Rating: NR
Genre:
Culture & Society
Theatrical Release: 02/16/2005(USA
Release Date: 06/17/2008
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 74 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Plexifilm
In 1977,
Gary Wilson was the leader of a small clique of bohemian fringe artists in the small town of Endicott, NY, who, after years of staging bizarre happenings and making experimental films, decided to take his talents to the world by making an album. Recorded on a semi-pro setup in his father's basement,
Wilson's
You Think You Really Know Me was an oddball blend of
fusion jazz,
new-wave pop, prescient
electronic funk, and noisy freak outs married to bizarre lyrical psycho dramas about his often curious relationships with women. Most listeners weren't ready for
Wilson's music in 1977, and his live shows with his band
the Blind Dates -- which sometimes included musicians wrapped in duct tape or covered with paint, and occasionally ended with
Wilson attacking the audience -- didn't help at all.
Wilson's self-released album sank like a stone, but with the passage of time it developed a
cult following among fans of musical arcadia (most notably
Beck, who even name-checked
Wilson in one of his tunes), and in 2002 the independent record label
Motel Records became interested in re-issuing
You Think You Really Know Me; however, by that time,
Wilson had been out of the music business for years, and no one was sure what became of him.
You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Movie is a
documentary which follows the search for
Gary Wilson, tracing his story from his days as a teenage misfit to his rediscovery while working in a porn bookstore in California to his return to the stage following the rerelease of his album.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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