what was kenneth anger (hollywood underground movie maker) impact on the hollywood rock'n'roll scene?

The only band he directly worked with was the Rolling Stones, who scaped him off the bottom of their shoes pretty quickly.

That said, some of his stuff is pretty impressive. Search "Lucifer Rising" and "Invocation of my Demon Brother" (both handily assembled on one videocassette)... watch them with the lights out. Detroy his self-mythologizing.

pat boone would NOT have..uh...done that without kenneth anger's paving the road. in some universe.

I think he must have had an effect on the New York Dolls, and other bands who have thought to merge the Shangri-Las' aesthetic with overt cultural confrontation.

Supposedly he's still working on the third volume of Hollywood Babylon, but I'll believe it when I see it.

I didn't know there was a second volume of Hollywood Babylon (the first one's classic), but surely a third would be beside the point at this date? I mean, haven't all those ideas just been so absorbed into everything now?

I don't get the Pat Boone reference.

True dat. This applies to Anger's work beyond the Hollywood Babylon series. His juxtaposition of pop songs and with his iconic images really set in stone much of what is the mtv aesthetic. Of course this shoudln't retroactively detract from his contributions to cinema/pop culture.
I would like a third volume of Hollwood Babylon, the first two are vehemently muckraking to the extent of having zero pretense of journalism; reading them today, they come off as commentary on our celebrety fixated culture and the balance between fascination and revulsion. People across america jerking off to red carpet arrivals to go to work the follwing day and bitch about the superficiality of the whole thing.

Agreed. The obvious glee Anger gets out of his subject matter also leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Bobby Beausoleil, the Manson murderer who was supposed to star in Lucifer Rising, once auditioned for Love. But Bryan MacLean got the job. He apparently continued to hang out with them and was known as "Bummer Bob". While filming Lucifer Rising, Beausoleil had a fight with Anger and ran off with most of the film What was left became Invocation of My Demon Brother, with a soundtrack by Mick Jagger. Jimmy Page was then hired to do the music for Lucifer Rising, but he too had a falling out with Anger. Here's a long, hard-to-read article that covers the whole witchy, bitchy, story...http://victorian.fortunecity.com/updike/723/page.html.

I bet the current crop of late 60s-obsessed LA bands like the Warlocks/the Lords of Altamont/Brian Jonestown Massacre have way more of an interest in Kenneth Anger than any of the original 60s bands.

My favorite Anger film is one of his least characteristic and shortest, Eau d'artifice ("Sacred Water").

Scorsese is a BIG fan of 'Scorpio Rising' - 'Mean Streets', complete w/ Spector on the S/T and BRIGHT red colours, is like a non-blasphemous re-run of SR.

I seem to recall that Throbbing Gristle/Genesis P played a part in the first UK release of Anger's flicks on vid tape, sometime in the mid-80s.

'Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome', my fave Anger, has had various soundtracks over the years, including a versh that was heavy on the Electric Light Orchestra...

The BFI in the UK recently reished all of Anger's extant films on a series of vid tapes. Maybe on DVD, too.

Similar to what s woods wrote up there, I owe Anger for making me aware of how utterly perfect a song "I Only Have Eyes For You" is. I mean I'd always liked it, but the way he used it in that one film about the moon (can't remember the title) left it in my head for days (ever since, really).

The 'moon' movie might be Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (pre-Frankie!). I've seen it too, it's also excellent (and I remember the Flamingos scene as well...though none of this too vividly).

Yeah, the Scorsese connection makes total sense. I have a feeling that Anger's use of "He's a Rebel" in Scorpio Rising was really important to Scorsese, particularly (it's just too bad Scorsese didn't pay further homage to this in Last Temptation, which sure could've used some humour and some pop) (he says, despite the fact that he's still never seen it...).

anger asked for his entire filmography to be seen in one viewing on acid, so i guess his influence on pink floyd is inestimable. (there's a very funny last page of The Wire from maybe 4 years back where the writer recounts trying this with his professor in college, only to end with the both of em saying "fuck it" and putting on Bowie's Low instead).

Hugo Capablanca & the brilliant Gavin Russom have redone the 'Lucifer Rising' soundtrack & there's some demos on the most recent Beats in Space show, sounds superb, can't wait for the release.

Kenneth Anger & Gavin Russom = really looking forward to this.

went to see Kenneth Anger at the BFI introducing his films.

He's an eccentric man with a mickey mouse fixation.