Good Music Documentaries

[Ginny]

Hired Gun 

[Juniper]

Watched 'Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blues' the other night.

 

Pretty decent but didn't cover her failed relationships & sexuality struggles/battle with drugs/bullying from schoolmates growing up in Texas and a very fast rise to stardom much as I'd have liked, given all these seemed to be a huge part of her descent towards an early grave at just 27.

 

Touches on them but moves on too quickly. Interesting at times but not long enough. Could have easily been another half an hour longer, at least.

 

Clocks in at just over 1 hour 30 so a light enough watch.

[Lee909]

The Sam Cooke one is worth a watch

[Juniper]

Looking forward to watching this, seen earlier it’s available on Amazon Prime Video.

 

Looks great 

 

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

Watched the 4 part mini series Shangri-La, about Rick Rubin, his recordings and philosophies. Not what I was expecting at all but really enjoyed it.

[Juniper]

11 hours ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

Watched the 4 part mini series Shangri-La, about Rick Rubin, his recordings and philosophies. Not what I was expecting at all but really enjoyed it.

Sounds good, I’ll check that out.

 

The Beastie Boys were pretty candid in their recent autobiography book (great book btw) about him fucking them over back in the 1980’s and a big subsequent fallout. 

[El Rojo]

The Dylan documentary Don't Look Back was on TV last weekend. Fly on the wall style from his 1965 English tour.

The guy seems to operate at a different state of consciousness to everybody else. Clearly a genius, but also a nightmare for any journalist unfortunate enough to have to try to interview him.

[Chocoholic]

Discovering Paul Simon - Sky Arts

 

Under African Skies - BBC Imagine

 

When Rock Goes Acoustic - BBC

 

Behind the Music - Jim Croce - VH1

 

Let Them Talk - Hugh Laurie's celebration of New Orleans - Warner Music

 

 

[The Midnight Rambler]

I’ve watched the Bros doc three times and happily watch it again.

[Lee909]

Just about to give this a go

Heard about it on a old episode of Rolling Stone podcast, they said its really good.

 

 

[Lee909]

Just finished it

Brilliant film

 

[Lee909]

Just stumbled on these on youtube

 

only watched part of the Tommy Iommi one, its ok worth a hour to watch. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Lee909]

Sky Arts will be premiering a brand-new documentary, Brian Johnson Meets Dave Grohl, later this month.

On September 17, fans will get to watch the AC/DC vocalist meet Foo Fighters' mainman at the band's own Studio 606 in California, where the pair will sit down to discuss their iconic careers.

“It’s a meeting of rock legends as AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson meets Foo Fighters lead singer and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl at the Foos’ LA studio to share stories about life on the road,” reads Sky's official synopsis.

Read this: 20 things you probably didn’t know about Dave Grohl

The exciting new doc arrives as Sky Arts becomes free-to-air this month, launching on Freeview and no longer behind a paywall.

“There’s never been a stronger need or demand for the arts, nor a more important time to champion and celebrate creativity,” explains Sky Arts director Philip Edgar-Jones.

“That’s why we’re throwing open the doors to make Sky Arts a free channel. During lockdown we’ve seen audiences to the channel increase by 50 per cent and our weekly live paint-along show, Portrait Artist Of The Week, reached 4.6 million people with over 20,000 portraits painted.

“As a free to air channel I hope that Sky Arts can help arts organisations and cultural institutions of all shapes and sizes across the UK, providing them with a platform to create and showcase their work to a broad audience.”

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Just watched "One Man's Madness", which was on Sky Arts last night.

 

It's a pretty decent documentary about Lee Thompson and Madness, elevated by the fact that almost all the interviews don’t show the interviewees on screen, but instead feature Lee Thompson in fancy dress, lip-synching like some sort of live-action Creature Comforts.

[NoelM]

The Laurel Canyon documentary on Sky Arts was great.

 

 

[Bjornebye]

On ‎09‎/‎09‎/‎2020 at 14:24, Lee909 said:

Sky Arts will be premiering a brand-new documentary, Brian Johnson Meets Dave Grohl, later this month.

On September 17, fans will get to watch the AC/DC vocalist meet Foo Fighters' mainman at the band's own Studio 606 in California, where the pair will sit down to discuss their iconic careers.

“It’s a meeting of rock legends as AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson meets Foo Fighters lead singer and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl at the Foos’ LA studio to share stories about life on the road,” reads Sky's official synopsis.

Read this: 20 things you probably didn’t know about Dave Grohl

The exciting new doc arrives as Sky Arts becomes free-to-air this month, launching on Freeview and no longer behind a paywall.

“There’s never been a stronger need or demand for the arts, nor a more important time to champion and celebrate creativity,” explains Sky Arts director Philip Edgar-Jones.

“That’s why we’re throwing open the doors to make Sky Arts a free channel. During lockdown we’ve seen audiences to the channel increase by 50 per cent and our weekly live paint-along show, Portrait Artist Of The Week, reached 4.6 million people with over 20,000 portraits painted.

“As a free to air channel I hope that Sky Arts can help arts organisations and cultural institutions of all shapes and sizes across the UK, providing them with a platform to create and showcase their work to a broad audience.”

Philip Edgar-Jones is Daisy Edgar-Jones dad. I'd still bath her. 

[NoelM]

On 15/08/2019 at 12:16, El Rojo said:

The Dylan documentary Don't Look Back was on TV last weekend. Fly on the wall style from his 1965 English tour.

The guy seems to operate at a different state of consciousness to everybody else. Clearly a genius, but also a nightmare for any journalist unfortunate enough to have to try to interview him.

It's such a brilliant documentary though, all the contributions, even the slightly bitter ones like Dave Van Ronk and Joan Baez had to acknowledge his genius. I loved the piece on the Clancy Brothers too.

[cloggypop]

26 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Philip Edgar-Jones is Daisy Edgar-Jones dad. I'd still bath her. 

 

 

 

[Lee909]

 

[Carvalho Diablo]

On 22/09/2020 at 15:43, NoelM said:

The Laurel Canyon documentary on Sky Arts was great.

 

 

Yeh, loved that 3 parter.

[Lee909]

There's a good Glen Campbell documentary on BBC the moment, likely be on IPlayer soon

 

Brilliant musician and member of great wrecking crew backing band

 

 

[easytoslip]

28 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

There's a good Glen Campbell documentary on BBC the moment, likely be on IPlayer soon

 

Brilliant musician and member of great wrecking crew backing band

 

 

Just watched that, can't say I'm a big fan, but yes what a brilliant guitarist and voice. 

I'm sure it said that in 1963 he played on about 800 tracks. It was a bit sad when Jimmy Webb said he asked if I was the one that wrote Witchita Lineman. 

There was a lad who used to play in Whitttys off Millers Bridge, a boss guitarist himself Steve Potter, and apparently some fella was in and recruited him to tour with Campbells band, 30 years or so ago. 

That's some break for a musician plus the fact a brilliant musician has heard of you. 

He'd of kicked a few arses out of the competition. 

[Juniper]

Watched this free on Amazon Video.
 

A comprehensive look the The Stooges called: ‘Gimme Danger’

 

Bloody ace, could listen to Iggy Pop and the band talk all day 

 

 

[cloggypop]

Gimme Danger is boss. Made by Jim Jarmusch. 

 

There's very strong rumours that MC5 : A True Testimonial is finally going to get a release. It appears occasionally on YouTube but is usually taken down very quickly. Great film. Bizarrely when I saw it a few years ago I then went to a bar in Leiden and bumped into John Sinclair there. He's been living in Amsterdam for years apparently and is still one fucking cool cat. 

[Harry's Lad]

Mr. Dynamite:  The Rise of James Brown documentary on Sky channel 114 (Sky Documentaries HD) tonight at 11:00 for those interested.