PBS Special: Muscle Shoals

Erik Tracy
Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
edited May 2014 in Music & Movies
Anyone else catch this last night (Monday)?

I flicked to it and was caught - fantastic show.

So many stories and things I never knew about all the great music made down there.

I am a slow boy, but now I 'get' the lyrics from Sweet Home Alabama:
"Muscle Shoals has got the Swampers"

Thumbs up!

H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • decal
    decal Posts: 3,205
    edited April 2014
    I really enjoyed the show.
    If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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  • Polkie2009
    Polkie2009 Posts: 3,834
    edited April 2014
    I was flipping channels on my 20" CRT tv last night and saw about 5 seconds of it. I'll end up buying the blu ray ( when it drops more in price) so I can enjoy it in the HT in lossless and 1080p.
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited April 2014
    The section on when Aretha Franklin came down was awesome.

    When she broke out and found the style she was looking for brought tears to my eyes and the hair on my neck stand up.

    Same for the Duane Allman section - never knew he was a Muscle Shoals player.

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited April 2014
    I had the BD pre-ordered. I thought I knew a lot about the history of the Muscle Shoals music scene, I did not. Great movie, great sound track (both the movie and CD), and as a music lover a very emotional engagement with the movie. I agree with the above, the section on Aretha Franklin was spell-binding. Who knew a bunch of white boys could play like that!
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  • 11tsteve
    11tsteve Posts: 1,166
    edited April 2014
    I enjoyed everything about it except everything Bono had to say. Whatever he is doing in there for commentary... well, who knows.
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited May 2014
    I didn't get Bono's relevance either.

    Other then that, phenomenal. I had no idea Jimmy Cliff recorded there; I've always felt "Sitting in Limbo" was a really well produced song.
    Wristwatch--->Crisco
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  • rromeo923
    rromeo923 Posts: 1,513
    edited May 2014
    Sonny Bono??
    I got static in my head
    The reflected sound of everything
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited May 2014
    rromeo923 wrote: »
    Sonny Bono??

    Not that Bono, the Irish one.
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