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Some stoner in a basement somewhere once swore that Pink Floyd’s moody Dark Side of the Moon album synched up perfectly with The Wizard of Oz. You know, “Run, Rabbit, Run” plays during the tornado—and the drum beats, man! They’re right in time with her feet! Well, San Francisco duo Dark Side of the Cop gives a healthy nod to the tradition of combining musical/cinematic loves, but they actually do it intentionally… which is some amazing, dorky genius right there. Marco Panella, armed with guitar and various bits of electronica, created a synched-up soundtrack to the masterpiece Beverly Hills Cop. You’re damn right that’s fucking Eddie Murphy. Now he and his buddy Roger Thomasson have a disc on Auger Down Records and are touring a shitload in support of good music and ’80s movies alike.

I had a chance to chat with Marco and Roger after a distortion-riffic (and very chilly) set at the South Union Arts Center (read: a converted church with a neon Jesus above the stage/altar that says, “I am the Light of the World”) last week, to discover more about… you know, people who actually come up with such ideas:

So tell me about how all this got started – you know, getting high one night and watching Beverly Hills Cop, maybe?…

Marco: Haha, yeah, pretty much! It was sort of a bad idea that floated around in our heads since high school, but we never really had any occasion to do it until we were between bands. My friend and I were big Eddie Murphy fans in high school… we never thought we’d, you know, actually do it. He’s from Detroit, so you know—there’s the Detroit angle, and it was either that or Trading Places. Trading Places would be harder…

Roger: Harder to name.

Marco: Yeah.

So how did you go about doing that? Watch the movie with the sound down?

Marco: Yeah, actually… I made the whole thing on the computer, so you can watch little clips with the songs linked up to them. When we perform we kinda stretch the songs out a little bit, but yeah… it was a pain. I didn’t even see the whole thing through until I was done, and then we watched it and I was like, “Oh my god, what the hell was that?”

Have you ever thought about doing it live? Like if you had a video hookup, playing the songs while screening the movie?

Marco: Yeah, definitely, we’ve thought about it… We’re not really good enough…

Roger: One of the problems is that the songs have changed a little bit since the album, so they wouldn’t link up the way it was intended. I’m sure people would still assume they were linking up anyways, but you know. Some of the songs were like two minutes on the album, to keep them synched up to a particular scene, but now they’re like four or five minutes, and wouldn’t work, really.

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