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Eddie and the Cruisers

Picking Nits

Disappearance coverage; polished concert footage; conventional Season in Hell; unlikely friendships

In the discussion (5)
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  • Nitpicks question the limited attention to Eddie’s disappearance without a body; local news reach and the band’s uncertain fame are counterarguments.
  • The polished, multi-camera color footage of the early-1960s college concert is considered implausible.
  • Season in Hell sounds too conventional to justify its supposedly shocking avant-garde reputation.
  • A complaint that Frank learns piano impossibly fast is corrected: he already plays and Eddie teaches a rock approach rather than the instrument itself.
  • The band members are considered unlikely friends outside music, with Sal and Doc the possible exception.