We had a lot of support from the community putting together our film The Last Pogo Jumps Again. One of our pals, photographer
Edie Steiner, gave us a bunch of shots she did at the original Last Pogo concert from December 1 1978. (There are about 600 photos in the film; here’s some of them.) This first shot is the aftermath of the concert, when the ...
Steven Leckie of The Viletones at The Last Pogo; copyright Edie Steiner 2012
Here’s a collection of photos by Edie Steiner that we’ve used in our new movie, The Last Pogo Jumps Again. These were all taken during the concert called The Last Pogo at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto in 1978. Our film’s story starts on September 24 1976 — when The Ramones played the Gary Topp’s New ...
Comic strip review, copyright Rick Trembles.
The absolutely coolest review our project The Last Pogo (1978) got was Rick Trembles‘ comic strip review that appeared in the Montreal Mirror as part of Rick’s weekly Motion Picture Purgatory series upon the release of the DVD in 2008. (And hey — there’s still copies to be had for the low low price of $12.00; visit the store.)
Detail from same ...
Freddy Pompeii, 1978; Photo courtesy Don Pyle. Watch for Don’s photo book coming soon.
Last weekend, while some of The Last Pogo Jumps Again crew were busy with Danny Fields (see blog below), another contingent were battling a day of rain on a roadtrip to Phillie to interview original Viletones guitarist Freddy Pompeii.
Viletone Chris Haight and his son, LPJA co-director/editor Kire Paputts, guided by the voice of Family Guy’s Stuey on ...
Okay, so buy it already. Twelve bucks. Canadian!
As we continue to shoot and edit The Last Pogo Jumps Again, we thought we’d make a pitch to you, dear reader, to buy a copy of The Last Pogo, the 1978 punk rock doc that has an amazing batting average of .1000 with critics and bloggers. 1000! That’s like Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth birthing a super-baby — with A-Rod acting ...
Okay, maybe just a blog about buildings.
One of the staff here at the bustling headquarters of the feature film The Last Pogo Jumps Again got a new pal on MySpace called Clash on the Danforth 1979, a group for people who went to the old Rex Theatre on Danforth Avenue in 1979 to see The Clash and Toronto’s own B-Girls. Said staff member doesn’t recall much about the show, being ...
The Last Pogo Jumps Again co-director Kire Paputts sends us this note from Europe: “I decided to take on the Gladiators. Next stop, Greek philosophers.”
Fast Eddie Smith, photographer and bon vivant, is fashionable in Rome.
The continued shooting and editing of The Last Pogo Jumps Again has been put on hold for a couple of weeks while we get ready for the DVD release of the original film, The Last Pogo. We’ve never visited the post-office so much as we have in the last week, shipping orders to stores in San Diego, Glendale, and Chicago; dropping samples off at local Toronto stores; and grabbing the ...
Today marks The Last Pogo’s acting debut! Playing the part of “Anonymous silent filler on TV screens”, bits and pieces of The Last Pogo will be seen in the background of scenes set in a bar called “Shooters”, in reality a bar/restaurant called The Wooden Nickle in charming Indian Head, Saskatchewan for an upcoming episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie. Various technical difficulties forced The Last Pogo to sit ...