Last Days Here

Possibly one of the best rock docs ever put out to buy

One of the better music doc's I've seen in a while.

I've never heard of the group Pentagram before the Documentary, and I was amazed how incredible they were in the early 70's doing metal as good at the same time parallel to Black Sabbath over in England. Truly some of the best "lost" classic metal Rock music most hard rock fans have never heard. I did have several problems with the Documentary itself, some spoilers ahead. I would of preferred the beggining of the film be 10 minutes of narrated history of the band and Bobby all together chronologically from the late 60's when Bobby was in a band to the 70"s with footage and photos and band members recounting everything THEN bring us to the present. In the film we get snippets of the past of photos and footage and music all over the place in a mess, I would of liked to of gotten to know the band and the man before we see what he is today. It was unbearable watching Bobby zombified on drugs his couch in his 80 year old parents house where he lived through the 70's till now. I didn't know the direction the film would take and I didn't want to watch this guy rotting and have to watch him like this for another hour and twenty minutes without knowing if he redeems himself by the films end or at least a happy ending. Bobby looked older and in far worse condition than his 80 year old parents! There are a few dead spots in the film, in particular when the film makers decide that 10 minutes of the 80 year old parents talking in a very slow nature (in their cramped dim lit house just sitting there) about how messed up Bobby is doesn't bring the story to an almost complete stop. I think cutting more photos and footage back and forth and maybe having them only talk for a few minutes getting right to the point of things in a bearable way would of worked better. Lastly, the movie ends with Bobby still not recording the new album we hear about though out the whole movie! The last 15 mintues of the film seem like the middle of the movie because that's when he starts doing live gigs again after 15 years of many failed attempts AND he tours! Where is that footage? Then we get two mintues of him getting married with a photo still of him and his wife and one with his wife with NEWBORN! Bobby looks at least twenty years younger when he gets it together again with music and a family in his late 50's but we get a few minutes of this time with a couple photographs and no conclusion in regards to the album that was eventually made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Of course I am guessing his wife also did not want to have her family life on film which is why we get just photos of important events that bring Bobby back to life off drugs finally after 30-40 years. Could of been a better film, but luckily there was plenty of material that was interesting enough to pull off a half decent movie on an unknown musician whose music should of been heard by millions and tragically never was.

It plays out like a lot of rock documentaries about closet & basement rockers who were under appreciated, under developed and an underground influence to many - like the documentary "The Devil & Daniel Johnston". But unlike other "should've" "would've" "could've" documented rock tragedies, the intense and tense situations of a volatile junkie musician and a music junkie's dragon-chasing determination to see the band put back together and put out a new album is as emotional, as suspenseful, appropriately timed & paced and as poetic as any well written drama. It kept me interested, kept me rooting and kept me cautiously hopeful until the very end. And even though I was personally skeptical, critical and judgmental of all the key player's agenda and personal reasons for being apart of this rockers life, career and business, in the end I was grateful - that for whatever reason- they made it happen and had the patience to see this movie through, to see Bobby through and to see the music through.

is this the same character that tom cruise plays in his new movie thats coming out soon?

This movie may me download songs from this band . Songs Forever my Queen, Lazylady and Last Days here are right up there with the stuff Led Zepplin and Black Sabbath put out in that era.

"A Masterpiece" - Vice Magazine "A heavy metal 'Grey Gardens', hilarious and tragic." - The Wall Street Journal "Engrossing, Affectionate...Completely Unpredictable." - The Village Voice 3.5/4 Stars - The Philadelphia Inquirer "It's horrifying, and you can't look away." - The New York Post "….surprising sweetness." -The New York Times "Engrossing! - Editor's Pick - New York Magazine "I will just advise you to see it. And hear it. It soars." - Trust Movies “Never a dull moment…has more bizarre twists than any fiction.” - The Boston Phoenix "Painful, traumatic, albeit deeply inspiring." - Time Out London "’Last Days Here’ is not the documentary viewers expect to see, but it is the documentary they will be glad they saw.” -Examiner "Thoroughly engrossing. 'Last Days Here' is a wild, satisfying ride, a real story of love, friendship, and self-acceptance beneath the tantalizing surface of sex, drugs and rock n' roll" - Baltimore City Paper “Ingenious and suspenseful…to call ‘Last Days Here’ a mere music documentary is like saying Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is a pretty tune.” - Filmmaker Magazine “An Intense documentary, it blew us all away!” - Eddie Trunk “That Metal Show” VH-1