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Finished watching this 4 hour and 19 minute Tom Petty documentary last night. It is streaming on Netflix, and was well worth the time invested.
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I don't think anyone posted this one yet. I really enjoyed this doc about Sound City. There is a lot of talk about getting into the 80s and 90s and the digital recording studios outpacing the old analog/tape studios such as Sound City.

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Sound City Studios was located in the San Fernando Valley, amidst rows of dilapidated warehouses. The little-known recording studio housed a unique analog Neve recording console and had a reputation for recording drums. Artists such as Nirvana, Kyuss, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Rage Against The Machine, and Slipknot recorded groundbreaking music at the studio. The film tells the story of the studio from its early days in 1969 until its closing in 2011. It then follows Dave Grohl's purchase of the studio's custom analog Neve console, which he moved to his personal studio, Studio 606. Rupert Neve is an English engineer who founded Neve Electronics in 1961, designed and manufactured the Neve 8028, "one of four in the world",[4] and is interviewed by Grohl in the film.[5] Famous musicians who recorded at Sound City reunite at Studio 606 for a jam session and to make an album of "all-new all-original songs, each one composed and recorded exclusively for the film within its own 24-hour session on that console."
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Patterson is in it briefly.
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Just watched this on Netflix the other day and thought it was a great.

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WarHenRecords wrote:Just watched this on Netflix the other day and thought it was a great.

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I saw it last year at UNC, which was sponsored by the Southern Folklife Collection at Wilson Library on campus. The event was hosted by Joe Boyd, which was originally supposed to be a screening of the Aretha Franklin documentary Amazing Grace. Unfortunately, she wouldn't allow the movie to be shown (it's not the first time). That said, it was cool to get an education in James Booker. Boyd also spoke about his book, White Bicycles, his involvement with the UFO Club in London, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, etc. Dude was also kind enough to sign my copy of Fables of the Reconstruction. Not a bad evening at all.

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Saw this documentary the other night on some channel called AXS? Really impressed with this one and thought it helped fill in the blanks in that period from '74 to '89.


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Stephen Judge of Schoolkids Records (Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NC) is among those interviewed in this new documentary.


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had been waiting a long time to see this and it was well worth the wait! I vividly recall Orion, pretty sure he played regularly in Asheville at the Nashville Club (a place that died off by the time I came off age but sounded like a place likely with chicken wire and wife-swapping and fighting--a place surely Margo and Harold visited at least once). Excellent film on several levels: the Elvis connection, the southern music industry angle that reminds me a lot of Muscle Shoals, and not the least the story of a talented guy who last his identity trying to live the dream. Highly recommend this movie
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Per this post from filmmaker Gorman Bechard, it looks like Sarah Shook and the Disarmers will be the topic of his next documentary. For those that may be unfamiliar with Gorman, he's made documentaries on Lydia Loveless, Archers of Loaf, the Replacements, Grant Hart, etc. in the past.

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caught this again flipping around on cable the other night. Really good film

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love the way they pronounce the word "massacre"--muh-sock-er
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Some Kind Of Monster and Lemmy are both on Netflix now, so i finally saw them.

SKOM was eh... hey, shocking news... lars is a dick!


Lemmy was awesome though. really enjoyed that one. what a human being.

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tinnitus photography wrote:Some Kind Of Monster and Lemmy are both on Netflix now, so i finally saw them.

SKOM was eh... hey, shocking news... lars is a dick!


Lemmy was awesome though. really enjoyed that one. what a human being.
It's been years since I watched SKOM, but my lasting takeaway is that the film made James look like a much bigger tool than Lars, and that takes some doing
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Lemmy was awesome though. really enjoyed that one. what a human being.
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My Metallica fandom came to a screeching halt after the s**t show that was the Black album. That said, the only Metallica film I recommend is Cliff 'em All. If any of you were a fan of them in the 80's, I highly recommend this. Great early concert footage as well as hilarious Cliff bits.

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tinnitus photography wrote:Some Kind Of Monster and Lemmy are both on Netflix now, so i finally saw them.

SKOM was eh... hey, shocking news... lars is a dick!


Lemmy was awesome though. really enjoyed that one. what a human being.
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The Cars... Best 80's documentary I've seen i awhile.


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The Story of Jamican Music. Parts 1, 2, 3.
It still amazes me how such a small county of not much more than 2 million could create such the wonderful music forms of ska/rocksteady/reggae, which went so world wide, and is so loved throughout the world. Very few counties so small have created music forms that went truely global.

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The Story of Jamican Music. Parts 1, 2, 3.
It still amazes me how such a small county of not much more than 2 million could create such the wonderful music forms of ska/rocksteady/reggae, which went so world wide, and is so loved throughout the world. Very few counties so small have created music forms that went truely global.
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