2015/10/04 15:59:34
bitflipper
It's called "This Ain't no Mouse Music", about Chris Strachwitz and his eclectic record label Arhoolie Records.
 
It's a label that specializes in American roots music of every stripe. Many of the artists he's recorded are people who would have been unknown otherwise. Some were so obscure that he had to be a detective just to find out if where they were or if they were even real.
 
A good follow-up to the Keith Richards documentary Under the Influence.
2015/10/04 20:22:59
bapu
+2.5
 
Watched it two weeks ago.
 
 
2015/10/04 20:24:04
bapu
BTW, my son lives bout 3 blocks from the store.
 
2015/10/05 11:00:06
TheMaartian
+1
 
Cool! Other Arhoolie fans! I've picked up a number of terrific CDs from him. Thank you, Chris!
2015/10/06 19:40:27
Mosvalve
You guys may enjoy these five documentaries if you haven't seen them yet.
 
http://blog.sonicbids.com/5-more-music-documentaries-you-should-watch-on-youtube-this-weekend
 
 
2015/10/07 10:32:29
Kamikaze
'Mr Blue Sky' about ELO's 'G. Lynn' was a cool music doc. Musician Producer, down to earth multi-instrumentalist with a clear vision of his musical ideas.
2015/10/08 22:58:13
bitflipper
Kamikaze, I couldn't find anything about a Geoff Lynn documentary. Where'd you find it?
2015/10/09 10:49:11
Moshkito
Hi,
 
The David Bowie documentary on "Behind the Music" is good too.
 
The BBC documentary on "Krautrock" is also excellent, but several hours long and quite detailed ... but for some reason the last hour is mangled badly and that is the hour that has David Bowie discussing it, and mentioning its influence on him.
 
Most rock documentaries do not discuss the other things that David studies, and it is acting, and theater and mime, and in many ways, the performance side of these things in experimental theater, is far more advanced in work, than most rock music is, and he seems to be an avid listener of a lot of different, cultural and odd things ... on purpose ... to get better ideas for what he does. But he is honest enough to credit them when it is there, and he does well in the "krautrock" special, though he knows who the real stars are.
 
He is also courageous ... no American (or Cakewalk'an) would ever tackle Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht ... and David did, and sounded well, though not great in my book, because it was not in a theatrical environment per se, and its quality suffered a bit because of it, but otherwise good, and sort of a capella all the way. you learn a lot from doing different things, but for many folks, "different" means a different effect on their guitar only. not for David!
2015/10/09 12:58:52
jamesg1213
Moshkito
 
no American (or Cakewalk'an) would ever tackle Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht ..




Yes they would. A LOT of Tom Waits work is influenced by Weill. The album 'The Black Rider' is a theatrical collaboration between Waits, William Burroughs and director Robert Wilson, very much in the style of Brecht and Weill. Check it out, it's JUST the kind of thing you're always berating us for not knowing anything about....
2015/10/09 13:06:35
bapu
If the Forum Monkeys ever had a documentary it would be VERY short.
 
A monkey flinging p..........      never mind.
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