![]() The Young Adults return as the evening’s headliners and are seen onstage playing songs like “Do the Heimlich” and “Kill Yourself.” The club is full of drunks and degenerates, including cult rock legends NRBQ, who do drugs in the basement with the terrorists and attempt to contact the ghost of John Lennon with a rotary phone. But none of this matters because no one at Lupo’s cares about bombs or Senators or lunatic biker gangs, they just want to get drunk and party. Captain Lou Albano, who was an entirely believable maniac biker.Ĭonfused? Me too. Meanwhile, the mayor hires a biker gang (led by wrestling legend Captain Lou Albano) to terrorize the clubgoers for no solid reason. The Senator actually wants to destroy the place with his son in it to garner enough sympathy to win his next election. The terrorists want some kind of vague revolution and assume someone will give in to their demands before they blow the club up at midnight. Kruger on the final season of Seinfeld) has planted a bomb in the basement of the club at the behest of an evil state Senator, the father of the club’s owner. The plot is pretty loose, but the general idea is that a terrorist cell (led by Daniel Von Bargen, AKA George Costanza’s irresponsible boss Mr. Complex World was shot at the club over two years in the late 1980s. It’s funny and weird and it captures the heart of Saturday night in a very authentic and spontaneous way.Ĭlearly, the spirit of that time and place stuck with Wolpaw because ten years later, he created a fantastically dark and hilarious ode to Lupo’s, (It’s A) Complex World, a low-budget, high-energy rock n’ roll musical comedy about one extremely eventful night at the storied rock dive. ![]() But the real stars of the show were the audience members, including a tenacious drunk who dragged most of the participants-including a put-upon Diddley-into witless conversations. So did local comedy-rockers Young Adults, as funny and nearly as wild as their San Francisco counterparts The Tubes. Bo Diddley, still riding high on the heavy funky of his classic ‘74 album Big Bad Bo tore up the stage. The film captured a raucous night at Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, a then-new rock venue in downtown Providence, Rhode Island. In 1978, Rhode Island filmmaker Jim Wolpaw directed the fantastically rough n’ ready short-form documentary Cobra Snake For a Necktie: Bo Diddley and the Young Adults.
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