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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...

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 know...

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...

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 Vedde...

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...

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 me...

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...

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...

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 m...

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...

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...

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 co...

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 G...

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...

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 aw...

Welcome to episode 3 of the See Hear podcast. Wendi was absent taking part in a drum battle against Animal, but Tim, Sticky and Maurice carried on regardless. This time around we discuss Robert Altman’s final film, A Prairie Home Companion. Plenty of music is performed here, but the focus of this film is more on death. Having said that, this film is a million miles from being morbid, and is a wond...

Welcome to episode 2 of the See Hear podcast. Wendi, Tim and Maurice are joined by Mr Bernard Stickwell Esq to discuss the 1982 film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains directed by Lou Adler. The film is prophetic in seeing a less-than-talented band gain a loyal following using the help of the media. No publicity is bad publicity. Moral compasses from nearly every character in the film are p...

Welcome to episode 1 of the monthly See Hear podcast (temporarily utilising the Love That Album podcast RSS feed). Join your hosts, Wendi Freeman, Tim Merrill and Maurice Bursztynski as they discuss music related films – narrative or documentary. No gentle start for the team as they discuss the Todd Phillips documentary about notorious punk rock singer GG Allin. The film is not for the faint of he...