'ROCK-UN-ROLD' with Rat Skates and David Ellefson
Television talk show pilot by Kundrat Productions LLC
Featuring guest appearances:
Panel 1:
Ross The Boss (Manowar)
Nick Douglas (Doro)
Joey Z. (Life of Agony)
Panel 2:
Vernon Reid (Living Colour)
Jay Jay French (Twisted Sister)
Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper)
This is the “pitch reel” for the musician-oriented television talk show ‘ROCK-UN-ROLD’; conceived, written and produced by Rat skates with David Ellefson.
Rat Skates, filmmaker and musician, recognized the great need for a musician’s talk show as an open forum to discuss real issues in the real world of rock ‘n roll. Skates shared his concept with longtime colleague David Ellefson (bassist, Megadeth) to join him as a joint moderator, and scheduled a demo shoot as a pitch to the networks. What follows is a 22 minute edited version of two guest panels, filmed for approx 75 minutes each, at “The Studio” in New York City on October 28, 2007
The concept of ‘Rock-Un-Rold’ was received with very positive critique and remarks when they pitched it to the network producers and program planners; however Viacom passed on the idea because, QUOTE: “It’s too intelligent…it won’t hold the attention spans of the 18-25 year old audience that we market to…if you want to really focus on some extreme drug use, sexual escapades, violence, failures, death etc…then maybe we can talk more. The more extreme it is, the more we will be interested.”
Skates’ remarked: “Good! It was always crystal clear to me, but I needed to actually hear them SAY it: capitalistic induced greed is a permanent one-way street that unfortunately will perpetually dominate the media, value or integrity is meaningless…I would rather jump off a bridge than becoming another part of the problem, by putting more junk food on their menu.”
“They even told me how THEIR OWN KIDS (musicians) would benefit from this, it’s incredible…their thought of just “doing the right thing” is a greed-driven agenda, period…making money, regardless of the price their own children have to pay. Well, when they go to visit their kid in rehab or jail, do you think they will realize that they THEMSELVES are partly responsible?”
The highly anticipated documentary ‘WELCOME TO THE DREAM’ is Skates’ direct response to the networks’ selfish neglect and direct corruption of the Artist, youth and culture. “They would have so heavily filtrated our discussions anyway that the points would be lost…all Musicians REALLY want to talk about is how the labels have taken advantage of them throughout their careers, and thrived off their work…but you could bet that they would never let that kind of stuff air, they’d shoot themselves in the foot.”
'WELCOME TO THE DREAM' is going to change everything, permanently…it’s our own ‘tea party’ movement.”
Please visit welcome-to-the-dream.com to find out more.
The full episode of ROCK-UN-ROLD is available for select viewing via password; for more information, please e-mail: rock-un-rold@kundrat.com
