The Maldives Perform Riders of the Purple Sage @ The Triple Door
May 20th, 2010
Local boys The Maldives are going to perform a movie score the way a movie score should be played. Live during the film. I have always been a fan of live music accompaniment to films. Without music, movies would be boring. Having a fantastic live band perform for you while you watch an old film takes that film to a whole new level.
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“The Maldives have been breaking hearts and melting faces with their Northwestern brand of country rock since 2006. Their music is made of blue jeans and brown beards, fiddle tunes, and moonshine. They will provide musical accompaniment for cowboy legend Tom Mix’s silent 1925 film, “Riders of the Purple Sage”. Adapted from the sensational novel by Zane Grey (1911), this 1925 silent film is a consistently action-packed Western featuring quick-draw cowboys, numerous outlaws and villains, a cattle stampede, and an avalanche. Tom Mix plays easterner Jim Carson who reinvents himself as cowboy Jim Lassiter when he learns that his sister Millie and niece Bess have been kidnapped by dastardly lawyer Lew Walters and his cronies. Lassiter devotes himself to hunting the fiends down, and after several years on the trail, he comes across Walter’s three henchmen in a frontier saloon and kills them all in a gun duel. With the help of ranch owner Miss Jane Withersteen, Lassiter learns that Millie is dead but continues his quest to catch up with the wicked Lew Walters and rescue Bess from whatever fate may have befallen her. Maldives front man Jason Dodson explains, “There’s a band from the late ‘60s called ‘New Riders Of The Purple Sage’ that Mayor McGinn compared us to at his inauguration, which was a big influence on our selection!”
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This will be some great fun.
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Get your tickets for one of the TWO shows that night HERE.
Thanks to SIFF for putting this out there. I WANT MORE.
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The Maldives perform “Riders of the Purple Sage” @ The Triple Door
May 25, 2010 7:00 PM and May 25, 2010 9:30 PM
Tickets are 16$ in advance.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Jules said:
Definitely going to go to this.