Big Drum Thump

And, no, we don’t mean his drug-addled life is like a horror movie. The former Guns N’ Roses drummer actually has a role in an “action/horror/sci-fi comedy” film called Dahmer vs. Gacy. In it, serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy go mano a mano to see who is the craziest crazy in the land. Adler’s character is apparently one of the victims.

Awesome. And it’s probably way better than The Rocker.

[via Music Radar]

Remember the awesomeness of 88 Boadrum? Well, last year’s equally awesome event, 77 Boadrum, was caught on film and will have its international premiere in New York on October 13. The documentary clocks in at 89 minutes and is in Japanese with English subtitles (we’re assuming the drumming itself doesn’t need any translating). Check out the press release below:

On July 7th, 2007 at 7:07pm, Japan’s musical innovators THE BOREDOMS orchestrated a performance by 77 drummers in New York City. This momentous event was documented by artist Jun Kawaguchi, showing the raw musical force of the instrument and the unique vision of THE BOREDOMS as they brought their experiment to fruition. 77 BOADRUM is the result, and a captivating one at that.

77 BOADRUM, Jun’s first feature film, was chosen by enthusiastic Boredoms admires and music fans, making it one of the top 10 popular films at the  New York – Tokyo Film Grand Prix 2008 early on. The film will be premiered at NYTFGP2008 FESTIVAL, with a special guest appearance by Jun and a gathering of drummers who participated in the event.

Oct. 13 (Mon)
Screening 1: Doors open at 6:00pm, Film starts at 7:00pm
Screening 2: Doors open at 8:15pm, Film starts at 9:15pm

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, NYC

77 BOADRUM and NYTFGP2008 FESTIVAL Info :

http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/nytfgp2008-festival/

Jun Kawaguchi Interview:

http://www.newyork-tokyo.com/wp/nytfgp2008-interview/

General Tickets: $10
online:

http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=28450

http://www.inticketing.com/evinfo.php?eventid=28452

Phone: 1-866-55-TICKETS

We’ve been anxiously twiddling our sticks since May to see Rainn Wilson play a has-been drummer in The Rocker. Mercifully, the movie finally opens next week nationwide, but a few bastards way luckier than us have already seen it. Links to some sneak-peek ramblings are below. Consensus seems to be generally positive, as is absolutely fitting for a movie that includes drumming and the comedy genius of Dwight K. Schrute, er, Rainn Wilson.

• Rainn Wilson Is Ready to Rock
• Rainn Wilson Pounds and Preens for Laughs As The Rocker
• Rainn Wilson Is The Rocker!
• Rainn Wilson Excels in Role of Misfit
• Purple Rainn

But not in a full-on gay way. No, the drummer wants Depp to play him in the possibly upcoming movie based on Motley Crue’s extremely entertaining and readable autobiography, The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band. Sound like a stretch? Like how in the hell is 5′ 10″ Depp going to pull off 6′ 2″ Lee? Well, we’re not at all worried. If Depp can do Hunter S. Thompson so brilliantly, dude can act the shit out of anybody.

And some other stuff in this interview about The Rocker, but it’s really only the drums that matter, of course. He says:

How tough was it to learn drumming? I took drum lessons with this guy named Stuart Johnson who’s been in a lot of bands and we got to work for a couple of weeks before I went up to Toronto and really, he was just playing me like Zeppelin and White Stripes and a lot of real basic drum beats. So we worked on a lot of basic drumming, but then he also really coached me on the specifics of heavy metal drumming which is a whole art form to itself.

Cool. Almost cool enough that we can overlook the misspelling of Neil Peart’s name:

Yeah, we went to see Rush. There weren’t any really metal bands playing at the time when we were shooting in Toronto. We certainly didn’t have time. We were shooting 6 days a week, but we went to play with Rush and got to hang out with Neil Pierce and got to actually play his drum set. That was a pretty rare privilege.

Another clip of Rainn Wilson drumming in the upcoming movie The Rocker. And this time he’s naked. Which we all know improves stick control immensely.

[via DrumOrbit]