Comments on: studio pr0n

By: John Molina

John Molina — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:32:04 +0000

VH1 Behind the Music: Spice Girls
:)

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:06:17 +0000

oh, here’s another one that’s supposed to be worth checking:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/rrunited/
Its the ‘all-star’ sessions commemorating the 25th birthday of Roadrunner, the CD also has an accompanying DVD which has, supposedly, a shitload of studio footage. I haven’t seen it yet, but the reviews were fairly positive.

By: russ

russ — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:50:23 +0000

Also,
The Last Waltz–The Band; End of the Century–Ramones; Filth and the Fury–Sex Pistols
I haven’t even listened to Metallica since I watched Some Kind of Monster.
Non music related documentaries, but worth seeing:
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
Touching the Void

By: erik

erik — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:41:30 +0000

the first half of the “Joshua Tree” Classic Albums DVD was excellent in my mind, as it confirmed that U2 is Edge’s band, not Bono’s. There’s a scene where Edge, Bono, and Daniel Lanois are all at the mixing desk listening and commenting about the music. Edge and Lanois are obviously total equals here. When Bono makes comments, he’s always looking at Lanois to get confirmation that what he said was actually right. Bono’s definitely on the bottom end of the totem pole in that team.
In another scene, Lanois is playing back “where the streets have no name”, and all that can be heard is tons of tracks of background synths that can _barely_ be heard in the final track. He talks about how they went down this route for awhile with bad results. He then pushes up one fader and *boom*, instant rock anthem. Edge’s guitar starts flying out of the speakers and it sounds like U2, where it clearly didn’t before. I wish I had the “edge fader” on my mixing board.
The last half of the DVD talks about the Joshua Tree tour, which is already a movie called “Rattle and Hum”. Not terribly interesting. They should have stuck to the studio footage.
I think I could watch any DVD where they’re playing with the studio tapes and soloing various tracks. Better yet, release some of the multi-track masters and let me play with remixing.

By: russ

russ — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:32:38 +0000

Dig

By: Roland

Roland — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:53:37 +0000

Avoid ‘Some kind of Monster’ at all costs, watching Lars Ulrich blabbing garbage for a couple of hours surely will rot your brain…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:22:55 +0000

Don’t know if they are still running it, but a week or two ago there was a documentary on Parliment Funkadelic (or Parliments/Funkadelic/Parliment Funkadelic/George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, depending on the song) that I thought was so great, I made Chelsi sit down and watch it again with me. Made me want to go out and collect their vinyl just for the art. Bootsy kicks ass!