# ROLLING STONES: C*CKSUCKER BLUES w/ Neil Gust Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/rolling-stones-c-cksucker-blues-w-neil-gust Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/rolling-stones-c-cksucker-blues-w-neil-gust.md Podcast: [REVOLUTIONS PER MOVIE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757) Published: 2026-03-26T09:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/revolutionspermovie/episodes/cocksucker-blues-w-neil-gust Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/64de4e5db2838f0011a11fce/e/693223c4a63c6eaa5924943f/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/episodes/rolling-stones-c-cksucker-blues-w-neil-gust Duration seconds: 4294 ## Resource This week, I am joined by musician/editor  Neil Gust  ( Heatmiser, No.2 ) to discuss the troubling, complicated, and 'unreleased'  Rolling Stones film  C*cksucker Blues , directed by legendary photographer  Robert Frank .   We also discuss Neil's early days in Portland in his band with  Elliott Smith --Heatmiser, Chris directing two early music videos for the band, the process of revisiting and re-releasing the Heatmiser records for  Third Man Records , the odd newness of indie rock legacy, Neil’s autobiographical songwriting (including "A.O.R." which is about Neil working on his Dad’s farm as well as how his Dad’s use of the word “c*cksucker” made Neil not want to tell anyone he was gay, Neil writing the Heatmiser song C*cksuckers Blues in response to the Rolling Stone's film,  Let It Bleed , how seeing  Apocalypse Now  at a young age solidified Neil’s love of intertwining music and film, how the Stones have had some of the greatest film directors of all time make some of their worst films, how Robert Frank got involved in making the film and the difficulties that surrounded it, why the Stones killed the film, bad art getting a ‘pass’ when it’s shown in museums, saving or ruining art in the edit,  Rock N Roll Circus ,  Martin Scorsese’s Shine A Light , seeing the Stones live and how janky it could be, comparing The Stones to a  John Cassavetes  film, Neil making the Heatmiser video for C*cksuckers Blues,  Bruce Conner  and found footage films, being turned onto art through bands like  Hüsker Dü  and  R.E.M.  and more. So bring the smelling salts, because today we're going deep into the murk on this week's  Revolutions Per Movie !!! Heatmise… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/episodes/rolling-stones-c-cksucker-blues-w-neil-gust/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/revolutions-per-movie-6604757/rolling-stones-c-cksucker-blues-w-neil-gust.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.