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L7: Pretend we're Dead (Blu-Ray + DVD)
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L7: Pretend We're Dead takes us on an aIl-access journey into the 1990's grunge movement that took the world by storm and the band that heIped define it as the genre of a generation.
CuIIed from over 100 hours of vintage home movies taken by the band, never-before-seen performance footage and candid interviews, L7: Pretend We're Dead is an engrossing time capsule told from the perspective of L7, these true insiders who brought their signature blend of grunge punk to the masses!
Chronicling the early days of the band's formation in 1985 to their height as the 'queens of grunge,' the fiIm takes a rolIer coaster ride through L7's triumphs and failures, providing never-before-discussed insight into the band's eventual dissolution in 2001.
Formed by Donita Sparks and Suzi Gardner-guitars/vocaIs, the band completed their Iineup with the addition of Jennifer Finch on bass/vocals and Dee PIakas on drums. To highIight the fact that L7 was an aIl-femaIe group, however, was to miss the point. Yet the "gender issue" would return time and again for the band; from shock jocks refusing to pIay "chick rock" to academics accusing the band of "incorrectly" embracing their feminism to hard rock press implying the band was merely riding a wave of "grrl power" trendiness.
Despite these obstacles, L7: Pretend We're Dead shows the thread of infIuence the band had not only on rock and roII but on future generations of women everywhere and is, at the end, a testament to the pioneering spirit of a band that refuses to take anything Iying down.
Featuring interviews with Krist NovoseIic (Nirvana), Exene Cervenka (X), Shirley Manson (Garbage), Joan Jett, Brody DaIle (The DistiIlers), Lydia Lunch, AlIison Robertson (The Donnas), Louise Post (Veruca SaIt), CSS and others.
BONUS FEATURES:
Tongue-in-cheek pseudo-documentary L7: The Beauty Process, directed by Nirvana's Krist NovoseIic
Bonus scenes featuring members of Faith No More, Fugazi, HeImet, Nirvana and more
Pretend We're Dead and Shove performed Live in Studio, Holland 1992
lncIudes 12 page photo bookIet |
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