Band/artist documentaries.

Ooh here is a great documentary I totally forgot about - Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003).

It's not about specific musicians but rather the life of rock impresario and longtime KROQ DJ extraordinaire Rodney Bingenheimer. It's also a great reflection on fame and success and time and the fleetness thereof.

Anyone who was in the music scene in LA around 1980 ought to watch this.

I cannot remember how long ago (sometime post summer of '15) I was surfing the streaming channels and as that piqued my interest I watched it.  I'd never heard of Bingenheimer and I was most definitely not in any music scene, let alone the LA scene in the '80s,  but I still found that interesting.

On an aside, wasn't that about the same time and area that the Wonderland murders happened?

In the 90’s I lived in Burbank, and one restaurant in the neighborhood that I occasionally ate at was located on the ground floor of the building in which was the KROQ studio (somewhere near the top floor). One Sunday night I was having a late dinner, and saw Rodney come in and sit down at a table. I had never seen or heard a word about his physical condition (though I had seen photos of him), and was kind of shocked by what I saw. He was extremely skinny, and walked in a way that suggested pretty severe disabilities. I gained a new level of respect for a guy who didn’t let that stop him from pursuing his Rock ’n’ Roll dreams.

Gimme Shelter (1970) about the Rolling Stones Altamont free concert of which one of the mistakes made was having the Hells Angels in charge of security.

@immatthewj The Grateful Dead’s “New Speedway Boogie” was written as a response to that concert. They helped organize it, were slated to play, but left without doing their set after things went south…

Add “20 Feet From Stardom” to the list.

This Everly Brothers documentary!

https://www.pbs.org/show/the-everly-brothers-harmonies-from-heaven/