quoted 2 lines Like you said, the coolest thing was to see underground dance music>>> Like you said, the coolest thing was to see underground dance music
>>> getting props in a mainstream rock documentary.
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quoted 2 lines The coolest thing was seeing James Brown in peak form ... tearing up the> The coolest thing was seeing James Brown in peak form ... tearing up the
> floor! "I got you!" It was a great TV series start to finish.
Indeed. The last 2 nights - "The Wild Side", the one on Funk, "Punk", and
"The Perfect Beat" - were probably the best 4 hours of music television I've
ever witnessed. I certainly wouldn't call it a "mainstream rock documentary";
I didn't see Monday and Tuesday nights (Beatles et al., I presume), but the
last 2 nights focused on the most influential, rather than the mainstream.
A whole hour ("The Wild Side") devoted to The Velvet Underground, The Doors,
Iggy & The Stooges, the MC5, and Bowie? With *scads* of unreleased and/or
rarely-seen footage? Pinch me Martha, I think I'm dreaming.
Not to mention all the roots-of-Techno mentions: seeing Bernie Worrell use a
Moog for bass lines in old P-Funk footage ... Kraftwerk and Afrika Bambaatta
saying about how much "Trans Europe Express" influenced him ... amazing stuff.
My only complaint was that they should all have been about twice as long
as they were. They were on a roll; why stop?
Wow.
- Greg