But in recent years, this little big town has emerged from its brainy, introverted shell to offer a livelier mix of cultural offerings, plus an exploding food scene. To be sure, venerable institutions like Symphony Hall, the Museum of Fine Arts and Faneuil Hall still anchor the city’s hold on music, art and history. To have a film and have only lost $30,000, that’s actually pretty good.Thanks to the area’s 50-some colleges, Boston has a reputation for hitting the books first, goofing off second. THR: So you lost money making your dream film.Įdgers: Yeah, $30,000 so far.
PAUL WELLER BOSTON LICENSE
I found it actually from a bootlegger and talked to him and he said, “Oh, I had lost that over the years” and I said, “can I license that from you?”
PAUL WELLER BOSTON MOVIE
He actually licensed an eight-minute home movie that he took during the sixties of his, like, traveling around with the Kinks. I love Fountains of Wayne, but they tried to play this song, and they didn’t hit the note right.Įdgers: “Better Days.” They were having a bad day.Įdgers: Pete Quaife, the Kinks’ original bassist, who died last year, he was really, really helpful. it just brought everything to a screeching halt when he would show up on the screen. THR: He talks in kind of a circumlocutious fashion.Įdgers: He’s a damaged soul. Crazy, right? That was like, $25,000 from the budget right there.Įdgers: I love Brian Wilson.
PAUL WELLER BOSTON FULL
I went to Las Vegas and filmed the full interview with him, and then after it was done, his managers blocked us from using it, strangely enough. My biggest debacle may have been getting Paul McCartney to participate. And we got Kenny Jones, the drummer for The Faces. We also got a couple people we didn’t use, including Brian Wilson. THR: And Sting was probably performing for less than his usual fee?Įdgers: For a documentary, you don’t pay them anything. They just basically extended our film festival license - I paid for the film festival, they extended that license for the PBS run, because they know I’m not gonna make any money off it. I actually received incredible generosity from the folks who I’d licensed video clips from for the film. I raised around $70,000 just from other people. I threw in probably $30,000 of my own money that I still haven’t recouped.
I raised about twenty grand on Kickstarter. But it’s not like I was out to savage Ray.Įdgers: Like $150,000. He talks about, you know, why he and Ray don’t get along, and it doesn’t make Ray look good. And, you know, the fact is, Dave does get a voice. And somebody who, like, was…you know, was…treated poorly. It’s not a film that turns Ray into a villain, or turns Dave into a hero, but it does make an argument for Dave as an important figure. It’s got all these stars in it, and this weird idea of me trying to get them to play with me. What I made was really the ultimate Kinks fan documentary. I wanted the kind of thing you’d see on VH1. And then just on a simple level, like, he might find me annoying. And I certainly play up the whole sibling rivalry and the problems they have, so that might also bother him. And, you know, it’s clear that the Kinks can’t be the Kinks without Dave. His brother participated in a way that’s very very moving, I think. And to have this random guy in Boston suddenly cast himself into this issue, probably he might find it offensive. The whole idea of a reunion is a very emotional thing that probably is very important to him. THR: Why doesn’t Ray want us to see this film?Įdgers: Control. I’m a huge Kinks fan and I believe it would be good for Ray to have this film out there, it would be good for the Kinks. I had to get approval for licensing, he has to know about it. I handed him a sheet describing what I wanted to do. THR: Your problem was, the Kinks’ Ray Davies kept eluding you, but his bandmate and brother Dave Davies and Sting, Clive Davis, Paul Weller, Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Buck, Warren Zanes and Zooey Deschanel did help.Įdgers: Right before I started filming in April 2008, I met with Ray backstage in Boston. Foo Fighters Joined by Taylor Hawkins' Son Plus Paul McCartney, Travis Barker at Tribute Concert for Band's Late Drummer
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