Help Y&T Make A Documentary!

The guys in Y&T have launched a Kickstarter campaign to pay for a documentary about the band's career. The film will be narrated by Eddie Trunk. The band is trying to raise $26,000. Help celebrate 40 years of rock n' roll! Details are below.

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[Him]

Oh no, this could get ugly. Y&T (whom I love) and Eddie Trunk (who I defend)? In . . . one . . . post?

I will stick this one out (maybe).

[Metalboy!]

Man, this may top "Spinal Tap", especially because it's true!...

Decent Heavy Prog-Rockish band forms in Oakland, California in 1974, calling itself Yesterday & Today (after The Beatles Compilation), gets a 2 album deal on London before signing with A&M, becoming a little more mainstream Hard Rock in the 80's before completely transforming into a generic L.A. style Hair Metal band when they signed to Geffen.

Anything to make a buck, just like they're trying to do here. Make your check out to slow buck artist, Dave Menniketti.

p.s. If I win the Lotto, I will completely fund the whole thing, paying double to NOT have Eddie Chump as the narrator so I won't have to listen to that sorry lard-assed blowhard get his facts wrong yet again when I watch what promises to be one of the funniest comedies ever produced.

[Kixchix]

Speaking of documentaries. Don't forget the Quiet Riot movie is on Showtime tonight. Today's BBG post actually reminded me. :)

[Metalboy!]

In summary...

Yesterday & Today = 70's Bay Area Proggish Hard Rock band, can't make a buck.

... shortens moniker to Y&T, blows out hair, dumbs down music even more...

Y&T = 80's Hair Metal, makes a couple bucks. ("Baywatch", anyone?)

[bkallday]

I hate with a flaming passion, any of these "artists" that do these bs fund starters. I mean....get a gd job like the rest of us, and fund it your effin self! Its not our fault the music scene has changed, so find your own way to make extra money, one that doesnt involve handouts.

[Jack]

Not really a handout, since you do get a product for your $$, you are just giving the $$ up front. Granted in this case the $10 level is just a donation, but that is not always the situation; and either way it is a persons prerogative to donate, if they like the band enough.

Like you said, the music industry is changing, this is a new model for bands to fund making music (dvd's, etc.) instead of a record label giving them $$.

Not sure why people have such problems with this, it's not "give me $$ to make something, then give me more $$ after to buy it".

[bkallday]

"Not sure why people have such problems with this, it's not "give me $$ to make something, then give me more $$ after to buy"

That's exactly what this seems like. If anyone truly cared about a documentary for these scrubs, theyd pony up the $ for it. If not, then noone really cares. Maybe these dudes should give it up and find a job at their nearest factory?

[Jack]

They've made over $11,000 in the last couple days so I guess some do care. You donate = you get a DVD (or more), how is that a problem? Especially if you would just buy it later anyway.

[Metalboy!]

YOU will buy it later. Well, I guess I might buy it, and if I win the Lotto, multiple copies, only to burn them all in effigy to mediocrity!

[fletch]

bkallday: if I didn't know any better, I swear that your real name is [insert real name here], cause you sound just like a [person(s) I know]... And, until recently, I always thought that you were female.

Anyway, I asked you a while back (and HIM and Mb, too) what your moniker means and how did you come to pick it. I'm still really curious...

[bkallday]

B stands for my first name, K stands for my last.

[Bob]

Mr. Metalboy!, my good sir, I know your dislike for Y&T is practically legendary, but if I may raise a point, Y&T was certainly not the only band to dumb down their sound in the mid 80s to try to cash in on the "Hair metal" craze. How about a 35-year-old Rob Halford singing, "We don't need no parental guidance here." How about Whitesnake's absolute dismantling of "here I Go again" in 1987. Quiet Riot venturing into keyboards and vocal sampling, the wild and the Young. Krokus's keyboard-laiden debacle album, "change of Address", Saxon's foray into soft rock album, "Destiny"...I could go on and on. I know there are other reasons why you don't like Y&T, but if you're going to throw them under the bus for changing their sound, you'd better hope that underside of the bus is big enough to fit lots of other bands.

[Shawn]

All this time I thought BKallday was "bake all day".... and not cookies.. I apologize for my assumption....

[bkallday]

I do like to get baked, so no need for apologies!

[fletch]

bk: and that's when I totally knew, what god wanted me to do...whoa, oh oh, hey hey hey...work all night, bake all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJzeC6vnurY

[Metalboy!]

Bob! Here's the difference between Priest, Saxon and Whitesnake vs. Y&T going more Hair Metal... Those bands did it better than Y&T! And, believe it or not, if you listen closely, the way those bands did it is closer to their roots than Yesterday & Today's transformation, which almost reeks of desperation.

But I guess ya gotta hand it to Menniketti, he had to do what he had to do, selling out so quickly by walking away from his "real music" Prog-Hard Rock Formula and veering so sharply to the polar opposite Hair Band Formula Y&T adopted in order to survive. Because of this, perhaps he deserves to wear his oh so earnest, outsized sense of self accomplishment on his sleeve as brazenly as he does.

FYI, "Destiny" is my favorite Saxon album, I prefer the remake of "Here I Go Again" (80's Receptionist Rock at it's finest) and view "Parental Guidance" as one of the most unintentionally hilarious guilty pleasures in Heavy Metal History.

By the way, for the record, I actually LIKE a few Y&T tunes... "Black Tiger", "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark", "Lipstick and Leather", "L.A. Rocks" and my favorite, "Contagious", the latter perhaps one of the purest representations of Hair Metal ever committed to reel to reel!

p.s. BK! I thought your name meant, "Burger King All Day", as in Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, hahaha!!! It's good to know that it's actually about you being you all day and proud of it!

[Jack]

I don't hear this at all:

"The difference between Priest, Saxon and Whitesnake vs. Y&T going more Hair Metal... Those bands did it better than Y&T! And, believe it or not, if you listen closely, the way those bands did it is closer to their roots than Yesterday & Today's transformation"

How in any capacity do you hear the roots of those bands in their mid/late 80's / early 90's output? I call bulls**t!

[Him]

Still not saying a damn thing. Though this is one enjoyable series of posts from the entire peanut gallery. Kudos to every single one of you.

[Metalboy!]

Jack! You can hear the roots of those bands from their late 70's/Early 80's output to their mid-to-late 80's forays into Hair Metal in their hooks, riffs and licks, song structure and vocals, whereas Yesterday & Today and Y&T sound like two completely different bands, one Proggish, one Hair Metal. The transformation is wa-a-a-a-y more extreme!

Put the needle on the records, dear Jack. The grooves do not lie!

p.s. You're taking the easy way out, HIM! Remind me to do that on one of your next subsidized posts, hahaha!!!

[Badland]

I was at the Priest show in dallas they recorded the live Turbo tour. Dokken opened i believe. Wasnt big fan of Turbo but it was Priest. Cmon who wouldnt go lol