A short film by Jim Jarmusch
A chance to hover at the session that produced the live ‘Dead Man’ score and see the way it was done. Kind of like a silent movie score. Live in the theater, back in the day people played organ or piano along with movie live. Here, playing back the movie on about 30 small and large screens in Mason Sound stage in San Francisco south of Market, the music was played and recorded live as the movie played. One of the Greatest Films ever In the Halucinatory Western vein, if not the absolute best, Deadman features “Old Black” through a fender deluxe tweedy, a Baldwin Exterminator, a Magnatone stereovibrato, an echoplex, a fender reverb, an MXR analog delay, all driving a musitron octave divider.
Some names have been changed to protect the innocent. Check it out at the Hearse Theater.
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