"Nuggets Cinema in Philly" - bulletin from lenny

["Dennis Moore" <clayboy56>]

Feb 16, 2007 7:39 AM
There's a lot of anticipation out there about tonight's NUGGETS show.
There was lots of press coverage: interviews with Lenny Kaye in
Inquirer and City Paper's Icepack column, an interview with SC
programmer Jay Schwartz in Thursday's Metro, and many more previews
and listings. WMGK's Cyndy Drue will come to Moore to grab interviews
with our in-person celebrities, and we've even featured on some local
hipster web sites!

There's even been a buzz on national garage rock list serves, with
members asking each other who's up for a road trip to Philly! If
you're reading this you probably are already here, so you've got it
easy -- you just have to dress warm for this winter's hottest
(figuratively speaking) event. And, the roads should be quite clear of
snow by Friday night.

Some people new to Secret Cinema have been asking if advance tickets
are available. As usual, the answer is no, so if you're nervous about
getting a good seat, we suggest arriving 20-30 minutes early.

And now, our regular announcement, but don't miss our NEW announcement
after the NUGGETS description, about an interesting (and FREE) music
event happening just a week and a half from now...

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Lenny Kaye and Nazz singer Stewkey join Secret Cinema for
NUGGETS: CELLULOID ARTYFACTS OF SIXTIES ROCK

Friday, February 16
8:00 pm
Admission: $6.00

Moore College of Art & Design
20th & Race Streets, Philadelphia
(215) 965-4099

TONIGHT -- Friday, February 16 -- The Secret Cinema at Moore College
of Art and Design will revive a special program last shown over six
years ago. NUGGETS: CELLULOID ARTYFACTS OF SIXTIES ROCK is a unique
hodgepodge of ultra-rare reels consisting of various short films and
television shows showcasing mod, garage and pop music from the
mid-to-late 1960s. When we named that program back in 2001, it was in
naked homage to the inestimably influential 1972 garage rock
compilation album of the same name. This year, we are thrilled to
announce that in addition to the rare films, we will have with us the
creator of the original "Nuggets," Lenny Kaye.

Prior to his 30-plus years as Rock Hall of Fame inductee Patti Smith's
chief musical collaborator, Lenny Kaye was a prolific rock critic and
historian. He contributed to leading rock periodicals, wrote legendary
liner notes (even earning mention within a Steven King novel), and was
one of a handful of rock critics at the time to take serious interest
in the supposedly frivolous corners of rock history, from doo wop to
the previously-unlabeled genre of garage rock. This work reached a
pinnacle when he compiled for Elektra Records a double-LP of what were
then considered regional obscurities and "one hit wonders" of mid-late
sixties rock, titled NUGGETS: ORIGINAL ARTYFACTS FROM THE FIRST
PSYCHEDELIC ERA, 1965-1968. The collection brought together great
proto-punk singles by The Electric Prunes, The Standells and The
Seeds, sides that had been recorded just a few years earlier but had
already been forgotten in the wake of progressive rock and
singer-songwriters.

NUGGETS insured that this music would never be forgotten again. It
first spawned a host of similarly-named compilations of garage rock
(PEBBLES, BOULDERS, et al), and then Rhino Records turned the name
NUGGETS into something of a sixties reissue franchise, culminating in
no less than three deluxe CD box sets of psych and garage rarities.
Lenny Kaye, meanwhile, moved on, as leader of the Patti Smith Group,
record producer, teacher of a university class in rock history, and
author. His latest book is YOU CALL IT MADNESS: THE SENSUOUS SONG OF
THE CROON.

At NUGGETS, the film screening, Lenny Kaye will discuss sixties rock
and add his insightful commentary between films.

To make this an even more special event, we'll have Stewkey (lead
singer and keyboardist of Philadelphia's greatest sixties band The
Nazz) in person to present a rare print of the promo film for "Open My
Eyes."

As always, this Secret Cinema presentation will be projected in 16mm
film on a giant screen (that's right, not using video).

There will be one complete show at 8:00 pm. Admission is $6.00.

A few highlights of NUGGETS include:

GIRLS IN SHORT SHORT DRESSES (1966) - Paramount made this topical film
in the final days of the theatrical short subject era, to capitalize
on the worldwide interest in then very-Swinging London. It stars
actual mod band The Thoughts, who are best known to collectors for
their recording of Ray Davies' otherwise unreleased song "All Night
Stand," on Shel Talmy's Planet Records label. In this previously
unheralded Technicolor film, they perform two songs in the famous
Blaise's nightclub, and in a reverse on the usual rock band scenario,
THEY chase GIRLS around tube stations and Carnaby Street boutiques.
The film also makes a visit to the studio of fashion designer Mary
Quant, inventor of the mini-skirt.

THE ECSTASY IS SOMETIMES FANTASTIC (1966) - Made by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, this is a rare cinema verite look at a
working, not-quite-made-it rock group. Toronto garage band Jon and Lee
and the Checkmates reveal all sides of their world, from belting out
James Brown numbers in packed clubs, to going over itineraries and
accounting, to the crucial business of getting the right haircut.

THE NAZZ: OPEN MY EYES (1968) - Rock videos weren't invented in the
eighties; they've been around since sound film was perfected. In the
sixties they were called "promo films," and this was one of the better
ones. Stewkey, the lead singer and keyboardist of Philly's greatest
mod band, will introduce this rare public screening of his personal
16mm print (which is actually a rare alternate edit of the clip MTV
has shown!)and be interviewed by Lenny Kaye, who included this great
song on the original Nuggets LP!

Plus clips from feature films and television with music performed by
The Standells, The Chocolate Watchband, The Seeds, The Birds (UK), The
Marmalade, The Orphan Egg, The Zombies and more!