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Max
and the Makeups, 1983. Left
to Right: Joni Hell, Mike Alvarez,
Max
Gottlieb, Lisa Gamache, Karl Remstam. And, Essex the dog.
Photo
by Jack Underwood.
In 1981, Max and the
Makeups
"starred"
in The University of
Texas
film school project
"The
41st Song". The concept
of
the film was that the Top 40
was
evil and Max and the Makeups
played "The 41st Song" - the song
that would propel the peasants to
revolt
against The Establishment.
The
film also starred The
Next's
Ty
Gavin
Alvarez
recalls "The Makeups
fell
into a 'film noir' category
in
1981. Every band had to fall in
to
some category at that time -
punk,
new romantic, new wave,
etc.
We were very busy in film
and
music videos mainly because
of
the UT film school and that all
of
us were UT students. Jonie Hell
was
a film student and he brought
a
lot of the film community to the
group".
The
Makeups would later (1985)
star
in one of the early comedy
horror
genre films "Future
Kill"
where
the band had the same role
and
effect on the crowd in the audience
that it had in "The 41st Song" - when
the
band played - the peasants would
revolt
against The Establishment.
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