Fact1: Chazz 's Kayla kicks him out of apartment, Fact2: Chazz decide to try to get local rock station KPPX to play reel-to-reel tape on air and attempt, Fact3: laid back begins talking with them on air Once inside, Fact4: he and Chazz After Milo Rex by pull out realistic-looking water pistols and demand airplay calling, Fact5: tape After setting up old reel-to-reel for begins to play demo
Output: Chazz, Rex and Pip are in a Los Angeles metal band called The Lone Rangers who are continuously turned down as they try to get their demo tape heard by producers. After scolding him for being lazy, Chazzs girlfriend Kayla kicks him out of her apartment. They decide to try to get the local rock station KPPX to play their reeltoreel tape on the air and attempt to breakin through the back door. After several unsuccessful attempts, a station employee comes out to smoke and they keep the door from shutting behind her. Once inside, laid back DJ Ian The Shark begins talking with them on the air. Station Manager Milo overhears them and intervenes but Ian continues broadcasting. After Milo insults Rex, by calling him Hollywood Boulevard trash, he and Chazz pull out realisticlooking water pistols and demand airplay. After setting up an old reeltoreel for the demo, the tape begins to play but is quickly destroyed when the player malfunctions. The guys try to run but Doug Beech, the stations accountant, had already called the police and they see the building is surrounded. They negotiate with the police who are now tasked to find Kayla who has a cassette of the demo. Since the station never went off the air, news of the hostage crisis travels quickly and numerous hard rockmetal fans begin showing up outside the radio station interfering with police. A SWAT team has also arrived whose leader prefers using force over negotiation tactics. His team secretly passes a gun through a roof vent to Beech who has been hiding in the air ducts. During the crisis, it is revealed that Milo had secretly signed a deal to change KPPXs format to Adult Contemporary, which includes having to fire Ian and most of the other employees. When this comes out, Ian and a few employees side with the band and turn against Milo. The police find Kayla who arrives at the radio station to deliver the tape. However, the tape is damaged after she had threw it out of the car earlier. Chazz and Kayla get into an argument which escalates quickly resulting in the studio console being destroyed, dashing any hopes to play the tape on the air. As some of the items the band demanded from police are brought into the station, the door shuts on Rexs plastic gun revealing it to be fake. Seeing this, some of the hostages run out; one telling the SWAT team the bands guns arent real. As the team assembles to storm the station, Beech corners the band from a low hanging air vent. Ian, knowing he no longer will have a job at the station, knocks down Beechs gun. This causes the weapon to wildly fire several rounds and the police are forced to back off. Ian picks up the gun but gives it to a somewhat confused Chazz in a final act of antiestablishment rebellion. Jimmie Wing, a selfserving record executive who had previously turned Chazz down, comes to the radio station and offers the band a contract. They reluctantly agree to the deal knowing they have no more options. Wing arranges an entire stage and sound system to be airlifted to the roof where the band will play their song for the now huge crowd outside. To the bands dismay, they find only the PA is real and everything else is just props. Refusing to lip sync as their tape is played, they instead destroy their instruments in protest to the delight of the crowd and stage dive into the hands of the cheering audience. The Lone Rangers are next seen playing a gig inside the prison where they are incarcerated. The concert is being shown live on MTV. Ian, now their manager, says on the phone the band will start touring in six months, or three months if they behave themselves. Their album LIVE IN PRISON goes triple platinum.