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Originally Posted by KJMUNC
That was the actually the best part of the movie for me. I had high hopes, but was not a fan after watching this past weekend.
The premise was supposedly about how Laurel Canyon shaped the California sound, while they actually spent very little time talking about why it came to be, the dynamics of moving there/working there/why it all ended, etc, etc. There were plenty of overly gratuitous clips of Jakob and friends playing covers and some very vapid scenes on the couch where they make Regina Spektor look dumb and Beck more than slightly confused as to why he's there....Cat Power doesn't even speak! Followed by more scenes of Dylan interviewing people but not saying much, Crosby pontificating and Tom Petty offering up some "wow man....." commentary. It just felt like there could've been so, so much more done with the topic.
I took the Neil Young clip at the end to mean that he did not want to be part of the interviews/story and just wanted to play music. After suffering through the rest of the movie it was a perfect closing scene.
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Man, this is why i love this place. At the top level I enjoyed it...maybe because I was two pours in already - but BOOM you nailed it...it could have been so much more. I was getting tired of Jakob. But anytime I can see footage of the originals back in the day - I am all over that.