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So, I go to the NY Daily News Web site this morning and I see this:
‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ 25th anniversary celebrated at Found Footage Festival screening.
It is already almost 5 years since I interviewed Jeff Krulik and John Heyn about the 20th anniversary of Heavy Metal Parking Lot. The cult classic is a documentary [...]

I heard back from filmmaker Jeff Krulik about the WTOP story:
“…our WTOP story was just a short reminder that the DVD is still available. In fact, it’s now getting wider distribution into stores, etc.”
PREVIOUSLY: Heavy Metal Parking Lot story on WTOP Q&A: Heavy Metal Parking Lot 20th Anniversary
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Driving home and flipping through stations, I heard the unmistakable vocie of the one and only…
ZEBRAMAN!
Sadly, I didn’t hear the whole WTOP report. There isn’t anything on wtop.com yet either. Anybody know why Heavy Metal Parking Lot was being referenced?
Anyway, while we wait for clarification, take time to read the interview I conducted with the [...]

Today is the anniversary of the 1986 Judas Priest Capital Centre concert that was immortalized in the documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot. John Heyn and Jeff Krulik’s 16 minute video of Judas Priest fans tailgating perfectly captured the heavy metal zeitgeist of the mid 80s. The documentary made the rounds at local film festivals before [...]