EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN

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Citizen Dick

Sharon Knolle over at Moviefone has written two pieces pegged to the 20th anniversary of Singles, both of which cite Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge:

• ‘Singles’ 20th Anniversary: Seattle Residents Look Back
• ‘Singles’: 25 Things You Didn’t Know About the Cameron Crowe Flick

And here are a couple more Singles stories:

• Spin.com: ‘Singles’ Turns 20: Who’d Be on Film’s Soundtrack in 2012?
• The Uncool (Crowe’s official site): Singles Locations: 20 Years Later – Part 2

Cameron Crowe’s Singles was released 20 years ago today. Related reading at Crowe’s official site: Singles Locations: 20 Years Later - Part 1

The Singles soundtrack turns 20 tomorrow! Stereogum looks back.

From Cameron Crowe’s WhoSay site: Just found this… Matt Dillon’s hair test for Singles… 1991? (Photo © 2011 Cameron Crowe)

“I shot the making-of-the-movie thing for Singles. The best moment was the day that Matt Dillon was trying on his Eddie Vedder wig. He was assuming the role of a hybrid Eddie Vedder/Chris Cornell. We all had to go and give our opinions on 120 wigs that they pulled. I remember Matt being very insecure. You know, Matt Dillon is Matt Dillon. He doesn’t wear a wig. If anything, the guy plays himself, so he seemed super-uneasy with it.”

—video director Josh Taft, from Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge

“I remember seeing fake posters on the poles for a show that the band in [Singles] was supposed to be playing. They’d filmed them, then left the posters up. We were like, ‘Is that show really going on at the OK Hotel? I don’t remember booking that.’ I was like, ‘Who the fuck are Citizen Dick?’”

—from my interview with Steve Moriarty, former OK Hotel booker/Gits drummer