Music docs on Amazon. Duane Allman, it's two hours long but worth it but he finally gets credit, along with Bill Graham, for the creation of Southern Rock. Duane, along with Jimi, were the two I would have liked to have seen where they were taking it next. This brought back memories of the first time I listened to "Live at Fillmore East" non stop and what it did to me, I couldn't get enough of it. However, until I saw this doc, I didn't realize the true significance of that album to the Southern Rock movement. If not for Bill Graham's belief and love for Duane's playing, does Southern Rock even happen? He could have gone back to being an in demand studio musician.
"Aja", if you are a Steely Dan fan, this is must watch because it reveals the musical genius of Fagen and Becker. I hit the patio the next night to listen to this with renewed interest and every piece of every song meant something, no matter how unnoticed it went on the dozens of times I'd listened to it when it first came out. If you were not around at the time, Steely Dan was the mystery. No other band sounded like them and they didn't tour, what was up with that? Why didn't we know more about the Wizard of Oz of rock?
This doc pulls the curtain back and allows us to see what they really didn't want us to know back then because I don't think we would have been as accepting or even understood what they were doing and why there was no band. Two bodies sharing one musical genius mind and a bunch of the best studio musicians that ever graced a recording. The one thing I don't get is why not just name the "band" Becker and Fagen, or the reverse. Other big acts at the time, James Taylor, Carole King, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne and Dan Fogelberg were using studio musicians without an issue. In fact, those five artists used the same musicians called The Session. Love to see a doc about them.
