Roy Garrett’s Hot Rod to Hell
Cool relic from 1984, pornstar Roy Garrett poeting over soundtracky beats from Man Parrish. The album begins, "My parents knew that I liked to stand in front of my bedroom window and jerk off as I watched the men build the supermarket behind our home.”
Roy Garrett born Roy Samber in Newark, New Jersey arrived in New York City hungry to explore the sex and porn scenes he’d seen advertised in the Village Voice’s classified section. He danced in Times Square theaters The Gaiety, Ramrod, and Big Top before moving into adult film. From 1979 through 1983 Garret starred in ten films, five of them for Joe Gage, including his lead role in 'Heatstroke'. Throughout this period of self-discovery, he wrote the suite of 48 poems that became ‘Hot Rod to Hell’. In 1982 he recorded and self-released the poems on cassette with haunting, atmospheric score by Man Parrish, who also did several soundtracks for Gage. The project was produced for the stage by Manhattan illustrator Robert W. Richards who calls 'Hot Rod', "a searing voyage through the labyrinths of modern male sexuality; its geography ranging from porn theaters to back room bars to the intimacy of shared beds. Only a man born at exactly the moment in gay history that Garrett was could have lived through and conceived this work.” Roy Garrett tells his stories of sex, violence, truth, and illusion, as visceral and personal a record as any of that moment in gay history pre-AIDS. Joe Gage, describes 'Hot Rod' as, “…sweet danger. This is a perceptive look at the underside of love. It is funny, scary, surprisingly moving and best of all, extremely acute in observing the specifics of the human condition.”
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 13, 2020 3:10 PM
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A regular Dorothy Parker, that one!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 29, 2020 1:52 PM
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Everyone wants to be Emily Dickenson
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 29, 2020 2:00 PM
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Interesting article on Joe Gage. I really never knew much about him other than his movies were the ones I liked the most.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 29, 2020 2:03 PM
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For a second I read the title as Rod Garretto
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 29, 2020 7:50 PM
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In that interview, Gage says he appeared in one of his early movies. Does anyone know which one or have a link?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 29, 2020 8:29 PM
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Thank you for posting that Joe Gage interview. I always wondered about him. Very interesting.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 29, 2020 9:12 PM
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I had no idea Gage is married to a woman.
LOL at the prissy comment by "Jimmy."
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 29, 2020 10:24 PM
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Gage only married a woman when AIDS hit the gay community. Like too many men he ran from trouble and distanced himself from the people he made money from. An American Tom Robinson.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 29, 2020 10:33 PM
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Love his films, I would love to read a more recent interview though. I am not so impressed with how he comes across in this interview.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 29, 2020 10:43 PM
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To be fair R12 if Butt were interviewing me I’d probably try to act as cool as possible and come across badly. He’s probably just as unsure of himself as the rest of us
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 30, 2020 7:58 AM
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His best films were made for Titan, probably because somebody else had a hand at the editing, but since he migrated to Ray Dragon his scenes have lost the heat, they feel awkward and under-edited and relying on the poor acting of non-actors.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 30, 2020 5:39 PM
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I think that's symptomatic of the porn industry nowadays.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 11, 2020 2:28 PM
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I have tried to link to Heatstroke - it's online in it's full length on porn hub.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 11, 2020 2:41 PM
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Dig it out for us, if you can R17
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 11, 2020 2:43 PM
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Wow, love this so much. Gay NYC piers cruising and gay serial killer spoken work with retro early 80's synth. Why not? So nuts! Thanks OP.
So it was originally released as a cassette with an issue of Stallion magazine in 1984, then rereleased on vinyl and download in 2019.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 11, 2020 3:05 PM
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Never heard of Roy Garrett. What was he in?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 11, 2020 3:11 PM
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He is in Heatstroke. It's on porn hub. So just search for it on porn hub. He's not that hot. he's a mousy jersey boy with an average cock. It fits the aesthetic of the time though.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 11, 2020 3:13 PM
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[R20], off the top of my head, he was in Heatstroke, Red Ball Express, and others. You can go to any gay porn site and watch these. I would suggest it. He was a hot hot mofo...
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 11, 2020 4:26 PM
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[quote] His best films were made for Titan, probably because somebody else had a hand at the editing, but since he migrated to Ray Dragon his scenes have lost the heat, they feel awkward and under-edited and relying on the poor acting of non-actors.
I assume you're talking about Joe Gage?
He did do some great stuff for Titan. I think either with Dragon he either got too old, too transfixed by Allen Silver, or everyone is doing so much meth or molly there on set it's just a mess.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 12, 2020 9:52 PM
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Did his standards drop off towards the end of his career?
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 13, 2020 3:05 PM
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Found this brief but very moving obit/remembrance from his mom in The NY Times. RIP
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 13, 2020 3:10 PM
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