40 Nights of Rock & Roll

Welcome, friends, to the web log for upcoming documentary “40 Nights of Rock & Roll," a film by director Scott Sloan & former Paste magazine editor Steve LaBate.

Dearest tumblr pals…

stay tuned. For the next 44 days, we’ll be posting the original 40 Nights of Rock video blogs, a year to the day after they were drunkenly thrown together at 3 a.m. in the seedy highway-stop motels and disheveled crash pads of America.

Above: Scott

But, first, a note: These short videos are not our film. They are merely chaotic, flip-cam-shot road diaries, replete with shitty, overloaded onboard audio and jittery speed-freak-channeling cinematography. Still, most of them are pretty damned entertaining. Collectively, they tell a wild, debauched tale of rock & roll on the road in these United States of America.

Above: Steve

If you missed them in real time last year, now’s your chance to come along with us as we visit a different band in a different town every night, interviewing them, filming their performances, getting in wacky predicaments, almost killing each other, and along the way taking a vivid, sweeping, panoramic shot of what rock & roll on the road is all about in this strange new millenium.

Cheers,
Scott & Steve

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