Band/artist documentaries.
These types of films may not be for everyone, but I’ve been on a viewing kick recently and encourage your recommendations for all to enjoy. It’s been interesting to see the stories of the various subjects and get some great insights, stories, and entertaining anecdotes firsthand. Listed below are a few I’ve seen and can recommend. Please follow suit with yours - and enjoy!
Music from the inside out
The Last Waltz (of course)
Lost Angel (Judee Sill)
Sound City
Neil Young - Journeys
David Crosby - Remember my name
Linda Ronstadt - The sound of my voice
Rumble
Once Were Brothers (The Band)
Muscle Shoals
The Wrecking Crew
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
Seymour: An Introduction
YMMV, but having a full blown home theater set up with a 9 foot projection screen sure does enhance the experience...
"Kinda wired"? @bdp24 , the whole time he is introducing Neil Young before Helpless he is sniffling and snuffling! He looks lit up when he is playing with Clapton! On edit6: I am pretty sure I remember in Once Were Brothers Hawkins talking about a cocaine buy that was made prior to the concert and I am thinking he said that in his opinion it wasn't very good coke. But they all looked like they were doing okay to me. |
" [. . .] it’s such a fine line, I hate to see it go [. . .]" from Cocaine/Jackson Browne/Running On Empty/Electra Asylum 1977/"Recorded in room 124 at the Holiday Inn, Edwardsville, Illinois-8/17/77." (I presume he was performong at MRF Edwardsville.) @wharfy , when I read your post I thought maybe it was this performance that you were alluding to and I was going to say I kind of liked Nicks husky sound which I was thinking may have been attributed to the use of some cocaine, but I do see where this performance was from ’76, so I guess not. How about Linda Ronstadt, the Simple Dreams album? I always thought (and still think) that Linda’s voice had a nasal (but not objectionable quality) to it. And Eric Clapton/Slowhand? When he recorded that one his voice was definitely suffering from what I am thinking were certain excesses. Cigarettes and what have you.
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It sure looked like both Robertson and Clapton had been into the happy powder pretty heavy when they were playing together. . . . |
. . . and speaking of indulging in happy powder, check out Steve Earle in Austin (1988) doing San Antonio Girl for an encore: Steve Earle - "San Antonio Girl" [Live from Austin, TX]
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