Anyways, this was pretty blah as far as I'm concerned. The intro really turned me off. It had people like Billy Anderson, Wino and Matt Pike describing what they thought "heavy" was. They sounded like dumb asses. That wasn't the only time I was embarrassed by what was being said. The founder of Tee Pee records can actually be quoted as saying "...Sabbath are played out". He should be shot.
I really had a hard time listening to these guys talk about their art (especially with all the brain cells they've killed). Something about them blabbing on about how their music is so deep or powerful or introspective or whatever makes me roll my eyes.
I was under the impression this was going to be a little more in-depth. Supposedly covering the American underground hard rock scene between the 70s and present day. For the 70s they did a few minutes on Pentagram and that was it. Really? That was the only band worth mentioning from the 70s? They didn't even interview Liebling, Griffin or Hasselvander. Not to mention the fact that Pentagram was active through the 80s, 90s and 00s. The rest of the decades didn't go any deeper, with only brief talks about Vitus, Kyuss, Sleep and a handful of others.
Anderson & O'Malley from Sunn O))) managed to come off the most intelligible. They also kept a bit of mystique about them, as they were being interviewed in the shadows of a mountain of amps. Pike, Wino and Cisneros destroyed any image I had of them. They all sounded sad, kinda pathetic and like they've had one to many bong hits.
I've said enough. I don't recommend it, but I bet you can make up our own mind within the first 10 minutes if you feel it's worth watching. I should have watched the PJ documentary instead.
i'm gonna watch it. cuz i'm like a moth to a flame. i always dug talking to billy anderson and i really respect him as a producer. i hope we get to work w/ him one day. sucked when it fell through on the last record... but maybe the next. who knows. i'm not a huge fan of the genre either, but i'll still peep it for nerdiness sake. anyone who says sabbath is "played out" is a fucking moron.
ReplyDeleteWino is hilarious. Cisneros and Pike are exactly how i expected them to be. The Doc didn't delve into too much detail as you stated but I was still very entertained by all of their personas and walked away from it still feeling slightly educated on the genre (when I was busy listening to punk and hardcore in the late 80s-early 90s I had no idea this scene even existed). Cisneros himself stated Sabbath accomplished everything in the genre by vol.4, so I felt they definitely got their credit due. You're right on point with it coming across very amateur though.
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