Annethrax Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 I saw Slash in a documentary over the weekend called ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL. the doc was AMAZING.Here's the trailer first cos i'm about to gush about the movie, and it might be a bit tl;dr: has anyone seen a screening of this yet? i saw it at SXSW (where i also got to see metallica, natch)! it was so incredible. i don't know if i'll do a good enough way of describing how good this movie was, but i'll try: basically, it's about two childhood friends -- Robb and Lips -- from the legendary Canadian metal band Anvil (whom, i must admit, i had never heard about until my friend took me to this screening... whoops!). Anyway, they were poised to break out huge with Metallica, Anthax, Megadeth... etc. but for whatever reason, they didnt. Like, i guess the stars didn't align or something... but that didn't deter the band from going and working towards their dream of striking it BIG. So for the past 25 years, the band has continued to work hard at their goal as if no time has passed -- they give their all and have as much heart in the whole thing as a band with 19 years old who have been going at it for a year. it's ABSOLUTELY INSPIRING. i can't even describe how much i took from this movie as a person. just so much to think about with not giving up on your dreams and staying true to who you are. the movie is genius. absolutely genius. i don't know how the heck they made such a great movie out -- with as much going on as they did... but it's really awesome. it was like a real life spinal tap. there were so many times where i was like "whaaaa?" i mean, they go to stonehenge! how meta is that?i found out that the band is TOURING WITH THE MOVIE for something called the Anvil Experience. tourdates are here: http://www.anvilmovie.comi also joined their facebook (http://www.facebook.com/anvil) and twitter (twitter.com/anvilmovie) incase anything else arises.ugh, i can't believe how good this movie was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feconroses Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 lolwhat instrument do you play? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HubbaBubba Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Good lord, this one's bordering on insulting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saulhudson88 Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Looks like an amazing rock documentary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carne_asaDA Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Cool. He's also in the HBO documentary called the Black List Volume 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annethrax Posted March 25, 2009 Author Share Posted March 25, 2009 lolwhat instrument do you play?started playing bass again after giving it up when i was 21 so i could sell my bass for $$ for senior year books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicious Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 slash also wrote a piece in their official biography. it says so in bog writing on the cover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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