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June 02, 2006
20 years of Heavy Metal Parking Lot
From Metroblogging DC, chat with filmmakers John Heyn and Jeff Krulik on the 20th anniversary of the immortal Heavy Metal Parking Lot. May 31 was "the anniversary of the 1986 Judas Priest Capital Centre concert that was immortalized in the documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot, [their] 16-minute video of Judas Priest fans tailgating... "[L]uckily we blindly plicked the Judas Priest concert," Krulik says. "John and I have absolutely no recollection of the parking lot we started in. That's pretty cool you remember the names of those lots. They all had patriotic themes. I remember it was particularly sad to see all that was left of the Cap Centre after demolition were many of those giant poles with the parking lot names on them... I think we spent about two hours, 2 1/2 hours on site at the Capital Centre. That was it. Stumbling around the parking lot. Then John took the footage and months later really came back with the goods. He's the genius architect behind it. My contribution was the equipment and the title." Krulik tells the story of Sofia Coppola licensing footage from HMPL in the early 1990s, but this is the heart: "I loved those guys then. And I love them even more now. Those people feel like family to me. I'm most grateful that they never showed any aggression or hostility to us when we shoved our camera and microphone in their faces." [More at the link. Via Gabe's Declaration of Principles; website: Heavy Metal Parking Lot.]
Posted by Ray Pride at June 2, 2006 01:36 PM
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