Recording documentaries

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I was looking for a "Media discussion" or similar category, but didn't find anything like that, so I ended up here.

I just love music production documentaries. The first one I saw was "A year and a half in the life of Metallica", which takes us into the studio while they were making the black album, followed by the succeeding two year tour. I remember watching the whole thing (four hours) straight, loving every minute of it. That was way before I ventured into home recording myself. Later I've also watched a bunch of the "Classic Albums" documentaries, which are just great! I also enjoyed Megadeth's "Evolver: The making of Youthanasia", which is just about an hour long.

I don't think I learn much, but it's just so much fun seeing the artists and producers recording/mixing, or telling old stories about the process. So, I just wonder if people love these documentaries as much as I do, and would like to recommend anything?

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-paw
 
Sound City is an excellent behind the scenes movie that gets into the details with multiple bands. Also a living history lesson going from the formation of Fleetwood Mac to the digital revolution to the famous board ending up at Dave Grohl’s Studio.

Also recommend the last 40 minutes of Foo Fighers Here and Back where they document the making of Wasted Light. Both have been on Netfilx, VH-1 Classic and Palladia.

Aerosmith’s the Making of Pump is a really good one as well since it documents from the very beginning Tyler and Perry’s brainstorming to final release. May be hard to find since it was originally released in the early 90s.

Also recommend the Eagle Vision’s Classic Album series which covers a multitude of albums. Besides VH-1 Classic these are available on the streaming service Qello.com
 
Cool Threat, I love watching bands at work!

Yesterday I've seen the DVD that comes with Bill Laurance last album called Swift. On which they show footage of the recording process while you hear the album song by song. I've watched the version with audio commentary of Bill Laurance, Michael League and Robert "Sputt" Searight (all three better know for Snarky Puppy), and it was awesome. They discussed the recording process and also talk about some of the writing and arranging. I took about 45m.
 
+1 for Sounds City,

I always find the classic album series interesting, not really a recording doco but more a how the album came together doco. Link

Alan.
 
Glad to see some people actually bothered replying after all.

greenascanbe said:
Sound City is an excellent behind the scenes movie that gets into the details with multiple bands. Also a living history lesson going from the formation of Fleetwood Mac to the digital revolution to the famous board ending up at Dave Grohl’s Studio.

Also recommend the last 40 minutes of Foo Fighers Here and Back where they document the making of Wasted Light. Both have been on Netfilx, VH-1 Classic and Palladia.

Aerosmith’s the Making of Pump is a really good one as well since it documents from the very beginning Tyler and Perry’s brainstorming to final release. May be hard to find since it was originally released in the early 90s.

Also recommend the Eagle Vision’s Classic Album series which covers a multitude of albums. Besides VH-1 Classic these are available on the streaming service Qello.com
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I've seen a couple of episodes from the Sound City documentary, and the making of Wasting Light also. Pretty cool stuff.

I have a soft spot for older documentaries though: Not as many legendary records being made these days, and it's really interesting to see how they did everything in all analog studios back in the day. The Classic Album series is just pure quality. I always enjoy those, and I need to see more of them.

I'll put Aerosmith's "the Making of Pump" on my list.

Dicus said:
Cool Threat, I love watching bands at work!

Yesterday I've seen the DVD that comes with Bill Laurance last album called Swift. On which they show footage of the recording process while you hear the album song by song. I've watched the version with audio commentary of Bill Laurance, Michael League and Robert "Sputt" Searight (all three better know for Snarky Puppy), and it was awesome. They discussed the recording process and also talk about some of the writing and arranging. I took about 45m.
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Cool!

I've heard good things about Snarky Puppy. A girl in my class at primary school ended up studying with some of those guys at university if I'm not mistaken.

witzendoz said:
+1 for Sounds City,

I always find the classic album series interesting, not really a recording doco but more a how the album came together doco. Link

Alan.
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Everybody seems to love the Classic Albums series. Pure quality :)
 
Paw1,
Are you in UK? If so get BBC iplayer and look for archived footage. BBC4 did/does a lot of band doc's. I have a progg about Jack Bruce, could post you a burn if you like?

If you are not in UK it won't work AFAIK unless you can do something very clever with IP addresses...WAY beyond me!

If READING about bands and the making of the biggest hits is a good second best subscribe to Sound on Sound, all there for your iThang. (I don't have one!)

Dave.
 
ecc83 said:
Paw1,
Are you in UK? If so get BBC iplayer and look for archived footage. BBC4 did/does a lot of band doc's. I have a progg about Jack Bruce, could post you a burn if you like?

If you are not in UK it won't work AFAIK unless you can do something very clever with IP addresses...WAY beyond me!

If READING about bands and the making of the biggest hits is a good second best subscribe to Sound on Sound, all there for your iThang. (I don't have one!)

Dave.
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Maybe Led Zeppelin can give you a hint about my whereabouts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC-T0rC6m7I

I'm too polite to try and mess with IP addresses :)

We have BBC over here too, but with a more commercial program. Don't think I've ever come across music documentaries while watching.

I love SOS. The quality of their articles and reviews is top notch. Their reviews have often helped me pick out quality gear for the "studio".
Didn't know they had an "making of the biggest hits" article series, but it's probably only for paying customers, which is totally understandable.

Best regards,
-paw
 
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