For many people, the one thing they remember about the 1987 film The Lost Boys is the saxophone player. He only appeared in one short scene, but he made an impression. It was only years later, when people recognized the character parodied in a 2010 SNL short, that we found out everyone else was just as impressed.
Back in the mid-‘80s, musclebound musician Tim Cappello was performing with the likes of Tina Turner and Ringo Starr. He’d spend months and months learning their songs, recording albums, touring, everything a working musician would do. Then, for just one night, he went to Santa Cruz, California, and shot a single scene in a Hollywood movie. Soon after the movie came out, he watched it once and basically forgot about it. “I did that when I was in my early 30s and it meant nothing to me,” Cappello told io9 over the phone. “It meant nothing when it happened...then all of a sudden it just hit something.”
That movie was called The Lost Boys and Cappello plays “Beach Concert Star,” a bare-chested singer/saxophone player performing a fiery cover of the Call’s “I Still Believe” as soon-to-be-vampire Michael (Jason Patric) sees the mysterious Star (Jami Gertz) for the first time. For Lost Boys fans and non-fans alike, the scene has become an unforgettable snapshot of a time and place in pop culture history.
Read the path that Capello took to making that scene, and what it turned into afterward, at io9. (via Metafilter)