Maya Clars
Member
Do you like watching your favorite musicians make music, like an actual process of it? Or hearing the stories behind music? Or do you prefer when they just share the music itself? I just started thinking about it...
TalismanRich
Well-known member
I enjoy the watching a recording documentary. Two excellent films that I have are The Wrecking Crew, and Sound City. I've seen others over the years like the Beatles documentary. Unfortunately, unless you were a top tier band who could afford to have a film crew chewing up 35mm film by the roll, it's unlikely that there is any significant footage. Lots of concert footage, little studio footage. That's why you get 3 or 4 minutes of someone in a studio. Someone might have a home camera, and they sync it up with some audio from the recording session. 20 yrs later, they get interviewed and it's assembled into a film.
With digital recording, things are different. You can hang a few GoPros around a studio and hit record. Maybe you get an hour of great stuff, maybe only 2 minutes, but it costs NOTHING. Dump it to a $100 hard drive for later and start over. Later, when you become the multimillion $$ top selling artist, a producer can go in and assemble a feature length film and sell it for more money. You could just assemble it in your basement with a computer and free video software and publish it on Youtube! As to whether it would be interesting is a different subject.
That's the world today. I have 3 audio recordings of our band from back in the 70s, all done on cheap cassettes. Sound is pretty horrid. There is no video, and only a few pictures. Today, everyone with a phone has a video camera/audio camera. Some places I attend stream live shows every night on Facebook. I've got at least 6 2.5 hour shows of a friend's band from those streams. Heck, everyone probably has 3 old I-phones sitting in a drawer that they could use to document themselves in the basement with a buddy writing a song, and doing the basic tracks.
With digital recording, things are different. You can hang a few GoPros around a studio and hit record. Maybe you get an hour of great stuff, maybe only 2 minutes, but it costs NOTHING. Dump it to a $100 hard drive for later and start over. Later, when you become the multimillion $$ top selling artist, a producer can go in and assemble a feature length film and sell it for more money. You could just assemble it in your basement with a computer and free video software and publish it on Youtube! As to whether it would be interesting is a different subject.
That's the world today. I have 3 audio recordings of our band from back in the 70s, all done on cheap cassettes. Sound is pretty horrid. There is no video, and only a few pictures. Today, everyone with a phone has a video camera/audio camera. Some places I attend stream live shows every night on Facebook. I've got at least 6 2.5 hour shows of a friend's band from those streams. Heck, everyone probably has 3 old I-phones sitting in a drawer that they could use to document themselves in the basement with a buddy writing a song, and doing the basic tracks.
Eric V
Member at-large
I really enjoy the behind the scenes making of stuff. I totally geek out in it. I find it inspiring to get a peak into the minds of the music creators I love.
PorterhouseMusic
Well-known member
Absolutely. Watching the process is interesting to me. Behind the scenes studio stuff is great. The Steely Dan "Aja" thing is great, the Peter Jackson Beatles this was cool, albeit long. Wrecking Crew and Sound City docs are fun. There's some cool stuff with Queen doing their thing.
I ran into this one just the other day - one of my very favorite records that I've been listening to regularly since it was released (to this day) is Joe Satriani's 1995 self titled album. A departure for Joe. But someone rolled tape on some of these sessions and I'd never seen this til a couple of weeks ago. Super interesting. This album was not easy to make. I did not know that. Glyn Johns was the producer. Andy Fairweather Low, Nathan East, and the incredible Manu Katche' played on it.
I ran into this one just the other day - one of my very favorite records that I've been listening to regularly since it was released (to this day) is Joe Satriani's 1995 self titled album. A departure for Joe. But someone rolled tape on some of these sessions and I'd never seen this til a couple of weeks ago. Super interesting. This album was not easy to make. I did not know that. Glyn Johns was the producer. Andy Fairweather Low, Nathan East, and the incredible Manu Katche' played on it.
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DM60
Well-known member
One of the most surprising recording videos I've seen was Muscle Shoals. The sound that came out of those studios was really unbelievable. For example, how the house band played on many of Aretha Franklin's records. They really did make a lot of legendary music.
Maya Clars
Member
Oh, that sounds interesting!!
Maya Clars
Member
So interesting! Thank you so much for pinning the video, the process is captivating. I love to watch behind-the-scenes videos as well
Maya Clars
Member
I love it too! It's always interesting to know the backstage details, ah, so glad some videos exist
Maya Clars
Member
I don't know these films, I should watch them! Thanks for mentioning it. Yeah, right now it's so much easy, just take a phone and record. Although, I miss the magic from videos 20 years ago... Thank you for the comment, it's a really good one
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