Music Documentaries-tell me please

[RCMcKenzie]

Y'all's guy, Robbie Robertson, airs on May 6th at 8 eastern. New season of Dan Rather. I will follow-up after I see it. Rob

[DaClyde]

"You're Gonna Miss Me" about Rocky Erickson was wild. I had only recently learned about the 13th Floor Elevators, so it was fascinating.

"Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?" was great. I knew basically nothing about Nilsson, so it was all new information for me.

"Paul Williams: Still Alive" wasn't as good as it could have been because the documentary maker really made it about himself and his preconceived notions about Williams.

[timber09]

It isn't a "music" documentary so much as it is a documentary about musicians (punk rockers more specifically) and their journeys into father hood but it is a fantastic piece. I really enjoyed it - even though my eyes may have gotten sweatier than I would admit in public.

The Other F Word

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1790867...?ref_=tt_ov_pl

[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.