# Bands that appeared playing in movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 22, 2016, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368 "2016-05-22T15:49:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/81 "2016-05-24T18:45:27Z")
Can’t remember if they were in the movie…but Eddie and the Cruisers/John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/82 "2016-05-24T20:17:31Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Alice in Chains are the band who is playing on stage in (at least one of) one of the rock club scenes in that movie. Soundgarden too, if the Wikipedia page is correct, but I don’t remember that scene. Chris Cornell is the unnamed guy who says something to Matt Dillon after Dillon blows the windows out on Bridget Fonda’s car installing a new stereo in it. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/83 "2016-05-24T20:21:51Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Chris Cornell is the unnamed guy who says something to Matt Dillon after Dillon blows the windows out on Bridget Fonda’s car installing a new stereo in it. He actually doesn’t say anything, but disappears when the Windows shatter. Tad Doyle of Tad was the guy who answered Bridgett Fonda’s wrong number. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/84 "2016-05-24T20:45:00Z")
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was the [band in _Swingers_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up7I_0JGTgQ). ---
**Author:** ![SUZ\_MAC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@SUZ\_MAC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUZ_MAC)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/85 "2016-05-24T21:12:02Z")
I haven’t read the entire thread, but I’m guessing this hasn’t been mentioned. I just watched “With Six you get Egroll” over the weekend so I’m nominating The Grassroots as the thread winner. How’d I do ? ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/86 "2016-05-24T21:26:05Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees joined forces as Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the dreadful, and yet awesome, film of the same name. Aerosmith also appears as The Future Villain Band. > > There are probably a few others that could be included from that movie but that’s all I got off the top of my head. Alice Cooper doing [Because](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x306eks)! Actually a pretty amazing version - especially considering the piece of crap the rest of the movie is! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/87 "2016-05-24T21:30:00Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Chad and Jeremy appeared in _The Dick Van Dyck Show_ as “The Redcoats,” a fictitious band (though they did do a shout out, thanking their friends Chad and Jeremy). > [@astorian](#): > > They were also on “Batman.” > [@drad\_dog](#): > > In the Dick Van Dyke episode called “The Redcoats are Coming” the Redcoats are played by Chad and Jeremy. OP explicitly DQ’s TV show examples. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/88 "2016-05-24T21:31:49Z")
In the movie _Everything is Illuminaed_, **Gogol Bordello** lead singer, Eugene Hutz, plays one of the main characters in the movie but does not perform. However, the rest of GB show up as a small local folk band in one scene. Here’s the clip, they’re the little band chasing the train: [everything is illuminated - JonFen.avi - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq6XqLRwDDc) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/89 "2016-05-24T21:38:24Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Big Bad Voodoo Daddy was the [band in _Swingers_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up7I_0JGTgQ). They appeared as themselves and are credited as Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/90 "2016-05-24T21:42:24Z")
> [@SUZ\_MAC](#): > > I haven’t read the entire thread, but I’m guessing this hasn’t been mentioned. I just watched “With Six you get Egroll” over the weekend so I’m nominating The Grassroots as the thread winner. How’d I do ? Scroll up to post #65. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/91 "2016-05-24T21:48:45Z")
Blues Traveler played in _Kingpin_, I don’t think they were billed as BT since they were wearing fake Amish beards. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/92 "2016-05-24T21:58:50Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > Can’t remember if they were in the movie…but Eddie and the Cruisers/John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band Dunno if this works: John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band didn’t appear in the movie – they provided the \*sound \*of Eddie and the Cruisers, but the actors portrayed the band. > [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > Blues Traveler played in _Kingpin_, I don’t think they were billed as BT since they were wearing fake Amish beards. See post #1. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/93 "2016-05-24T22:27:05Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > In the movie _Everything is Illuminaed_, **Gogol Bordello** lead singer, Eugene Hutz, plays one of the main characters in the movie but does not perform. However, the rest of GB show up as a small local folk band in one scene. Here’s the clip, they’re the little band chasing the train: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq6XqLRwDDc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq6XqLRwDDc) Not germane to the OP, but _Wristcutters: A Love Story_ features a character named Eugene who is basically Hütz, and GB songs are portrayed as his, most prominently “Through the Roof ‘n’ Underground.” Tom Waits is also in it but I don’t remember if he plays anything. He’s not playing himself. Fun film. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/94 "2016-05-24T23:03:46Z")
> [@GrandWino](#): > > OP explicitly DQ’s TV show examples. Mostly because there are a ton of them. Buffy had many bands playing at The Bronze while exposition was happening at one of the tables. I think a lot of YA themed shows have done the same thing. I’m not going to ask for the thread to be shut down if TV examples are given but I figured movie examples will be much more rare. I commend the posters for coming up with some pretty damn obscure examples. I’ll break my own stipulation and mention my favorite one from TV. The band Detective appeared on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ as the fictional band _Scum of the Earth_. Lead singer Michael Des Barres and two actors played the band in the speaking parts but the full band was playing as Scum at the end of the episode. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/95 "2016-05-24T23:13:47Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > See post #1. Well, that’ll make you feel like a dumbass. I must have sublimally picked up on that by skimming the OP or something, I hadn’t thought of the band or the movie in years and yet that was what I came up with. Or maybe I’m just a dumbass. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/96 "2016-05-25T15:41:26Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > Well, that’ll make you feel like a dumbass. I must have sublimally picked up on that by skimming the OP or something, I hadn’t thought of the band or the movie in years and yet that was what I came up with. Or maybe I’m just a dumbass. Didn’t mean to make you feel like a dumbass – I’ve almost done that some thing plenty of times. Or maybe I’m a dumbass, too. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/97 "2016-05-25T16:48:54Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I think a lot of YA themed shows have done the same thing. [Charmed](http://charmed.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Musicians_Who_Performed_at_P3) comes immediately to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/98 "2016-05-25T16:54:52Z")
In the movie Valley Girl, I’m pretty damned sure Josie Cotton and the Convertibles have some screen time. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/99 "2016-05-25T16:55:09Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > I only vaguely recall this, but in the 1988 “Dirty Harry” movie _The Dead Pool_, a rock star (played by a pre-fame Jim Carrey) is killed, and Guns & Roses appear at the funeral. I’m pretty sure they were supposed to be other rock stars, but not themselves. They don’t play, though, they’re just there. What’s more, at the start of the film, Carrey’s character is shooting a music video…and the song is GnR’s “Welcome to the Jungle”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7UqMj9WvWo8/hqdefault.jpg "Jim Carrey does Axl Rose impersonation, Liam Neeson directs") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UqMj9WvWo8) ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368/100 "2016-05-25T17:06:59Z")
In 1985’s _Vision Quest_, [Madonna](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akUVYzA8G20) performs as an unnamed singer in a bar band (her IMDb credit is “Singer at Club”). The movie was released a couple years after her debut album, so she’d already made it big. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bands-that-appeared-playing-in-movies/755368.md?page=6)