Music Documentaries-tell me please

[nolemmings]

Really appreciate all the responses. This should be keep me busy for awhile.

On a related note, I was playing around on the TV and added a new streaming channel that had several concerts. Watched an old the Who concert from Texas in 1975. It was neat to see what was basically considered a "showy" group in what would now be considered to be such an unpolished performance. Townshend windmills, Daltrey mic cord tosses and Keith Moon antics are now just nothing more than "meh" to the last couple of generations. But the music, well, wow.

[RCMcKenzie]

I just watched the Robertson interview. I didn't learn anything new about the group, but there were some things about Robertson that I did not realize, such as his work on Raging Bull and other Scorsese stuff.

Growing up in the 70's I heard the Band's music, and thought of them as Dylan's electric back-up band. Robertson was a part of the band, like Tony Banks, of Genesis. He may have considered The Band as his band, but the public did not view him like say, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Worth a look.

[riggs336]

Now that everybody's dead (except Garth and he's not talking), Robertson is free to spin his egomaniacal revisionist history. In his interview with Rather he cites "growing up" and drug use and undefined growing apart for The Band's demise. Make no mistake--Robertson alone pulled the plug. In my opinion he is an excellent song writer and guitarist, a mediocre singer and a self-aggrandizing phony.

[mcgwirecom]

I checked you can watch Muscle Shoals on youtube. A lot of bands recorded there. Bono, Jimmie Cliff, Aretha, Keith Richard all in this doc.

[mr2686]

Not a big Duran Duran fan, but just watched There's Something You Should Know. I thought it was very good and well worth a watch.

[earlywynnfan]

Watched T Rex, Up Close and Personal, and didn't feel it was either.

I did enjoy the Beatles Doc "8 Days a Week" by Ron Howard.

[VoodooChild]

Here's two I watched recently on Prime and really liked. Both revolve around the late '60's/early 70's NYC scene that lead to the Punk movement there in the late '70's/early '80's.

"Punk Revolution NYC: The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls, and the CBGBs Set"

"Looking for Johnny: The Legend of Johnny Thunders"