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From | erhoek@comcast.net |
Subject | Re: DC5 PBS documentary |
Date | Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:14:16 +0000 (UTC) |
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I saw it and had some of the same complaints you did. The comparisons by Billy Joel ,Whoopie,etc to the Beatles and the Stones made me laugh.
Curiously Clark made no references to his homosexuality (as far as I could tell) but there was footage of him hanging with his entourage (Kennie Everett,Freddie Mercury,etc) which was notorious for sharing partners and sadly the AIDS virus.
Clark did make some deal with Hollywood Records 10 or so years ago to release the 2cd set but I think that was the extent of legal cd releases.
MIke Smith and the others did get short shrifted. I did enjoy seeing some of the footage shot by the band when they toured the world. Looks as if they had a great time waterskiing ,going to zoological parks and such.
Ah well...it was produced,directed,created,etc by Dave Clark so he most definitely will come out looking the best of all.
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From: "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
To: "Auditeers" <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:53:51 AM
Subject: DC5 PBS documentary
Hello Auditeers:
Hope you all got to see the documentary on PBS? After having seen the
first series of PBS DVDs on 60s bands (Hollies, Small Faces, etc.) I was
*really* stoked, but after seeing the show I have mixed feelings.
Of course I love the singles and I think of them as one of the great 60s
bands, but as you learn more about the groups later on, they come off
more like the Eagles...a "band" that is really a leader and sidemen.
Clark made all the money, owns everything, controls everything. Dave
Clark was obviously one of the smartest musicians for having the
foresight to understand publishing and production was where the cash cow
grazed; licensing his music and then having the masters revert was
Nostradomian of him. But then the same guy has been sitting on his music
throughout the CD era holding out for big money while his core audience
withers and dies. Not to mention the royalties that hopefully Smith
would have been entitled to, if not the whole band. (Of course it could
be argued that he slapped his name on Mike Smith's work like
Jagger/Richard do when Ron Wood writes a Stones tune...)
Mike Smith never gets mentioned when the lists of great R&R vocalists
are made. Still pissed about the R&RHOF - and here's yet another reason
why I abhor the place - he didn't get to walk onstage to take a well
deserved bow because Wenner and his cronies changed the votes that year
so the inductees were more demographically sampled.
And as much as I enjoyed the music and the reminiscing, how
ego-maniacally self-serving was that presentation? Famous "music
authorities" like Whoopi Goldberg placing the DC5 in the same breath as
The Beatles and Stones as if The Hollies, The Kinks, The Animals didn't
exist? (Hell, Herman's Hermits were as dominant on the charts.) Plus all
that (cough) TIME (cough) dedicated to that bloated musical fantasy that
had nothing to do with the band? Dave Clark as an actor? Perhaps there's
a reason why Clark's face is large, front, and center on the cover and
the rest of "the boys" (his words, not mine) have only half a face on
the four corners. Side-men, if you will. My god...it's the DC1.
I'm sure I'll wind up buying it anyway, but that's my sickness. I'm only
praying that the cover boasting "four hours" of material means "disc 2"
will be chock full of music and not just an audio commentary featuring
Gene Simmons.
So...what did YOU think?
almost blogging but not quite
b
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