The blandness nearly killed my soul until my manager, who looked like Donal Logue, turned out to be an Eddie & The Cruisers junkie.ĬS: I also did briefly when I was younger, and I’ve used almost those exact words. I had it the other way around and worked at a chain store music shop once. There was actually a guy named Berko who worked there and had a band, Berko Pearce. True, I just thought NC always felt inconsistent with the trends back then.ĬS: It was actually written by someone who worked at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd in LA, but fictionally it was set in a smaller east coast city. Somewhere Lucas could drive to Atlantic City overnight from. Can’t remember, but it wasn’t set in NY or LA. I think it was supposed to be a small town in Pennsylvania or something. So, why do you think they picked NC as a setting for the shoot? Why not New York or something more along that era of young, hip films? I mean, this ain’t The Notebook.ĬS: Wilmington, NC, has a miniature film industry. What relation?ĬS: Well, I don’t know if I want to get into that, but Liv was my stepdaughter through her teenage years and rise to fame. I actually had no idea you two were related. It ended up being like a small family living on the beach in North Carolina while we filmed. It was interesting on the first day when we were all “introduced” to each other. Renee Zellweger and Rory Cochrane were living together as a couple but were cast completely independently. That coincidence also happened with a few other people on the film. When they found out, I almost lost the gig, because it exposed the fact that I was well into my 20s. They had no idea when they cast me that I was related to Liv Tyler. Look at Steve Buscemi.ĬS: Also, I had lied about my age saying I was a teenager because that’s what they were aiming for, and I looked young anyway. It’s like, “Oh, if you can’t get the huge rock star, then get Coyote.” In Dirty Love, with Jenny McCarthy and Carmen Elektra, I did a cameo as the DJ at a fashion show that was originally Dave Navarro, but then he couldn’t make it, so they called me. Originally, they had considered Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, but it didn’t work out, so they got me instead, which is kind of a funny thing because I’ve done a couple movies where they first wanted someone else. They wanted a young “real” musician (not an actor playing a musician). So, how did you end up with the part in Empire Records to begin with?ĬS: The awesome Gail Levin was casting. I just got a vinyl of the soundtrack to Pet Sematary if that’s a clue.ĬS: I love the public affection for vinyl thing. I pretty much live musically in anything prior to the new millennium, but I stay on top of the rest for journalistic purposes. I stopped buying records and spent the money on guitar strings, etc. Not out of snobbery, but because that’s when I started playing, and from that moment on, all I cared about was what I was doing. I tend to be unaware of music that came out post-’85. We even get a big reveal on a long-awaited single release.Ĭoyote Shivers (CS): My wife just confirmed to me that Faith No More has more than one song, but I’m a bit out of it, so forgive me. Upon discussing musical acts like California natives Faith No More, the ball began to roll in every which way imaginable. Felix, Shivers was kind enough to let me pick his brain and better illustrate why Empire Records, as an experience both on-set and off, was hypothetical chaos. On a hunt for some tie-ins to celebrate the 20th anniversary of seminal cult film hit, Empire Records, a name surfaced: Coyote Shivers - the quintessential rocker alongside Renee Zellweger who closed said classic with a rendition of acclaimed tune “Sugar High” atop the titular record store’s famous marquee in an attempt to save their music supplier from a chain purchase/absorption.īefore being escorted around Hollywood via mobile camera while DJ Casper runs through a gamut of Roky Erickson and The Cramps at St. Thankfully, the advent of technologies like Twitfeed and Facebook alott for intimate moments across multiple state lines. When you’re an east-coaster like myself, interviews over a virtual red-eye to Cali can be time-zoned and very hit-or-miss. Ever wonder which movies inspire your favorite bands or how filmmakers work with artists to compile your favorite soundtracks? Sound to Screen is a regular feature that explores where film and music intersect.
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