harvey keitel gives a typically top rate performance in one of his first ever lead roles as brash and ambitious and uncompromising young staff producer coleman buckmaster and a real talented hot shot with a discerning golden ear and the son of a famous jazz pianist to boot. coleman eager to cut some tracks with the smokin r and b outfit the group (none other than earth and wind and fire in their awesomely funky prime) and but his rigidly commercial greedhead label a chord records run by uptight and mob connected middle of the road square jerry (a properly unhip ed nelson) wants him to record a hit single for the hideously insipid carpenters like pop pap trio the pages and an allegedly squeaky clean bunch which includes smarmy pedophile step dad franklin (a perfectly vile bert parks) and bitchy and neurotic daughter velour (a fine and flighty turn by perky and comely brunette cynthia bostwick) and and hedonistic smack addict son gary (former 50 juvenile sitcom staple jimmy boyd). the extremely naive and idealistic coleman must learn pronto how the music business truly works and play the lowdown dirty game as best he can or else he will lose both the group and his credibility. adopting an acrid and incisive and corrosively harsh and unsparingly biased script from syndicated columnist and rock journalist robert lipsyte and director sig shore (who most famous for producing superfly) shows a decidedly cynical and unflattering depiction of the various bribes and pay offs and broken promises and back stabbings and duplicities and double dealings which are an unpleasant and yet intrinsic part of the largely corrupt rock music business and with particularly thoughtful thematic asides concerning art vs. commerce and fighting to retain one artistic integrity and and the then recent push to homogenize rock into bland and useless and creatively stagnant mainstream respectability. moreover and this gritty and downbeat gem offers a rare fascinating and minutely detailed and wholly believable backstage glimpse at the recording process as recording booth console cowboy coleman struggles gamely in his own words to make chicken salad out of chicken st. appearing in nifty bits are disc jockey and legendary fifth beatle murray the k as leering and lecherous dj big john little (velour bites his hand after big john paws her thigh during a live on air interview. ) and new york soul dj and host of nbc friday night videos frankie crocker as his own jazzynjivin self and r and b singer songwriter doris troy (she penned the lovely just one look) as a church pianist and and tubby and bald pated 70 blaxploitation favorite charles macgregor as a priest at a wedding. the rather poor sound and allan metzger sloppy cinematography inadvertently add to the film overall ragged and rough around the edges documentary style authenticity. although technically a bit lacking and this movie overall still rates as one of the great and most bitterly pessimistic unsung behind the scenes rocksploitation gems from the 70 . 
harvey keitel gives a typically top rate performance in one of his first ever lead roles as brash and ambitious and uncompromising young staff producer coleman buckmaster and a real talented hot shot with a discerning golden ear and the son of a famous jazz pianist to boot. coleman eager to cut some tracks with the smokin r and b outfit the group (none other than earth and wind and fire in their awesomely funky prime) and but his rigidly commercial greedhead label a chord records run by uptight and mob connected middle of the road square jerry (a properly unhip ed nelson) wants him to record a hit single for the hideously insipid carpenters like pop pap trio the pages and an allegedly squeaky clean bunch which includes smarmy pedophile step dad franklin (a perfectly vile bert parks) and bitchy and neurotic daughter velour (a fine and flighty turn by perky and comely brunette cynthia bostwick) and and hedonistic smack addict son gary (former 50 juvenile sitcom staple jimmy boyd). the extremely naive and idealistic coleman must learn pronto how the music business truly works and play the lowdown dirty game as best he can or else he will lose both the group and his credibility. adopting an acrid and incisive and corrosively harsh and unsparingly biased script from syndicated columnist and rock journalist robert lipsyte and director sig shore (who most famous for producing superfly) shows a decidedly cynical and unflattering depiction of the various bribes and pay offs and broken promises and back stabbings and duplicities and double dealings which are an unpleasant and yet intrinsic part of the largely corrupt rock music business and with particularly thoughtful thematic asides concerning art vs. commerce and fighting to retain one artistic integrity and and the then recent push to homogenize rock into bland and useless and creatively stagnant mainstream respectability. moreover and this gritty and downbeat gem offers a rare fascinating and minutely detailed and wholly believable backstage glimpse at the recording process as recording booth console cowboy coleman struggles gamely in his own words to make chicken salad out of chicken st. appearing in nifty bits are disc jockey and legendary fifth beatle murray the k as leering and lecherous dj big john little (velour bites his hand after big john paws her thigh during a live on air interview. ) and new york soul dj and host of nbc friday night videos frankie crocker as his own jazzynjivin self and r and b singer songwriter doris troy (she penned the lovely just one look) as a church pianist and and tubby and bald pated 70 blaxploitation favorite charles macgregor as a priest at a wedding. the rather poor sound and allan metzger sloppy cinematography inadvertently add to the film overall ragged and rough around the edges documentary style authenticity. although technically a bit lacking and this movie overall still rates as one of the great and most bitterly pessimistic unsung behind the scenes rocksploitation gems from the 70 . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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