nursers Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 .. and I'm enough of a sentimentalist to have loved every minute. I was really pleased to see both the recognition given to Bob Geldof and Band Aid which came a few months before, and the huge bow given to Harry Belafonte. There's a bunch of footage of the recording I'd never seen and some of the anecdotes are fascinating. They even put in some negative stuff like Sheila E being 'used' to get Prince to turn up, even though Lionel Richie is one of the EPs and central characters in the doco, so kudos to him. Anyway, it's on Netflix and 90 minutes well spent IMO. 6 1 1 Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose EB5AGV Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 I watched it yesterday night, and was really emotional in some moments. And they really worked long hours!. No more spoilers 😅 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 I watched it last night and absolutely loved it. I could watch things like this all day, every day. SO GOOD. Waylon Jennings, hmmm. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 +1. Fantastic. Lionel and Quincy have great leadership qualities. What a logistical nightmare!! I too got a little sentimental towards the end. Highly recommend. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obxa Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Unexpectedly great and well done. Had the same reaction. Highly recommended, and I'm usually jaded to stuff that feels like self-back patting. Really felt Dylan's discomfort and brief moment of "how do I even compete with these vocalists?" Watching Quincy (and Stevie) coach him, and the encouragement of "just do you" was really amazing, especially the end result. I won't spoil it, but the Paul Simon joke was also hilarious!. Often wondered why Geldoff wasn't knighted, but he was given an honorary KBE. Didn't know you had to be born in the UK. 2 Quote Chris Corso www.chriscorso.org Lots of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfields Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Those days I spent a lot of time at the house of my friend across the street who had MTV, and I got a lethal dose of that song. My first reaction was: a feature-length documentary on that one sappy earworm? So I skimmed through it. Then I caught some of the actual recording scenes. It's a lot of fun seeing them all together, working out parts, redoing takes, troubleshooting problems. Planning to give it another go from the start. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linwood Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 That was a great one! Here's another doc that's worth a watch. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yannis D Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 "If a bomb drops in this studio, John Denver will have a new record career" 😂 5 Quote Be grateful for what you've got - a Nord, a laptop and two hands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 4 hours ago, bfields said: My first reaction was: a feature-length documentary on that one sappy earworm? Yeah I had the same thought before watching it - to this day I love the Band Aid song 'Do They Know It's Christmas' - Phil Collins' drumming alone makes it worth it. We Are The World has always been the 'lesser' of the songs to me, but damn what a song still and I liked their intent of it being about the voices. 1 Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose EB5AGV Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 4 hours ago, linwood said: That was a great one! Here's another doc that's worth a watch. Just watched it. It is lovely, thanks for sharing! As a repairer, it has touched me 🥲 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffk Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 7 hours ago, obxa said: Unexpectedly great and well done. Had the same reaction. Highly recommended, and I'm usually jaded to stuff that feels like self-back patting. Really felt Dylan's discomfort and brief moment of "how do I even compete with these vocalists?" Watching Quincy (and Stevie) coach him, and the encouragement of "just do you" was really amazing, especially the end result. I won't spoil it, but the Paul Simon joke was also hilarious!. Often wondered why Geldoff wasn't knighted, but he was given an honorary KBE. Didn't know you had to be born in the UK. Yeah Dylan seemed so sweet and humble, despite being such a cultural giant. A landmark night. 1 Quote YouTube music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunspot Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 "And what will become of our heroes, WILLIE and WAYLON???? Tune in NEXT WEEK! SAME Bat Time, SAME Bat Channel!!!" Quote The Players: OB-X8, Numa Compact 2X, Kawai K5000S, cheap Korean guitars/basses, Roland TD-1KV e-drums. Eurorack/Banana modular, Synth/FX DIY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Bryce Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Just watched it (brought COVID home from NAMM, so I’m catching up on TV time). Very cool and interesting documentary. Brought the amount of effort it took to pull this off into a whole new perspective for me. dB 2 Quote ==> David Bryce Music • Funky Young Monks <== Professional Affiliations: Royer Labs • Music Player Network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursers Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 15 minutes ago, Dave Bryce said: Just watched it (brought COVID home from NAMM, so I’m catching up on TV time). Very cool and interesting documentary. Brought the amount of effort it took to pull this off into a whole new perspective for me. dB Yeah I'd never realised it was recorded on same evening as the AMAs. Amazing. 2 Quote The Keyboard Chronicles Podcast Check out your fellow forumites in an Apple Music playlist Check out your fellow forumites in a Spotify playlist My Music: Stainless Fields Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawback Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Argggh. I’ve had earworms from at least half of them for the past 24 hours. Including Waylon. 😬 Quote ____________________________________ Rod Here for the gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzpiano88 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 This collides with the Synclavier thread. Here's the video of Kevin Maloney describing how he programmed the intro. 2 Quote J a z z P i a n o 8 8 -- Yamaha C7D Montage M8x | CP300 | CP4 | SK1-73 | OB6 | Seven K8.2 | 3300 | CPSv.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 On 2/2/2024 at 12:51 PM, linwood said: That was a great one! Here's another doc that's worth a watch. Watched it tonight and had tears in my eyes throughout the entire movie. Exceptional. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunspot Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 2/2/2024 at 6:48 PM, sunspot said: "And what will become of our heroes, WILLIE and WAYLON???? Tune in NEXT WEEK! SAME Bat Time, SAME Bat Channel!!!" So I was really trying to pique the interest of folks when I made this comment. My wife and I are of two different generations and two different ethnicities, and we both laughed the hardest at the part about Waylon (I did not know the story before watching this show.). And I'm a big Waylon fan. Quote The Players: OB-X8, Numa Compact 2X, Kawai K5000S, cheap Korean guitars/basses, Roland TD-1KV e-drums. Eurorack/Banana modular, Synth/FX DIY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Paxton Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 I watched it last night, and apart from the singers, I was left wondering what musicians played on the track. So I looked it up. Answer: J.R. Robinson on drums, and if memory serves, roughly 6 or 7 keyboardists, including Louis Johnson on synth bass. You know, just in case you forgot it was 1985... The thing I'm most intrigued by was the passing reference to Ray Charles recording his own "gospel" version of the song. Now THAT is something I'd like to hear, if it's out there to be found. The whole thing reminded me of this exchange between my 14-year-old self and my mom, as the song played on the radio one evening... ME: Who's the guy at the end of this who sounds like Eddie Murphy doing Buckwheat? MY MOM: What do you mean? ME: Near the end of the song, it sounds like Eddie Murphy singing like Buckwheat, but I don't think it is. MOM: I don't know what you're talking about. ME: I'll show you when it comes up... Here it is. VOICE IN THE SONG, SOUNDING LIKE EDDIE MURPHY AS BUCKWHEAT: Dere's a toice we ma-kin', we tay-vin' ahh own libes. It too we make a bi-tuh day, dus' oo an' mee! MOM: That's Bob Dylan! ME: Oh. Really? MOM: Yes! He doesn't sound anything like Buckwheat! ME: Umm, yeah, he really does. Mom was offended. And while I obviously have far more awareness of and respect for Bob Dylan now than I did then, I nonetheless stand by my assessment. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzpiano88 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I liked the interchange, I think it was with Bellafonte. "I think we need to make this song with only black people since this is about helping black people" "I think I can get Kenny Rogers" "Good!" 1 2 Quote J a z z P i a n o 8 8 -- Yamaha C7D Montage M8x | CP300 | CP4 | SK1-73 | OB6 | Seven K8.2 | 3300 | CPSv.3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABECK Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 19 hours ago, Josh Paxton said: MOM: That's Bob Dylan! ME: Oh. Really? It was fun to see Stevie Wonder showing Bob Dylan how to sing like Bob Dylan. No offense to Dylan, but he was lost and just not getting what they needed. For him to be open to Stevie working with him in front of everyone there....man, just shows the respect they all had for each other. (Waylon Jennings not withstanding) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Verelst Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I had seen the docu when it came out, what was it 100 Mil or so for the needy Africans, cool. Musically Jackson became redundant I would say, and the music after didn't clib back on the same hill again, to my knowledge. T 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundown Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 We watched it a few days ago and loved it. My wife isn’t a musician, so it appeals to everyone. She loved it too. I hadn’t seen your post and I posted something in Craig’s forum. It’s definitely worth watching. Todd Quote Sundown Finished: Gateway, The Jupiter Bluff, Condensation Working on: Driven Away, Eighties Crime Thriller Main axes: Kawai MP11 and Kurz PC361 DAW Platform: Cubase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathOfInsects Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Caught this last week and agree, it was really well done. Paul Simon's line won the night. 2 Quote Now out! "Mind the Gap," a 24-song album of new material. www.joshweinstein.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Gauss Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Shitty song, great documentary. Fun hearing Springsteen choose his words carefully/diplomatically whilst still getting his point across as to what a shitty song it is. Was a bit disappointed that no one mentioned/alluded or even hinted at how much cocaine there musta been in that room. I mean, 1980's rich rock stars? Check. Session starting AFTER a 3 hour awards show and lasting until the next morning? Double check. Egos, insecurity, peer pressure and stress? Triple check. We see Al Jareau hysterically drunk/plastered, but everyone else musta been powdered like a donut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnotherScott Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 12 minutes ago, D. Gauss said: Shitty song, great documentary. Fun hearing Springsteen choose his words carefully/diplomatically whilst still getting his point across as to what a shitty song it is. I realized what a great actor Patrick Stewart was because there were some really terrible episodes of Star Trek TNG, and yet somehow, his lines still worked. Any decent actor can give a good performance with good material. But it takes a great actor to give a good performance when the material is, as you say, shit. Which is to say, what makes this song work as well as it does is really the talent of the singers. (Though also give credit to the guy who figured whose voices would work best on which lines.) Quote Maybe this is the best place for a shameless plug! Our now not-so-new new video at https://youtu.be/3ZRC3b4p4EI is a 40 minute adaptation of T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" - check it out! And hopefully I'll have something new here this year. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tapes Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 There was a 2-disc DVD released about 15 years ago that I have, which has the original documentary film along with some extra stuff. Most of it was recycled here, although there was some new stuff as well. I wish they would’ve interviewed some of the musicians as well. At least JR or Phillinganes. And I thought it was curious that Quincy wasn’t interviewed at all - the clips heard were from some much earlier interviews. (He’s old and tends to ramble these days, though…) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Gauss Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 11 minutes ago, tapes said: (He’s old and tends to ramble these days, though…) ya think? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/quincy-jones-makes-controversial-claims-in-wide-ranging-interview/7FFR6GUF63TTD7455ERXOG2S64/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathOfInsects Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 QJ was kidding when he called a capella “acapulco,” right? Quote Now out! "Mind the Gap," a 24-song album of new material. www.joshweinstein.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Tatum Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 55 minutes ago, MathOfInsects said: QJ was kidding when he called a capella “acapulco,” right? I noticed that too. I assumed he was kidding. He had to be kidding, right??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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