scannest wrote:I saw it in a theater when I was visiting Chicago last week. I enjoyed it more than I expected. I've gotten quite sick of talking-head music docs, but this one was better than average. I'd quibble that they spent too much time on Alex's tenure in the Panther Burns and not enough on the 3rd album. And no interviews at all with the Posies who comprised 1/2 of Big Star for the past umpteen years. But like I said, better than average thanks to some fairly eloquent speakers (esp. John Fry).
Biggest laugh - apparently the debauched hang-out for every Memphis lo-life circa 1973 was...TGI Fridays. That's where the back cover photo for Radio City was taken.
I'll watch a music doc or even a shitty bio-pic about virtually anyone, even bands I don't really care about or like but especially if it's related to a band I do like. I'll even extend that to movies vaguely about or featuring musicians like the awful 1999 KISS-related movie Detroit Rock City. I saw it back when it was in the theaters, but hadn't seen it until I happened to be watching one of the movie channels (Encore, I think) at my in-laws' house yesterday and it happened to be on. Despite its predictability, KISS' crass marketing and piss-poor attention to detail re: musical timelines, I was STILL sucked in.
I got a laugh out of that TGI Fridays bit, too, but it was the original one and I assume before it became a chain/franchise.