UncleGoatLips wrote
By the way, I'd like to ask everyone, when you watch music doccies, what is it that you like to see in them?
I mean, technical stuff like equipment, the ins-outs of recording or drama, the history and ups and downs of the band or what?
There's all sorts of stuff that appeals, though I am less interested in "I used this pedal to make that sound" sort of revelations.
There's a great sequence in one the
Spectacle episodes where Costello and Lyle Lovett are talking about songs that get lost. Both of them had stories about being in a super market and suddenly the inspiration dawns and you head for the check out hoping that you can hold on to the idea long enough to get to the car so that you can grab a pen and write it down, or hum it into a recorder .... but too late. They were speculating about how many songs they'd lost.
I like to hear the critics and the contemporaries talking as well. I find that often the artist is either reticent or just plain doesn't know how they did what they done or why it had an impact. They're too close to the action. And some of them smoke screen like crazy - Dylan being a prime example (not that I blame him, after some of what he's been through). Some of the best moments in
No Direction Home came not from Dylan but from contemporaries - Dave van Ronk, Joan Baez... Also the friends and contemporaries can say things that the artist can't for fear of looking conceited.
I'm always interested in discussion about the creative processes. And influences. And how influences effect the creative process.
