Link Tank: Free LSD, a Punk Rock Showcase with Aliens, Visits the Talking Strange Podcast

Musician and filmmaker Dimitri Coats, guitarist for the punk supergroup OFF!, joined Talking Strange to discuss his punk rock sci-fi comedy feature film, Free LSD.

Aaron: Who among the cast of musicians took to acting in a surprising way?

Dimitri: That would have to be Keith. People would pull me aside and say, ‘Hey, are you sure you know what you’re doing? He has the lead role!’ … And I would tell everybody, ‘Look, I wrote this role for him; I know his strengths; I know his weaknesses; and I truly believe that he can do it!’ And something really remarkable happened in editing where we made him more reactionary… His face and his eyes were so expressive, like a window into how he was feeling.

Aaron: Knowing how he is as a performer on stage and then seeing this, it felt like two different people.

Dimitri: Yeah, as we assembled his performance in the editing process, this kind of Forrest Gump quality started to emerge, and we were like, ‘Oooo, that’s great! This is working!’

That’s the thing about this film: we knew our fans would appreciate it, and maybe punk rock fans in general would appreciate it because of all the people who are in it… and then we started thinking, ‘What is somebody going to think that’s coming at this completely cold… and has no idea that there’s actually a band called OFF! and that record exists?’

I am extremely proud of the outcome, and I think in some ways it’s a touching film. We didn’t set out for it to be such, but there are times when it’s moving. And that was the psychedelia that we wanted.

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Severance star Tramell Tillman is setting the record straight about his character on the Apple TV+ series… and whether he’ll dance again.

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