Quick plot summary – Al Parker is a horned up dude on the prowl. Stops in his local bar, grabs a beer (from sexy bartender Beau Matthews) and spots sexy FALCON star Sky Dawson. Then he disappears from view, and Al spends the rest of the film trying to find Dawson. First the Men’s Room, where instead he finds some guy in a stall stroking himself, so Al readily accepts a blowjob, then screws the guy, barely pulling his Levis down enough to get his massive meat out; next he’s dreaming about a locker room, where there’s a big juicy (and usually uncut) cock in each locker, so he must suck off all of them. Then a bathhouse, where he does two squeaky clean muscle guys, rims and screws handsomest-cub-ever-in-a-porno (known on this blog as turned-on-cub), then competes with Sky Dawson blowing all sorts of menses in jockstraps, then there’s this clone-fantasy, where Sky and Al again compete showing off their skills with other guys; a married man, a cowboy, a construction worker, a leather man etc. (sounds like a good idea for a disco group!) Al Finally gets the chance to get it on with Dawson, when he realizes he works at the bathhouse and begins to sign a membership application in order to chat up Mr. Dawson, but once again he’s distracted, as hot hunky MIKE DAVIS walks out, and Al follows. End of movie. I was sooooooooooo rooting for cubbie, who’s cock we only see for a moment, and we never see it again, nor he! But he’ such a doll, isn’t he? that cute face, and adorable edible ass, I could….. well…
directed by: Steve Scott (1982)
Starring: Al Parker, Sky Dawson, Beau Matthews, Jim King (AKA J.W. King), Gian Carlos, Joel Thomas, Greg Dale, Jim Rodgers, Bob Moore, John Trent, Lee Brubaker (AKA Ron Zale), Rick Faulkner; special appearance by Scott Taylor; cameos by Mike Davis and Steve Taylor.
click each cassette below for different track from the official soundtrack by Forbidden Overtures.
Previously on BJland:
turned-on-cub-rerun (with videoclip)
walk-man (hot talk tape ad)
beard-in-face-or-face-in-ass (same videoclip, different post)
god-i-love-als-face (post from 2007!)
turned-on-cub (2006 post – with pics and words – lots and lots of words!)
13 replies on “Turned On! (1982)”
Wow! Fantastic, you must have found it, and it sounds terrific. The super long song on side 1, almost half an hour of that same basic beat but with a bunch of other sounds coming in and out over it, is a great song, I knew I had just heard it recently too. Find Games (we were just talking about it) and the scene with Al and the hitchhiker Russ Franklin. Just before they crawl into the back of the van Al pops a cassette into the tapedeck … and side 1 begins to play! Now we know the artist for that song, Forbidden Overture, and where else it was heard. It may have shown up in other Surge films later too since he would have been able to use it as much as he wanted, assuming he had some rights to its use.
I wonder who Forbidden Overture really was, the musician behind it. Because esp. on the two songs on side 2 I can really hear a Cowley influence to it though I doubt it was him.
I watched that porn and the Sky Dawson obsession was weird and disturbing, and it is fucked up how it was without condoms despite how in 1982 GRIDS/AIDS/HIV and safer sex were very well known about.
Brad or Sky Dawson, like Al Parker, was very plain looking and not that handsome, and the sex is boring and routine.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion about who or what is hot or not, but to say “how in 1982 GRIDS/AIDS/HIV and safer sex were very well known about” is just massively wrong and revisionist history. The only people wearing condoms in 1982 were straight guys who didn’t want their wives or girlfriends to become pregnant, and magazine articles referring to a mysterious gay cancer were being published through the mid 80s at least before it was known what was causing it.
The first safe sex video I know of was called Life Guard and came out in 1985, and it was notable for how directly it confronted the reality of what was happening … and even after that, Falcon, Catalina and most of the bigger studios adopted a “do as we say not as we do” approach by consistently showing what we now call bareback sex in their films for a few more years at least (exhibit A- Powertool w/ Jeff Stryker, 1986) (exhibit B-Plunge w/ Joey Stefano, 1990). In hindsight it would have been nice if people had known the risks earlier, or if the government had acknowledged it as a reality much sooner, because then a lot of the guys who died might have lived longer. I’m honestly not trying to be rude, but it’s important to remember things as they really were.
thanks guys…. I wasn’t ready for the discussion on when it was reasonable to expect safe sex in the movies… I know I was in college still in 1982, moved to NYC in 1983… and spent a LOT of time in the porno theaters.. no one was having safer sex until at least 1985 – and the few films that tried to show it like Life Guard bombed – that’s not an excuse, but it is what happened. I try to keep it light here, as porn IS an escape, for me anyway… but then… Al Parker plain and not that handsome and sex is boring – HOW DARE YOU SIR! YOU HAVE BEEN BANNED!!! (not really, but it could happen)
Life Guard was right when I became old enough to start seeing and renting movies, I do remember it though I came away from it thinking what a lot of guys thought: that condoms weren’t as sexy or spontaneous, the things that made porn the escape that you were talking about and not like real life. It caused me to have a bit of a disconnect between the sex I was watching in movies and the sex I was having myself, and one of the reasons I was drawn to the movies that were already a few years older. That and when something is shot on film it is infinitely more interesting to watch than when it’s shot on videotape.
Falcon et al did resist showing the guys wearing condoms when fucking for all of the 80s and even into the early 90s, before the coalitions came together and mandated it in all the main US studio porn. Because some guys couldn’t (and still can’t) distinguish between the fantasy and the reality, and they were setting a bad example for people who were inclined to do it like they were seeing it done by the actors onscreen. But yeah, I’m glad to know that my experience of not seeing condoms in either porn or real life until the mid 80s matches with how you guys remember it too.
#4 – You know I’m all about muscles and sex. I always wondered. Who are these two muscle hunks, that Al Parker services. I wish they were identified. It’s a big cast. GEVI pretty much points everyone out, through a picture, which I appreciate. The bodybuilder on the right looks familiar. I think I may have seen him in a vintage Falcon loop. Or it may have been one of their subdivisions, Jocks or Mustang. I can’t be sure.
“Turned On! (1982)†is pretty interesting and creative. Though I don’t consider it to be, director Steve Scott’s best. The cast is top level. As I’ve said before, Sky Dawson looks so much more handsome and masculine, with dark hair, as he does here.
I also enjoy the little twirling dance that Scott Taylor does, right before his auto-fellatio show routine – very limber and graceful. Who knew? : )
I totally agree with you zephyr. It wasn’t until about 1984, that A.I.D.S. became common knowledge nationally, through the mainstream media. The death of Rock Hudson in 1985 also brought a lot of attention to it. It’s so easy to be a Monday morning quarterback. As they always say, “Hindsight is 20/20â€. ; )
I don’t think any of you have have the AIDS dates right , except the rather sour *beardedandstached* (otherwise, I mean). It was not common knowledge anywhere but in the gay community. I don’t care whether “beardedandstached” likes Al Parker, et alia (I’m not that big a fan either…but at least in the the big gay cities of NYC, SF, and LA, already using a condom was an almost hysterical *must*. I was certainly using them, and we all hated them, but some of us were just going to. Articles about “gay cancer” in gay rags went as far back as 1978 or 1979, but that early, even the *GRID* term, never but briefly used, hadn’t appeared. I do know I was still living temporariliy on the Upper West Side when there were already articles in New York Magazine which had started using the term GRID, and that was in 1982. After that, all the gay men I knew were talking about it, and it had started to be called AIDS. Several of my friends definitely got it and died of it soon after (I guess, but am not sure, that this was even before AZT, which sounds so antique now). I didn’t pay that much attention to whether condoms were used in porn, so you may be right about that.
I don’t remember exactly when Shirley MacLaine and Liz Taylor went on about bringing it to the mainstream and how Ronald Reagan acted as if he “hadn’t heard the word”, but my guess would still be about 1985. But by then, everybody very concerned was not only using condoms, but were even using them to suck cock (a dreadful activity.) We were being told not to drink cum, and later that cocksucking wasn’t so dangerous nor even piss-drinking. Ass-eating was forbidden. It all revolved about the ass.
So maybe some of you are talking about *Mainstream knowledge* and “Gay-Man Knowledge”, which we were well aware of in the early 80s. The first one I knew to die of it got it in 1981 and died in 1983.
Frankly, I don’t remember much talk and use of condoms in porn till Surge and Al and Justin and Joe. And they used them and didn’t use them. Some of the Surge guys fucked other poz guys knowing they both had it, like Mike Davis and James Williams (the one with the huge pumped Prick.
I meant Mike Dean not Mike Davis.
This is amazing!! Thanks for sharing this! I really wish I could turn up some of these cassettes, but at this point they must exchange hands for extreme amounts of money. Still looking for that Blueboy Roger T-shirt….
Forbidden Overture is Man Parrish!
I don’t use instagram but I found a short article below, wow that’s really interesting! I wonder why he never claimed credit for it until now.
https://www.juno.co.uk/junodaily/2022/10/26/man-parrish-revealed-as-mystery-porn-soundtrack-composer-forbidden-overture/
nice link – same “press release” – alas, not sure why this – ” gained his first break in the music industry when a DJ from gay club The Anvil in New York transferred his music from a porn film from Betamax onto an acetate and started including it in his sets.” without actually say WHICH film (we all know) – so class, what’s the answer???
I know, but I’ll let someone else provide it. Without giving it away I had heard the part about the acetate record, apparently those aren’t built to last long but someone other than Man did a direct rip from a copy of the film. Man goes into a bar with a dance floor, hears the song and makes a beeline to the DJ booth: where the fuck did you all get that record you’re playing? Because I made that! Which may have led to him getting his first record deal. This could have been one of the stories he told when he did those confessional clips speaking to the camera that were on youtube at some point.
I saved all three of those audio files when you included them on your Turned On post a few years ago, they sound great. Patrick Cowley has another new collection Dark Entries is releasing soon, that’s one I want to get as I have most of those on CD. And one of the Cowley t-shirts would be cool too, with just his face.