My biggest/roughest was White Zombie and the Ramones, but this was around 95 when the tone of the music was dark, but not so much violent. Only the front 1/3 of the floor was really much of a pit and it was pretty easy to get out to the fringes if you needed to. Man, I had fun that night.
My friend had the White Zombie album and had to keep it hidden under the bed with his Marilyn Manson album
I thought the HBOMax Woodstock doc was better, but the NF one was a good partner to it. If that makes sense. Or maybe I just liked the HBO one more because I saw it first. idk
There was a lot of overlap in b roll footage. I think even some of the same people interviewed. It's been a while since Ive seen the HBO one
I played the hell out of La Sexorcisto Devil Music. I was in college. I can't imagine my mother enjoying it when I was younger.
I’m working my way through “Jazz” currently. Wife got us pbs streaming channel 99 cents for three months on prime day
Big fan of the PBS channel. I just finished the 4 part Ben Franklin doc. Before that I watched Country Music by Ken Burns and I don't even really like country music.
The other night I watched Flea jump around naked as the RHCP played Hendrix's Fire as the crowd set Woodstock 99 ablaze. Today I log in to see them playing a conference for Salesforce. What a weird world.
The HBO one was more about the cultural moment. How it fed into the disaster of the weekend. The NF was more about the logistics failure of the promoters. There’s a lot of overlap between the two but I think they pair well together. That’s my experience at least. Watching them several month apart.
Can’t tell if I’ve posted about it in this thread (my search only came up with hits for two unrelated threads) but for my money, Bus 174 is the best documentary I’ve ever seen. It does an incredible job of bringing in every point of view, and goes into great recent history over what transpired to get to this particular situation.
I've never heard of it but I just looked it up. You can watch it on Vimeo for free. I am going to watch tonight.
Herzog is such a sick fuck He transitions from a scene about a native woman keeping up with the tradition of tucking away dolls during daytime and taking them out at night to protect to the house to a clip of their house on fire at night because her alcoholic son fell asleep with a lit cigarette It's sadly hilarious
Im halfway through Ken Burns' The US and the Holocaust. It's very good. Also the parallels to today just smack you in the face.
I knew that was about the villages just by the title. Will watch some of it though and see if it keeps my interest.
I'm watching this right now and it's really well done. But I'm checking in to tell all of y'all to skip to the 1hr24min mark for the old man absolutely slaying "Creep" on karaoke. Like, holy shit.
If you like old people covering songs, you're going to love the documentary Young at Heart If you haven't seen it already:
The dude killed it singing "Creep". And my God, the Villages really is a fucking nightmare. Those people are so self absorbed, it's painful.
Creep was v good, old guy or not. Started the Houston one next. Can’t tell if the white guys are a parody, it’s cringeworthy either way. Only know (think?) the stuff from the black folks is real cuz I think I lived there when Kenny Lou was killed and assume this is Harvey looming. Shit’s weird. EDIT: Starting to think the whole thing is a parody.
His coach telling him he can't play defense like that was hilarious White people really didn't conceive it was possible to jump and block a shot
Went to a screening for this a few months back. Really good and sad. On Disney+ https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cr3OhGzAbXM/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= edit - realizing I posted an IG post for the book. The documentary is now on Disney+
My wife read a book about this earlier this year, not sure if they are related outside of topic, but she'd probably like this. Book: