TWO HEAVIES
Two films on heavy DIY underground music
Both of Joerg Steineck’s music documentaries are featured in this bundle, accompanied by an impressive amount of previously unreleased bonus footage—adding up to a monumental length of nearly 500 hours. Good Lawd!
While Lo Sound Desert (2016) explores the origin and development of the Californian desert rock scene, the intentionally not so serious Truckfighters Fuzzomentary (2011) focuses on a single band called Truckfighters. Both have one thing in common: DIY.
TWO HEAVIES features full length interviews with:
Josh Homme, Brant Bjork, Mario Lalli, Alfredo Hernandez, Scott Reeder, Nick Oliveri, Sean Wheeler, Chris Cockrell, Alain Johannes, Dave Travis, Vino, and members of Dali’s Llama, Yawning Man, Truckfighters, Fatso Jetson, Mondo Generator, Nebula, The Freeks, Unida, House of broken promises, Slo Burn, Solarfest, Hornss, Unsound, Karma To Burn, Half Astro, You know who, Family Butcher, and many more.
Preliminary Note
After releasing my music documentary Inside Scofield, about jazz icon John Scofield, and as I prepare to release my new film American Dirge, I realize how much these earlier films have impacted my work.
The reason for putting this together is the sheer amount of unreleased interviews I’ve conducted for both films. There’s always something waiting for the right moment to peek through, and I believe there are many subtle, human-scale moments captured in these two early films. DIY-creativity has much to do with overcoming boredom and ultimately finding a deeper meaning in life. That’s how I found myself making these films, and that’s what they’re about – a time when the unstoppable stream of digital entertainment wasn’t surrounding us 24/7. People still had to put real effort into creating fun experiences. This held more creative potential than a dull binge-watch on a Saturday eve, leading to greater social engagement and more fulfilling stories to tell.
With an app for everything and instant entertainment at the touch of a button, readily accessible at any time for everyone, it’s easy to become lazy, also complacent in a creative sense, making our reality feel random and disconnected. DIY culture, on the other hand, requires time and commitment, driven by an urgent need for authenticity and existential substance. Today, this creative drive to seek out and develop something undiscovered seems to be quietly fading. That’s why it’s so important to shine a light on and remain in contact with underground culture and recognize it as a true counter to the mainstream’s fast-and-easy approach—a trap that many of today’s artists already find themselves caught in.
Here are two films featuring creative people with their illuminating and inspiring stories about DIY mentality. – Joerg Steineck
TWO HEAVIES – DVD SPECIAL
Available in EUROPE ONLY!
The TWO HEAVIES – DVD SPECIAL includes:
- the Lo Sound Desert DVD
- both Lo Sound Desert official film posters (folded, signed & numbered)
- the TWO HEAVIES VOD bundle – featuring Lo Sound Desert and Truckfighters and all its previously unrealeased bonus material – send to you via email as a VIP VOD link.
This special is limited to 50x. Due to the DVD video formatting (PAL), this is only available in Europe!
Lo Sound Desert – DVD / total running time – 154:03 mins / language: English / subtitles: English, German, Spanish / bonus features: 58:12 mins / DVD: all regions / PAL / Dolby Digital / FSK: 0
Official film poster: 60 x 100 cm, high quality offset print, 170 g / Desert tree poster: 61 x 85 cm, high quality offset print, 170 g
Desert tree poster: 61 x 85 cm, high quality offset print, 170 g
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LO SOUND DESERT (2015)
The origin of desert rock
Lo Sound Desert is a documentary about the music scene in California’s low desert. What began as a rebellious outlet for bored punk rock kids in the early ’80s, hidden away from the narrow-minded authorities of suburban desert communities, gave rise to iconic bands like Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.
With an artistic approach, the film provides a deep, intimate insight and captures the attitude of the Coachella Valley’s music scene—from all-night jam sessions in a surreal desert landscape to headlining European stages. Desert rock continued its underground spread and became an international treasure.
In keeping with the autonomy inherent in this scene, the documentary’s story was captured with the same independent spirit: Lo Sound Desert was self-financed primarily to authentically reflect the scene’s own approach.
It started with a music video in mid-2005 for a band from Palm Desert and evolved into the production of a short documentary. Eventually, this became a full-length feature, that was shot in the Coachella Valley in 2011. The film was completed and released in late 2015.
Lo Sound Desert is narrated by key figures like Josh Homme, Mario Lalli, Brant Bjork, Alfredo Hernandez, Scott Reeder, Sean Wheeler, and many more from influential bands such as Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Yawning Man, Fatso Jetson, Dali’s Llama, and Mondo Generator, among others.
After 10 years of production, inevitable setbacks, financial and personal challenges, as well as difficult research conditions, the film has achieved what it set out to be—an intimate look into a unique music scene whose story had never been told before, framed and colored by its distinctive environment.
“This is quite simply the best documentary on the California music scene that has ever been made, in fact it’s a strong contender for one of the best music documentaries ever.“ Elinor Day (POWERPLAY Magazin)
“This love letter documentary is absolutely worth every minute of the wait and may just be as definite a look at the subject as it gets.” Jason Hicks (METAL HAMMER)
“Lo Sound Desert – a meandering long term project completely produced in the same do-it-yourself-mentality of his subject, including coarse-grained shots and lovingly crafted animations.” Felix Zwinzscher (Die WELT)
“I almost felt like a voyeur in places while watching this (…), and I think that says it all regarding the quality of Steineck’s movie. This is the ultimate film about California’s unique desert rock scene.” J. Nepper (Eternal Terror)
“This is perhaps the most important film of the Desert / Stoner Rock scene. If people need educating on how the scene evolved – they should watch this film.” Steve Howe (Outlaws Of The Sun)
“Jörg Steineck’s film is the long overdue portait of the Californian desert scene. This very passionate documentary turns its “alleged flaw” (absense of Kyuss music) easily into a real benefit.” Florian Schneider (VISIONS)
TRUCKFIGHTERS (2011)
A fuzzomentary about a band called Truckfighters
Three down-to-earth guys, working on day-to-day jobs, recording songs and reaching out for alternatives beyond ordinary. This is a deadpan fuzzomentary by Joerg Steineck and Christian Maciejewski about the double-tracked lifestyle of a young, determined band called Truckfighters.
The film features musicians like Josh Homme (Queens Of The Stone Age), Alfredo Hernandez (Kyuss), Ruben Romano (The Freaks), Chris Cockrell (Vic Dumonte) and bands like Fu Manchu, Graveyard, Witchcraft and Valient Thorr.
The release of a full-lenght documentary (the “Fuzzomentary”) about the band Truckfighters played a big part on kicking off the bands fame – mainly because of its trailer, in which Josh Homme revealed his “main musical influence“ (=Truckfighters), which caused confusion among fans. The Fuzzomentary was a byproduct of Lo Sound Desert. “When the production got on hold due rights issues, we just decided to make some fun film, a documentary spoof, and the guys were down with whatever we’d come up with. Whether the world needed it or not, we had a fun time making it.“ JS
“Truckfighters Fuzzomentary paints a picture different from the accustomed band-focused music documentaries.“ HEAVY PLANET
“With its creative staging, ironical off voice and a dramaturgy of a narrative film, Truckfighters Fuzzomentary manages to stay authentic and artistically ambitious at the same time.“ OX Fanzine (8/10)
“For its humor and honest perspective Truckfighters Fuzzomentary is reccommended viewing for fans and newcomers alike.“ THE OBELISK
“Arse dry like a dead Dango’s donger.“ Kalle Rumplarv (Swedish professional w/ Australian slang) some rag