The Band(s): The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols.
The Doc: This eye-opening doc actually follows two bands who started out as bosom buddies but turned rivals as their careers took ever-diverging trajectories.
The central figure in the doc is Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The self-proclaimed musical messiah took fledgling band The Dandy Warhols under his wing, but before long he's being eclipsed by his young charges.
Tense, angsty and hardgoing, while not exactly a fun watch, Dig! remains an essential look at the music industry: director Ondi Timoner's band study ends up turning into something of a treatise on art vs. commercial success.
Musical Highlight: BJM's 'Anenome' proves that the band cand turn out quality music.
Encore? If you make it to the end of the movie, you'll probably never want to see these preening poseurs again.
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Hadouken76
Jul 1st 2010, 15:15
Flight 666, lets face it you wont see Bono pilotting the tour plane any time soon and I recently saw a 4 hour doc on Tom Petty, i didnt like Tom Petty but I do now!
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stomachpop
Jul 4th 2010, 15:33
The Flaming Lips doc 'The Fearless Freaks' is amazing! Put together with years worth of footage featuring some truly strange and interesting characters....or there is always the ace bio 'Hated' about GG Allen, frontman for the The Murder Jumkies, not only do we see him brawl with fans and roll around in his own faeces but the footage of his final concert where he runs naked from the cops and emerges from a window with a needle hanging from his arm is surely the spirit of rock and roll captured on film!
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