Not just that, but lead singer Eddie Vetter played an instrument rather than sing. Matt Dillon was the lead singer. The band was known as Citizen Dick.
Vince Neil appears in The Adventures of Ford Fairlane as the lead singer of Black Plague, who gets poisoned and dies onstage at the start of the movie. The other band members are Carlos Cavazzo (Quiet Riot), Phil Soussan and Randy Castillo (from Ozzy Osbourne’s band). Tone Loc and Sheila E. also perform in the movie, but not as themselves.
“This negativity just makes me stronger, we will not retreat, this band is unstoppable! This weekend we rock Portland!”
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones played a high school dance in *Clueless *(1995).
For 1984’s Streets of Fire, members of the Boston band Face to Face appeared as Ellen Aim’s (Diane Lane) band The Attackers; Face to Face’s vocalist, Laurie Sargent, provided some of the vocals for Lane’s character in the movie. (Face to Face had a #38 single in 1984, 10-9-8.)
Re-reading the thread prompted my memory about The Grass Roots showing up as an unidentified band in With Six You Get Eggroll, a 1968 Doris Day vehicle. *Feelings *is a pretty cool song (and the scene includes Creed Bratton from The Office, who was still with The Grass Roots at the time.)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have a brief cameo appearance playing in a Berlin club in Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire; I don’t think they were named as themselves, but I could be wrong.
The Frames’ Glen Hansard plays a street busker in Once (but it’s a main role, so I don’t know if this counts?).
I also don’t think they’re named in the movie but they are credited on IMDb as themselves. Crime & the City Solution also perform in Wings of Desire but are credited as themselves.
It was a pure cut in, at a club, obviously with no interaction with the characters. They played “Going Fishing” by Leadbelly, I think.
Country Joe and the Fish played The Crackers, both a rock and roll and outlaw bank in Zachariah.
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.
Pearl Jam members Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament are both credited as “Himself-Citizen Dick”. Eddie Vedder is apparently uncredited even though he has a very small speaking part in the movie (that I posted earlier.)
Sugar Ray were in the Ivan Reitman comedy Father’s Day. Interestingly, they had more of a hardcore/punk sound back then as compared to the pop-rock sound with which they scored hits later.
Gaelic Storm, but Celtic Fire strikes me as an equally good name for an Irish band.
The Zombies are shown on TV in the miserable little movie Bunny Lake Is Missing, but I don’t know if they were playing themselves or not.
Anybody know the band that played at The Pigeon-Toed Orange Peel? (Coogan’s Bluff)
Damn you, I was going to post this one, as I was arrogant enough to think nobody else would remember it.
Tito and Tarantula played “After Dark” as the unnamed bar band in “From Dusk 'til Dawn.”
Soundgarden is certainly in that movie and Chris Cornell is just killing it. Best part of the movie!
The Amen Post are seen performing on stage in a nightclub in the horror film SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN.
The Marshall Crenshaw Band appeared in a couple of movies – in *La Bamba, *playing Buddy Holley and the Crickets (or was that just Marshall Crenshaw himself, with someone else backing him up? Can’t remember), and in *Peggy Sue Got Married, *playing the band at the high school dance. Or reunion. Or something. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it.
Sting, pre-Police, played the leader of The Fabulous Blow-Waves, the group who attempted to abduct Paul Cook in a deleted scene from The Great Rock N Roll Swindle. The scene was cut, but later resurfaced in the Sex Pistols documentary The Filth and The Fury.
Speaking of Paul Cook, he and fellow Sex Pistol Steve Jones (together with Paul Simenon of the Clash) appear as the band The Looters in the film Ladies and Gentlemen… the Fabulous Stains (1981). Also in that film, two members of The Tubes appear as The Metal Corpses.
Charlie Daniels Band - Urban Cowboy