It seems that a couple of documentarians are hard at work creating some cool sounding projects. I have to admit, at the risk of bastard hazing, I am not exactly familiar with the Big Star body of work. I am, however, familiar with R.E.M., Let's Active, and The dB's all of which will have various members helping perform Big Star's album Sister Lovers at the Cat's Cradle in North Carolina this December. the shows will be filmed as part of the documentary Nothing Can Hurt Me: The Big Star Story. See, it's right here
In other documentary news, there is a documentary called Anyone Can Play Guitar about the Oxford music scene which spawned the likes of Supergrass, Ride, and some other band that I can't seem to remember the name of but I think they used to call themselves On A Friday. Here's the trailer ...
Anyone Can Play Guitar Trailer from video jon on Vimeo.
Here's a link to the film's website where they will happily take your money to contribute to the cause, but a least you will get tickets to the premiere and have your name in the credits.
I think Jay needs to get off his ass and start on the documentary about the Memphis music scene.
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That Big Star Doc has been in the works for awhile. As usual, Chilton had nothing to do with it. That Cat's Cradle show looks like fun. The Oxford doc also looks good. I looked up "On A Friday," and that was Radiohead's original name. But then, you knew that, didn't you?
There's a pretty cool documentary in the works about the Antennae Club. Jay's music documentary, "I Know Why They Call Him Kram" has been shelved due to legal issues.
Anyone who wants to see the Cat's Cradle show is welcome to stay with us at our NEW HOUSE.
These look good and I'm excited about the Antenna Club one, too.
Dave, your hospitality is appreciated and will certainly come back to haunt you.
I'm really looking forward to the Big Star doc. It's supposed to be finished up and ready for release by spring of next year. Joe's right, they've been working on that thing FOREVER.
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