Metal Documentaries

This past weekend VH1 did a 2 hour *commercial-free!* special on The Who. We taped it and haven't watched it yet, but it looked good. I did some research on vh1.com and found out that "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" was part of that series!  :blush:

However, there's no showings of it coming up  :(
I wanna see it!

I brought this up cuz the band my hubby is currently in, the drummer is a Who nut. He has his own Who tribute band, and we saw them a few weeks ago and they're all right.

One final note: I miss that series Behind The Music! I have seen tons of espisdes, I even remember taping the Metallica episode when it came out back in 1998 cuz I was obsessed with them in high school  :bigsmile:

I guess I should check out VH1 Classic, it seems they play lots of old goodies like that. Char, didn't you say you have that channel?
 
@PowerG: Yes I have VH1 classic.  You would love it.  Once in awhile they have a Behind the Music marathon.  I think you would go ga-ga over it.    :ok:  I also like the "Behind the Music" rock docs.  If I am not playing guitar hero with my daughter we like to watch VH1 classic together.  Music bonds us together.  It's the only thing we have in common at the moment.
 
The Who have produced some of the finest albums in rock history. It really can't get much better than Tommy, Who's Next and Live At Leeds. I've always loved their grainy, down-to-earth approach, and they were definitely the pioneers of hard rock.
 
Heavy Metal Brittannia <- interesting metal documentary, lots of contributors

I found a VERY interesting documentary called Heavy Metal Brittannia. Many, many artists (Bruce Dickinson included) contribute. Didn't hear of it before but it's relatively new, from 2010.

Nigel Planer narrates a documentary which traces the origins and development of British heavy metal from its humble beginnings in the industrialised Midlands to its proud international triumph.

In the late 60s a number of British bands were forging a new kind of sound. Known as hard rock, it was loud, tough, energetic and sometimes dark in outlook. They didn't know it, but Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and, most significantly, Black Sabbath were defining what first became heavy rock and then eventually heavy metal.

Inspired by blues rock, progressive rock, classical music and high energy American rock, they synthesised the sound that would inspire bands like Judas Priest to take metal even further during the 70s.

By the 80s its originators had fallen foul of punk rock, creative stasis or drug and alcohol abuse. But a new wave of British heavy metal was ready to take up the crusade. With the success of bands like Iron Maiden, it went global.

Haven't seen it all but I can already recommend it, as hell! In fact I thought it was so cool, that I almost wanted to open a new topic about it. Get it or see it online (in ten parts). 1h 27min:
http://totallyfuzzy.blogspot.com/2011/0 ... ntary.html

All the known (and for some of us less known!) bands are covered. A very complete documentary.
 
I saw that at the time. It's is good - it also has another programme accompanying it of a load of live performances filmed by the Beeb. I still have it on disc.
 
Watching it now, I am almost finished. I don't think I've seen a better docu summing it all up. Excellent.
 
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