Disneyland's Forgotten Sci-Fi Rock Band - Live From the Space Stage (Full Documentary)
Vložit
- čas přidán 19. 08. 2020
- Limited Edition Merchandise:
defunctland.com/store
Send a Thank You to the Director:
PayPal: matthewgserrano, bit.ly/2COIjky
Venmo: Matthew_Serrano, bit.ly/2CJFSzx
Listen to the Soundtrack:
• Live From the Space St...
album.link/i/1531006184
For one glorious summer, an experimental, sci-fi band rocked Disneyland's space stage. With a bass-playing Wookie and an acrobatic frog, the band's existence is nearly unbelievable, and the story behind its creation is just as incredible. This is Defunctland's first feature film, Live From the Space Stage: A HALYX Story. Please enjoy.
Email:
contact@defunctland.com
Buy Defunctland T-Shirts:
teespring.com/stores/defunctland
Donate on Patreon:
/ defunctland
Facebook Group:
/ defunctland-1142494142...
Defunctland Twitter:
/ defunctland
Defunctland Subreddit:
/ defunctland
For more great content, visit defunctland.com
I broke down in tears when I heard my auntie's voice (Lora Mumford) I haven't heard her voice in 10 years since she passed away. She is the reason for my passion for music.
Her voice reminds me of Ann Wilson of Heart.
Now you have her on CZcams and so many fans!!
Are you the niece with the jacket? Can we see a pic of the jacket?
@@MovieVigilante She reminds me of Lora Mumford.... She was awesome.
Sorry for your loss... I was in the eighth grade when I first heard her sing. It was a amazing band... I wished I had a tape of their songs or record but some great things are just made to be remembered..
"I mean, c'mon, who doesn't want to watch a 7-foot Wookie play the bass" that's it, that's the whole documentary
Rule #2 Your bass player is a useless Wookie.
I read this right as she said it in the video.
That was weird. lol
I was a boy then, and I was from there , it's only an accident that I wasn't at Disneyland on a day when this happened. This documentary makes me emotional! This was true and serious Art . for commercial purpose or otherwise.
The young fans making up lore for the keyboard player was amazingly wholesome.
Seriously, I'm so obsessed that they did this
@@alexaburks that was the kind of stuff we did as kids. I remember coming up with so many random fake facts about Pokemon in the playground and everyone agreeing with these headcanons (as they'd be called today) and coming up with their own
It's the one part that without fail always makes me cry any time I rewatch this
There's an alternate universe where Halyx was a huge megahit and spawned an entire genre of sci-fi-alien-rock
🥺🥺🥺
Hey how can we get to this dimension?
GWAR and TWRP are 57 parallel universes ahead of that
I would like to go there.
sci-fi-alien-rock isn't a genre it's a gimmick. Cool band tho
Disney didn't allow male guests with long hair to enter the park but they'd have a band sing a song called Jail Bait. God, the '80s were a wild time!
and... THEY COULDN'T DANCE!! I would have been rockin out with the band, screw that.
My sentiments as well--and I wrote the darn song!
@@daweeje6146 ... is that sarcasm or seriousness?
@@daweeje6146 I peeked at your profile and it seems you're most likely not being metaphorical in some way and in fact, are serious. so kudos to you for penning such a wonder!! hats off to you, my friend!
@@daweeje6146 And we salute you! Thank you!
the interviewees seem so delighted that halyx isnt forgotten & is being documented
@@Yo_DynamoJoe Ringo had to be essentially bribed to do the outro sequence of Abbey Road.
@@Yo_DynamoJoe Probably a lot of them. He didn't seem like a buzzkill to me, he just seemed chilled out, and a little sad when talking about his awesome band that fell apart before they really got started. You thought rock musicians are supposed to be peppy?
@@Yo_DynamoJoe I didn't think he was that bad. Just like everyone else, he seemed happy that the doc was being mad.
It's not often a band is too successful for its own good. They fell apart because they were too talented to just be the novelty act Disney wanted them to be, and that's a tragedy.
Was thinking that as well. Production was too expensive, they want to pay a lead and move on.
45:46 I love how they were like "we were not expecting the wookiee to have sex apeal" and it's like... this was a decade before Beauty and the Beast came out, so they wouldn't _know,_ but escentially that's just _Beast with a Bass Guitar._ Of COURSE girls would love it.
I know right?? I got to that part of the video and just thought, "wow....I wonder how many girls had their first furry awakening because of this band?" Who wouldn't love a giant, sick ass bass playing wookie?
Oh man seeing all the ah... fanart of Glam Rock Freddy and seeing the Halyx wookie I'm like, okay furry love has been around.... much longer than I thought it had lol.
The original Furry?
Alrighty, looks like I'm adding "attend every Halyx performance during that one 80's summer" to my time travel bucket list.
Don't build a two seated, lets make a time traveling train!
OMG Me too ! where can I hear the songs? are there recordings?
@Safwaan How Lovely to be too young to remember.
What if... the future you has already finished the time train and have already taken all of your CZcams friends back in time for the concerts.
Thats why no one remembers the show. Because all the attendees were from the future. And the future is us. Whoa.
Still working on my chronological displacement device. Can only get it to function at a velocity of 88mph, which is odd given its hot tub design. I don't want another morlock incident.
This is probably the first crowdfunded documentary I’ve seen that was actually released
This is my third:
First was Death of Superman Lives
Second was In Search of Darkness
It’s all a great watch
Derek Night I liked death of superman lives. I didn’t know it was crowdfunded I just assumed showtime paid the guy to make it.
Maniac536 oh no. I remember the crowdfunding for Death of Supes lives. We all thought it was crazy that he’d get to interact with the likes of Tim Burton and Kevin Smith AND that they’d uncover almost long lost footage to see stuff we’d only hear whispers and rumors of.
Tangent Realms?
Mine was Natsuki: the movie
I'm so bummed that no one liked the name though. Halyx is a kickass name. And I'm so bummed I never got to experience them. They would have been exactly my jam. Lora was INCREDIBLE. What an actual goddess. I bet it was life-changing for so many girls in the audience to see a woman front a cool galactic rock band.
Halyx-tosis
Honestly tho? SUCH a sick name. Whoever said they didn’t like Halyx has no imagination. It just has that right taste in the mouth.
@@jack-a-lopium THERE . . . that's a name for a modern Thrash band with late 80's roots! 😅
“Moht Rillem: Beethoven from Space”
I can’t express how epic that name is. I love that they had a really dedicated fanbase. They deserved it!
The hand gesture the fans made up was really touching. And the headbanging in the seats!
There's something about musicians and stage performers that knowingly perform for children/young adults that always make me happy.
Like maybe they're going through the motions in a hot wookie suit, but they also must know that they're inspiring as well as entertaining. It must have been rewarding to think back on, as they got older, and watched kids in their own lives grow up.
"They go 'we're gonna kick you out' and it's like 'No, no, I'm playing Space Mountain. Shut up'"
Iconic
i need this on a t-shirt
So true at Disneyland during that era. Any male guest with long hair was looked on as a subversive, and even if they didnt have a plainclothes security host shadowing them, they would at the least be scrutinized by most security guards they passed during their visit.
Defunctland: Making you happy about something cool, and then reminding you that the job is then to tell you its all gone, because Kevin Perjurer is a monster
😂😂😂
I kept waiting for the fall of the band to some how be Michael Eisner's fault.
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ 😂🤣
i mean it is called defunctland for a reason
@@dastumpyone6110 🤣🤣🤣
This is the case of a band that is legitimately before its time. Today, they'd 100% be signed to someone like Napalm Records. You got bands like Alestorm, Sabaton, Gloryhammer, Powerwolf, and that's just from them. The age of niche, themed bands is well and truly upon us, and these guys were doing it before it was possible to be successful. They'd 100% be successful today.
it's a different world today. Today they would simply pump out videos on CZcams and have a world wide following. You almost don't need record companies anymore if you are good enough.
If Nekrogoblikon and GWAR can exist, Halyx should too, damnit.
I think that TWRP are the clearest inheritors of this style of pure fun, Sci fi costumed rock band. They're really excellent.
@@kagitsune I was just thinking that TWRP must have been influenced by Halyx!
Oh absolutely. They're kind of like the Mechanisms, who also all have characters and do show in costumes. Indie or as a Disney venture, the in-universe Halyx members would all have their own names and backstories
The fun thing to see from this is how teenagers and fans have always been teenagers and fans, which I know is a basic statement but it really made me giddy to see it documented here. The Die Hards in the front row of every show, dancing to support the band even though the venue didn't allow it. How it was the fans who made the merchandise and gave them as gifts (and I can only imagine that was more difficult to do in the 80's.) The fans coming up with lore and backstories for the band mates, how the lead guitarist of course was a heartthrob but you still had people go crazy over the big burly dude in a fur suit. These sweet, simple, human moments that connect us through the decades
I love that, even back then, you inevitably had the fans who were hot for the furry monster. XD
"i'm playing space mountain, shut up"
a legend
"And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply"
14:41 "he wasn't hairy, he was furry!"
that is the face of a man who knows exactly what he is implying by that statement
Okay furries, you know what to do - when conventions happen again, we need the Wookiee suits!
BAHARNOTHCON 2021
I'm actually crying over this cheesy Disneyland sci-fi glam rock band. Kevin, Matthew, what you've done is magical.
Same, especially Lora's fade is really sad when considering what could have been.
Same .
"No one cares how you struggle after the lights go out." That line cuts deep. 😢
“It interfered with my movements, my drumming movements,.. that I had”. Spoken like a true drummer.
1. 2. 3. 4. This post is smarter than your drummer.
@@bjbeardse 5,6,7,8 It's obvious you're never gonna procreate.
@@jakerelind5577 9, 10 , 11, 12 you just shot it in the terracotta.
1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20 you guys have given me laughs a plenty lol
But did they play the songs in his preferred key?
I called Disney and said "I was told to call Bambi."
Okay haha very funny I'm going to hang up now
Jeanie Cunningham here...yes. I called Disney and asked to speak to "Bambi". The very moment the receptionist answered the phone, I completely forgot Bambi's last name (Moe). So there I am asking Disney if I can speak to "Bambi". After an awkward pause, the receptionist said, "which department?" "PUBLISHING!" "Please hold:" . I was never so relieved as when that phone call went through...
That’s the next days password for the Ink and Paint club.
@@daweeje6146 Just imagine, if you had said "the forest" instead we may have never gotten the hit song "butterflies"
@@daweeje6146 "I'm sorry, he's in a meeting with Thumper right now."
It’s so sad Laura passed away, and that this band didn’t go places. I loved watching the videos of them performing. It has such a brilliant energy, I just hope Lora can rest in peace knowing loads and loads of people have seen this video and we absolutely love her voice and their music.
Looking at the clips, she had a really bright star quality
The fact that the only piece of the band left is one that Laura decided to keep and pass on is SO heartbreaking. This was an amazing documentary, thank you.
I'm surprised modern Disney hasn't called her niece and said, 'Hey, that jacket's the property of the Walt Disney Company, we're going to need that back."
"In second grade I would trace pictures of Donald Duck and pretend that I drew them and sell them to my friends."
This guy and Disney were a match made in heaven.
I was interviewed for this documentary, and it was a lot of fun. Happy face. But to see what this video turned into is wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time. I was there, kids, and I still didn't know the whole story. So, thank you, Matthew, for the devoted work. Thank you. (And hello to everyone else in the documentary. I miss you! Especially you, Lora Mumford.) -Jymn Magon-
It's funny how much Halyx reminds me of TWRP... if TWRP had a stellar female lead.
@@Kevinsyel YES! I thought the same thing!
now i want to hear the album. seems odd there's not even a cassette of a rough mix made it to a band member. :(
@@Kevinsyel That was my thought as well
@@Kevinsyel YESYESYES. The world just wasn't ready for Halyx.
Dude I can't believe I watched this for free.
I was waiting throughout the whole thing.. hoping that Lora would show up as an interviewee, halfway through I understood why she hadn't, but it was still such a gut punch to hear she'd died. Wish these guys could've made it. It seems like they had real passion for what they did.
It feels appropriate that the last vestige is lora’s jacket. I hope it stays with their family forever.
It wish we could go see them live. it is utterly brilliant.
I wish even more Lora could see how many people love their music and everything they did.
Yeah, the family deserves to have anything that belongs to her. It sucks when execs and money hungry people throw themselves into people’s lives like that. She worked for that, not the c.e.o.’s
I honestly hate seeing live shows. But I would totally go and see them if I could.
The fact that the only part of the ensemble left is Laura's jacket is so heartwarming and saddening all at once
We need copies of this jackey
It’s great the jacket exists...it seems iconic...and it is!
I agree. It's such a bittersweet keepsake. It's such an iconic and definitive icon of Halyx. Yet at the same time, its existence represents Lora's inability to move on; she held on to that jacket because she never let go of the dream of Halyx coming back.
When the text said "Except one...", I knew what it would be and was wrecked.
Omg I didn’t expect to physically cry when I saw the jacket, I was a wreck.
BRING BACK THE SPACE YETI
Disco Yeti!
Yes
THE BAHARNOTH
So Disney Dan, are we going to get a costume video?
@@johnnycheetuhman - Bear + Behemoth?
I'm not gonna lie, when the Wookie bassist put his bass on the ground and starts mashing it with his paws, I had my mind blown. 😂 How could you not be into that show as a spectator?
I thoroughly believe in my heart that Halyx could've succeeded and made it big. The talent was there, the passion and creativity was wild, and it had clearly created a dedicated fanbase (that persisted to this day) and the fact that new fans are coming after just discovering the CONCEPT proves that there was a winning formula.
I think Halyx didn't grow because not enough marketing was put into it. Most record labels REFUSED to believe it, Disney barely brought any attention to it and wanted it gone once the summer was over because it didnt fit thier branding. This band didn't fail because of the concept, it's people or even because of bad luck. It only failed because wasn't given the support it needed to grow
Honestly, they have Star Wars land now, they could make this into a fully licensed Star Wars hair metal band and even use it to expand the lore of Star Wars, there’s already two fan bases to pull from, it would draw on the nostalgia train that’s still in full swing, there’s so much talent out there, if they wanted to bank on this, they absolutely could and it would likely succeed.
Shout out to the original fangirl/boys who made their own fandom merch....these are the original deviant art/etsy creators.
We love you all and honor you.
Disney you gotta treat your talent better...first Annette, then Lora and after the MMC kids of the 90's. Stop treating your talent like disposable trash.
^ This!!! The original fan kids! You can see them rocking out in every shot, Halyx ment the world to them!
I guess after so many years of peddling disposable trash to the masses they've grown to see many things as such, sadly.
This raises the bar for youtube documentaries by a mile.
lol nice profile pic...
@@phoenixdavida8987 thnx
@@kalebbranscome2062 watch out, though!-- cross your eyes enough times and eventually they'll get stuck like that!!! (or so the prototypical mother always says...)
Agree. This is better than most Netflix and Hulu documentaries
HONESTLY THO. The fucking quality of this channel has just been growing exponentially and it's gamechanging
I really feel for Laura. This whole saga definitely appears to have played with her head. Disappearing out of nowhere, then bailing on her husband, cutting contact with her friends then passing in Colorado years later with no-one close to her during the Disney period aware of it.
Once again Disney doesn't know what to do with a great concept.
And as soon as record labels get involved, you know things are going to get fucked.
Capitalism
"Disney doesn't know what to do with a great concept." Or a great IP. They totally destroyed Star Wars and drove away the fans in favor of their toxic woke ideology.
@@rroes7319 Capitalism.
They wanted a company other than Disney as their label, but you'd think that, after seeing how popular they were, Disney would have been THRILLED to produce their first record, at least. Maybe even bring them back again the next summer before their careers launched.
@@rroes7319 Yes they would have thrived under Communism
I remember my dad drawing designs for this band. I had a T-Shirt, but I was only 11 and a giant Kiss fan. I've asked about this band over the years. It's good to know what ultimately happened to them. Sad to hear about Lora's passing.
“The Halyx Headbang” is the 2nd forbidden dance at Disneyland a close 2nd to “Homosexual Fast Dancing”
you forgot... THE BIG APPLE
@@baileylogan8889 Lol I know that had to piss Walt off because ya know...he was Nazi synthesizer.
@@Gilgaemesh Nazi sinthesizer, I'm dead!
Also no he wasn't.
@@spritingk6879 Your wrong it's a well known fact he was.
@@Gilgaemesh says who? Seth MacFalane? Seth Green?
“And low and behold he was a babe magnet, all the girls wanted to meet the guy under the suit” actually sir, those are just furries
@Safwaan you dont much about furries, huh?
I see girls were very cultured back then. Nice.
This towards the end got emotional, and I didn't even know about this band until your documentary .......
I miss halyx and I wasn't even a part of it.
This band LITERALLY had everything I enjoy in a band ...it's a shame there isn't a album or something that you could have purchased
Like they sounded amazing
I'm glad I wasn't the only one holding back the tears when the credits rolled
@@stoneymahoney9106 yeah, guess that's how you can tell the documenter did their best to convey their subject at hand
further proving that I can't watch a Defunctland Docu without crying my eyes out. What absolute legends. RIP Laura, its decades too late but you are a star
"There's never gonna be a bunch of nerdy young people who come around and wanna know about Halyx."
Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn't...but the magic never really goes away.
There will always be nerdy young people coming around looking for cool stuff from the past! 😂
I would have love to have seen this ! it used to be unpopular to be a nerd
@@katies3201 Are there recordings? where can I hear the songs?
@@wonderrob3225 according to the documentary, there aren’t any. They never went into a studio, and they only performed live that one summer. So I’m guessing this is about as much as anyone could find.
Gonna be honest, when they mentioned that Lora had died, I got a bit teary eyed even though I hadn't even heard of her until today. May she rest in peace.
The fact that they talked to her husband first gave me chills about what was going to come out later.
@@lorensims4846 For me it was that they saved him for last. I knew it wasn't gonna be good
I saw the band on stage many times in 1981, and I just assumed that Lora went on to perform with other bands over the years. Until I watched the documentary, I had no idea she passed 11 years ago. She had great talent and left way too soon. Rest in peace.
Yeah man, that kicked me in the Chewies - Hard.
Yeah man, I was worrying the whole time cause she was only talked about in pasttence and Bambi mentioned her autograph very somberly. Then when her ex husband showed up I realized that was his first appearance here and held out hope that she'd just be interviewed last, but nope. At least she's living on this way, I only heard of the group through this video and I've was more invested than I've ever been of any other huge mainstream musical group ever lol
To me- the sign of a great documentary is getting the viewer to care about something they didn’t care about or maybe even know about before viewing. Mission accomplished: this is a great documentary.
They do great work here. I don't know why I never watched this before but having watched the American Idol at MGM Studio piece yesterday. I figured give this a whirl. Never cared for American Idol, never watched it, ect. But I was drawn into that video.
Best example is his documentary on Theme Park Rides Lines. I mean who would have thought that an almost 1 hr 45 on theme park lines would be interesting. I've watched/listened to that one on more than one occasion.
the moment where it cuts from lora's jacket "halyx" handwritten on the tag to the footage of her singing her heart out on stage... chills
This band had so much potential to be cheesy, but honestly they are pretty damn cool. I’d definitely pay to see them
They're look is kind of like TWRP
If Disney tried something like this again today, with the right angle, they could have an army of loyal theater kids dissecting the lore on Tumblr & falling all over themselves in the parks trying to catch the eye of their favorite band member.
@@Champiness The sad thing is that I can already work out a backstory for them as a group who travel the stars performing and getting into adventures. The guitarist is the dashing space hero, the singer is a space princess who ran away from home to be a rock star, the drummer is the plucky sidekick, then you've got the brutish bass player, the alien percussionist, and the robot keyboard player with his holographic backup singers. It basically writes itself!
@@Henshingod That.... that's almost literally the TWRP backstory.
They seemed extremely cool to me. Man Lora could belt it out and Im really sad I couldn't have seen that in person!
This could literally be in theaters and people would love it
I was so captivated the whole time!!
Tyler without a doubt
NO WAY...SCREW NETFLIX, HULU & YES...EVEN Disney+, They Are The Reasons This Was Silenced. FOR PEOPLE, BY PEOPLE!! THIS SHOULD BE A Network TV Documentary For EVERYONE To💗, Share & ENJOY!!
The performances looked amazing, how lucky were those select few that were able to experience it. What a shame that something this great just disappeared because some people refused to give them a chance.
These musicians did something a lot of others would have turned their noses up at. They owned it, they ROCKED it, and they made it something REAL, something special.
Disney back then wasn't ready for it. It would go over much better with today's Disney parks.
Such a shame there isn't a full album, or a complete concert on video.
Todays Disney parks would be way too scared to even do something as bold as halyx.
You have no idea how happy I am to see this. I was working at Disneyland when Halyx was there and probably saw 75% or more of their shows. When we ran into the band members backstage they were always so nice. Would kill for a good audio recording of Jailbait. By the end of that summer THAT was the song we all wanted to here and they knew it!
>Jailbait
>playing at Disney
Hmmmmm
hide your kids 😂
😅can you imagine Walt’s face?! He’d be like 😧
They actually did it.
The madmen actually did it
I would love to see a Halyx series following their adventures as a space-faring rock band. That would be amazing. Especially if it maintained a lot of those 70s sci-fantasy aesthetics.
So bring them into the Star Wars Galaxy properly.
@@MandalorV7 Bass Battle: The Baharnoth VS Darth Vader!
@@MandalorV7 I normally roll my eyes at that kind of brand integration nonsense...but if it gave Halyx a second chance in the spotlight, I'd be all for it.
I'm a 49 year old KISS and Star Wars fan since the late 70's and this would've been right in my wheelhouse , I'm sorry they didn't get a chance, RIP Lora Mumford and HALYX
I... I don't even know what to say about this. The amount of history in this little one summer show. The fact that something so spectacularly weird was actually just spectacular. The fact that the bizarre concept actually WORKED and was about to expand but fell apart because of corporate workings that had nothing to do with them. The fact that this is really a full documentary on the same level as Behind The Music. The fact that the songs actually slap. I just don't know what to say besides bravo, Kevin and Matthew.
Imagine someone still has Master Tapes of Halyx Recordings in their basement and doesn’t know about it...
after almost 40 years, i doubt those master;'s would be in good shape.. those old magnetic tapes degrade pretty fast after their first decade.
tow it wood be cool if the rest of the band get together and with a new lead (Lexi Snow) would record a album
i wood love to hear Jailbait in full flac detail
@@glitterboy2098 you would be surprised. They found original Dr Who tapes from the 60s in 2015 and they were good
One can hope.
@@glitterboy2098 Not so. It ALWAYS depends on how tapes were manufactured and stored.
Dude Halyx would've KILLED today.
As much as I am not a fan of the current Disney culture, I absolutely love how hard these guys pushed against the Disney norm at the time to do something new. That's the true spirit of metal.
I wish Lora could see this. I'd like to believe she'd be happy to finally get the recognition she deserves.
Closure as well. I feel she needed closure! She seemed unable to move on.
@OfficialMumford Could probably give more insight into this. Did she move on? Was she happy? I sure hope so...
THIS is content. *_QUALITY CONTENT!_*
*_THIS_* is the kind of high-quality content that CZcams was *MADE* for! That CZcams *EXISTS* to host. We are so ridiculously fortunate to get this kind of amazing content for FREE!!
I couldn't agree more. This is professional quality, top of the line
Yeah, I would paid a couple of bucks, easy, to download this if it was put on ITunes or Amazon, just from Defunctlands reputation...
I agree, thank you!
It reminds me of all those great documentaries that _used to_ exist on Netflix
You mean you didn't donate on Indiegogo?
That Wookiee is metal af.
Why does Disney always screw up their coolest projects? Halyx could have been a real hit but they refused to market them. I had never even heard of Halyx but now I want to time travel and catch as many shows as possible.
I feel so bad for Thom. Everything was going great and then Disney failed the band and he lost his wife. They had such a cute love story and you can tell he admired the hell out of her. He knew she was a star and wanted her to shine as brightly as possible.
The further into the doc you get the more you are aware of the fact that they haven't spoken to Lora yet. Then you get to the red jacket. I'm not crying I swear ; _ ;
I am
Part of me was hoping that maybe she had become so famous she couldn't give interviews to CZcamsrs, but that hope definitely faded as it went on :(
Most acts like this would just mime instrumentation and singing, but these people were the real deal. They could've toured and made a bundle and gotten a following. Hell, they had an organic fanclub form right there during that one brief summer.
This felt like a precursor to Gorillaz if they were given more freedom. What a shame they couldn't explore more.
I am taken by this whole thing. And wonder what could have been.😢
Disney never listens to the people. Whoever heard of a successful band get dropped after studio recording no less? Shame on you Disney and Warner Bros.
@That Flippin Guy and you usually never hear about them because prior to youtube, if you didn't have a record, you effectively didn't exist.
Just the idea alone of, as Scott Gairdner says "Star Wars Kiss", with a vocalist that sounds like Ann Wilson of Heart. In 1981 that would have been a combination of some of the biggest things in entertainment at the time. How they weren't immediately put into production and heavily promoted is beyond me. Even if they didn't want to commit to a series an animated TV special with live action performance inserts should have been a no brainer for Disney.
I'm glad her jacket has been kept in good condition. It's a shame that all of the costumes were destroyed.
I didn't expect anything going into this documentary and now I am in tears overs this band's story. Lora's voice was something, I am hooked.
Disney: "We want a Star Wars Rock n' Roll show!"
*Halyx performs*
Disney: "No, not like that..."
I was just thinking tonight about how Disney is so creative with things and yet can turn right back around and destroy those things.
@@spacecat7247 How they fucked up Star Wars. They need to replace whoever gives such dumb advice in management. Even if it's the share owners owners. Disney is too big and sacrifices substance for forgettable crap that sells nothing in the end and loses money.
I (and I stress this) CAN NOT believe this is free. Just... wow. Easily the best documentary I've seen in a while. I never heard of Halyx before this, and this took me on a whole ride of emotions.
We're looking at YOU, Netflix!
I totally agree.
We're looking at YOU Disney+
Same. I am crying right now. Like. Seriously!?
It wasn’t really free. It was crowd funded. But I agree this should be sold to a major streaming service because it’s so well produced.
A beautiful loving tribute.
I absolutely loved it.
The song “Hey There Boys” as performed over the end credits, is a haunting masterpiece.
Your documentaries always hit a spot in my heart. I’ve never heard of Halyx, yet this moved me in a way I didn’t expect. Keep doing what you’re doing, it really impact people more than you know 💜
Also, hey there boys would be great as a 80s movie soundtrack
Lora’s jacket being the only thing left of Halyx 🥺
It's kinda poetic isn't it?
@@htmlnkp I also think it's kind of beautiful in a way too. like. it's a family heirloom now, a flash of lightening in the shape of a red leather jacket. like a singer of Lora's quality working a regular non-singing job. something about the magical and the mundane colliding in weird ways
@@kaelynkelly-colon7170 Happens more than you think. Very tragic and a waste of talent not exposed to the world where it belongs. Just imagine if resources were more accessible to unsung talent. Strangely we're at a point in human history where it's leaps and bounds more accessible than ever yet, most stuff sucks. The true unsung talents are where accessible is inaccessible nor green lit and organized.
@@coreym162 The problem is that everyone has a voice and the best voices aren't always the loudest in terms of eyes on the internet
Aw man, this got a lot sadder than i expected from a documentary about an alien band at Disneyland...
Hey There Boys is phenomenal. If this was released today, it would do so well around indie circles :(
awe, this is so sad. I think, what hurts me the most, is that they didn’t realize it was over until it was too late. imagine how memorable their last show would have been if they had known it was to actually be their last show.
Why did the Beethoven from Space bumper stickers make me so emotional
I got a guess. maybe it's because the young fans who made them, made the band more than the gimmick it was set up to be, suddenly you have these ecstatic fans at every show giving the hardworking band energy and reason to interact with the audience as much as possible, adding to the fantasy of the space-band with hand signs and homemade merch.
I guess it's all just very wholesome. I imagine the keyboard player being handed those bumper stickers thinking 'the company who hired us won't even make merch, but these kids like our show so much they made their own!' just shows what a great connection the band must have had with their fans.
The absence of Laura throughout the video didn't make the foregone conclusion any less sad :(
I momentarily hesitated, but you had me with "...and then I had to climb the rope and play tambourine in space." Just plain excellent work. HALYX ROCKS!
She held that note from 51:54 - 52:11
Holy Shit. What a VOICE.
why am i crying about this band that existed decades before i was born 😭
I was alive back then and didn't even knew about this band and I am all bummed out too.
When are you going to stop making the rest of CZcams look bad, Kevin?
Top notch quality on display. Really blown away.
But then if this is the quality content that we watch instead of stuff like the paul Brothers then we can possibly make them have to actually try to be creative
Watching that percussionist running around while playing different instruments feels like slipknot before slipknot
As a bassist, having a "sure why not" attitude helps with a lot of things
This is a perfect example of excellent long-form content that simply would never get made without youtube as a platform. The ability of niche content to find its audience here is incredible.
And to think that youtube is actively trying to fuck over content like this.
@@Synergy7Studios its because youtube prefers mediocrity to an extent
youtube has *nothing* to do with this documentary. youtube would sooner actively prevent a creative endeavor like this from happening if it suited them.
@@mothratheresa8582 youtube prefers corporate advertiser money... hence the mediocrity.
Yes... let’s thank CZcams for defunctland’s hard work...
Never heard about Halyx before this documentary but that shot of Lora's vest moved me to tears somehow?
Me too--wept over that jacket in the locker. Never got a chance to meet her...so badly wish I had! But her version of Jailbait has become my favorite. She was terrific!
Same
Same. I lost it.
SAME
literally boo-hoo crying!!
This band really deserves some kind of reference in Star Wars or something. Truly amazing
I discovered this documentary yesterday and I am already obsessed. Looking at Halyx t-shirts today. Why do I have such deep nostalgia over something I JUST discovered? I am at a loss over how I am feeling about this. Halyx has been on my mind for 24 hours.
😂😂
WHAT!!!!!!! Just drop a full-length documentary. Thanks, Kevin and everyone who pitched in on indiegogo
You're welcome.
“There’s never gonna be a bunch of nerdy young people that want to know about Halyx or hear it”......... BAH GAWD it’s Podcast the Ride’s music!
Never underestimate the power of a cult fanbase
I was super young when I saw these guys perform at Disneyland. I had just gone on Star Tours with my mom and sister and thought that these guys were Star Wars related as well. I remember telling my friends at school in the fall that I saw the Star Wars band. :D
I was 15 when Halyx had their brief existence. To my eyes and ears, there should have been a place for Lora Mumford in early 80’s rock. To me she occupied a viable space among her contemporaries that was accessible but more aggressive than Rindy Ross of Quarterflash yet didn’t mimic the virtuosic Pat Benatar. At the very very least she’d have made a hell of a background singer for Benatar. It’s a real shame no one was willing to pick her up where Disney left off and explore her considerable talents. RIP.
No freaking way did Disney greenlight a live Star Wars-esq. rock band singing about "Jailbait" in the 80's.
EDIT: If Disney had any gumption, they'd dig deep into their archives for any Halyx material and milk it for what it's worth. Especially if they had tracks.
I could definitely see the band's material being part of Disney's Legacy Collection releases.
I’d go to California just to watch this!!
This documentary is the kind of thing you watch at 3 in the morning when you have insomnia, then the next morning when you wake up you wonder if the whole thing was just a weird dream you had.
I know this is a year old, but this entire documentary just auto played while I was asleep and the dream was incredible
I got this in the recommended today and I'm staring at the credits roll still thinking about the kids in the front row show after show, dancing in their seats, making 'H' for Halyx with their hands and proudly showing off their homemade merch to the band members. like thats the sweetest thing I've heard in a long time and now theres a small dedicated fanbase to the resurgence of Halyx and the emotional suckerpunch that everyone from the band except Lora got to see it got me down bad.
@Banana Can confirm 100% to every thing you said.
Can confirm. 2:22 right now
having this experience rn
Lora's fade is so heartbreaking.
Seeing her going from near stardom to a waitress job.
When the part about her passing away came up, I teared up.
In another world, they could've been stars.
Thank you so much for your excellent work, Kevin and everyone involved in this fantastic documentary.
Hearing Lora died was the biggest gut punch ever.
Anyone else want to point out how amazing and high quality this documentary is?!
I dunno, just the entire comment section, so this post makes no sense?
damn that detail about Lora's leather jacket really gave me chills 😭
I had seen this band several times in the Summer of '81 and over the years I had somehow forgotten about them. This doc was like a time machine that sent me to the past and helped bring back a flood of memories. Thank you, I absolutely LOVED it!
Lora doing the H symbol that the fans came up with is adorable. That still alone shows how much she loved what she was doing.
This should be on Disney+.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
As the 1st thing on the ticker when you load it up.
Why? Disney doesn't like people talking badly about their past. Anything that happened. Be good or bad. They sweep it under the rug and pretend it never happened.
@@Qardo Oh, really? There's a chapter in _The Imagineering Story_ dedicated to Superstar Limo.
YES
It's stunning that I haven't heard of Halyx until seeing this video. Just, an absolutely priceless showcase of pure 80s rock n roll, laser rock shows, dudes with long hair, fawning over Star Wars, and so on, topped with a brutal story of a band that should've made it. That cover of Hey There Boys is absolutely chilling.
This really is the sorta thing Defunctland is all about- sure, Halyx might not be most important piece of Disney history, but to think I never would've known it existed if not for this. Once again, you push the envelope and raise the bar for the quality that content like this can reach, Kevin.
Thank you! The full cover of “Hey There Boys” is on my CZcams Channel.
Lora for Disney princess
Amazing stuff. What's crazy to me is that someone's small moment in time, say a family vacation... band playing in the background. For you it's nothing, just a park band... for that band it might be the biggest moment of their lives. All these small/huge moments going on all around us all the time.
It's incredibly distressing to come upon this and hear the love for the group that Lora never got to hear. There's something astoundingly tragic about people who put their heart and soul into a thing to only end up having it appreciated after they've passed on.