Oh wait, is this Tommy Wiseau? I mean, the same guy who wrote, produced, directed and starred in The Room? Look at this dude, he got a great ability to perform in public, he's really spontaneous. And, considering his sense of humor and interaction with audience, he leaves the feeling of having a smart perception of things... I don't understand what could have happened to him. *Sorry about my English.
@@HardCR0W It's often a sign of someone with an rejecting, traumatic past, e.g. fleeing homophobia at home to live exclusively in San Francisco and West Hollywood, gay capitals of the world, as soon as having enough money to choose wherever they live. It's also often a sign of a traumatic brain injury that changes your personality and very commonly makes you lose things like emotional regulation, impulse control, and ability to easily put yourself in other people's shoes and understand other people's emotional reactions to what you do, loss of intrinsic understanding of how to "pass for normal" in complex social situations, quite autistic traits combined with social disinhibition, all truly standard brain damage effects, THEN the thought of having others know how different you used to be from how you are now, especially if you lost skills such as being a great business person with no problem getting loans and building start-ups from nothing - is uncomfortable and disturbing. This is because your only way of feeling at ease with your sense of having woken up in a different, confusing world with no way back home to the brain you used to live in, is to embark on a new life with a new sense of identity, forgetting your old self as much as possible. Having been raised in Poland explains how the brain injury would have exacerbated traits that Americans ALREADY would have interpreted as rude and aggressive - it is extremely common for even normal Poles to be seen this way, because of cultural differences in free expression of how you are feeling, stinginess with money that goes down poorly in the tip-obligatory USA (it's almost a virtue to hold on to your money for dear life in Poland), social interaction and social assumptions and the way people word things (direct and brief as possible versus pussyfooting and small talk). Add blunt force frontal lobe brain damage to that cultural difference, which typically makes adapting your behaviour for social settings difficult even within your own native culture (because you can't even reflect upon it well or actively monitor as if from the outside as a non-injured brain does), and everything else about Tommy stops being mysterious too. TLDR; Homophobia "refugee" to the USA, miserable childhood, never wanting to return to Poland or talk about it, great business mind who lost some of that due to brain damage but retained the money he'd already made and kept making investments, rumoured to have inherited some of the money from a gay lover too who died, standard brain damage social deficits combined with pre-existing cultural differences, and a fairly common desire to have people see you as the new version of yourself only and not know how you were so that they won't "see" you as brain damaged = recipe for a Tommy Wiseau.
It's so impressive to see Tommy cracking jokes and having fun with the crowd... in some older The Room interviews, he seems like he doesn't really "get" a lot of what other people are saying, things would fly over his head, but here it seems like he's having a legitimate fun time with everyone.
Man I'm hyped as fuck for this movie. First saw the trailer for this a year ago and I've been on board ever since. Good to see these guys back in action over a decade later and STILL AT IT. This is like having a game from your childhood getting an official HD remake with all the authenticities intact. I don't watch too many movies, but I gotta say this will be a 100% day one for me. If the Disaster Artist is released at the same time as this, I'll watch the shit out of them back to back. LONG LIVE TOMMY AND GREG.
Having seen the preview showing, I can highly recommend it. ;) It's pretty off the wall but that's why we love these two! We wouldn't have it any other way... :)
It was the very first public screening so they showed the first edit (it could change ever so slightly, based on the reaction of the preview audiences).
I doubt if they ever released a full album - if they did I totally missed it. It's a shame too, the Piece Kor had tremendous potential and I always thought with the right "push" and promotional team behind them - who knows. But you have to remember even The Beatles were no "over-nite success". Look how many time they were burned and turned down by many of the record labels. Its food for thought - isn't it.
Hi and thanks for the kind comments. My name is Mick Ball and I was lead vocalist for Piece Kor. That's me in the middle of the pic, holding a Siamese cat. I still maintain contact with the guys, especially Charley Clark (drummer) and Jack Bandoni (lead guitar). The other guys are Danny Moore (rhythm guitar), Barry Scott (bass guitar), and Ray Scott (manager). I was so fortunate to be part of such a great band and it's a shame we just never made it to the big time. Without the benefit of a major label to promote and distribute our record, the hill was just too steep to climb. Thanks, Mike, to you and Jon for trying to help us promote the tune on WVOB. A few other stations also tried to help and we even got a little airtime on a few of the big northern stations. The "B" side was a song called "Words of the Raven" and it was a much pithier song, both musically and lyrically. I believe someone has posted a copy here on RU-vid. A couple of us are still involved with pop music in one way or another. I still compose and record tunes in various genres and you can find me easily by doing a Google search for my name. Thanks again and......rock on.....
+disgruntledgoatiam Hi and thanks for helping to keep Piece Kor alive! I seldom check this thread on youtube, but was happy and gratified to see that you played our little tune in sunny Tuscon. I'm still writing and recording frequently, but no commercial success. Heck, the labels/publishers/etc. won't even listen. I guess they get bombarded with material from struggling songwriters. Maybe one day I need to "get with the times" and post some of my new stuff here on youtube. Thanks again!
Bought the 45 at Beshore's on Main St. in Bel Air when I was a teen. Went to school with every one of them.Still have the record. WYRE - AM Annapolis played it all summer long. '67??!!
When I was kid growing up in Maryland, on Halloween, this DJ in our neighborhood would give 45's out instead of candy. I got a copy of "All I Want is My Baby Back". My sisters and I went crazy over this track. Really turned me onto an older rock and roll that I was used to. I still think of that song to this day. Thanks for posting.
Jon Miller and Mike White gave this record heavy rotation during our weekend rock show on WVOB 1520 RADIO in Bel Air, Md. Saturdays from 12n-8pm. The group had good potential, but I doubt if they ever followed through after their initial success. Flip-side of this record was I believe - The Raven which was equally good and well crafted. I'm tickled to have stumbled up it - after all these years.
