nick
Heres my list of music documentarys that I recommend you watch, please feel free to add yours as I am always looking for new ones.
1.) It Might Get Loud
2.) Queen - Days of our Lives
3.) Amazing Journey - The Story of the Who
4.) Foo Fighters - Back and Forth
5.) George Harrison - Living in the Material World
6.) The Beatles Anthology
7.) Kings of Leon - Talahini Sky
8.) Message to Love (About the Isle of Whight concert)
9.) Sublime - Stories, Tales and Exaggerations
10.) Imagine - The Story of the Guitar
11.) Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
12.) The Seven Ages of Rock
13.) Before the Music Dies
14.) Rebel Music - The Bob Marley Story
15.) Guns n Roses - Behind the Music
16.) Les Paul - Chasing Sound
17.) Nirvana - Nevermind
18.) The Rise of Velvet Revolver
19.) Wingspan (Paul McCartney post Beatles)
20.) John Lennon - Death of a Beatle
21.) George Harrison - Up Close and Personal
22.) Radiohead - Meeting People is Easy
23.) Guns n Roses - The Road to Democracy
24.) Peter Green - Man Of The World
MikeM
Thanks! Need the Foo Fighters one ASAP ?
nick
MikeM wrote
Thanks! Need the Foo Fighters one ASAP ?
Really good that, Dave Grohl talks openly about all the problems from the start of Foo Fighters and it ends with them recording the latest album in his garage ?
Hammeron
Just saw one about a Metal band in Baghdad Iraq. The band is called Crasicauda. { the latin name for a scorpion that occurs in the area } Jamming to the background sounds of mortars and gunfire, eventually the practice space gets bombed destroying their equipment, yet they persevere.
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I really enjoyed the story of megadeth. In a way dave had such a hard and sad life. I trully think he was really unhappy living in metallicas shadow and how people treated him bec he was kicked out of the band.
Yes he was out of control but still he had come from such an abusive background.
AlanRatcliffe
Great list there Nick!
A few adds:
PressPausePlay
The Story of the Guitar
Flamenco (Carlos Saura)
The Kids are Alright (The Who)
Django Reinhardt Three Fingered Lightning
Frank Zappa - A&E Biography
Frank Zappa - Late Show (BBC 1993)
Frank Zappa - Another Documentary (VPRO 2000)
The Pink Floyd Story - Which One's Pink?
The Eagle Rock "Classic Albums" Series is wonderful - basically a bio and history for each classic album. I have: AC DC - Back In Black; Deep Purple - Machine Head; Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast; Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland; Frank Zappa - Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation; Motorhead - Ace of Spades; Paul Simon - Graceland; Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon; Queen - A Night At The Opera; U2 - The Joshua Tree.
Squonk
Alan Ratcliffe wrote
The Kids are Alright (The Who)
A great documentary and great insight into The Who, good stuff!
Let It Be must go down as a documentary, a great behind the scenes look at a band that was disintegrating.
All the shots with Yoko everywhere bugging the hell out of Paul.
Also remember a scene where George and Paul have a bit of scrap
Bob-Dubery
Martin Scorsese's Dylan bio - No Direction Home.
And maybe not really or exclusively documentary, but Elvis Costello's spectacle series is not straight performance either. Kind of a chat show for musicians with a musician as host. There is, for example, a marvellous interview with Elton John who talks about his early days in the industry and his inspirations on his songs and playing. Also a great interview with somebody better known for his non-musical career - Bill Clinton. Those are on the series 1 set which has dodgy sound for the interviews.
Series 2 tilts the play/talk balance more towards play, but Elvis changes chairs for one episode with Mary Louise Parker playing interviewer.
Also good interviews (over the two series) with, amongst others, Springsteen, Bono, Tony Bennet, Stewart Copeland and Herbie Hancock.
Squonk
One of my favourites
Elvis - That's the Way It Is
Hammeron
@Allan, got most of the 'Classic albums' but would KILL for the Deep Purple Machine head.
Sam Dunns stuff is great:
A Headbangers journey
Global Metal
Flight 666 - Iron Maiden
Also did one on Rush
Squonk
Yesspeak - Documentary on YES during their 35th Anniversary tour
Brilliant behind the scenes look at Yes. Rick Wakeman is quite a chracter, during a rather long Chris Squire Bass Solo, you can see Rick sit at a table all decorated like a picnic table drinking a cup of tea!
Really get to see how good Chris Squire and Alan white are as a rhythm section.
Steve Howe looks about 102, plays some interesting guitars.
DonovanB
There is a doccie on the making of the Metallica Black album. Definitely worth a watch, just for the production techiniques alone.
I have the Hendrix - Live at Monterey which has a short documentary attached as well.
strataxe
Tamla Kahn 'Hammeron' McMahon wrote
@Allan, got most of the 'Classic albums' but would KILL for the Deep Purple Machine head.
Sam Dunns stuff is great:
A Headbangers journey
Flight 666 - Iron Maiden
... excellent stuff
+ Metallica - some kind of monster
make-and-do
- You See Me Laughin' (2002) - about the last great North Mississippi bluesmen and label Fat Possum Records (label that Black Keys started out on) that struggles to record them featuring, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough (Black Keys covered some of his songs) - A must see
- The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009)
- U2 - From the Sky Down (a look at recording the Achtung Baby album, by same director that did It Might Get Loud))
- Pearl Jam 20
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Jack-Flash-Jr
+1 on PJ20 and No Direction Home.
25X5 The Continuing Adventures of The Rolling Stones is the best music documentary I've ever seen... only released on VHS. Grab hold of acopy if you can.
Also:
Jimi Hendrix (Warner Brothers)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
nick
make and do wrote
- You See Me Laughin' (2002) - about the last great North Mississippi bluesmen and label Fat Possum Records (label that Black Keys started out on) that struggles to record them featuring, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough (Black Keys covered some of his songs) - A must see
- The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009)
- U2 - From the Sky Down (a look at recording the Achtung Baby album, by same director that did It Might Get Loud))
- Pearl Jam 20
Nice suggestions, thanks ?
killafo
A year and a half in the life of MetallicA Part I & II
Part I is all about the making fo the black album
Part II is them touring the album.
Bob-Dubery
Jack Flash Jr wrote
Jimi Hendrix (Warner Brothers)
Yes, that's the best Hendrix doc IMO. There's some great performance footage in there too.
Hammeron
Don't know if you would call them doccies but who's seen the full length movies called:
Lemmy and God bless Ozzy Osbourne ?
jt
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet & A joyful Noise
i am fascinated with him, what a legend!
