Stax documentary on PBS
The_Hook_Up
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just a reminder! its this Wed 8PM CST, Bossman went to a private screening last week and said it was really top shelf!...also in honor of Stax and the anniversary, log on to WEVL.ORG immediately after the documentary for 2 HRS of nothin but Stax/Volt rekkids played loud and proud!
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I saw a review copy of the DVD and I second that emotion - this documentary is really well-done. I'm waiting for somebody to start a thread after it airs...
Saturday, August 18
5:30 ??? 6:30pm ch 2: Sam Cooke - Legend[/b]: The first-ever biography of the extraordinary career and
personal life of Sam Cooke whose contribution to American music spans gospel, R&B and Pop. June is Black Music Month. Sam Cooke's hits are many from You Send Me to Twisting the Night Away. You might be surprised by the sheer number of his hits. This is a documentary with performance footage.
Sunday, August 19
12:30 ??? 2pm ch 2: The Beach Boys - Endless Harmony[/b]: This show contains many of the group's best-known songs woven through extended interview segments with the original members and other key musicians, peers and industry observers. It tells their story through evocative period footage and some no-budget promotional videos to add impact.
Wednesday, August 22
9 ??? 11pm ch 2: Monterey Pop Festival[/b]: On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward ??? capturing a decade???s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock ???n??? roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly diverse cast, including Simon and Garfunkel, The Mamas and the Papas, The Who, The Byrds, Hugh Masekela, and the extraordinary Ravi Shankar. With his charismatic v??rit?? style, D.A. Pennebaker captured it all, setting the tone for many music films that would follow, including Woodstock.
These are all Boston times and channels, so check the listings in your local market.
Any Zoom Memorabilia hanging around?
OG 70's Son!!!!!!!
That was your avatar for a while, no?
Yep. I return to it erry once in a while. I had a crush on Bernadette as a kid.
No hijack.
Im lookin forward to Stax doc as well.
HAHA! Although we're now in the 0-2-1-3-5???moving on up, baby!
I couldn't use them, but I did mean to write back and
say thanks anyway but totally spaced. Good lookin' out.
This guy called my show today and wanted me to play a
Moody Blues song cause of the concert tonight - I went
and dug the song he wanted out of the record library,
but when I previewed it I was like "UGH THIS IS AWFUL"
and had to say "sorry, dude - can't do it"
Although funnily enough (), we did get offered free Boz Scaggs tix last week.
There's apparently one on the way, according to the promo I saw.
WGBH is one of the things I miss most about Boston. PBS ain't the same anywhere else, let alone Baltimore, where it is about as bad as it gets.
Too bad about the memorabilia, but are there any ACTUAL EPISODES in them vaults? From the seventies[/b]? This show should be reissued on DVD same as The Electric Company (another PBS program from the same era) was.
And speaking of vintage footage, there's a wealth of never- or seldom-seen footage on this Stax doc coming up.
I'm pretty sure we've got just about everything archived, although very little of it has been digitized. If you're psyched about Zoom, our archives of Say Brother! will melt your face clean off. You may remember Say Brother! as the show the Stark Reality did the theme for. Unfortunately, there are currently only 1 minute clips from each show available. We're a non-profit organization, and transfering programs to digital formats costs money.
Anyone got $20,000 to spare?
They're talking about Otis right now and showing footage of him doing "Respect"...
stax hit rock bottom, can some one explain the bankruptcy to me.
it seems to get confused between racism and some really shady business.
was it al bell's fault???was he set up?
Read this for all the messy details you'll ever need:
http://www.amazon.com/Soulsville-U-S-Sto...86026629&sr=1-1
Word - Rob's book is mega-proper. And the short story is that Bell made some really phenomenally bad business decisions but it's hard running most labels and Stax would have been tough to run under most circumstances even with smarter leadership.
What happened to Stewart is a cotdamn shame and disgrace though.
-otis in europe
-booker t. and the mg's in london in 68 after MLK was shot
-isaac hayes in the studio
-johnny taylor killing it with "who's making love"
i know they had some cool stax items back in the day, from high ball glasses to a leather bag stamped with the snap logo. i know it's no , but cool all the same.
There's another curious clip of what looks like Otis in the studio lipsynching to "Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa"...it looks like a studio rehearsal, 'cause everybody is just sitting around all casual, not really playing to the camera, but then again it synchs to the recording so well it just looks like a very odd early promotional video...I was hoping the credits would tell which clips came from what source, but it wasn't happening. Anyway, great special.
Al Bell really needed to own up to this in the film. He pussy footed around it, but never came out and said, "You know, I really fucked that up." Stewart wasn't a great business person to begin with (the Atlantic fineprint is a a perfect example), and he trusted that Bell was taking the company in the right direction. That being said, Stewart should have been watching credits and debits. I mean, who the fuck was that statistition? That was the shark jumping moment for sure.
In the end it's always excess, which is a great lesson for all the junior circuit label owners out there. Just because you landed a Levis commercial doesn't mean you need a Mercedes.