Back And Forth - Foo Fighters

Just finished watching the movie Back and Forth. Its a movie primarily about the Foo Fighters life up until and including the making of Wasting Light. At the start of the movie there is some history about Nirvana and how Dave Grohl brought Pat Smear from Nirvana to play for the Foo Fighters. I found it interesting how many different versions of the band there has been over the years. There has been a range of different rhythm guitarists and a couple of different drummers, in fact there has only been two people from the original line-up, the lead singer and the bassist. It was pretty cool seeing them recording Wasting Light with Butch Vig producing in Dave Grohl's garage basically. I think this kind of recording shows how much of a normal guy he is and the fact he wanted to record onto tape and have it sound real rather than digitally and have it all manufactured and 'perfect' sounding. There was also moments of real emotion shown from various members of the band, one memorable time being when recounting Taylor's trip to hospital after a particularly hard drug session and it was really up in the air if and how well he would recover. Overall I enjoyed watching the film and after seeing all the live performance footage I would love to see them in concert. I also have a couple more music related films ready to be watched so I hope they are as well made.

Marley the movie

This post is about the artist Bob Marley, not about a movie with a golden retriever to save any mix up :)

Firstly, this movie is an epic 2 hours 24 mins long. I lagged a bit here and there during that time but its generally hard to keep my attention for a long period.

Anyway I've watched the movie Marley which goes through the live of yes you guessed it Bob Marley. They have got a great selection of people to talk about him, ranging from family members to members of The Wailers and many friends. They talk about how he started off in a really bad part of Jamaica and how he rose to fame and grand popularity but he always stayed grounded and he always kept his faith/beliefs true. I found it upsetting in the last stages of his life, with the cancer all over his body and there was little to nothing the doctors could do. I wonder if he was still around today, what he would be like, what kind of music he would produce if any and his thoughts on the current state of the world. One things for sure, his massive volume of work over 36 years will definitely keep him in people's minds and hearts forever.

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Rodriguez

I've been watching a few different music related movies recently, one of them being The Search For Sugarman which was recommended by a mate at uni. It was an interesting documentary style thing about this artist named Rodriguez. Basically he went completely off the grid and no one had heard anything from him in years, but the people on the movie managed to track him down and have a chat. If you get a chance, give it a watch. Anyways, I was reading Mojo on the bus this morning and was pleased to see the little article (pictured) which basically says he has a bunch of new tracks and is going to produce a killer (hopefully) new album. If his past music is anything to go by, it should be brilliant.