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Graceland album documentary on prime. Great. Musicians are usually a disappointment when they're talking about their music, unless they're talking about technical stuff. Wee paul sticks to that, which is quite good, but mainly it's good because the music is phenomenal.

Also, some documentary saying that the terracotta warriors look a bit Greek, so Alexander the Great was probably an influence. Unconvinced.

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Street Gangs on BBC I Player. 

3 episodes in Scotland.  Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow. 

If you can get used to the presenters irritating weegie Jordan Peterson voice it's a decent series. 

The influence of drill music (LOL) in getting knives in to the hands of young bastards in these cities.  How social media feeds the bammyness. 

Maryhill is featured in the Glasgow episode @maryhilldon.

The boy Eugene from Dundee is the star of the show.   A real charismatic pup. 

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5759360/

 

Watched this over the last couple of days. RoboDoc - a five and a half hour documentary on the filming of RoboCop. 

Fucking brilliant. Have all the cast that are still alive back for talking heads (Nancy Allen is still worth a poke at 73) and delve into the filming process of the movie. 

9/10 - get to see the chick with three boobs from Total Recall, so there are tits. 

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37 minutes ago, styrofoamplates said:

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5759360/

 

Watched this over the last couple of days. RoboDoc - a five and a half hour documentary on the filming of RoboCop. 

Fucking brilliant. Have all the cast that are still alive back for talking heads (Nancy Allen is still worth a poke at 73) and delve into the filming process of the movie. 

9/10 - get to see the chick with three boobs from Total Recall, so there are tits. 

 

Oh wow! I had heard of this, but didn't realise it was 5 and half hours long, damn. The documentary on the DVD, "Flesh and Steel" is great, but it's only 40-odd minutes. Phil Tippet who did the stop-motion animation is a genius. He spend 30 years making his own stop-motion movie, which is like if Nick Park had an epic, dark LSD trip called...

 

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On 10/20/2023 at 11:55 PM, SpoonMan said:

Street Gangs on BBC I Player. 

3 episodes in Scotland.  Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow. 

If you can get used to the presenters irritating weegie Jordan Peterson voice it's a decent series. 

The influence of drill music (LOL) in getting knives in to the hands of young bastards in these cities.  How social media feeds the bammyness. 

Maryhill is featured in the Glasgow episode @maryhilldon.

The boy Eugene from Dundee is the star of the show.   A real charismatic pup. 

just watching another good one on the iplayer . The detectives starts off with a good one on organised crime in Rochdale

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On 10/25/2023 at 3:16 PM, styrofoamplates said:

Just watched this. Fucking brilliant. 
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That was informative, very well made. I never knew much of this story other than the way comedians and chat show cunts spun it to be, "all Fab and Rob's fault" and nothing to do with the slimeball producer, Frank Farian. I knew that Bobby Farrell didn't sing on the Boney M tracks that Frank produced. It has to be said that Frank Farian is a musical genius, he knows how to create a bouncing pop track and the Boney M songs, cheesy though they are, are amazing disco tracks that still rock the radiowaves and dancefloors of the world. But Frank Farian was a devious guy, a true exploiter of people.

These young guys, Rob and Fab just wanted a slice of fame, to be able to perform on stage, bring a bit of joy to people, but for some strange reason, "Milli Vanilli" blew the fuck UP and they became bigger than everyone at that time, 1989, sold 8 million records, back when albums weren't selling too big in the mid-80s, people were coked out, blown out, Hip Hop wasn't quite there yet, Rap was present, but was deemed dangerous, so music of the flavour Frank Farian could concoct hit the spot. But then it all unravelled and it would great to say it is as funny now as it was back then, but the fact that Rob Pilatus tragically died in 1998 underlines how insane and tragic showbusiness can be. 

It's that dotted line contract and that big fat cheque next to it. Easy to eat those apples. 

The way I see these days is to just TOUR LIKE BEASTS, do good deals with the promoters and say fuck it to any RECORDING CONTRACT until you are renowned as a live act. Put your own personal recordings out there on the platforms, just don't give away ANY rights to your publishing, recordings. FORCE people to come and see you. That may mean you only ever have £10 million in the bank, in collateral, but you'll be 100% FREE or very close to it all your life, career. These Hip Hop guys who are said to be worth, $1-2 BILLION are all crazy as fuck, demented (demonic?) these days. Too much, too soon. Whereas, a guy like Quincy Jones, who seems to be the most powerful man ever in showbiz is chill as fuck, crazy, but chill, no one is fucking with the Q, baby!

Speaking of someone no one fucked with, this is one of the best rock documentaries ever made...

 

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