Could have been so much better. Either theres selective artistic licence going on or the production only had rights to limited catalog of songs and artists.
First episode was passable except for all the time spent covering a band called Love. 2nd episode jumps right into the bizarre spending so much time on Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt (absolutely unheard of at the time) and propping up the likes of Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons as if they were music gods. The flat out of ideas Byrds got more airplay than their seminal first albums did. A travesty. 8 Miles high nowhere in the mix.
One gets the feeling the producers virtually hated Neil Young. Or have no access to his vast catalog. Again to spend so much time on the Burrito Bros and none on the solo Neil Young. Absolutely absurd. Neil Young doesn't exist in this documentary save for some pictures and being with CSN and Buffalo Springfield. Stills not put in a good light either.
Could do without the Steve Martin seques or Charles Manson either. Documentary spent more time than required on that and the connections have been covered duly in other books, productions.It was enough to just mention the zeitgeist of the time being so interrupted and changing the free feeling of the era.
AS others have mentioned Carol King or Frank Zappa could have got some consideration. They were actually listened to at the time.
On a positive note Joni Mitchell was captured very well, and deservedly so. At least she got the recognition. A nice part about her and Nash and the inspiration for "Our House". Mitchell indeed captured the era, the time, as well as anyone and her peace shone through more than most.
This is worth a watch, but not worth seeing again. 2nd episode was mostly a waste of time. Its hard to get this material so wrong. There so much that was happening, so much that defined it, artists that made it, most of their best contributions are completely missing from the documentary.
First episode was passable except for all the time spent covering a band called Love. 2nd episode jumps right into the bizarre spending so much time on Little Feat, Bonnie Raitt (absolutely unheard of at the time) and propping up the likes of Flying Burrito Brothers and Gram Parsons as if they were music gods. The flat out of ideas Byrds got more airplay than their seminal first albums did. A travesty. 8 Miles high nowhere in the mix.
One gets the feeling the producers virtually hated Neil Young. Or have no access to his vast catalog. Again to spend so much time on the Burrito Bros and none on the solo Neil Young. Absolutely absurd. Neil Young doesn't exist in this documentary save for some pictures and being with CSN and Buffalo Springfield. Stills not put in a good light either.
Could do without the Steve Martin seques or Charles Manson either. Documentary spent more time than required on that and the connections have been covered duly in other books, productions.It was enough to just mention the zeitgeist of the time being so interrupted and changing the free feeling of the era.
AS others have mentioned Carol King or Frank Zappa could have got some consideration. They were actually listened to at the time.
On a positive note Joni Mitchell was captured very well, and deservedly so. At least she got the recognition. A nice part about her and Nash and the inspiration for "Our House". Mitchell indeed captured the era, the time, as well as anyone and her peace shone through more than most.
This is worth a watch, but not worth seeing again. 2nd episode was mostly a waste of time. Its hard to get this material so wrong. There so much that was happening, so much that defined it, artists that made it, most of their best contributions are completely missing from the documentary.