Chris Holmes "Mean Man" Documentary

The upcoming documentary "Mean Man" will explore the life and career of former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes...

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Cleopatra Entertainment has secured the North American, U.K., Australian, New Zealand and South African distribution rights to the documentary film "Mean Man: The Story Of Chris Holmes".

Written and directed by French filmmakers Antoine De Montremy and Laurent Hart (whose music production career includes televised interviews with SCORPIONS, DEEP PURPLE, SLAYER, GUNS N' ROSES and more), "Mean Man: The Story Of Chris Holmes" was a project that was born in 2014 after they had an opportunity to meet and direct Holmes in a music video for the Holmes-penned song "Let It Roar" in Cannes, France. At that time, the former W.A.S.P. guitarist had more or less disappeared from the music scene, leaving his home in the U.S. to seek a new beginning with his wife Sarah in France. Not content with merely directing a music video for the reborn Holmes, De Montremy pursued his bigger dream of writing and directing a documentary film about this iconic metal guitar legend, and for the next several years shadowed him throughout Europe while filming everything from band rehearsals, to recording sessions to live performances.

By creatively combining archival footage, interviews with past and present band members and musical peers, family members and childhood friends — interspersed with beautifully filmed concert performances of Holmes's current solo band — De Montremy skillfully portrays the story of an iconic guitar player who has lived a life of extreme highs and lows. After losing the publishing rights of his own songs and combatting dangerous addictions, the legendary W.A.S.P. guitarist is shown starting over from scratch while living at his mother-in-law's in Cannes, France as he puts together, with his wife, a brand new band and a brand new musical role as not only the main guitarist, but now as the actual lead singer of this newly born musical project aptly named MEAN MAN.

This actually looks like it made be pretty good!!

Basically was granted NO publishing rights from Blackie ? ZIP. ZILCH.
It’s like Jake E Lee ripped off by Sharon.
I did stop liking WASP when Chris left. Never bought a CD past that era.
Blackie hold a guitar ? I don’t think so. Blackie ain’t that cool.

My fellow Truther Chris Holmes. Much love, Mean Man.

He sings like Lemmy!

Looks like a cool documentary. I’m sure his infamous pool scene from The Decline of Western Civilization will be mentioned.

Huge WASP fan, so I'll probably watch it.

Arttie

This documentary is currently streaming on the "Tubi" free TV service/app... gonna watch it tonight.

Fat Freddy wrote:

This documentary is currently streaming on the "Tubi" free TV service/app... gonna watch it tonight.

Thanks for the heads up. I’m gonna check it out.

Fat Freddy wrote:

This documentary is currently streaming on the "Tubi" free TV service/app... gonna watch it tonight.

Some other rock docs are showing on there as well. Kings Of Sleaze on The Mentors, Death by Metal on Chuck Schuldiner and some on hardcore are all being shown.

Troublezone wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

This documentary is currently streaming on the "Tubi" free TV service/app... gonna watch it tonight.

Thanks for the heads up. I’m gonna check it out.

Will do so too.

If you're an Amazon Prime member you can see "Mean Man" there as well.

I got a kick out of this doc. Long time W.A.S.P. fans probably won't learn anything new from it (I doubt anyone will be surprised to hear that Blackie Lawless is an egomaniac dick) but the scenes showing Chris trying to adapt to his new life in France (though he refuses to learn French) are fun to watch. He and his wife make an odd looking couple as they walk their little foo-foo dog down a Paris street together.

Surprisingly Chris doesn't seem all that bitter about the W.A.S.P. thing turned out. He's just like "Yeah, well, it happened, whatever, moving on." He seems happy that he's sober and still able to go out on stage and make noise for his fans.

...he still can't sing worth a damn, though after his experience with Blackie and "LSD" (aka "Lead Singer's Disease")  I can understand his reluctance to hire a vocalist...

I watched the movie today. Kinda boring for a crazy character like him...

More about his childhood and early years would’ve been nice. Everyone already knew that Blackie is a jerk.