Your 5 Favorite Rock & Roll Movies/ Documentaries (not concert video), and 1 or 2 honorable mentions

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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    I just watched Bob and the Monster.  Awesome flick partially about music and drug and alcohol addiction. Very cool peak into the early-mid 80s LA alternative scene (RHCP, Jane’s Addiction, Circle Jerks, etc.).
    Bob Forrest was the lead singer of Thelonious Monster, also a part of that underground scene.  Recency bias noted, but it would a minimum be an honourable mention if my list was compiled today. 
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,332
    Gimmie Danger
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    JeBurkhardt said:
    Gimmie Danger
    Coincidentally, I watched that one right after Bob and the Monster. Definitely worth watching for any Stooges fans.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,537
    Hard Core Logo. Hugh Dillon is the lead. Honestly, only acting job I thought he did that wasn't terrible (until 2017's Wind River). Probably because it was so close to his real life. 

    Quentin Tarantino loved it so much he brought the distribution rights to it years later. 

    The band Billy Talent takes their name from the guitarist character in the movie, Billy Tallent. 

    strangely, the Headstones followed the movie's plot nearly to a T. The movie is about this mid level Canadian band that broke up, but got back together to do a benefit show for a friend of theirs. The response was big enough, they decided to do one more tour. 

    fast forward a decade. the headstones break up. several years later, a friend of theirs was dying of cancer, so they get back together to do a benefit show. the response was so great they wrote a song after the show, released it for free, and have been back together ever since. 
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  • josevolution
    josevolution Posts: 31,695
    Rude boy 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Another couple of runner ups for me are Clint Eastwood's "Bird" which though not a documentary gives a good picture of what Charlie Parker's musical career was all about, and the movie "Control", a film about the life and death of Joy Division's Ian Curtis.  Both are quite excellent.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • mckay
    mckay Posts: 162
    Filmage: The Story of Descendents/All
  • GlowGirl
    GlowGirl New York, NY Posts: 12,124
    Does “This is Spinal Tap” count? I love that one. 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    GlowGirl said:
    Does “This is Spinal Tap” count? I love that one. 

    Heck yeah.  Why not!  Especially as it took amps up to a new level!
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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
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