This is a thread for posting cool bits of music documentaries for others to enjoy. Especially welcome are in-studio footage and musicians talking about how they got their particular sound or wrote parts. Craft or whatever. I love all this stuff.
Here’s a great 5 mins on The Band, about Garth Hudson pioneering funk clavinet, then Richie Richardson messing around with the mixing desk, then Levon Helm being generally a dude.
Remember seeing this recently and enjoying it – not particularly a Paul Simon fan but just loved watching him talk about writing Bridge Over Troubled Water
I love this, especially the bit after getting basically every session player in LA to try and fail to nail the guitar solo (starts at about 4.00, but the long discussion of the drum sound that precedes it is almost as good)
Came across this last night, which isn’t a documentary, but it does document something pretty interesting if you’re interested in the dubstep thing (as I am).
This is not really a clip, actually is the opposite (a raw version of something that was made to be clipped) but found watching kurt cobain talk for an extended period super interesting. It must just have been baffling to be in his position and that comes across in this I think.
I like how it still seems loose and magical as he’s explaining the influences coming together while noodling and humming. Dick Cavett isn’t much use though
similar Dan fun with some drum isolation. Includes Purdie attempting the biggest name drop list in history. I should probably just go and watch all the Classic Albums series shouldn’t I.
If I remember rightly there’s another bit with Chuck Rainey talking about how he managed to sneak in a little bit of slap bass despite being repeatedly told not to.
A quick one for the metal/prog heads of DiS: Guthrie Govan’s first shot, one take improv solo for Steven Wilson’s Regret #9. I have watched this far too many times.