Eddie and the Cruisers - Motivations Behind the Music and Tapes
Frank Ridgeway:
Why did you do this?
Doc Robbins:
Shortcuts, kid. I never could do things the easy way.
Frank Ridgeway:
Doc, why this little game and the car business?
Doc Robbins:
I figured Joann had the tapes, I knew she wasn't gonna give them to me. Maybe you, Wordman, maybe if she'd give them to you.
Joann Carlino:
What would you do if you had the tapes, Doc?
Doc Robbins:
Try me, just try me. I have it made. For once in my life, I'd bring home a winner... I'd like that.
Joann Carlino:
I once asked Eddie why he kept you around. You know what he said? He said, "Doc's a dreamer, and the world needs dreamers.
Doc Robbins:
He was the only real friend I ever had.
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Eddie and the Cruisers - Mysterious Car Sparks Unsettling Memories
Joann Carlino:
Frank, I know you're gonna think I'm crazy. But I have to tell you something. Last night, there was a car sitting in my driveway: a 57 Chevy, just like Eddie's.
Frank Ridgeway:
Joann, that car was destroyed in the accident, remember?
Joann Carlino:
I know, but whoever it was, must have seen me looking out the window. He blinked his headlights high, then low, then high again, just like Eddie.
Frank Ridgeway:
It can't be. It can't be him.
Joann Carlino:
Well, who then? Who?
Frank Ridgeway:
It's not Eddie. Now, whoever it is that's watching you is looking to cash in on those tapes. But it is not Eddie.
Joann Carlino:
Frank, I know where those tapes are. After the accident, I had to say goodbye in my own way. I went to Satin Records, got the tapes, and drove back to Palace Depression.
Frank Ridgeway:
Take me there.
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Eddie and the Cruisers - Reflections on Eddie Wilson's Impact and Legacy
Maggie Foley:
A Season in Hell", a spiritual and confessional autobiography. Arthur Rimbaud was a genius, his writings were a quest. A search for perfection, an attempt to find total freedom. At the age of nineteen, Arthur Rimbaud commited suicide, not of the flesh, but of the mind and the soul. It means he never wrote another word, and disappeared off the face of the earth. He was not seen nor heard from again for nearly twenty years, until he reappeared in a hospital within Marseille on his deathbed.
Maggie Foley: [On the bridge Eddie wrecked on]
The innocence of the 50s was over and so was rock and roll as we knew it. We were entering a new age, an age of confusion, an age of passion, of commitment. Eddie Wilson saw it coming. "Season in Hell" is the total innovation for its time. It was a signal a greatness yet to come. Eddie Wilson was a step ahead of us and I don't think we've caught up with him yet. Eddie's been dead for almost 18 years, but his music is as alive today as the day he recorded it. For me and for everyone who listens to music, Eddie Wilson lives and always will.
Joann Carlino:
There were so many things I wanted to say to him, so many questions I wanted to ask. But Eddie and I, we had a deal, we never talked about the future. We thought the present was so fine, why ruin it by planning ahead? But as Eddie drove off, I knew, I knew it then, it wasn't gonna be any future. In the morning, they told me that Eddie was gone, and they hadn't found his body.
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