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Hot Fudge Show (1974)
Hot Fudge-Comin at Ya Now- Hot Fudge-Come on
In the spirit of the Great Space Coaster, but a few years earlier.
Hot Fudge was one of the psychedelic kid's shows that I grew up on. Seymour was a big, fuzzy, green puppet, with a crescent smile of enormous teeth which nearly split his head, I recall him wearing a variety of Elton John-type shades.
He "played" piano, and had a Jesus looking dude in a white tux, sitting next to him. They would have a moral discussion and then do a song about it.
Don't remember much else except the opening theme, Seymour and the Hippie.
No one else I know remembers it at all. I grew up in Jersey, so if it was produced in Detroit as a previous post said, it wasn't just local. Seymour reminded me a lot of Sherlock the Squirrel from the Magic Garden (another psychedelic kids show if there ever was one.) People always talk about LSD's effects of music and movies of the 70s, but it seems kid's show writers got a dose as well.
Get Crazy (1983)
Deadheads Unite, Super Stoner Cinema You May Have Missed
If you long for the days of 'festival seating", freaks, Frisbees, and free love at the Filmore, find yourself a copy of Rock n Roll High School Director; Alan Arkush's High-larious salute to Bill Graham's Rock and Roll Shrine.
Packed with celebrities from the film world as well as classic rockers turning in some great comic performances, such as Lou Reed as a Dylanesque recluse on Dante's cab ride, and John Densmore (actual drummer from the Doors) as the quintessential, wild man on the skins and perfect foil to Malcolm MacDowells Hyper-Jagger/Bowie amalgam.
With characters like a walking joint, levitating, hookah vending Rastafarians and every jonesers dream, in the quixotic, cloud of smoke appearing,minute-man drug dealer: Electric Larry, be warned Get Crazy is no after school special. People do drugs and nobody cries and nobody dies. LSD is actually used as an anti-evil solution, and they must seek the well played Captain Trips like character to translate.
With a great soundtrack of music spanning genres from punk and glam to classic Chicago blues, featuring the song Hoochie Coochie Man done at least three ways, this is a great party film. I have worn out the copy I recorded from cable 20 years ago, showing it to nearly everyone I have ever called friend.
I would love to see a 25th anniversary DVD with any and all extra footage or 'making of" video, that may exist. I don't know if it is even available on DVD. I'm available, am versed in Avid editing, and would work cheap if anyone out there can make it happen (e-mail me).
Anyway if you have the chance of seeing this movie, grab a pint of Ben & Jerry's Half Baked, and prepare to Flip Out (alternate title)