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Volume 38 Issue 8
January 23, 2001

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Hollywood’s infamous Goonie no longer a lost boy
after all

BY JORDAN CURRIER
MESA LEGEND
Submitted January 23, 2001

He’s had bouts with drinking, drugs and experienced the pitfalls of public exploitation, all stamped, packaged and marketed by Hollywood cynics and critics for the purposes of entertainment.

Closely resembles the sordid life of a rock-star on the road to self-destruction, doesn’t it?

Kim Patterson/MESA LEGEND

Actor turned musician Corey Feldman sheds his ex-movie stardom for music’s greener pastures.

Well, Corey Feldman’s not quite a rock-star yet, but he’s definitely tempted self-destruction before, and now he’s testing the waters of the music industry, independently releasing the 1999 LP "Still Searching For Soul," the debut set for Corey Feldman’s ensemble The Truth Movement.

After a lengthy US tour of low-profile venues, including a recent stop to Tempe’s Green Room, Feldman decided to resume work on a solo record.

While Feldman has yet to garner huge success in the music industry, he has made his mark in Tinseltown.

Once upon a time, he was on-top of things, riding a wave of 1980’s teen stardom that landed him top billing in "The Goonies, "Stand by Me" and "The Lost Boys," modern movie classics that can still warm Gen-Xers hearts to this day.

But Hollywood decided to move on to the next craze, relegating Feldman to roles in "Meatballs 4," "National Lampoon’s Last Resort," "Voodoo" and other like-minded B-movies.

His A-list status was over. He became a straight-to-video king, grappling over the loss of heaps of money to his parents and wondering where all the good acting gigs went. In true falling-star form, he turned to drugs and alcohol as an outlet for depression.

"I definitely feel exploited, there’s definitely a lot of that going on," Feldman said.

Kim Patterson/MESA LEGEND

Feldman greets press and anxious on-lookers at the Green Room Dec. 8.

"The key to it all as far as journalism and all that goes is, I like people who are honest, which ever way you cut it, because that’s what I’m about, I’m about honesty and being direct, so it’s like, you want to interview me and be ‘oh you’re great I love your stuff,’ and then write ‘oh this piece of s**t, blah, blah, blah,’ then what’s the point?"

Feldman, however, never one to stray from optimism, has decided to take matters into his own hands, writing, performing and producing all of his own material, an eclectic and unsettling mix of blues psychedelia and rock offset by brooding, semi-autobiographical lyrics about depressio and hopelessness.

"The hardest part of it, I think, was pulling myself out, while I was making this transition to producing things and doing music and all that kind of stuff," Feldman said. "So it was kind of like I was sitting around a lot for the phone to ring."

Feldman is currently producing a yet-to-be-released television talk show and hinted to the Legend that his next film project may be a sequel to "The Goonies."

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