Decline of the Western Civilization: Metal Years on DVD 2012

[strangeways]

officially in 2012.

According to the director herself that is.....

http://www.legendaryrockinterviews.com/ ... nes-world/

Q: You said you wanna do a second interview and talk about the Decline of Western Civilization movies exclusively when you get closer to a release date. I don’t really even buy very many DVDs anymore but I am still patiently waiting to buy the Decline set. For the record…..how is it going?

Penelope Spheeris: I know everyone is wondering when are they ever gonna get released. I’ve been so busy and I’m still making movies…I just finished a movie called “Balls to the Wall” which is a comedy about male strippers and I’m seeing that to release. So there’s been that and the books and…let me just say we plan to have Decline out by summer 2012. All three movies, with lots of special features. We just want to make sure they are perfect. The movies are very important to me, they are my life’s work and I want to make sure they are done right once and for all. Thank you for agreeing to talk to me again closer to the release, the distributor just wants to do more of that type of promotion when the DVDs are actually ready to ship. There have never been any official DVD releases of any of the three Decline movies, they have been bootlegged many times over.

In fact, I was at a flea market and this guy had a copy of one of them sitting on a table along with all his other illegal bootlegs. I picked it up and acted interested and he says “Oh, if you like that you might like these other ones” and he goes and gets the other Decline movies and I just start walking away with all my movies. He was like “Hey, excuse me...you need to pay me, you forgot to pay me” and I looked at him and said “No, YOU forgot to pay ME, you’re bootlegging my work and you better get it outta here or you won’t have a stand here next week”. He did. It just bugs the shit outta me to see my movies on a shitty VHS to DVD dub. So, I’m working on them and they will come out, I just want them to be perfect. As for extra features, I can tell you I have tons of footage. I spent years on these movies putting together footage as far as interviews and stuff especially. For instance, the Black Flag interviews you see in Decline 1 are just a small portion of what I actually shot. There will definitely be extra features.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Declin ... vilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Declin ... etal_Years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Declin ... zation_III

[Genebaby]

Very cool! It's about time!

[strangeways]

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsoun ... e_decl.php

[Genebaby]

Ooh, can't wait to see this again.

[doublev2]

i remember London's Russian Winter from that documentary.

[doublev2]

London released playa del rock twice. The exact same album but changed band name to D'Priest the second time a few years later.

[metatron]

Love this song & London do great cover. Got all the London albums.
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[doublev2]

The sound of the strip.

[strangeways]

Still waiting.
C'mon Penelope !

[Genebaby]

Yeah, c'mon Penny come on, come on!