Post #67905 by thejab on Tue, Jan 6, 2004 11:28 AM

I NEED the DVD of The Kids Are Alright! I got the DVD of Quadrophenia for Christmas and what a great restoration of a great film. The director's commentary was revealing: they filmed it all on location in less than 2 months time, he hired only inexperienced actors (many had no acting experience at all), most of the mod and rocker extras in the scenes in Brighton were actual mods and rockers who never gave it up throughout the hippie era, and they had incredible luck with the weather in Brighton (which allowed some beautiful shots of the ocean and beaches).

The Kids are Alright trivia: When they were rehearsing for their appearance on the Smothers Brothers show (the first scene in the movie) Keith and Pete kept adding more and more explosives to Keith's drum. When they actually did My Generation with the cameras rolling the explosion was so huge that it singed Roger's hair and you can hear the audience gasping. Watch carefully and you can see Keith put his foot up on the bass drum right before the guitar solo to set off the bomb. At that point they also stop pretending to play with the piped in music, and actually play the feedback part live.