Good Music Docs

[JoeMeek12397]

Anyone know of any good music documentaries in the same vein as Classic Albums? I love watching docs about the making of albums, but I have ran out of new docs to watch. Anyone with suggestions don't feel limited to metal, I'm open to any suggestions.

 

[botus99]

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music

http://youtu.be/iKPooc-ImiM
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343107/

 

[nialldoran]

last music doc i watched was "searching for sugar man", isn't really a "making of" doc but its pretty coo,l won best doc at the oscars last year, totally worth a watch,

next on my list is "a band called Death" its about an early 70s punk band, not the metal band

 

[egan.]

+1 to The Tom Dowd and the Death one. Also Everyday Sunshine, Instrument and the one about Journey's new singer. Also, Sound City if you haven't seen it.

 

[StoneLord]

last music doc i watched was "searching for sugar man", isn't really a "making of" doc but its pretty coo,l won best doc at the oscars last year, totally worth a watch,

next on my list is "a band called Death" its about an early 70s punk band, not the metal band

searching for sugar man is a great watch.
I just finished Band called Death. Wow, I highly recommend this one. What a story. Thanks for turning me on to it.

 

[smy1]

"Searching for Sugarman" is my favorite music doc of all time. Mainly because it's such an incredible story, but also because I've been to Cape Town and a lot of the places in the movie a number of times when I was engaged to a South African girl. It's really true: Rodriguez is huge there!

I saw "A Band Called Death" this week and I wasn't that impressed by it. I just couldn't understand what people *today* saw in that music. Back in the 70s for sure, but these days? I didn't get it. For something in that vein I preferred "We jam Econo". Both are good to "learn" attitude from dead musicians.

One documentary that I really enjoyed (despite not wanting kids of my own) is "The other F Word" which shows punk-rock musicians as they grow up to be fathers. Sounds lame, but isn't lame at all - astonishingly.

Megadeth - "Behind The Music" (pretty old) is watchable and has many "how it was done" scenes.

Iron Maiden - "Flight 666" is pretty well known, but a good one, and so is of course "Lemmy" (although it gets quite depressing towards the end).

 

[LiberaScientia]

This is really awesome.

 

[Machinated]

Watched an awesome one last night one Jimi Hendrix that's currently on Iplayer, 1 hr 30 long though. Think its from their imagine series. Saw a really good one one Steve Winwood not long ago too.

Beatles Anthology is incredible but fairly long. The Scorsese film on George Harrison is incredible too (3 hrs).

 

[nialldoran]

another one i just came across today that is going on my "to watch" list is Jason Becker : Not Dead Yet,

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2120779/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[RemoWilliams]

Driver 23. An interesting documentary about one man's obsessive pursuit to record his 'progressive' band. I believe it's still available via Netflix.

 

[Terminus]

Hahaha, saw that Band Called Death doc on Netflix too.