In Billy Miossi’s short documentary, a cover-band front man brings music and exuberance to a quieter audience.
For forty years, Tim Goldrainer has been the front man and lead singer of the Menus, a popular rock-and-roll cover band based in Cincinnati, Ohio, taking the stage dressed in unorthodox silhouettes and every color of the rainbow. When the documentary filmmaker Billy Miossi saw Goldrainer perform at a local festival, several years ago, he was “not prepared” for what he saw.
Miossi was taken by the idea of such a wild, exuberant performer spending time in front of much smaller, quieter audiences. He tracked Goldrainer down after the festival and learned that the singer lived in a house behind his own. “He just walked through my back yard, and he was at my front door in, like, five minutes,” the filmmaker said. Before long, Miossi attended his first Goldie show, as Goldrainer’s nursing home performances are known.
Goldrainer admits that he never planned on performing for the elderly. “Come on, man, give me a break. I sing in a rock band—I’m not ready for the seniors tour yet,” he remembers saying, when his wife suggested it as a daytime pursuit. But, when Goldrainer’s mother developed dementia and had to be admitted to the nursing home at which she’d worked, he’d visit her frequently and started getting to know the other seniors. He’d pop into their rooms to sing a song.
While working with Goldrainer, Miossi watched in awe as some seniors would go from looking bored or uninterested to completely enchanted by Goldie’s songs and stage patter. “Music is so nostalgic. It’s, like, the most nostalgic thing there is,” Miossi told me. “So, if you hear Frank Sinatra, or hear Nat King Cole . . . it immediately transports you, and that’s got to be good for the soul.”
Throughout the film, it’s clear that Goldrainer is being transported to a place of exhilarating joy as much as he’s providing an escape for the seniors in his Goldie audiences. “Whether it be with the Menus in front of thousands of people or a nursing home,” the way he plays music for others is ruled by a piece of advice his father once gave him: “Ten or ten thousand people, give them the same show. Give them the best show you possibly can.
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