Last Music Documentaries Watched

[the mean]

STAY HUMAN (2019) (Michael Franti)

I saw the Beatnigs play once and thought they were great. Unique and confrontational in the best way. And I really like the Disposable Heroes of Hiphopracy album when it came out. I still love the lyric: "Sometimes I feel like a socio-genetic experiment, a Petri dish community's token of affection. You see, I'm African, Native American, Irish and German. I was adopted by parents who loved me; they were the same color as the kids who called me n***** on the walk home from school. I cried until I found out what it meant. Then I got me some equipment, my fists man. I was a hitman with no friends." I thought the first Spearhead album was decent, but didn't like the second one much, outside of "Why Oh Why (The Basketball Song)", which I thought was really good. After that, I kinda lost track of what Franti was up to.

This movie is not a straight documentary about him, which I think would be a better movie. It tells some of his story, but is mostly centered around Franti visiting with a few different people and telling their stories. This is obviously set up to pull the tears out of you, in addition to highlighting some cool things. The guy dying of ALS was was particularly a tough story.

Despite this being somewhat obvious and blunt, and at times seeming like a Travel Channel show it was pretty well done. Now I'm wondering if there is anything Franti has done over the last 20 years that I should check out.

[the mean]

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG: FIFTY BY FOUR (2014)

Not our generation, so although they are already well documented and I like a lot of the songs, there was plenty in here I didn't know. Pretty comprehensive, time-wise as well. Starts with Buffalo Springfield, then goes to the Laurel Canyon scene and the formation to CSN. They needed a touring band after recording the first album, so they tried some people, then added Young who had clashed with Stills in Buffalo Springfield. Then, over the years, the four released records in different permutations of between one and four people. Lots of coke was consumed. Follows the band all the way through to the Bush2 era.

Some things I learned: There was more than one song that I thought was released by a different combination of CSNY. Young was pretty non-political, but was influenced by Crosby. At one point, they had to bring backup people on tour because Crosby was hoovering so much coke that he was unreliable on stage. Young said he would rejoin the four person unit if Crosby got clean, which he did. Stills was really the driving force behind the band. Crosby's girlfriend died while they were recording at LP. They were booed by the crowds pretty hard in the midwest and south in the mid 2000s when they played a song about impeaching Bush.

The film also talked about them basically representing the excess of rock in the 90s, which seems pretty accurate.

Good movie.

[the mean]

RAT SKATES: BORN IN THE BASEMENT (2007) (Overkill)

This movie was made by Rat Skates, the drummer from Overkill, so it is obviously very complementary towards him. It's a pretty detailed history of the band, with all sorts of members going in and out before and after they start releasing records. If you are interested in who the fourth guitarist was in Overkill that was only in the band for a few practices and one show, this is the film for you. At this point, this is pretty par for the course for metal docs.

I enjoyed all the details about how they chose green for the logo, printing shirts in the basement and the logistics of their stage setup, i.e., how they build the cage under the drum riser. Part of it is me just laughing at how much thought and time these metal bands put into their image and things other than their music.

Not the best of the metal docs, but a fun watch, especially if you like Overkill at all.

[the mean]

THE RAINBOW (2019)

This is a film about the bar/restaurant on the Strip in Hollywood. It follows the family that owns the place and focuses on, but is not limited to, their history with the metal dudes in the 80s. The owners functioned as parents for many of the rockers who stopped in all the time. If you saw the Lemmy documentary, this is the place where Lemmy always hung out and played video poker.

Original owner Mario Maglieri (who died in 2017 at 93) seemed like a rad dude. He moved to LA to run the Whiskey, and then opened the restaurant as well. He was always telling the rockers to ease off the drugs, but helping them get through day to day as well. He had some pretty blunt anti-racist comments that were cool as well.

The only thing I didn't like about this was at the end where the old rockers complain about modern music. You are out of touch, old men.

[lewdd]

Are these LA places worth visiting?

[xxxMidgexxx]

Does anyone know this band?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparks_(band)

The have a documentary but I have never heard of them. Apparently Todd Rundgren produced them and he is in the documentary.

[lewdd]

I remember their song "Cool Places"

[xxxMidgexxx]

RAT SKATES: BORN IN THE BASEMENT (2007) (Overkill)

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Rat Skates did another documentary that focused on depression - drugs - alcoholism in touring hard rock and heavy metal bands. It was kinda intense, and I didn’t understand why he did it. Was he telling kids to stay away from a Music career ???

[xxxHunterxxx]

Does anyone know this band?

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Yes.

[xxxMidgexxx]

Does anyone know this band?

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Yes.

Bored today?

[the mean]

TEAR THE ROOF OFF: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC (2016)

This could have been subtitled, "Former associates talk shit about George Clinton." The focus of this doc was talking to former members of all the associated Parliament bands. They did not have nice things to say about Clinton. He sometimes paid them in drugs, and other times didn't pay them at all. Mountains of coke were snorted and freebased. Stories of looking for pieces of a rock in the carpet and pulling things up and putting them in the pipe and smoking them. Sometimes they were rat turds. Some of them were living in row homes with their parents while Clinton lived in a huge mansion. They brought the women into the band so there would be people around to have sex with. Clinton showed up on a later track and just ranted and then left. His vocal had to be cut up and made into something usable.

Short movie. Only an hour.

Obviously, Clinton was not a part of this movie. Pretty fun watch, but it had a pretty clear agenda.

[the mean]

ROCK STEADY: THE ROOTS OF REGGAE (2009)

If you are looking for a in depth history about rock steady this isn't really the movie for you. The title of the film is basically it: rock steady was the bridge between ska and reggae. However, this movie is not at all bad. A bunch of OG rock steady players were gathering in Jamaica for a "reunion" show, and they are interviewed and filmed in the studio recording old hits. What's funny is that there is about 15 seconds of the actual reunion concert prior to the credits. The interviews are pretty cool, as they do give some history of growing up in Jamaica, and how the growing poverty into the 70s led to the Rude Boys.

The shots of Jamaica were great. They showed the poverty of the area without dwelling on it or making it into some kind of disaster porn. I especially loved the scene they filmed at the old outdoor theater that looked like it hadn't been used in 20 years. Also, in addition to the studio footage, many of the people were filmed singing in the street, in church or at home. I also liked the footage of the record pressing plant in Jamaica and the talk about how Jamaicans still love their records.

This is more music than history of music, which is fine if that's what you are looking for.

[lewdd]

mean, have you watched this one yet

I just read about it while doing a search about the band Zero Defex

[the mean]

No. Going to add that one to the list.

[the mean]

OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND SAY MR. CHI PIG (2009)

I've been trying to watch this for a while, but it was never available on any of the streaming services I had without an extra charge. Someone has uploaded it to YouTube, but it has Spanish subtitles. This was slightly distracting at first, because I can read a little Spanish and I kept trying to figure out the text while I lost the audio in my head. I was good after about 10 minutes in, though.

I imagine this movie was pretty shocking in 2009 because most of didn't know about Chi Pig's health and drug issues at that point. We have all scene pics at this point, or I'm sure some of you have seen SNFU since this movie was released (the last time I saw them was 1993.)

This works really well as a history of Chi Pig's life. Because the only constant in his life looks to have been SNFU, this also works well as a history of SNFU. What's missing from that perspective is the Belke brothers. I imagine they were so fed up with Chi Pig by 2009 that they had no desire to take part in this movie at all. Which is too bad, because I think that's really the only thing that would make this movie better. Many other members of SNFU dip in here and there, along with the usual cast of famous 80s punks (Jello, etc.)

Obviously the center of this movie is Chi Pig's struggles with mental health and drugs. His therapist gets a good deal of airtime. It's a sad, and unfortunately common story. It's striking when someone from a "famous" band ends up on the street instead of OD'ing in a nice mansion. But SNFU, or curse, were never at the level to bring in a ton of money. They also didn't seem to be very smart with the money they did make, and didn't really understand their contracts. Also, I think they were really not boring enough to sell as many records as their Epitaph contemporaries.

Is it "Chee" or "Chai"? This question was not answered and people pronounced it both ways.

This is definitely worth tracking down. Also worth mentioning is that Chi Pig made it 11 more years after this movie was released, and SNFU did another (Belke-less) album. RIP Chi Pig.

[Neal]

This is a cool documentary on Prime that I forgot about. I do remember that Jason Farrell was a ripper.

Blood and Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club

In the middle of nowhere lived an unexpected piece of skateboarding and punk music history: "The Crest," a skateboarding mecca of the 80's, a veritable metal monolith, tucked away on a country club in the suburbs of the nation's Capital. It was a place of pure unadulterated expressionist freedom where cutting edge skateboarding and punk rock music collided and made history. Professional skaters and legendary bands, 11 gauge steel and, of course, blood. "Blood and Steel: Cedar Crest Country Club" is the story of a one of a kind skateboarding playground that attracted skaters and bands from all over to come experience what became known simply as, "The Crest".

[the mean]

YOU WEREN'T THERE (2009) (Chicago)

This was great. Oldish dudes talking shit about each other. Vic Bondi threatening to kick Steve Albini's ass, both in the early 80s and in 2009 (or whenever his interview was filmed.) Effigies and Albini talking shit about AOF. Lots of people just being grumps in general.

The other thing I liked about this one was that all of the old footage sounded amazing.

Really this only focused on a handful of bands, and talked about the clubs around Chicago. It was not all that focused on telling a linear story and I didn't finish the movie feeling like I got a really good idea as to what Chicago hardcore/punk was like during that era. However, none of that matters too much because it was fun to watch bitter old dudes swipe at each other.

[lewdd]

YOU WEREN'T THERE (2009) (Chicago)

This was great. Oldish dudes talking shit about each other. Vic Bondi threatening to kick Steve Albini's ass, both in the early 80s and in 2009 (or whenever his interview was filmed.) Effigies and Albini talking shit about AOF. Lots of people just being grumps in general.

The other thing I liked about this one was that all of the old footage sounded amazing.

Really this only focused on a handful of bands, and talked about the clubs around Chicago. It was not all that focused on telling a linear story and I didn't finish the movie feeling like I got a really good idea as to what Chicago hardcore/punk was like during that era. However, none of that matters too much because it was fun to watch bitter old dudes swipe at each other.

I watched it months ago at the beginning of the pandemic. I enjoyed it too. I went back and listened to some recordings by some of the bands after watching it. I think it hit the highlights of the bands in that scene back in its early stages best I could tell from input from folks that were around at that time. I did get to see quite a few of those bands perform reunion shows while I lived out there. Several at the Riot Fest Busted at Oz reunion gig.

[the mean]

IT'S A ROCKABILLY WORLD! (2016)

I've always kinda hated rockabilly. I think it stems from the fact that when I started getting into punk and hardcore in the mid 80s, people started leaving for rockabilly. Punk seemed like something new and exciting to me, while rockabilly just seemed like aping the past. This documentary didn't do much to change that. Most of these people were annoying, and they let Teddy Boy Greg hang around, so there's minus points there.

The documentary was well done from the point of view that it covered the subject area and was well-structured, but the subject was so boooooring that it made the movie not very good. I hope to never see most of these people again in movie form or in real life.

[xxxHunterxxx]

I watched the Style Council doc. It was great.

[version sound]

Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix in Maui

Pretty interesting. The dude who made Rainbow Bridge (the movie) seems like a real scheming scumbag.

[the mean]

CLEVELAND'S SCREAMING (2007)

This was basically just an unorganized set of interviews with people from the Cleveland punk scene in the early 80s. Lots of bands I had never heard of, along with The Pagans and ODFX. Fun fact: ever since getting the PEACE comp in 1987, I pronounced ODFX, well, "O-D-F-X." It was only a couple years ago that I realized it was "Zero Defects."

None of this was super interesting or well done. My favorite part were the sisters that started showing up and hanging out, and then people later realized that one of the sisters was in fact their mom. Solid parenting. Not that this was bad. It was fine for what it was, and I'm sure is interesting for people from Cleveland, but it needed someone to structure it into an actual movie with a story.

[xxxMidgexxx]

Imma watch the Janice Joplin bio 'Little Girl Blue' again tonight.

[version sound]

Imma watch the Janice Joplin bio 'Little Girl Blue' again tonight.

I assume that’s the one I watched on Amazon. Good one.

[xxxMidgexxx]

Imma watch the Janice Joplin bio 'Little Girl Blue' again tonight.

I assume that’s the one I watched on Amazon. Good one.

Good question. It appears to be on HULU right now, but the first time I ever saw it I THINK it was on Netflix. I really liked it as much as I could like a miserable and depressing story like hers.

I watched that Nina Simone documentary too and found that equally as sad.

[scannest]

I prefer the JANIS Joplin biopic starring Jenna Maroney.

[the mean]

WESTERN STARS (2020) (Bruce Springsteen)

Basically a concert film with The Boss playing songs from his new record with the E Street Band in a barn on his property. Interspersed between the songs he tells stories about the songs or other things. Gives the vibe of grandpa sitting on his porch telling stories.

Sound quality is excellent, of course. The first song is really good, but it's downhill from there. I think Magic was the last Springsteen album I bought. This is not making me rush to the record store to buy the new one, but I enjoyed watching this.

[scannest]

WESTERN STARS (2020) (Bruce Springsteen)

Basically a concert film with The Boss playing songs from his new record with the E Street Band in a barn on his property. Interspersed between the songs he tells stories about the songs or other things. Gives the vibe of grandpa sitting on his porch telling stories.

Sound quality is excellent, of course. The first song is really good, but it's downhill from there. I think Magic was the last Springsteen album I bought. This is not making me rush to the record store to buy the new one, but I enjoyed watching this.

I think WESTERN STARS is easily his best since MAGIC, but I have a soft spot for that Glen Campbell-esque smooth, countrypolitan sound.
A couple listens to the latest one (LETTER TO YOU) convinced me it is the corniest thing Bruce has ever done, musically and lyrically (and that's saying something).

[the mean]

BEE GEES: HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART (2020)

This was a pretty standard rock-doc. Slick and well done, it covered the Bee Gees' career pretty thoroughly. I thought they got to the band recording pretty quickly and skipped the childhood, thinking there was still quite a bit of movie left at that point, but there was enough career ups and downs to keep it moving.

I liked that it touched on things like the racism and homophobia behind "disco sucks." Can't remember much else that veered away from a straight biopic. My favorite music-nerdy part was the story behind the recording of "Staying Alive." Basically, hired drummer had a family emergency and had to go home for a short period of time during recording of the songs for the soundtrack. The producers looped one of his beats from another song as a scratch track. They did this manually by making a loop of the tape and one of them stood away from the machine with a stick at a spot where the tape could loop around the stick. They slowed the beat down a bit. When the drummer got back, he told them it was so good that they should just keep it.

Only one of these dudes, including the little brother (Andy) is left.

[lewdd]

I think I am going to send my Andy Gibb 45's to Midge.

[earthdog70]

VS-I watched that Jimi doc last weekend too. That guy that directed Rainbow Bridge also dated Edie Sedgwick? How is that possible

I have no desire to see the actual movie, it looks awful. The doc was interesting, but I will stick with the actual concert footage on the blu-ray. Although the concert footage cuts out in a few places (probably when the camera guys went to go smoke a fatty ha ha), it's still well done footage and the sound is good.

[version sound]

I think I am going to send my Andy Gibb 45's to Midge.

Pretty sure his fax machine is broken. He didn’t get any of the records I sent him.

[version sound]

VS-I watched that Jimi doc last weekend too. That guy that directed Rainbow Bridge also dated Edie Sedgwick? How is that possible

I have no desire to see the actual movie, it looks awful. The doc was interesting, but I will stick with the actual concert footage on the blu-ray. Although the concert footage cuts out in a few places (probably when the camera guys went to go smoke a fatty ha ha), it's still well done footage and the sound is good.

That dude seems like a real opportunist and user. I saw the movie back in the days of VHS rentals. It was pretty awful, except for the live footage.

[earthdog70]

Minnesota Hardcore-AMAZING:

https://www.tptoriginals.org/series/mn-hardcore/

[scannest]

MOVED FROM THE WRONG THREAD:

"I watched OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL, Julien Temple's documentary on Dr. Feelgood. Excellent film on a band I don't really care all that much about. The stuff about Canvey Island was fascinating and Wilko Johnson is one of the all-time great r'n'r characters. Highly recommended, whether or not you're a fan of the band. It's on the Criterion Channel."

[xxxHunterxxx]

MOVED FROM THE WRONG THREAD:

"I watched OIL CITY CONFIDENTIAL, Julien Temple's documentary on Dr. Feelgood. Excellent film on a band I don't really care all that much about. The stuff about Canvey Island was fascinating and Wilko Johnson is one of the all-time great r'n'r characters. Highly recommended, whether or not you're a fan of the band. It's on the Criterion Channel."

Seconded.

[Welly]

Now we’ll finally get to the bottom of things.

[xxxMidgexxx]

That Husker Du (early days) documentary was good. Short, but good.

[lewdd]

That Husker Du (early days) documentary was good. Short, but good.

What is the name of it and what streaming service is it on?

[scannest]

What is the name of it and what streaming service is it on?

I think he's talking about the Minnesota HC doc that Earthdog posted about. But maybe not.

[xxxMidgexxx]

What is the name of it and what streaming service is it on?

I think he's talking about the Minnesota HC doc that Earthdog posted about. But maybe not.

It might be, but it seemed to focus specifically on HD. Perhaps a few brief minutes of Soul Asylum.

[xxxMidgexxx]

Ken Burns 'Jazz' series.

Goes back to the early 1900's. Pretty informative and kinda sad in a lot of cases seeing how so many of these players tragically died before their 40th birthday. Drugs and alcoholism.
Jelly Roll Morton story. I'm guessing that's what Sonic Youth referenced on 'Dirty Boots'

[lewdd]

Ken Burns 'Jazz' series.

Goes back to the early 1900's. Pretty informative and kinda sad in a lot of cases seeing how so many of these players tragically died before their 40th birthday. Drugs and alcoholism.
Jelly Roll Morton story. I'm guessing that's what Sonic Youth referenced on 'Dirty Boots'

I made it thru about 3 episodes of that series and quite enjoyed them. I need to finish the rest of the episodes but I keep distracting myself with other things. And, yes, from my limited, recently acquired knowledge on the subject of jazz musicians, it appears that there were quite a few who lived shortened lives due to heroin and alcohol addictions.

[the mean]

BREAK IT ALL: THE HISTORY OF ROCK IN LATIN AMERICA (2020)

This was an extremely well done six-part doc. About five hours long, total. Pretty comprehensive history of rock music south of us, beginning in the 50s and moving forward to today. The main focus was probably the 80s and 90s, but other eras were pretty well covered as well. The best thing they did was tie the music into what was happening in each country at the time in terms of politics and social movements. Pretty important to put the music in context like this, and this documentary did a great job of it.

The main focus was on Mexico and Argentina. This was probably because these larger countries produced the majority of bands, but I can't say for sure. Chile, Columbia and Peru also get some time. The biggest obvious omission was Brazil. It was just completely ignored (no mention of Sepultura.) Not sure why Brazil was ignored, but it was weird.

I had not heard of almost all of the bands talked about, which was cool. As to be expected, there was a ton of dreck (Soda Stereo was godawful.) Lots of bad knockoffs of US/British bands. But I did make a list of a couple bands from each episode that I am going to check out further (in order): Los Saicos, Los Beatniks, Los Jaivas, Sus Generis, Wet Picnic, Sumo, Los Prisioneros, Maldita Vecinidad, Caifanes, La Pestlencia, Los Fabuloses Cadillacs, Aterciopelados, Molotov, La Vela Puerca.

This is one of the better ones I've watched. Definitely recommended.

[the mean]

BEASTIE BOYS STORY (2020)

This may be the best one I've watched so far. Unique format: Mike D and Ad-Rock were filmed at some sort of multiple-day run live Broadway-like show, and then the movie cut to the clips they showed to the live audience as they showed them. Directed by Spike Jonze. It seemed a bit odd at first, but really worked.

Lots of this movie was common knowledge to anyone paying half attention. I think most of us are familiar with the general story: hardcore band discovers rap, gets in over their head with sarcastic misogyny, realizes they are assholes and changes paths. Meanwhile, first album is huge, second album (generally considered the best by everyone I know) flops, then they get huge again when they start playing their instruments. Then MCA tragically dies.

But its the details that make this great. All those 70s clothes they wore in the Paul's Boutique era? They were renting a house in SoCal and broke into a locked closet full of them and just started wearing them everywhere. Having to play smaller clubs after Paul's Boutique bombed, commercially. The writing process for Ill Communication and Check Your Head. All fascinating.

This probably works because Mike D and Ad-Rock come off as so likeable. I showed up early to a show to set up my table of records when they were touring as Quasar and ended up playing basketball with them for awhile, and they were just as cool to hang with as it comes across here. Talking about MCA was obviously hard for them, and of course add some tragedy to the movie.

Anyway, everyone should watch this, whether or not they really like the Beastie Boys.

[drew]

SWANS- Where Does a Body End?

Excellent, full career covering doc. Tons of live footage and much more participation from former band members the I would expect.
Michael Gira & Jarboe really open up about their relationship both musically and romantically.
Watching in one sitting is like the long march to the sea. My wife asks dme to lower the volume more then once, the bass in some of the concert scenes is house-shaking.



KILLING JOKE- The Death & Ressurection Show.

Amazing, interesting & totally batshit story of IMHO, the greatest Post-Punk band next Joy Division and later an amazing metal band.
Still great livened now I'm even happier that I had a chance to see them a small venue like Saint Vitus before this past year......

Do yourself a favor and check out this hugely entertaining doc

[lewdd]

BREAK IT ALL: THE HISTORY OF ROCK IN LATIN AMERICA (2020)

This was an extremely well done six-part doc. About five hours long, total. Pretty comprehensive history of rock music south of us, beginning in the 50s and moving forward to today. The main focus was probably the 80s and 90s, but other eras were pretty well covered as well. The best thing they did was tie the music into what was happening in each country at the time in terms of politics and social movements. Pretty important to put the music in context like this, and this documentary did a great job of it.

The main focus was on Mexico and Argentina. This was probably because these larger countries produced the majority of bands, but I can't say for sure. Chile, Columbia and Peru also get some time. The biggest obvious omission was Brazil. It was just completely ignored (no mention of Sepultura.) Not sure why Brazil was ignored, but it was weird.

I had not heard of almost all of the bands talked about, which was cool. As to be expected, there was a ton of dreck (Soda Stereo was godawful.) Lots of bad knockoffs of US/British bands. But I did make a list of a couple bands from each episode that I am going to check out further (in order): Los Saicos, Los Beatniks, Los Jaivas, Sus Generis, Wet Picnic, Sumo, Los Prisioneros, Maldita Vecinidad, Caifanes, La Pestlencia, Los Fabuloses Cadillacs, Aterciopelados, Molotov, La Vela Puerca.

This is one of the better ones I've watched. Definitely recommended.

I heard Molotov playing on a jukebox in a pool hall in Tijuana one night after work.

[the mean]

LEAVING EDEN: LIVE XTREME ROCKUMENTARY (2018)

I had never heard of this band and was curious what was "xtreme" about them. Turns out it's "dullness." This is live footage of this power metal(?) band, with some interviews with the band members interspersed. The live footage is mostly with their equipment set up in front of the headliner. I spent a good portion of this trying to figure out who the headliner was, before finally realizing near the end it was Bret Michaels.

Most glaring is the lack of a bassist. This is never explained. Band is singer (who changes hats often during the set), guitarist and drummer. There is really no reason for a band that sounds like this not to have a bassist.

Band members are nice, but boring. They offer nothing interesting. No insight into the music business or touring. At one point they forgot the keys to their trailer and had to hire a locksmith at the venue on their first day of tour. Someone get this band a bassist.

XTREME

[the mean]

TAD: BUSTED CIRCUITS AND RINGING EARS (2008)

Tad the band was a pretty good band and Tad the dude seems like a pretty funny dude. However, this is a pretty standard rock-doc that I feel like I've seen a hundred times at this point. Dude records a couple songs playing all the instruments, gets the attention of SubPop, puts a band together, starts touring, gets relatively popular, gets in trouble for using a random thrifted photo as an album cover and for using the Pepsi logo on a single, moves to a major post-Nirvana, gets dropped around the time a promo poster for Inhaler shows up with Bill Clinton holding a doob, signs to another major and then gets dropped within weeks of the albums release, band breaks up and Tad does meth.

Lots of theoretically interesting stuff in there, but nothing really explored in depth. More just: this happened. Video quality is poor, just before high quality cameras started to become available. I wouldn't bother with this unless you really love Tad.

[the mean]

MURDER CITY DEVILS: ROCK & ROLL WON'T WAIT (2001)

This was a hype band for a minute, right? Basically, someone brought a cheap camera on tour with them for a year and this is the result. Probably should have kept it for home viewing for members to watch. Like vacation pictures. Poor quality video with nothing really interesting said. Bad sounding live footage. I don't feel like I know anything more about this band than when I started.

The only part of this that made my ears prick up was when the roadie (who did all his interviews with is shirt unbuttoned with nothing underneath) started talking about modeling his roadying after Richard the Roadie, who is an old bandmate of mine. Richard is a rad dude.