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Live at the Hollywood Bowl is the third official live album by the American rock band the Doors, released in May 1987 by Elektra Records. The concert was recorded on July 5, 1968, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Doors' hometown

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The entire concert was recorded using several cameras and is one of only two live performances of the band that was professionally recorded in color (the other being Live at The Isle of Wight Festival 1970). The Doors' longtime sound engineer Bruce Botnick recorded the concert direct from the soundboard onto an 8-track machine

Mick Jagger attended this performance. It was his first time seeing The Doors live, and although he later said that he enjoyed the show overall, he also complained that some of the songs dragged on too long

Jim Morrison had taken LSD prior to going on stage. The effects become noticable during the set. John Densmore commented that "I felt something was a bit off, Jim would come in early or late in different sections of the song"

Problems with Morrison's microphone made the opening song (When the Music's Over), as well as three other songs (Hello, I Love You, The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) and Spanish Caravan) somewhat distorted

All hail the lizard king!

Gimme Danger is an American documentary film directed by Jim Jarmusch about the legendary band The Stooges. It was shown in the Midnight Screenings section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released by Amazon Studios and Magnolia Pictures on October 28, 2016

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The film follows the rise, fall and reunion of the Stooges, formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, bassist Dave Alexander, and brothers Ron Asheton and Scott Asheton on guitar and drums respectively. Guitarist James Williamson eventually joined the band, with Ron Asheton switching to bass after Alexander was fired

The band found little success during the first phase of their career, recording three albums that did not sell as well as their record companies expected, and performing for audiences that were largely indifferent or hostile. They broke up in 1974, and the band members went their separate ways with vocalist Pop establishing a moderately successful solo career. In time, the Stooges proved highly influential in the development of punk rock with Jim Osterberg 'Iggy Pop' being a main catalyst and hailed as the grandaddy of punk, no it wasn't the Ramones (the stooges were their favorite band) Nor was it the oddly claimed hard rock band Death. There are many 60's bands (mainly garage) that are considered proto punk. If you're looking for some groovy, gritty tunes at there most primal, Here is your god

Jarmusch began working on the documentary almost a decade prior to the film's release. The project began after Osterberg expressed that if a film were to be made about The Stooges, he would prefer Jarmusch to make it

Dig! is a 2004 American documentary film about the collision of art and commerce through the eyes of The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, focusing on the developing careers and the love-hate relationship of the bands' respective frontmen Courtney Taylor and Anton Newcombe. It was shot over seven years and compiled from over 2,500 hours of footage. It won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art for their permanent collection

The movie centers around the Brian Jonestown Massacre. The Dandy Warhols have a role in the film, as the 'rival band' but they are second fiddle

"You fucking broke my sitar, motherfucker!"

The Velvet Underground is a 2021 American documentary film directed and produced by Todd Haynes that chronicles the life and times of the rock band the Velvet Underground.
The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 7, 2021. It was released theatrically on October 15, 2021, to critical acclaim.

The Velvet Underground was an influential band that arose from the music, art, and film avant-gardes of early-1960s New York City. Although not a commercial success at the time,it had a significant impact on underground, experimental, and alternative music and the development of punk and new wave music. It's core members were Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Doug Yule, and Maureen Tucker. Artist Andy Warhol managed and promoted the band convincing them to add German singer and model Nico to their line-up. Haynes's film examines the cultural milieu of the band and its musical and cinematic influences. It tracks the band's history from formation to the break-up of its original line-up in the early 1970s. Interviews with surviving band members Cale and Tucker and musicians the band influenced are woven with archival music and film material

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After Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison quit the band, it carried on for a time with Doug Yule becoming the frontman on vocals and guitar. Moe Tucker also stayed with the band after her return from parental leave and they were joined by a new bassist and keyboardist. This lineup toured the Loaded album around parts of North America and Europe in 1971. A fifth studio album was released for a UK record label under the Velvet Underground name: 1973's Squeeze. All members bar Doug Yule were sent back to the United States in 1972 and Yule recorded all parts except the drums by Deep Purple's Ian Paice, saxophone by someone called Malcolm and some unidentified female backing vocals. Recording the album as essentially a Doug Yule solo effort was at the instruction of manager Steve Seswick, who had earlier brought Yule to the band and had long pushed for the Velvets to adopt a more commercial style with Yule at its centre. Yule himself was displeased at Seswick's control of the process. While Yule had been a significant creative force, albeit secondary to Lou Reed, on the celebrated Loaded album, Squeeze is much-maligned. It received terrible reviews, though it has gained some appreciators over the years. It is typically considered a Velvets record in name only. At around the same time as the official Velvet Underground were being reduced to Seswick's Doug Yule project, Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico had also been in Europe for a reunion performance in Paris in 1972, which was bootlegged and eventually released under the name Le Bataclan '72. Footage from this reunion performance is included in this film.

The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a 2005 documentary film about American musician Daniel Johnston

It chronicles Johnston's life from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his experiences with bipolar disorder, and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession. The film was directed by Jeff Feuerzeig and produced by Henry S. Rosenthal

Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961-September 11, 2019)

A deeply troubled man that seemed to never get the help or guidance he needed, despite this he regularly played live shows, made new music, friends and fans, was consistently drawing and of course, fighting the eternal battle. He left us with some great, thought provoking music and his delightful, innocent yet foreboding art that tells various ongoing stories

In his later age he became quite the hipster go to,

so much in fact that awful elite brands like SUPREME

went after the cash and starting selling his art

on various overpriced items. Even mainstream pop artists today try to seem cool and deep by 'liking Daniel Johnston' the executive producers for the short film about Daniel Johnston that came out recently had Lana Del Ray and Mac Miller on the bill, that should say a lot

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The term "outsider music" is traced to the definitions of "outsider art" and naïve art. Outsider art is rooted in the 1920s French concept of L'Art Brut (raw art). In 1972, academic Roger Cardinal introduced "outsider art" as the American counterpart of L'Art Brut, which originally referred to work created exclusively by children or the mentally ill. The word outsider began to be applied to music cultures as early as 1959, with respect to jazz, and to rock as early as 1979. In the 1970s, outsider music was also a favorite epithet in music criticism in Europe. By the 1980s and 1990s, outsider was common in the cultural lexicon and was synonymous with self-taught, untrained, and primitive

His artwork was shown in galleries such as in London's Aquarium Gallery, New York's Clementine Gallery and at the Liverpool Biennial, his work was exhibited at "The Museum of Love" at Verge Gallery in Sacramento, California & many, many others around the world. Today if you want a Johnston original you're looking at $500-$4000+, that's a lot of moola!

On March 13, 2012, Johnston released his first comic book Space Ducks - An Infinite Comic Book of Musical Greatness at SXSW, published by BOOM! Studios. The comic book ties-in with the Space Ducks album and an iOS app