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« Reply #25 on: June 05, 2019, 05:48:52 PM »

Just saw the film, pretty solid watch. As noted, there is a nice segment of the film dedicated to The Beach Boys/Brian, and they include a couple of clips from an interview Jakob did with Brian. They also brought Brian into the studio to play piano on “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” with Jakob and his backing band, although it’s unclear if any of the recording was used in the movie or the soundtrack, they quickly cut to different footage that didn’t have Brian there. If anyone picked up the soundtrack please report back if Brian is credited as playing on that version. Also, oddly enough, the film includes Roger McGuinn briefly recounting the story of “Ding Dang” which was pretty funny. Not sure it was an essential inclusion in the film but I appreciated it. Also at one point, Lou Adler takes credit for bringing an acetate of Pet Sounds to England and playing it to Andrew Loog-Oldham and Paul McCartney, which I don’t think I have heard offered up before.
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« Reply #26 on: June 06, 2019, 06:37:37 AM »

Just saw the film, pretty solid watch. As noted, there is a nice segment of the film dedicated to The Beach Boys/Brian, and they include a couple of clips from an interview Jakob did with Brian. They also brought Brian into the studio to play piano on “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” with Jakob and his backing band, although it’s unclear if any of the recording was used in the movie or the soundtrack, they quickly cut to different footage that didn’t have Brian there. If anyone picked up the soundtrack please report back if Brian is credited as playing on that version. Also, oddly enough, the film includes Roger McGuinn briefly recounting the story of “Ding Dang” which was pretty funny. Not sure it was an essential inclusion in the film but I appreciated it. Also at one point, Lou Adler takes credit for bringing an acetate of Pet Sounds to England and playing it to Andrew Loog-Oldham and Paul McCartney, which I don’t think I have heard offered up before.

That is true about Lou Adler, and it has been reported before. Adler himself took a copy over and played it for Paul at Andrew Loog-Oldham's place, then Kim Fowley and Keith Moon set up the listening session with McCartney AND Lennon, with that acetate copy delivered by Bruce, that has been well documented. So yes, Lou Adler had premiered it for Paul, and it had been reported previously.
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« Reply #27 on: July 22, 2019, 11:33:08 AM »

First, apologies that this thread somehow got locked, for no reason. No clue how that happened but it's open again.

I finally saw the film in a theater yesterday, and would recommend everyone go see it while it's in the theaters (check your local independent and arthouse type theaters, I don't think it's on any theater chains' billings), or catch it when it comes out on streaming or DVD, etc.  It's a very interesting journey through some great music and musicians.

I thought it felt a little short, especially in how they focused in on only a few musicians from the scene, while leaving out others, but that's as much a time limitation as it could have been artists refusing to appear. I don't know. But what was there was pretty good. Plenty of time devoted to the Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, CSN (with all three giving interviews, kind of sad to see Crosby and Nash still separated by their feud).

McGuinn's story about "Ding Dang" brought out one of the biggest laughs from the crowd.

I won't give spoilers, but another laugh came when Brian told Jakob Dylan "you're in the wrong key!" after Dylan told Brian how they had been running down the tune before Brian arrived at the piano. Then Brian told them to play it in E or E-flat, whatever key you guys are doing it...

It is always great to see Brian interviewed for projects like this. Throughout the film, quite a few nods of appreciation and respect are given to Brian and what he was doing with The Beach Boys. As much as Brian's sounds and the BB's pretty much planted the seed for this scene, the credit for planting that seed seemed to go as much to The Byrds, which is true in terms of "folk rock" and poetry in rock/pop but not entirely their credit.

One example: "Mr Tambourine Man", which obviously changed the game a bit with a Rickenbacker 12-string sonic hook from McGuinn taking the idea after seeing George Harrison playing one in Hard Day's Night and Dylan's poetry set to a "rock beat"...but that very same rock beat was in McGuinn's own admission through the years taken from Brian's "Don't Worry Baby". Listen to the two grooves, and also listen to a lot of the hits Hal Blaine used that same beat to drive the song...That was Brian's DWB groove driving the grooves. It would have been nice to spend 15 seconds pointing that out in this film. The Byrd's breakthrough hit owed its pulse and groove to DWB and Brian.

A cool scene that gets cut in and out of throughout is Jakob, Beck, Regina Spektor, and Cat Power sitting around a coffee table piled high with classic albums. Among those on the table are Pet Sounds, Smiley Smile, and the Smile Sessions box set...along with titles from the Springfield, Byrds, and even More Of The Monkees! I wonder if there are outtakes where they talk more about those albums piled up on that table, even though Pet Sounds did get more screen time and much deserved accolades.

For fans of studios and classic sessions, yes they did discover and screen parts of that Mamas And Papas session filmed at Western #3, as described in a Universal Audio company newsletter and used for an ABC-TV special. And yes, there they are in Western 3 cutting a record, with Hal and Tommy Tedesco and all others in full color working in Western 3 just as it looked when Brian was cutting there.

*That* bit of film from the TV special needs a full release! Very, very cool to see more of what has previously come out in dribs and drabs.

And there are some nice shots of people like Lou Adler coming back to Western 3 and other rooms, talking about the records they made there.

The music was good in terms of the remakes, but some of the liberties the artists took with the melodies, especially Brian's melodies, can be a little jarring. Not bad, but there is that element of not messing with perfection in play when listening.

I do wish they had included Flo & Eddie or even Chip Douglas in the film, since one of the lead singles on the soundtrack was "You Showed Me", and The Turtles have a very big footprint on that scene as we all know. But for whatever reasons, they weren't included.

I'll have to stop there, otherwise I'll describe the whole film.

But...stay through the end credits, you'll see Neil Young doing something that I found very emotional and joyous, a neat end to the film. Neil is featured a lot but has no modern interview segments at all, except for what happens at the end credits. It's bittersweet and joyous at the same time...Neil doing what we all want to do as we get older with the sheer joy of playing music like no one is watching. I'll leave it there.  Smiley

Also bittersweet to see Tom Petty in some of the final appearances he ever made on camera, Tom is above all a big fan and a music lover as we discussed when he passed away: He talks like a lot of us talk about this music, and how much it means to him. It's infectious, and he knows it all. One highlight was Tom describing seeing The Beach Boys and Buffalo Springfield together on tour, and thinking this is the best a concert can get...Hard to disagree with the man.  Smiley  Also funny to hear him explain how "Rickenbacker" should be pronounced.

See the film when you can. It's very cool.



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« Reply #28 on: July 22, 2019, 12:02:52 PM »

Seconding GF's fine review, definitely a feel-good film made with love and respect, even if those young folks are a little vapid when they sit around discussing those LPs as if they are from the Jurassic period or something. As always their odd lack of articulation is more than compensated for by the voluble David Crosby, who can be seen here warming up for his own documentary (which will be out shortly).
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« Reply #29 on: July 22, 2019, 12:09:57 PM »

Seconding GF's fine review, definitely a feel-good film made with love and respect, even if those young folks are a little vapid when they sit around discussing those LPs as if they are from the Jurassic period or something. As always their odd lack of articulation is more than compensated for by the voluble David Crosby, who can be seen here warming up for his own documentary (which will be out shortly).

Thanks Don, and yes despite some of the flaws there is the undercurrent of love and respect along with the effort of trying to get younger listeners in the YouTube generation to check out some of this amazing music and these artists. It is a very reverential film to those classic songs and artists without being too sappy or turning into a lecture. Very cool experience overall, although I can't wait to see the outtakes!  Grin
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« Reply #30 on: July 23, 2019, 08:09:36 AM »

Reminded of this by the thread just started on Terry Melcher, but the film does spend a convincing amount of time focusing on The Byrds, specifically Mr Tambourine Man, as one of the hallmark recordings that changed the game, bringing poetry and the new folk-rock scene into the Top-10 singles charts and therefore the public consciousness. Yet unless I missed the references, they barely mention Terry Melcher's contributions as producer to those hallmark Byrds singles that became smash hits.

Just thinking out loud how it may have been a more accurate balance if they had leveled up McGuinn's credits with Melcher's and given Terry more screen mentions, since ultimately they both were responsible for bringing *that sound* to one of Dylan's folk songs in order to get it on the radio and in the charts. I'd wager if Terry were not producing those early Byrds hits, they would not have had the same impact. I doubt they would have done what they did with McGuinn's Rickenbacker sonically if they had an old-school staff producer on those sessions, for one example.
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« Reply #31 on: July 23, 2019, 10:42:03 AM »

Recently saw this documentary and I absolutely loved it.

Side note, which will tie back into The BBs:

I also recently saw the new David Crosby documentary, and it's mindblowingly good. Crosby is so, so honest and brutally real in discussing his failings and how he acted like a dick; it's mighty brave of him to do so, and I'm sure he'll get a bunch of new fans or at least people (like me) who were already casual fans, but are now more incentivized to want to seek out his past works and learn more about the guy and his music.

Bravo to Cameron Crowe for being a part of such a film that just has such a real point of view. Crosby talks about how many people he worked with don't like him, how he's made enemies, etc. But of course, the film is not just a piece of work to discuss Crosby's failings, it wisely balances positives and negatives without seeming like a propaganda piece in any way, shape, or form. Crosby did not have final cut over the film, but apparently after being initially bugged by the released cut, Crosby has made peace with it and is enjoying people being newly fascinated by him and his work.

I could not help but think that it's a damn shame that no film like this has been made about Mike Love. Love him or hate him (or somewhere between), the ins and outs of Mike's massive amount of touring is certainly something that would make for interesting documentary material. The Crosby film goes into lots of little nuts and bolts of what Crosby has to deal with day to day health-wise, how he has to make tough decisions on when/how he is going to tour at this age, etc., and I have to think that while Mike's story would undoubtedly be different, there's got to be a lot of very interesting material that could make for a great documentary, especially if Mike opened up about his past regrets in the manner that Crosby did, and if Mike also relinquished any notion of having final cut over such as doc.

I feel as though this will never, ever happen, but damn if it isn't a missed opportunity because Mike could really benefit from something like this if he'd be even half as open/honest/real as Crosby is in the Crosby doc.
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« Reply #32 on: July 23, 2019, 03:41:58 PM »

Reminded of this by the thread just started on Terry Melcher, but the film does spend a convincing amount of time focusing on The Byrds, specifically Mr Tambourine Man, as one of the hallmark recordings that changed the game, bringing poetry and the new folk-rock scene into the Top-10 singles charts and therefore the public consciousness. Yet unless I missed the references, they barely mention Terry Melcher's contributions as producer to those hallmark Byrds singles that became smash hits.

Just thinking out loud how it may have been a more accurate balance if they had leveled up McGuinn's credits with Melcher's and given Terry more screen mentions, since ultimately they both were responsible for bringing *that sound* to one of Dylan's folk songs in order to get it on the radio and in the charts. I'd wager if Terry were not producing those early Byrds hits, they would not have had the same impact. I doubt they would have done what they did with McGuinn's Rickenbacker sonically if they had an old-school staff producer on those sessions, for one example.

So if you take what you are saying here, and cross reference your earlier comments about Don't Worry Baby also adding to the propulsion of the Byrds sound, and of course, the relationship of Terry and Brian pre dating it all, does the Melcher influence loom even larger??
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« Reply #33 on: July 23, 2019, 11:26:33 PM »

Saw the film back in early June.  Walked out of the theater thinking, how do you make this film and basically ignore the role of Terry Melcher?   Terry was right at the center of that scene and was a link between many of the groups featured.  A 4-5 minute segment about Terry would have been a lot more relevant to the film than the Ding-Dang anecdote.

Nice to see the Smile box set get a cameo, though, when the Gen Xers were leafing through classic albums.
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« Reply #34 on: November 03, 2019, 07:15:20 PM »

This is now on Netflix in the US.
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« Reply #35 on: November 04, 2019, 01:12:54 PM »

I finally saw Echo in the Canyon (thanks, Netflix), and it was enjoyable. It succeeded in showing how all of those musicians influenced each other. However, I think Jakob Dylan was extremely subpar as an interviewer/host. It seemed most of his input during the interviews was a thin smile and him going, "Hmm." Not a whole lot of probing questions on his part. I feel like they were trying to show how those bands are still influencing musicians today, but there wasn't a whole lot of insight from the contemporary artists included (e.g., Beck, Cat Power, Regina Spektor, etc.)

Also, I wasn't familiar with Jade Castrinos before seeing this documentary. She has an incredible voice! Definitely have to check out more of her music.
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« Reply #36 on: November 04, 2019, 04:24:36 PM »

2 Gettin Hungry - Does it mean you didn't see Brian Fest event 4 yrs back at Fonda theatre? Many young artists been invited. Jade Castrinos sang "I Just Wasn't Made For These Tiimes". I too really liked her voice. It's beautiful when she sings that specific PS song. It fit her musically. It used to be in youtube but it's different Brian Fest numbers, not her, strangely. By the end, when checked each video way back when, favorites been Jade, M Ward (YSGTM), Punch Brothers (SU) & Joy Williams (WIBN). Give it listen.
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« Reply #37 on: November 11, 2019, 08:32:35 AM »

2 Gettin Hungry - Does it mean you didn't see Brian Fest event 4 yrs back at Fonda theatre? Many young artists been invited. Jade Castrinos sang "I Just Wasn't Made For These Tiimes". I too really liked her voice. It's beautiful when she sings that specific PS song. It fit her musically. It used to be in youtube but it's different Brian Fest numbers, not her, strangely. By the end, when checked each video way back when, favorites been Jade, M Ward (YSGTM), Punch Brothers (SU) & Joy Williams (WIBN). Give it listen.

Sorry for the delayed response. I was traveling for work last week and didn't have a chance to check in.

No, I did not suee Brian Fest with Jade Castrinos singing "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times." I'll have to see if I can track it down. Thanks for the recommendation!
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« Reply #38 on: November 12, 2019, 01:06:38 AM »

Annoyingly for UK viewers it can't be watched or purchased anywhere, but if you use a VPN and connect to American Netflix it's on that Smiley
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« Reply #39 on: November 12, 2019, 02:03:06 PM »

Good film, although I liked the David Crosby documentary better (can rent it for 4.99 on amazon video now).

But one thing i dont understand is why joni mitchell isnt featured at all in it? She actually lived in laurel canyon and literally had an album called "ladies of the canyon"....Maybe Jacob just isnt a fan of hers or something...

The part where crosby says something about threesomes and says "people do it, thats why the french have a word for it" and then they cut to graham nash going "he wrote that song cuz he's done it...many times!" was pretty funny
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« Reply #40 on: November 13, 2019, 07:50:00 AM »

Good film, although I liked the David Crosby documentary better (can rent it for 4.99 on amazon video now).

But one thing i dont understand is why joni mitchell isnt featured at all in it? She actually lived in laurel canyon and literally had an album called "ladies of the canyon"....Maybe Jacob just isnt a fan of hers or something...

The part where crosby says something about threesomes and says "people do it, thats why the french have a word for it" and then they cut to graham nash going "he wrote that song cuz he's done it...many times!" was pretty funny

I too thought the David Crosby documentary was far superior to Echo in the Canyon.

One of my other great mysteries about watching Echo is why Neil Young only shows up during the credits to shred on guitar in the studio, but he wasn't interviewed. Or did I miss something?
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« Reply #41 on: November 14, 2019, 12:44:10 PM »

Good film, although I liked the David Crosby documentary better (can rent it for 4.99 on amazon video now).

But one thing i dont understand is why joni mitchell isnt featured at all in it? She actually lived in laurel canyon and literally had an album called "ladies of the canyon"....Maybe Jacob just isnt a fan of hers or something...

The part where crosby says something about threesomes and says "people do it, thats why the french have a word for it" and then they cut to graham nash going "he wrote that song cuz he's done it...many times!" was pretty funny

I too thought the David Crosby documentary was far superior to Echo in the Canyon.

One of my other great mysteries about watching Echo is why Neil Young only shows up during the credits to shred on guitar in the studio, but he wasn't interviewed. Or did I miss something?
Never a dull moment with Crosby in the room. Some people hate him cause he just says what he thinks.
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« Reply #42 on: November 15, 2019, 07:08:37 AM »

Recently borrowed the DVD from a co-worker, and I gotta say, while I enjoyed the film overall, it was kind of a big let down. There's a few too many significant omissions -- as others have pointed out -- that are hard to ignore. Without getting into a trash-talk session,  Jakob was a very underwhelming host. The biggest disappointment was the (seemingly) uninspired discussions Jakob had with Beck, Cat Power and (I already forgot who the other girl was) over the piles of classic LPs; it seemed like none of them had anything very interesting to say or point out, and they didn't appear particularly excited sitting around the table. Hell, Cat Power hardly said anything after one scene of her singing.

This being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the smattering of anecdotes I was not familiar with (Stephen Stills talking about his party getting busted, or recalling Frank Zappa doing spoken-word recitation of "Who are the Brain Police?" lyrics), Michelle Phillips being very candid about life and (free) love, any segment with David Crosby, Roger/Jim McGuinn or Tom Petty on screen (The Brian Wilson segment is obviously gold, Brian and Croz got me to genuinely laugh watching this), and the live footage of Jakob & Co. performing on stage was actually pretty good, I thought.

TL;DR: I was way stoked for this over the summer, but watching it was kind of a bummer. I wish they would've taken an approach along the lines of the new Ken Burns Country Music documentary and made a mini-series instead, something like hour long installments to allow for more time to spread the focus over more than a select few of the various influential folks who lived in Laurel Canyon.

And again, nothing against Jakob, but they should've got somebody else to host -- like Dweezil or Moon Unit Zappa -- they only grew up there, and I think both have a little more personality (sorry, Jakob!).
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« Reply #43 on: November 15, 2019, 07:51:37 PM »

Recently borrowed the DVD from a co-worker, and I gotta say, while I enjoyed the film overall, it was kind of a big let down. There's a few too many significant omissions -- as others have pointed out -- that are hard to ignore. Without getting into a trash-talk session,  Jakob was a very underwhelming host. The biggest disappointment was the (seemingly) uninspired discussions Jakob had with Beck, Cat Power and (I already forgot who the other girl was) over the piles of classic LPs; it seemed like none of them had anything very interesting to say or point out, and they didn't appear particularly excited sitting around the table. Hell, Cat Power hardly said anything after one scene of her singing.

This being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the smattering of anecdotes I was not familiar with (Stephen Stills talking about his party getting busted, or recalling Frank Zappa doing spoken-word recitation of "Who are the Brain Police?" lyrics), Michelle Phillips being very candid about life and (free) love, any segment with David Crosby, Roger/Jim McGuinn or Tom Petty on screen (The Brian Wilson segment is obviously gold, Brian and Croz got me to genuinely laugh watching this), and the live footage of Jakob & Co. performing on stage was actually pretty good, I thought.

TL;DR: I was way stoked for this over the summer, but watching it was kind of a bummer. I wish they would've taken an approach along the lines of the new Ken Burns Country Music documentary and made a mini-series instead, something like hour long installments to allow for more time to spread the focus over more than a select few of the various influential folks who lived in Laurel Canyon.

And again, nothing against Jakob, but they should've got somebody else to host -- like Dweezil or Moon Unit Zappa -- they only grew up there, and I think both have a little more personality (sorry, Jakob!).

Maybe they just got the wrong Dylan!  Shocked The ol' Bobster has such a way with words, as some got to hear on his radio show.
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« Reply #44 on: November 16, 2019, 10:40:07 AM »

Recently borrowed the DVD from a co-worker, and I gotta say, while I enjoyed the film overall, it was kind of a big let down. There's a few too many significant omissions -- as others have pointed out -- that are hard to ignore. Without getting into a trash-talk session,  Jakob was a very underwhelming host. The biggest disappointment was the (seemingly) uninspired discussions Jakob had with Beck, Cat Power and (I already forgot who the other girl was) over the piles of classic LPs; it seemed like none of them had anything very interesting to say or point out, and they didn't appear particularly excited sitting around the table. Hell, Cat Power hardly said anything after one scene of her singing.

This being said, I thoroughly enjoyed the smattering of anecdotes I was not familiar with (Stephen Stills talking about his party getting busted, or recalling Frank Zappa doing spoken-word recitation of "Who are the Brain Police?" lyrics), Michelle Phillips being very candid about life and (free) love, any segment with David Crosby, Roger/Jim McGuinn or Tom Petty on screen (The Brian Wilson segment is obviously gold, Brian and Croz got me to genuinely laugh watching this), and the live footage of Jakob & Co. performing on stage was actually pretty good, I thought.



I agree it would be cool to have a more comprehensive video documentary of the Laurel Canyon scene.

However, I think this film stands on its own as a snapshot and a celebration.

Jakob Dylan didn't bother me. He was more than a host. He was spearheading the whole deal.




TL;DR: I was way stoked for this over the summer, but watching it was kind of a bummer. I wish they would've taken an approach along the lines of the new Ken Burns Country Music documentary and made a mini-series instead, something like hour long installments to allow for more time to spread the focus over more than a select few of the various influential folks who lived in Laurel Canyon.

And again, nothing against Jakob, but they should've got somebody else to host -- like Dweezil or Moon Unit Zappa -- they only grew up there, and I think both have a little more personality (sorry, Jakob!).
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« Reply #45 on: November 17, 2019, 09:09:39 AM »

When I saw this on Netflix I jumped on it based upon some things I read here . I found it to be another" documentary for dummies" which I am really tired of. I've heard all these stories before as I guess most people have. I'm at the point where you have to wonder just how much of it is true. They focused on the '64 to '67 period which probably isn't what people think of when they consider Laurel Canyon. Over the last few years I've read a number of books on the canyon and they were really entertaining and informative , something this movie was not.
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« Reply #46 on: November 17, 2019, 08:08:33 PM »

I only have seen the trailer -- did you know Brian Wilson had a sandbox in his living room?
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« Reply #47 on: November 19, 2019, 07:06:10 PM »

The Crosby documentary is THE definitive depiction of the Laurel Canyon scene. Fantastic stuff.
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« Reply #48 on: November 20, 2019, 06:26:01 PM »

I only have seen the trailer -- did you know Brian Wilson had a sandbox in his living room?
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« Reply #49 on: November 22, 2019, 06:49:44 PM »

I finally watched this on Netflix. As others have said, I enjoyed the anecdotes-- even some I'd heard before--and I especially enjoyed Brian coming into the studio and telling Jakob he was in the wrong key! Brian was quite animated (for him) in his interview, which was nice to see. But there were some key players left out of the story.

Also, I thought it was WAY too much Jakob Dylan. I'm from his generation, and I'm a fan of Beck and Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor, all of whom appeared. But the film purported to be a tribute to this 60s music, yet it kept cutting to Dylan's versions of these classic songs rather than the originals. Yes, I know, it was supposed to be a promo for Jakob's tribute album, blah, blah. Also, the interviews kept cutting to Jakob and his really useless, "Hmms" and "Yeahs." The way the interviews are shot, you see the subject and Jakob sitting next to each other, and it keeps cutting to him for his nothing reactions. The ending credits said "starring" Jakob Dylan" and featuring everyone else. It would have been nice for him to step aside a little bit, especially since he didn't have much to say.


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