watched "vinyl" episodes 1 & 2 last night (free hbo wknd) - you have to suspend disbelief at times, but for music fanatics, it was pretty cool. there was a mention of "the king biscuit flower hour" which i used to tape surreptitiously on my panasonic cassette recorder, next to my radio.
"peter grant" was smaller than i would have imagined, but he did throw a good tantrum.
yeah, I'm loving it. Not sure what the hate is all about.
What I'm not sure about is...most of the scenes (except for the nasty bits stuff...I just found out that Mick Jagger's son!)
Are they done with the original recordings and just get pretty decent lookalikes to do the scenes? The Otis, Jerry Lee, NYDolls and Velvets I thought were all really great. They were not perfect, but pretty darn close to the untrained eye. The Robert Plant was just patently awful, but not everyone can bat 1000 on casting
I think the music selection are top notch too, not just playing the hits. Really reaching back to some interesting roots music that I had never heard (or at least paid attention to)
like
Bobby Bland?s cover of "I'll Take Care of You"
Lee Dorsey - "Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky"(which I thought was a Lou Donaldson song)
the jimmy castor bunch "it's just begun"
ruth brown "mama he treats your daughter mean"
The Del-Tinos- "Nightlife"
Julian Casablancas does a solid velvet's "Run Run Run" and Ammie Mann does a spot on "Yesterday once more"
The sturgill song is good, but its extremely referential, so much so that it doesn't even sound like a Sturg song?
Came across this AWESOME
site listing and linking of just about every song played as well as some contextual background. Hope that bloger keeps that up for the rest of the season
Edit: he says "This is a continuing anthology and will be regularly updated"
also just found his
Spotify play listalso this really happened...not quite as the show depicted, but cool non the less