Journal denidoom's Journal: music documentaries / concerts DVDs
Queen, Live at Wembley Stadium (2003?) - This is a great DVD for any Queen fan. The 1986 concert has a wide variety of their songs and the performance is just fantastic. Of all the rock concert videos, this one has the best Bonus material I have ever seen in the interviews with Brian May and Roger Taylor from 2003 and their sound engineer go into detail about how the songs are made, the instruments they used, and the background to the songs and what they were going through at the time.
Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (2005) - Directed by Martin Scorsese, this was an enlightening documentary for me. I've never been a big Dylan fan and he was before my time, but after seeing this I really have a lot of respect (and a bit of awe) for his song writing ability. There are scenes of him singing with Johnny Cash, and also some important footage of his singing at Martin Luther King Jr's Dream speech in front of the White House. I can see why Dylan's songs meant so much to people. He said he wasn't political, but yet you would find him near activists - at the end of the documentary I still do not know what he "stood for" and he intends it that way.
New York Doll (2005) - This documentary is about the New York Dolls, a very influential early 70's rock band that are known to have started "glam rock." After a very short burst of almost success (they were on their way), the death of their band mate, and drugs, broke them up. The documentary follows 30 years later the life of Arthur "Killer" Kane, the bassist for the group, his poverty and redemption. This is an award winning documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and has many recommendations from the music magazines.
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