra battles the evil Overseer for the right to transport the Afro-American community from Earth to another planet when he determines t

It’s October and many film fans in our community are watching horror films in advance of Halloween. The See Hear crew have gone their own path and are watching something completely different…..or have they? In episode 21, we discuss a film with torture, imprisonment, and nightmares…..and it’s a kid’s film. Not just any kid’s film, though. Bernard, Tim and I discuss the 1953 film The 5000 Fingers of Dr T, directed by Roy Rowland, produced by Stanley Kramer (though some folks think he had a strong hand n its direction), and written by Theodore Geisel AKA Dr Seuss. There’s themes here post WW2 and of the Cold War, but it’s also about a kid having the freedom to be allowed to find time to do his own thing. We discuss things like shlooping and shleeping, Warners cartoons, Yellow Submarine, kids’ imaginations, scary figures in kids films, and George Chakiris. As usual, we had a ton of fun talking about this film. Please give the show a listen, and watch the film with a kid in your life. If you dig what we do, could

Finally…..it’s time for episode 20 of See Hear Podcast. The crew apologises for missing out on presenting a film discussion for your aural pleasure during August. However, for those of you who missed hearing our ramblings, we attempt to make up for that by giving you discussion on TWO films for September instead of our usual one. Both films are requests from listeners. First up, we discuss Cameron Towler’s request of a film from 1962. “All Night Long” is director Basil Dearden’s take on Shakespeare’s “Othello” as transplanted to (then)modern day England. All appears to be well as Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane celebrate their first wedding anniversary with their jazz musician friends. He’s a pianist and bandleader and she’s a retired singer. Evil drummer  (I didn’t know there was such a thing) Johnny Cousin plots to put a wedge between them to secure Delia for his new band. Featuring music performed by the likes of John Dankworth, Charles Mingus and Dave Brubeck, this film takes a creative spin on the bard’s tr

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It’s SHOWTIME, folks!!! See Hear is back for another episode of music related film discussion, and do we have a really big shoooo for you. Unfortunately, our beloved Bernie Sticky was not available to record, but joining Wendi, Tim and Maurice is the co host of Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast, Mr Frank Santopadre. Frank is a fountain of knowledge, an encyclopedia of cinema if you will. For episode 19, we all discuss Bob Fosse’s incredible autobiographical 1979 film, All That Jazz. The film features Roy Scheider in a career best performance (go on – argue against that notion if you can) as Fosse’s proxy, Joe Gideon. Joe is a Broadway director and choreographer, and a film director. He is all consumingly devoted to his art, but is a poor husband, father, and companion. He’s not a great male figure, yet he’s not shown as a shallow character without dimension. We have a fascinating conversation about devotion to art over devotion to domesticity, manipulation, how the entertainment business spits o

Hey Hey Hey….See Hear’s on it’s way!!!! Wendi, Tim, Sticky and Maurice have gathered together for episode 18 of See Hear to chat about the 1980 film from Menachem Golan, The Apple. The film is both reviled and adored. Everyone agrees it ain’t Citizen Kane. Two naïve singers from Moosejaw, Canada are tempted into a recording contract with the mightiest music company in the world BIM…..which aims to rule the world!!!!! The team discusses the script, the plot developments, the songs, the dancing, the costumes…..how did they cope with all that “talent”? The film incorporates Biblical themes, George Orwell, Time Bandits, Phantom of the Paradise, Rocky Horror, Hair, Jodorowsky, and Fellini (yes, you read those last two words right!!!!) This film even has possibly the most gratuitous groping in the history of cinema. You have been warned!!! One thing we all agreed on was that discussing this film was a lot of fun....we hope you enjoy listening to it. But wait……there’s more!!! Justin Oberholtzer (aka The Cinemaso

Get your rubber Satanic masks on and join Wendi, Tim, Bernard and Maurice for episode 17 of See Hear podcast. This month we discuss the heavy metal horror that is John Fassano’s 1987 film “Black Roses”. A demonic band called Black Roses comes to small town Canada to corrupt the (thirty year old) teenagers with their evil hair metal ways. Only the moustached Walt Whitman-loving English teacher knows that something is wrong, and sets out to subvert the bands plans to bring hell to Mill Basin. Will he save the kids? Will the law-abiding church-going parents convince their kids that if they HAVE to listen to hair metal Stryper is a better option? Was this film a front for the PMRC? The See Hear crew discuss how Stanley Kubrick influenced this film, what the most gratuitous scene in the history of cinema is (dig that, GGTMC), Rod Stewart, bricklayers from Newcastle and Wonder Woman shaped bubble bath containers…..and we even come up with a new insult to brow beat your enemies into submission with. If you dig w

It’s taken a little longer than anticipated, but still within the confines of April, we bring you episode 16 of See Hear Podcast. On this episode, Bernie, Tim and Maurice cover the first of our listener requests for 2015 (Wendi was at a Wolf Cop fan convention).  James Curley requested we discuss the 2005 released documentary “You’re Gonna Miss Me: The Roky Erickson Story”. Roky was most famously the amazing lead singer for The 13th Floor Elevators.  He spent time in and out of institutions with dangerous people. He suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, but was treated poorly at the hands of the doctors in the Austin State Hospital and Rusk Institution receiving EST for a misdiagnosed condition. The film is a fly on the wall account of his life, and documents the custody battle between his brother Sumner and their mother to look after him following his departure from the hospitals. He is definitely a damaged soul, but his family is full of delicate individuals. In the end, though, the film contains hope and

It's time to grab a six pack, a 50 cent piece, get some beetroot, and hang out with the podcast you can trust.   For See Hear Podcast episode 15, Tim picked the Australian documentary from 2013 Cosmic Psychos - Blokes You Can Trust. The band started out in the early 1980s in the state of Victoria and (albeit not with the same lineup) are still around in 2015.  Bands and artists such as Eddie Vedder, King Buzzo (The Melvins), Mudhoney, L7 and Butch Vig all line up not only to sing the Psychos' praises, but to tell their own personal stories from the road travelling with the band. They all convincingly state the case that the Seattle Grunge sound started in Melbourne with the Cosmic Psychos. Director Matt Weston has combined interviews about tales on the road and hedonism with fatherhood, weightlifting, dealing with divorce, tragedy, bondage.....and tractors. Yes, the band might seem to have the usual Spinal Tap type hijinks (don't fall asleep when your bandmate has a salmon in his suitcase), but this film do

Time for another episode of See Hear podcast - episode 14 to be precise.Miss Wendi has picked the film for discussion this time. She has selected the Alison Anders directed film from 1997, Grace of My Heart starring Ileana Douglas, Eric Stoltz, Matt Dillon and the always awesome John Turturro. It covers about 12 years in the life of Edna Buxton who has a dream to be a singer and a songwriter in a period when you were one or the other but not both. The film follows her ambitions, disappointments, love life, and song writing ambitions against the backdrop of the Sixties. While the film is fictitious, its characters are based on real life people like Carole King, Brian Wilson, (the late) Lesley Gore, and Phil Spector. The songs specially written for the film come from Joni Mitchell, Redd Kross and most famously Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello.The team had a great time discussing the fashions, the hairstyles, the songs, the philandering, whether Carole King married Brian Wilson in an alternate reality, and whethe

Happy 2015, everyone. See Hear podcast is back for its second year, and we hope you join us for what should be a great year of music-film discussion. Episode 13, our first episode for the year has Wendi, Tim, Bernard, and Maurice discussing a documentary (or is it?????) from 2006 directed by Alexander Lipsitz called “Air Guitar Nation”. The film follows the fortunes of a group of (mainly) young men who seek to be crowned the world champion of playing air guitar - and restore American pride!!!!!. You read that right!!! These are people who want to be the best at pretending to play the guitar. Is it performance art or are they merely making the world stage into their bedroom? Are the performers and their audiences doing this with a wink and a smile or are they taking this seriously? How does one actually judge what makes a great air guitar player? What is Tim’s description of what some of these air guitarists actually look like they’re doing? Download the show, and get the answers to all of these questions. On

It’s official. See Hear podcast is now one year old. Bernie, Wendi, Tim and Maurice have survived the jungle out there that is Podcastland. It’s a cutthroat and vicious environment, but we’ve survived to bring YOU the music film discussion we just know you crave. So the crew humbly delivers their first anniversary episode for you to dig on. Well……Maurice wasn’t available, but Bernie, Tim and Wendi carried on regardless to discuss the 2013 documentary directed by Jay Bulger, “Beware of Mr Baker”, directed by Jay Bulger. Ginger Baker was a force of nature in the drumming world. He was admired for the extra helping of drum talent nature had provided him with, but this is not a man who puts up with nonsense – and his bullshit detector is up higher than most. It could be said that his bottle with the milk of human kindness went rancid before he had a chance to drink it. Tune in as the gang discusses Ginger’s life, how the director put his life in danger interviewing him, and whether the scientific evidence that a

Welcome to episode 11 of See Hear podcast. This month, it’s Bernie’s pick for a film to discuss, and he’s gone for 1984 film, Suburbia directed by Penelope Spheeris and produced by Roger Corman. It’s a disaffected teenagers story, but rather than just being another tale of misunderstood youth versus adults who “just don’t understand us”, there are other layers to this. There’s even a case to state that PT Anderson may have been influenced by this for Boogie Nights. How so? Tune in and find out. What’s the music connection? The music and energy of punk. Once again, we make note that from 2015, we’d like to let listeners pick films for us to discuss once every three or four shows. It can be famous or obscure. A great piece of cinema or a turd – we’re up for anything. Email your suggestions at seehearpodcast@gmail.com. If you’ve been enjoying the show, please give us a favourable review on iTunes and let your friends know that our show exists. You can download the show by searching for See Hear podcast on iT

See Hear Podcast hits double digits. We’re up to episode 10. A small milestone, but one we’re very happy to have arrived at. This time around, Tim has picked Jim Jarmusch’s ensemble cast anthology film of 1989, Mystery Train including Steve Buscemi, Nicoletta Brasschi, and Screaming Jay Hawkins. Three stories, one hotel in the one and only Memphis. We discuss whether this actually qualifies as a music film, Memphis the iconic town versus the ordinary Memphis displayed in this film, Elvis versus Carl Perkins, and the nineties independent film movement. Unfortunately, our beloved Wendi wasn’t available, so those immense shoes were brilliantly filled by Hank Hellman, making his return guest appearance to the show. Tim, Sticky, Hank and myself all had a fun time….but we forgot to sing a rousing chorus of Mystery Train for you. We also make mention that starting next year we will make one in every 3 or 4 shows a listener request. Bernie mentioned one film he will not touch. I say that (in the best Terry Frost s

Finally, the whole crew are back for episode 9 of See Hear. This time around, we discuss “Allegro Non Troppo”, Bruno Bozzetto’s 1976 parody / tribute to Fantasia. The live action (in black and white) features a sadistic conductor and an artless producer gather an orchestra of old women (brought in on a cattle truck) and an animator (taken from a prison in solitary confinement) to create something never done before – animation set to classical music – a shame that someone called Prisney or Grisney claims he’s done it before. The cartoons range from funny and mocking to heart-breakingly sad.  We are treated to tales of evolution, capitalism, lust, Adam and Eve, conformity….and a Cossack dancing gorilla. There’s elements of Python, Fellini and the Marx Brothers. Tune in and hear our thoughts.  You can download or subscribe to the podcast from iTunes (search for” See Hear Podcast” or download / stream from http://seehear.podbean.com Join the podcast Facebook group athttps://www.facebook.com/groups/seehearpodc

Time for episode 8 of See Hear, the podcast that discusses music-related films.   This time around, we discuss the 1976 documentary about the Outlaw Country movement, Heartworn Highways directed by James Szalapski.  There’s no narration or talking heads to describe a development in country music. Appropriately, it’s a series of scenes mainly featuring emerging singer songwriters  of the time (Guy Clark, Townes van Zandt, Rodney Crowell) performing their songs, and discussing ordinary details of their lives – just like the construction of their songs. The film is a mood piece and despite being about ordinary details, the film itself is anything but. If you don’t feel moved watching TVZ singing “Waiting Around To Die”, check your pulse.   Unfortunately, Tim and Wendi were not available, but Sticky and I were joined by the wonderful  and knowledgeable Dave Mclemore (aka Davey Mac) who kindly shared his wealth of knowledge and passion for this film with us. It was a terrifically enjoyable episode to record. W

The whole crew of See Hear are back for episode 7. Wendi has picked the 2007 rock bio-pic parody “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story” starring the great John C.Reilly for us to watch. Taking cues at first from films like “Walk The Line” and “Ray”, it takes aim at many of the clichés of other biography films and popular conceptions of many iconic musicians in general. Probably another film that this could be mildly compared to is Woody Allen’s “Zelig”. The titular Cox (tee hee…see what I did there?????) is something of a chameleon like Zelig, but in a musical sense. We had a lot of fun talking about this….but is it any good????? Join Wendi, Tim, Sticky and myself and see what we thought…..and you get to hear Wendi say “Walk Hard” which is worth the price of admission alone, and you also get to hear John Lennon’s mantra while staying with the Mahirishi. You can download or subscribe to the podcast from iTunes (search for” See Hear Podcast” or download / stream from http://seehear.podbean.com Join the podcast Fa

Scheduling issues unfortunately meant Wendi, Tim and Sticky couldn’t join in to record Episode 6 of See Hear Podcast this month. However, we at See Hear HQ didn’t want our listeners to be deprived of a music related film discussion, nosiree Bob!!! I put out the call to the See Hear Facebook community, and Hank Hellman answered the call. Hank joined me to discuss the Northern Irish film from 2012 Good Vibrations. This covers the true story of Terri Hooley through the Seventies. In the midst of The Troubles in Belfast, Terri attempts to stop the violence between the local youth by opening a record store called Good Vibrations and by promoting local punk bands. THAT’S why we don’t have more peace in the world – too many record stores closing down!!! If this was presented as a work of fiction, you’d never believe someone would attempt it. Directed by Lisa Barros D’sa and Glenn Leyburn, and starring Game of Thrones’ Richard Dormer (who portrays Hooley brilliantly), this film is a great representation about one m

Episode 5 of See Hear is ready for your earholes. Here’s a recipe: Take a large cup of Phantom of the Opera. Pour in a generous helping of Faust. Sprinkle in a dash of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Add just a pinch of Psycho and Woodstock. Throw in some over-the-top hammy horror, a thuggish doo-wop group, a man called Beef, and songs that pastiche the history of rock to that point and voila you have……. Phantom of the Paradise. This month, the See Hear Crew discuss Brian De Palma’s 1974 rock musical that some believe is the REAL midnight movie experience over its more famous rival the Rocky Horror Picture Show. We discuss the film, the songs written by its star (Paul Williams), its influence on Seinfeld (!!!) and a ton of other tangents. Once again, we have a heap of fun and we hope you join us and enjoy the ride. You can download or subscribe to the podcast from iTunes (search for” See Hear Podcast” or download / stream from http://seehear.podbean.com Join the podcast Facebook group at https://ww

Welcome to Episode 4 of See Hear podcast, the show dedicated to music-related film Bernie Sticky chose this month’s film, Franco Rosso’s “Babylon” (1981). Blue (Brinsley Forde from reggae band, Aswad) is a second-generation Jamaican living in Britain. Like Jimmy the mod in Quadrophenia, he’s surrounded by circumstances that make him question where he belongs. Like any teenager he wants to break away from his parents’ values and who appear to have forsaken their own identity to assimilate in Margaret Thatcher's England. He lives in a society that is often hostile and racist, either casually or from the organised police or National Front. The one event he can hang his hat on is the Sounds System he has put together with his friends the Ital Lions crew, preparing for a competition against the Shaka crew. There are a lot of serious questions and reflections going on in this film, and yet it never feels oppressive. Blue’s circumstances can be quite dire, yet the buoyancy of the reggae music and the friendship of