Premise
The musical comedy depicts the fifteenth annual New Year's Eve concert at the fictitious Saturn Theater, and satirizes the rock business along with many rock and roll stereotypes. The film is also a tribute to the Fillmore East theater in New York City, where Arkush once worked as an usher, and is a fanciful view of what that famed music venue might have been like had it survived into the 1980s.
The film's main conflict comes from an evil industry mogul who wants to tear down the Saturn for a high-rise office building. Among his assets, the mogul controls a 22,000-seat auditorium and an 84,000-seat stadium, the sort of oversized, low-quality music venues that Bill Graham railed against as "Woodstock Festival syndrome" when he closed the Fillmore East in 1971. In contrast the operator of the Saturn Theater, Max Wolfe (an idealized version of Graham), is established as the hero of live music fans everywhere when he sums up his credo this way: "I put on shows at the Saturn so that the kids can see the stage, afford the tickets, and hear the music."
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