The worst band in California somehow toured Japan and they made a DOCUMENTARY about it.
Beautifully shot on three cameras during Faxed Head's improbable 1995 tour of Japan, From Coalinga To Osaka documents the pride of Coalinga, CA in all their self-handicapped, brain-damaged glory. Live footage of the self-proclaimed “desk metal” quartet is interspersed with baffling but authentic footage of a Japanese junior high school class in which the students are being instructed on the subject of... Faxed Head! In addition to the electronics- and mayhem-heavy 1995 Osaka set, the DVD includes bonus live footage of a reconstituted (and much more metal-sounding) Faxed Head on tour in Canada in 2001. And, for the true fan, a 45-minute long hidden "Easter egg" showcases an entire concert by Faxed Head's long-time nemesis, pitiful Coalinga-area boogie-blues idiots The Bon Larvis Band.
Direction
Three-camera shoot treats desk metal like actual arena rock
Production
Japanese junior high Faxed Head curriculum is inexplicably real
Practical Effects
45-minute hidden Easter egg of rival band The Bon Larvis Band
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Faxed Head emerged from the same 1990s Bay Area avant-comedy scene that spawned Neil Hamburger—Gregg Turkington's more famous alter ego.
Trey Spruance of Mr. Bungle and Secret Chiefs 3 played 'Neck Head,' proving even virtuosos crave artistic self-destruction.
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