Wild Side; Make It Funky

Series: Rock & Roll Series

Duration: 60

Year Published: 1995

Creator: Hugh Thomson

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: The Wild Side tours through the rock and roll theatrics of the 70's, when bands like the Velvet Underground, the Doors, and David Bowie brought the decadent dramas of life in the underground into the limelight. Take a walk down the darker side of the street in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit and Berlin with the Doors' Ray Manzarek and producer Paul Rothchild, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Alice Cooper and Kiss's Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. Make It Funky Soul music stretches to create a rock and roll revolution in rhythm and attitude in the 70's. Innovators James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone, George Clinton and famed bass players Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins take viewers on an hour of funk as the music becomes bolder and more expressive of the realities of black life. Filmed in New York, San Francisco and Philadelphia, also examines how funky dance hits blazed a musical trail to the disco-craze of the late 70's.