Behind the Scenes with Kurt Lockwood
Porn’s No. 1 Stud on Western Civilization’s Decline
How did you come up with the concept for the Decline of Western Civilization Part 69: The Porno Years?
Kurt Lockwood: From the original Decline of Western Civilization documentaries, directed by Penelope Spears, who went on to Wayne’s World’s fame and fortune. That’s how she got her start. One is in the late 70s, and one is in the mid-80s, her original Decline movies. The first one deals with the early L.A. punk-rock scene—its great bands like the Germs, Gear, Black Flag. The second movie dealt with the glam-metal scene that was in L.A. at the time. I had been playing in bands a lot and stuff—I was Dee Dee Ramone’s guitar player before he died—so, I always wanted to be in one of those movies. I heard that the music documentaries she originally made, the producers, the people who gave her the money to make them, at first wanted her to make a porno movie but she did those movies instead. I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be neat if I did a third version, another installment of it, and this time we really do a porn,’ which was the original intent of the first ones. This time, what I wanted to do was not focus so much on music but on my idea that there is a scene going on in L.A. It’s not so much a music scene as there’s a porn scene happening which is just as legitimate. There are a couple of porn stars who happen to play in bands. I thought I could keep that element of it—the punk rock ‘n roll—and at the same time, I can add in all the sex. So, sort of have my cake and eat it, too.
Describe then what The Decline of Civilization Part 69 is truly about?
Lockwood: I think it’s a new thing. I call it a pornumentary where it is a slice of life, a moment caught in time, a snapshot caught in time kind of thing, where I do show not only a hot, awesome orgy sex scene—where I have two orgies in there, DPs and girls with strap-on, everything to try to make it really crazy sex—in addition you get to see behind the scenes. You get to see us going to AIM and getting our blood tested for STDs. You get to see us talking in front of the camera and getting beyond . . . it humanizes us instead seeing these two-dimensional sex puppets going at it. It shows you that we’re real people as well, with hopes and dreams and problems just like everybody else. The humanization of it, I liked showing the background of everybody. The whole idea of it was, we did this benefit concert. We raised $5,000 for charity, for detox programs for our industry and my thesis for the movie was, not only is there a scene but we do things like the charity event. You see us giving the check. There’s more to us than just what’s going on. Hopefully, that makes the sex scenes even hotter because it’s hotter to see who we are as people rather than just an anonymous person.
