Met Jan at one of his concerts in 1997 or 1998. Very nice and friendly guy. He came out and talked to the audience after the show. My daughter was wearing a white head band and he personally signed it for her. Dean never came out to talk to the audience.
These guys were one of my favorite groups on the mid 1960s. Huge stars before Jan's accident. Struggled mightily after. So sad. Dean was a real trooper to stick by Jan through thick and thin.
Good movie but this scene nothing close to reality. Jan did crash into the back of a gardners truck but it was on a residential street in Bel Air called Whittier Dr., and there were no other cars on the road. He simply punched it and got squirrly. Also his Vett was a color called Mospert Green ... not Nassau Blue like the one in this clip.
Almost the entire movie was inaccurate . Jan Berry was very upset with the scene where he is driving with Dean on a skateboard behind a car and he speeds up when Deans yells at him to slow down and stop. He stated he would never put his friend at risk and was livid they presented it as fact
Remembered watch’n this movie, when I was 11…It left an “indelible mark” on me, cause I had the original “Batman album” with alot of Jan & Dean’s songs on it & listened to it ad nauseam @ that age!! Wished I still had that album!!! 😩
Oh well who the hell told him to be driving that f**cking fast in the first place.. Same thing with Jane Mansfield's driver of the 1966 Buick Electra was doing 80 miles an hour when he lost control of the car and killed himself, her and another front seat passenger..
I remember the newspaper picture of a Corvette that slid sideways on a curve into a utility pole. The passenger compartment hit the pole and it cut the car completely in half. Two young men were killed immediately. Happened on Hwy 7 South at Hot Springs, AR. Probably late 60s? or early 70s? Estimated speed was 120mph.
