Tonight's feature:
LADIES & GENTLEMEN, THE FABULOUS STAINS. Iron town teens form a punk band and inadvertently start a movement. Diane Lane, Laura Dern, The Clash's Paul Simonon, The Tubes' Fee Waybil, the Sex Pistol's Steve Jones and Paul Cook, and the late, great Black Randy & The Metro Squad. Written by Jonathan Demme. I don't think it had much of a theatrical release back in '81, even though a major Hollywood studio (Paramount Pictures) produced it.
I remember first seeing it on Night Flight in 1985 (night Flight was the best damn music show on American television. It predated MTV by half a year and was vastly hipper. For example, you could see 3 Stooges shorts, cult movies, concerts from Frank Zappa, Neil Young and The Residents, Nam Jun Paik video art, stand-up comedy, and music videos from obscure bands of the era like Nitzer Ebb and Uta Hagen alongside mainstream stuff like Lionel Ritchie and Michael Jackson, with some Laurie Anderson and Kiss thrown in the middle, and it featured the wonderful New Wave Theater which showcased all manner of west coast punk: every Friday and Saturday night from 11pm until 6am and ran until 1988).