I have just returned from seeing the excellent documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown. I dragged Mandy along as well, and i think she dug it and picked up a little music history along the way. If you get a chance to go see this film, do so! The Funk Brothers were the backing players on almost all of Motown's hits of the day, and the opening tagline says they are responsible for playing on more #1 hits than Elvis, the Stones, Beach Boys and Beatles combined. That's some heavy shit! The surviving Funk Brothers were reassembled for the film, and did a concert featuring many guest vocalists (Ben Harper, Joan Osborne, Bootsy Collins and Chaka Khan, to name a few), of which the footage is interspersed with interview footage both archival and new. You really get behind the scenes into the Motown session and club scene, get to really know the players as both musicians and people, and the guys finally get the exposure and respect that is long overdue.
Posted by scotty at March 02, 2003 06:10 PMI'll have to add both those movies to my must see list. I will have to wait for video. I don't think Whistler will get such great movies. We don't get much out here.
Posted by: Paula on March 3, 2003 06:25 PMalso caught the 24 hour party people a few weeks back. solid indeed. need to get into some happy mondays now!
Posted by: scotty on March 3, 2003 12:03 AMFinn:
I will check out Shadows of Motown I promise.
Last night I saw 24 Hour Party People. All about Factory Records and Manchester. Kicked ass. Anybody who likes music should see it.
Al
Posted by: Sweet Al on March 2, 2003 07:20 PM