I just finished a lengthy project and decided to kick back and watch Crossroads, which I hadn't seen for a while. As always, it is such an enjoyable movie that I wondered how many here have seen it. It stars Ralph Macchio, but the actual guitarwork is done between Ry Cooder and Steve Vai. If you haven't seen it you might like to look for it. The head-cutting contest at the end between Jack Butler (Vai) and Macchio, to try to win back Willie Brown's soul from ol' Scratch,is great fun.
Found this at Wikipedia:
Steve Vai's music has been featured in a number of feature films, including Dudes and Ghosts of Mars. He appeared onscreen in the 1986Ralph Macchio movie Crossroads, playing the demonically-inspired Jack Butler. At the film's climax, Vai engages in a guitar duel with Macchio, whose guitar parts were dubbed by Vai and also Ry Cooder, who played the initial slide work in the duel and Macchio's earlier performances in the film. The fast-paced neo-classical track entitled Eugene's Trick Bag with which Macchio wins the competition was also composed by Vai. The body of the piece was heavily based on Paganini's Caprice #5. He later borrowed the opening riff from the track Head Cuttin' Duel for a song called Bad Horsie from his 1995 EP Alien Love Secrets. Later the Crossroads duel reappeared on the 2002 album The Elusive Light and Sound, volume 1.
Zebonka12 wrote:
Actually Kiss recorded the music for that movie.
Yeah, you're just jerkin' my chain, Z. Be careful, the nasty, old curmudgeon, defender of Brian's right to release anything he damn well pleases on an album, might rear her ugly head again! :o) Besides, we all know that Wikipedia is gospel truth! Actually, it is Ry Cooder who is named in the credits for the music, though it sounds as if Vai had quite a bit to do with it as well.