A MOVIE detailing the life and times of Californian rockers Y&T is nearing completion and should be released this year, according to singer and guitarist Dave Meniketti.

Speaking on the current episode of the White Line Fever podcast, Meniketti says the as-yet-untitled flick has entered the editing phase.

“It’s reasonably close but there is a whole lot of editing to be go yet,” said Meniketti. “We’ve done so many interviews with different people, myself being probably the one that’s done the most time on the film.

“Outside of that, every single person that’s been in the band over its career, with the exception of Phil (Kennemore) who’s passed away … it’s been a hell of an endeavour.

“And a lot of other people (have been involved) as well – people who have been involved in our careers, old managers, people from the San Francisco Bay Area who have been writing about us in the papers, other rock stars as well, taking about the band and what it was like for them.

“There’s a lot of stuff. There’s a lot of history, a lot of things that people haven’t seen, some behind-the-scenes videos, other types of things like that, some live stuff that nobody’s ever seen before.”

An editing team is currently working on the footage, Meniketti said.

“So there’s a lot of stuff to be assembled.

“You can imagine it’s going to be a lot of work. We’d be expecting it will be out around late spring or early summer. That’s what we’re hoping for at least.”

Y&T is best known for the songs “Summertime Girls”, “Meansteak” and “Rescue Me”. Bassist Kennemore died in 2011 of lung cancer.



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