Movie night:




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He makes it look so easy.

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I thought it was about this Joe Meek (which I really like):

It always sort of offended me that PMI stole Mr Meek's brand name just to make their contemporary and generic circuits seem like they were worth a couple hundred dollars.





I hadn't fully realized how tragic the Joe Meek story was until I watched the movie.

The props master should get some sort of award... the production design was outstanding. The recording gear seemed like it should be in a museum.

The editor blew me away... the sequencing made me really uncomfortable and it effectively conveyed the sense of frenetic energy that I have associated with the early London pop ampheti-scene I have read about in books and articles about music and art.

The movie left me exhausted... and when it was over I was glad that I live a slower paced life.

I don't think everyone will enjoy this movie... it's got lots of challenging content... but if you have some interest in early pop recording techniques and cool old U.K. gear you may want to give it a view.

best regards,
mike

Thanks Mike for mini preview.....will definitely put this on my "to watch" list. (I hope it's on Netflix :).)

Mike - I listened to a BBC radio documentary about Joe Meek narrated by Tom Robinson (of the Tom Robinson band) - very interesting.
Seeing as it has my fave actor, Kevin Spacey too, I am definitely going to check this one out - thanks.

I recently restarted my Netflix subscription because Netflix has a pretty good film vault. My only other options would be having to buy these lesser known films. Fortunately Netflix does have it and I finally got around to renting it. Strange movie indeed. Not for everyone. I am sure my wife hated it. I was afraid to ask her. It is fast moving and awkward, but does tell a story about a recording engineer, song-writer, producer, etc that I never knew about other than knowing the hit song "Telstar" (which I like). From a modern pop music perspective, it does give an insight into one aspect of this musical culture. No big time recording studio was used. If anything, it was probably worse than what most of us on the forum have. Also interesting is at the end of the movie is shows what happened to everyone. There were a couple big surprises there for me that I was not aware of while watching the movie.
 
My biggest complaint was I could not get sub-titles. I don't believe the DVD offered it. It would have helped at times.

Ken, I'm actually impressed that you were able to find this 3 year old thread (knowing the search (dis)function here).

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Ken, I'm actually impressed that you were able to find this 3 year old thread (knowing the search (dis)function here).

I have a tendency to remember discussed topics when they are specific. I remembered this one. Plus I try and first do a search beforehand. But I do not use the built-in search function. Instead I do a Google search using the following format:

    site:forum.cakewalk.com <string>
 
In this case:
 
    site:forum.cakewalk.com Telstar