SYNOPSIS:

GALLOPING INTO OBLIVION:

THE RISE, DEMISE AND REBIRTH OF STEED BEATLEY AND MINIMAL
PENIS
STEED BEATLEY, lead singer/songwriter of seminal 70s-80s
hard rock band MINIMAL PENIS is living a life of casual
debauchery and diminished celebrity as a tax exile in
Lyford Cay, The Bahamas, when he gets a phone call from his
longtime business manager KEITH ZEBB notifying him that his
fortune, which was entirely invested in BERNARD MADOFFS
fund, is completely gone, rendering STEED insolvent.
After an appropriate period of alcohol-and-sex-fueled
grief, STEED comes to terms with his insolvency and embarks
on a path to get the band back together, reclaim their
former popularity and remake his fortune. But times and
tastes have changed drastically since his salad days twenty
years ago and so too have his bandmates who are all far
more successful than STEED having done something
constructive with themselves after the band and are
reluctant to get back into the music business.
In his quest to get the band back together, STEED enlists
the help of ZEBB, his touring agent MOSHE BERGEN and love
interest FIONA MCPHERSON to convince LEAD GUITARIST NIGEL
LAWLESS (now SIR NIGEL LAWLESS, TORY MP for Kensington and
Chelsea, married to LADY GOLDSMITH); BASSIST TED MCDAINT (a
successful Adult Film Producer based in Calabasas, CA);
DRUMMER ALEX YOKO (now a Tokyo-based gynecologist), and;
KEYBOARDIST ZAAD ANN DE SCHEDE (now the cross-dressing host
of the top political/current affairs show in The
Netherlands, ZONDAG OCHTEND MET ZAAD ANN DE SCHEDE) to
reform MINIMAL PENIS.
With the band back together (at least tentatively) and in
LA to record their first album in 25 years for their once
and future label SPAWN RECORDINGS, STEED and MINIMAL PENIS
struggle to come to terms with the promotional
opportunities and challenges modern music business, the
creative process, the temptations of the Rock and Roll
lifestyle, age, conflict created by ALEXs Yoko Ono-like
wife OKO, and the expectations of audience, their agent,
manager and most important, themselves.

Everything comes to a head for the band as they prepare for

the simultaneous release of their album and their headline
gig at the 2010 COACHELLA FESTIVAL. Can STEED straighten
out? Does MINIMAL PENIS have what it takes to make it with
todays fans? Can they put the problems of the past behind
them and make great music? Will it sell? Will the band stay
together? Will STEED settle down with FIONA? Or will STEED
be ostracized from the music business, his fans and friends
for a wasted effort and end up playing weddings and Bat
Mitzvahs to survive?