so let’s see, here’s the scene where Ray, the trucker, gets it on with Nick Rogers. Hard to say if it was chopped up, but it is true, in the least, that the jump from oral to anal was pretty darn sudden. My digital copy comes in at 85 minutes, and when I looked up an auction when I sold a VHS / Century Theater cassette (see image at bottom of post), my notes say 86 minutes – so now I have to find the VHS that I kept…. but I’m not hopeful – not because that endeavor could take hours/days/years, but if the difference of one minute from the original producer’s tape and anything else released on VHS or DVD makes me think it’s a lost cause. Meanwhile, here’s the clip we got, plus the closing titles – and I can can sure see why Obsessed is so concernstipated, as that brief moment of heavy kissing (doesn’t it look like Tom/Eddy Calhoun is going to swallow Nick’s chin?) during the closing credits is so hot, how could it NOT have been in the original scene! There is only 4 minutes of actual sex. Now, it is still possible it’s the full version, as sometimes after shooting, some film just doesn’t come out – poorly lit, etc. Ask Joe Gage and Jack Wrangler about that. Anyway, check out both clips, and see if you see Eddy Calhoun. I’m personally obsessed with the bald spot, as you never see an Eddy Calhoun photo from the back, at least not hatless…. that could be another clue, right?
and check out The Grease Monkeys review – full of details I never noticed, including soundtrack info (I got some of those!)
so, is Eddy Tom Ross?
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There’s a two part interview with William Higgins on the AVN website, from about a year before he died in late 2019. It’s pretty long but at one point he tells how he took the film he shot for A Married Man in to one of the few companies that would process that for porn movies, and they told him on one of the reels he had loaded the film into the camera backwards. I think they were able to salvage it but it was less than ideal in terms of the final print, which as you said is one of the potential problems a director might face along with lighting, sound, being zoomed in too much or not enough, etc. And I’d guess that was even more of a challenge in the years of shooting on film.
(I know Higgins isn’t your favorite director but one thing he said about Jack Wrangler from A Married Man made me laugh: “Boy did we ever cross swords,” Higgins says of the performer. “He threatened to sue me several times over the song that he sang in the opening credits” Which of course was Jack’s plaintive rendition of what I’d guess was an original song Jack wrote, Smoggy City:
https://soundcloud.com/user-927775001-435453740/70s-gay-porn-ballads-mix
You had an original VHS copy of Grease Monkeys, like Obsessed was saying they sold in the lobby of the Century theatre? Not sure if that would have been valuable but it would be an interesting keepsake. It would be incredibly hard to determine where a one minute difference between two copies came from, or possibly even less than a minute unless you went down to the exact second like 1:25:40 vs. 1:26:22.
I have a new favorite descriptor for our dear Mister Obsessed, ‘concernstipated’ :D He’s many things and a wonderful contributor here but that word fits him like Nick’s tight jeans in this movie, which look wonderful. ‘Honestly BJ, do you EVER give me the credit I so obviously deserve? No! But it’s OK, I’m used to it and love you anyway, smooch smooch’ etc. etc. :D I love him as much as you do and am so glad he comes through here with all his wordiness (of course I appreciate that in others too) and knowledge.
Especially since I now believe he is right about recognizing the Eddy-Tom connection, and would wager they were the same guy. The hair on his temple that I mentioned before, a lot of guys don’t have that patch of hair emerging that way. Still unknown are why the different name from what he did for Colt, not to mention why their scene was so short (it’s not the only one, as I recall a few of the sex scenes in Grease Monkeys were edited way down). So your theory about making sure it all fit onto videotapes from that era could be a contributing factor as well, and they just trimmed down most of the sex scenes in order to cram as much onto the tapes as they could.
By the way if you or anyone here ever felt like shazam-ing the rest of Grease Monkeys, including this scene you linked above, my notes are incomplete. Also the beach threeway with Derrick Stanton, Lee and Kip, I wondered about that in my review. All I have is:
* Pointer Sisters – Happiness [02.28-05.44] [57.38-59.19] [1.30.50-end]
* Edgar Winter Group – Frankenstein [34.36-40.40]
* Saint Tropez – One More Minute [59.20-64.09]
* Queen – I’m In Love With My Car [1.23.11-1.24.40] [1.29.43-1.30.38]
“unknown are why the different name from what he did for Colt” – oh, i think many COLT guys who did non-COLT porn used different names – gee, sounds like another post idea! COLT men who did, or did not, use another name in non-COLT porn