Music related documentaries???

[friend_kami]

+1 on touch the sound.

if that doesnt inspire you, then you are clinically dead.

[slatepipe]

steve reich on the south bank show was fantastic :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_pR1sHHeQU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0DQRfm0uL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0DQRfm0uL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjhEV3665lo

the filth and the fury is great too, also there's a classic albums film/dvd of never mind the bollocks which is really good - especially on the dvd extras with steve jones going through all the riffs to the songs

[ghast]

don't forget TED.
http://www.ted.com/

[chris vine]

Here are a few more:

"Improvisation" - 1990s UK TV series produced by guitarist Derek Bailey - some great stuff ranging from Notre Dame organist improvising (dude is wailing) to Shona Mbira players, Classical Indian, free improvisers etc

"Standing in the Shadow of Motown"

"Miles Davis Story".

+2 for Touch the Sound.

for the reggae heads: The Studio One Story - really a bit long but there are some great moments.

I also liked that docu on Scott Walker that came out last year - it is on youtube, I think.

[interceptor]

Darkbeat : An Electro World Voyage

A documentary specifically about electro music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXMiShnrMng

[Dexes]

1989 - Summer Of Rave
BBC Documentry on the UK acidhouse/freeparty scene along with national and international political and cultural events to put the whole movement in a wider perspective. Made 2006 with interviews of DJs, rave organizers, polititians, police officers, pop singers, etc. who were active at the time.

[debu]

If you do a youtube search on the South bank show you'll find everything from Stevie Wonder, Smiths, Malcolm Mclaren.

Similar to that "summer of 1989" is: Equinox: rave new world

[john doe by choice]

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Tom_Dowd ... id=1211018

Better Living through Circuitry

http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/Better_L ... kid=816117

[mikemc]

I haven't seen this one, but I can't imagine it could be too awful:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/pink-flo ... -the-moon/

I enjoyed watching this one, not sure how inspiring you'll find it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRw_rvrXQiQ

[oblique strategies]

for the reggae heads: The Studio One Story - really a bit long but there are some great moments.

Thanks for the recommendation. I love Studio One!

[blakbeltjonez]

Roots, Rock, Reggae

Filmed in Jamaica in 1977... The Golden Age!

You get to go inside the Black Ark studio & see Lee Perry producing Junior Murvin, The Heptones, & The Congos who are all all singing together! Witness Lee Perry rocking out on his Mutron Bi-Phase prototype!

Later you are treated to this dread slice of live:

"The boss around Ocho Rios was Jack Ruby, a tough, bearded, straight-talking record producer who was famed throughout Jamaica as a talent spotter. A weekly procession of young hopefuls came down from the hills to Jack Ruby’s house, where they waited for hours outside the gates for a hearing. On the day we visited, there were solos, duos, trios, with and without guitars, some accompanying themselves on matchboxes or newspapers or just tapping their feet: an incredible variety of real talent able to conjure up lyrics of meaning and harmonies of sweet subtlety out of their lives in the hills. If Jack Ruby liked what he heard, he would take the aspiring young reggae stars down to Kingston for a session in a recording studio. "

Really poignant.

An essential music documentary. This is Holy Grail stuff boys n' girls!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9An7d1hM ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3WQKEb5JTI

there's also a bit in that documentary that shows the inside of Randy's Studio, the most popular independent studio in Kingston from 1969-75 (before Channel One became the "in" spot to record)

Jack Ruby's enduring claim to fame was his sound system - by the late 70's early 80's, Jack Ruby Hi-Fi was the biggest sound on the island in terms of sheer size.

[blakbeltjonez]

for the reggae heads: The Studio One Story - really a bit long but there are some great moments.

Thanks for the recommendation. I love Studio One!

it's amazing that they got enough people together to say half way nice things about Coxsone Dodd! Leroy Sibbles in particular - now there is a guy that in the past had NOTHING flattering to say about him...... and he was probably the core player/arranger in the Golden Age of Studio One, along with Jackie Mittoo. they must have paid him to be mannerly.... along with the others. rare interview with Sylvan Morris, the engineer from '68 through '72.

great interior footage of the main room at 13 Brentford Road, the outside looks to be substantially spruced up.

[chris vine]

Didn't know there was a prob with Dodd - oh well, I guess it is no surprise. +1 on the Roots Rock Reggae doc, some fantastic footage...I love that seq with the Gladiators in the studio.

[blakbeltjonez]

Didn't know there was a prob with Dodd - oh well, I guess it is no surprise. +1 on the Roots Rock Reggae doc, some fantastic footage...I love that seq with the Gladiators in the studio.

yep - that's the paradox of Coxsone Dodd, beloved by many because of the legacy of Studio One, but unfortunately he took great advantage of a lot of people who worked for him. that was a typical M.O. of many Jamaican producers - lots of talk about payment and stardom, little or no actual results appearing for the artists. Sylvan Morris, Jackie Mittoo, Leroy Sibbles were all shortchanged to some degree by Coxsone, and that's one reason why no one ever stayed on too long. many reggae and rocksteady superstars lived a hand-to-mouth existence even at the peak of their popularity, and those that were able tried to earn money abroad doing shows, or eventually tired of the perpetual difficulties of Jamaican living and emigrated to the U.S., Canada or England.

the Gladiators footage is inside Randy's - i had forgotten about the footage right afterwards about Randy's record store (which was the main business downstairs), and who is idling about the entrance, none other than Big Youth himself! that documentary had to have been shot around 1975.

[chris vine]

Yeh - i remember his teeth..... .....and that killer album Dreadlocks Dread. Pity about Sir Coxsone, still reckon Dub Store Special is pure gold tho.