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Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on October 21, 2011 at 12:24pm

Channel 11 is so win for people without cable.  Thanks for the heads up!  

I used to be a huge PJ fan in high school, and though I very rarely listen to them nowadays, I'd still like to see this for the sake of some good memories.  

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Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on October 23, 2011 at 11:37am

I did and enjoyed it.  Lots of stuff I never knew about the band and great hi-def footage.   

 

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Permalink Reply by Joe TV on October 23, 2011 at 6:35pm

Caught 20 min of Decemberists.  Very Good.  Thanks for the heads up, and yes - WTTW is an excellent station.  Support Public Broadcasting!

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Permalink Reply by Kevin on October 24, 2011 at 4:30am

I enjoyed 20 quite a bit, lots of insight particularly into the time before PJ with Mother Love Bone. An interesting perspective around how most bands start with success and often end in tragedy, and they were the opposite. If you liked the movie you may want to check out the companion book

 

I'm part of the obsessive fan club and forum as well, there is unfortunately a very low signal to noise ratio. It takes quite a bit to weed out the nonsense, moreso than most forums. Membership is useful around touring years since you do have access to presale tickets for both the band and occasionally their side projects as well.

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Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on October 24, 2011 at 8:43am

Never was a member of the official forum, but I used to visit an unofficial fan board called Five Horizons pretty regularly.

No Code and Yield were the albums I especially connected with, and then when Riot Act came out I started falling off, partly due to discovering new bands.  So, there was a lot of stuff I missed in the time up until now and this doc filled in the gaps nicely.  The Mother Love Bone stuff was interesting.  I had never listened to them even when I was into PJ, so it was all pretty new to me.  It was really strange seeing all that footage of the band, especially EV.  I used to read articles and interviews and had this image in my mind built up of him, and so I kind of mythologized him.  This doc was nice because it mixed the fumbling, pretentious, embarrassing moments with the genuine ones.  Overall it was pretty fair I think.

 

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