Strawberry Alarm Clock Question

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Hey! earlier tonight, my husband was telling me that the Strawberry Alarm Clock did a movie soundtrack. He couldn’t remember the name of the movie, but he said it was a 60’s acid-trippy type thing. He also said that he remembers a scene where a boy on a really strange trip either tries to or actually does cut off his own arm with a chainsaw (“they regenerate when the trip’s over, don’t you know,” says my witty husband).

I want to hear this soundtrack. I want to see this movie, and see if maybe (Oh please oh please oh please) it’s been MST3K’d. Can anyone help me out here?

“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his ribcage.” --anonymous redhead

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“Psych-Out” starring Jack Nicholson and directed by Roger Corman.

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That would be “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,” directed by Russ Meyer and written by Roger Ebert.

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Actually, I think Ursa Major might have it.

The movie I mentioned has a decapitation by sword, but I don’t recall a dismemberment by chainsaw.

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As our greater bear noted:
http://us.imdb.com/Soundtracks?0063469

Tom~

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Much obliged to ye. Thanks!

Good gracious…Jack Nicholson and Roger Corman? I shudder.

“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his ribcage.” --anonymous redhead

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Did the band ever get busted?I seem to remember so. It was about the time i realized some kids in school were taking drugs. Before that I had no idea what this drug culture was.Like 1965-68 or so.

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They also worked together on The Terror. Not a great movie, but it does have the great classic cliché (spoken here by a smiling Boris Karloff, of course): “You think I’m mad, don’t you?”

The IMDB also shows:

Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)
Raven, The (1963) (with Vincent Price!)
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, The (1967)

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cool thing i heard about the strawberry alarm clock the other day: corey feldman’s (i think i got the right corey) father was in the band after they had peaked…

not that i follow the coreys (cories?) anymore…or ever for that matter…

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I’m not sure how they could “peak.” I was under the impression that the label put together a bunch of studio musicians just to crank out a disk along with the movie. (OTOH, the story I heard might have been that there really was a band, but that the studio insisted that they use a genuine (studio) singer for lead. It’s been a long time.)

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I don’t know specific names, I’ve never been a big fan of either band, but I’m pretty sure a couple of the members of Strawberry Alarm Clock went on to be in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Cabbage: One guy did. Ed King, the guitar player. He quit before the plane crash, though. Steve Gaines replaced him, and was killed in the crash. Ed King got back with them eventually, but I don’t know all the inbetween stuff.

“The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his ribcage.” --anonymous redhead