Jeff Healy Band in "Roadhouse"

Busboys in "48 Hours"

Here are six examples that immediately came to my mind...

Electric Banana (The Pretty Things) - It'll Never Be Me -

wow - motherlode!

Alice Cooper in Wayne's World
Aerosmith in Wayne's World 2
REO Speedwagon was just in an episode of Ozark
Oingo Boingo in Back to School (I think they've been in a few others. Danny Elfman has become one of the most sought after people for scoring films)

Lowell George & the Factory in an episode of Gomer Pyle, USMC.

Man these are c o o l - Psy I love that Clear Light record - “good morning, Mr Blue....” haha - great find too berkhath - someone a year or 2 ago posted a segment of the TV show Mannix w/the Buffalo Springfield as the house band

the Yardbirds in the Monkees film Head, playing Shapes of Things in front of mummified students (pretty sure it’s from Head)
also gotta mention the Coasters in one of my fave flicks, Original Gangstas

[Edited on 5/4/2020 by Stephen]

Dick Dale and Stevie Ray Vaughn in Back to the Beach

In the film "Singles," they go to a club where Soundgarden is playing. There is a fictional band in the film called Citizen Dick, which has some of the Pearl jam guys in it.

The Deadly Bees features a performance by The Birds, with a baby-faced Ron Wood.

And Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen in Hollywood Boulevard:

(warning: R-Rated language in that one)

Rush in "I Love You, Man." Rush also appeared in an episode of "Trailer Park Boys," as did Helix.

The Plimsouls played in "Valley Girl."

The Hooters played on an episode of "The Goldbergs."

Thanks folks good stuff - the Lowell George Factory on Gomer Pyle - crazy! Gonna try and find youtubes on these others

This one is pretty colorful, a scene of Country Joe and the Fish playing at a concert in an abandoned drive-in movie theater after a gas leak from a chemical plant in Alaska kills everyone over 25 in the film GAS-S-S-S also unknown as Gas! or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It, awful film but weirdly timely.

The Country Joe seg is great tho:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWufdLk9k-s

Kid Creole & the Coconuts in "Against All Odds" -

What about all the old Elvis films? Borderline maybe, since they were all vehicles for his singing.

Heck - let's have one for The King - "Viva Las Vegas" -

And since we're on Elvis, I've always loved how they used A Little Less Conversation in "3000 Miles to Graceland" -

I know I'm gonna think of more throughout the day...

Oh! - how about Steve Vai in "Crossroads" -

Not sure if this counts as a band, but in Twins, with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Jeff Beck, Nicolette Larson, and Terry Bozzio (drummer with Missing Persons) play during a dance scene in a bar:

Billastro

Lowell George & the Factory in an episode of Gomer Pyle, USMC.

They also performed as The Bedbugs in F Troop:

Billastro

Great ones Billastro - yep some sharp cookies on here alright - cool thread

What about all the old Elvis films? Borderline maybe,

Yeah thats the gray area - but its Elvis. His movies were actual movies and he could act pretty well. Just dont let the levee break and let in the Monkees Partridge and Banana Splits.

How could I forget,

Meat Puppets debut cameo in Fast Times At Ridgemont High , they were the band at the pool party. Now I know why I forgot.

Tried to find youtube clip, but either the Puppets disappeared it, or it is buried, more clips of that film than any other film out there - I had no idea it had so many memorable moments.

Here's one I just remembered from David Bowie in "Christiane F."

David Bowie - Station to Station -

Great ones Billastro - yep some sharp cookies on here alright - cool thread

Thanks!

Billastro

A couple more: The Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band lip-synched "Death Cab for Cutie" in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour.

Great White ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_White) performed in Maid to Order, a criminally obscure movie with Ally Sheedy, Tom Skerritt, Valerie Perrine, Dick Shawn, and Merry Clayton, among others. My wife and I love it. It's definitely a cult favorite. FFI: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093476/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

Here's what IMDB's Trivia section says about Great White:

Great White, the band that plays at the party in this film, was involved in one of the most horrific disasters in the history of rock music - the Station Nightclub Fire in 2003, in Rhode Island, that killed 100 people (including guitarist Ty Longley) and injured 230 (132 escaped unhurt). The band's manager did prison time for his role in the event. At the time of the disaster the band was performing under the name Jack Russell's Great White.

Here's what Wikipedia says about Ty:

He died in The Station nightclub fire on February 20, 2003, which claimed a total of 100 lives. He was the only band member to die in the fire. Longley left behind Heidi (Peralta) Longley, who was 3 months pregnant with the couple's first child. Their son, Acey Ty Christopher Longley, was born on August 12, 2003. His son Acey is also a musician (drummer) and runs a charity for hospitalized children in his father's memory. In 2013 the American Red Cross Chicago named Acey their Youth Good Samaritan Hero and the Chicago Tribune named Acey one of their most inspiring stories of the year 2012.

Billastro

Harry Belafonte in Odds Against Tomorrow - 1959, one of the last 40s-50s film noirs, great film btw if you like that genre

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RpcJtp8uRfg

I always thought this was so random. Remember watching “It’’s Pat” the movie ( based on the androgynous SNL character. Ween is in that movie and also have speaking parts if I recall....and eating psylocybin mushrooms

Those Lowell George clips are priceless

Gary Clarke Jr in the Chef

wasn't colonel bruce in sling blade?
the feelies were in a movie too.

Blues Traveler in "Kingpin"

Okay, not in a movie but in an HBO classic (which are better than 99% of all the crap in the movie theatres today anyway):

The Nighthawks perform in a bar in "The Wire" as the house band.

Ahah, here's my favorite:

From Dusk Till Dawn: the band playing in the "Titty Twister" is Tito & Tarantula.

Salma Hayek doing her little snake dance .........well, well.........

Cannonball Adderley (at Monterey Jazz Festival) - Play Misty For Me

The Searchers - Saturday Night Out (1964)

Round Midnight (1986) - Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, John McLaughlin, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Feddie Hubbard etc.

Gene Krupa, Louis Armstrong - The Glenn Miller Story

Not a movie but the final episode of Homeland - Kamassi Washington

The film - Roadie
The year - 1980
The band - Blondie
The song - Ring of Fire

I remember a couple early episodes of Mannix that had Buffalo Springfield and Neil Diamond on. I had to do a double take when I saw a young Stephen Stills onstage. The Neil Diamond one he looked like a kid.