I still love the ad Johnny Cash and Rick Rubin took out after Johnny won a grammy when they didn’t get any country radio play.
If you have seen it you know why I can’t post it.
True but the image was decades old.
And has since turned up on t-shirts.
Hollywood waited until Johnny Cash was dead and buried then everyone wanted to appear in his music video and walk on his corpse.
I saw the new Exile on Main St. dvd this week. As documentaries go, it’s very weak, just as Scorcese’s concert film (Shine A Light) was.
They should have held to the “Classic Albums” format, going back to the studio tapes (isolating tracks) and discussing the formulation of some of the songs. There is discussion of how some of it came together, a bit of focus on the house(s) it was recorded in, etc. But actually not very informative or entertaining.
And the whole thing was bookened with interviews with a guy from Kings of Leon, a guy from Black Eyed Peas, Don Was, Sheryl Crow, and Martin Scorcese. None of whom have anything to add to the documentary. To make matters worse, this hollywood hype effort has an additional 40 minutes of interviews with these celebrities.
Telling me “you got cred” because you had this LP in your “backpack” in 1993? I don’t see it. What does it matter?
All of it serves to “cross promote” and tell us who the “new” heirs are. Except I don’t care about any of those people. Scorcese’s best work is behind him. Never liked Don Was’ production and Was Not Was never were. Sheryl Crow? Really? Kings of Leon the “next big thing”? The New Stones? I though they said that of The Black Crows.