My Dinner with Jimi (2003)

Directors

Bill Fishman

Cast

Justin Henry, Royale Watkins, Jason Boggs, George Wendt, Brett Gilbert, Sean Maysonet, Kevin Cotteleer, George Stanchev

The story

The story focuses on the Turtles in the days leading up to and following the success of their single "Happy Together". Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman receive their draft cards and Frank Zappa tells them to seek advice from Herb Cohen, Zappa's manager and Kaylan's cousin, to avoid being drafted in the Vietnam War. Cohen advises Kaylan to show up to the draft board intoxicated from drug use, not to bathe or sleep, and to behave so obnoxiously that the Army will not draft him, leading Kaylan and Volman to engage in a sleepless night of marijuana smoking before their draft review, which they fail due to being high while taking the tests, and…

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