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Music Documentaries to Watch

DeadRock said:
That's one of my all time fave concert vids...the triple album in my opinion is one of the great live rock records...right there with Waiting For Columbus, One More From The Road and Allmans at The Fillmore East
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Mine too, the whole band looks like their having a great time, and their energy shows it !
 
Punk: Attitude directed by Don Letts, A good overall look into the punk scene including the lesser known L.A. Punk scene.
 
Here are a couple that may be a little more obscure, but well worth your time:

Satan and Adam - a documentary about the unlikely partnership of guitarist and one-man band Sterling Magee and a young white harmonica player, Adam Gussow, on the streets of Harlem in the late 1980's and beyond.

I Called Him Morgan - about the great jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his wife Helen, who shot him to death in a New York club in 1972. Features a good deal of recent interview footage with Helen.
 
Rush: Time Stands Still. The last Rush tour and always will be as the professor (Neil Peart) has passed away.

Triumph: Rock and Roll Machine

And regardless of what you think of the particular music genre:

The Bee gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart . It's a great behind the scenes look at both business and family in the music industry from the era. Also a good look at how they influenced the industry not just through their own music, but what they did and what they wrote for others.
 
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I started to watch this documentary which seems quite interesting - and still a lot of to go. A little different music.

"Eleven portraits of women from the wide-ranging Berlin electronic music scene made by director Beate Kunath with a strong focus on live acts; women who come on stage with their equipment and present their own songs and compositions."

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DeadRock said:
That's one of my all time fave concert vids...the triple album in my opinion is one of the great live rock records...right there with Waiting For Columbus, One More From The Road and Allmans at The Fillmore East
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Dare I suggest that Bob Seger "Live Bullet" belongs on that list? (it's excellent for those who haven't heard it, especially "Katmandoo", which I think is a masterpiece live)
 
peterp1 said:
The Doors -- When You're Strange (https://www.amazon.com/Doors-When-Youre-Strange/dp/B07QNZPBRG) on Amazon Prime is very, very good. It's an interesting story and the depth of the video footage they have is pretty amazing in that they have captured mundane moments that are important to the story but you'd never think they have video of. Johnny Depp's narration is not the best, but mostly the story tells itself through music and video. There's also some modern reenactment segments at the beginning and interspersed throughout that I found a bit distracting, but the content they provide is so interesting that none of it matters.
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In addition to the Doors documentary above, "The Doors" movie with Val Kilmer was very very good. Not a documentary, but feels quite accurate in comparison to the documentary.
 
peterp1 said:
In addition to the Doors documentary above, "The Doors" movie with Val Kilmer was very very good. Not a documentary, but feels quite accurate in comparison to the documentary.
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Kilmer was Morrison in that flick. As usual with Oliver Stone everything is exaggerated (Born On The Fourth Of July being his best film), but still an excellent film.
 
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