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...
This is Linda Ronstadt on Glen Campbell’s Good Time Hour (1971), doing Long, Long Time solo and then a duet (Carolina In My Mind) with Glen. When I first watched it several years ago on Tubi, my initial impression was that her voice was sounding on the nasal side, and then before she gets started singing with Glen the side of her hand goes up to her nose and there is that telltale "snarff." . . . Linda Ronstadt & then Glen Campbell - Long, Long Time & Carolina in My Mind |
@yogiboy: Speaking of mono Everly Brothers albums, when the brothers moved from Cadence Records to Warner Brothers, they rerecorded all their hit songs in stereo (the Cadence recordings were monaural), and Warners released those recordings on an album entitled The Very Best Of The Everly Brothers (WB catalog no. WS1554). That was the first album of theirs I acquired, in 1969. The fidelity of those recordings is fantastic! The front cover of the LP is emblazed with the proclamation "NEWLY RECORDED." In the 1980’s I crossed paths with Rhino Records reissue engineer Bill Inglot in the Rhino storefront in Westwood Village. By that time I had numerous Everly Brothers albums that had been reissued by both Rhino and Ace, and found the Ace versions somewhat superior to the Rhino’s. I asked Bill if he had heard the Ace LP’s (and told him I thought the Ace sounded better than the Rhinos he had mastered. How rude!). He replied he had, and agreed with me about the Ace LP’s sounding better than the Rhinos. He attributed that superiority to the better electronic mastering chain Ace had in relation to that of Rhino.
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Another musician, of Beatle fame, George Harrison damaged his vocal cords with cocaine during his 1974 tour. I saw him at Nassau Coliseum, and I remember by the end of the show his intonation was non-existent and he was shouting the lyrics to "What is Life." And if I remember correctly, in Martin Scorcese's "All Things Must Pass", they mention the amount of coke George consumed on tour. |
