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I’ve been looking for more music documentaries. I’ve see the ones for The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Doobies, The Band, Country Music on PBS, and maybe a couple others. I really like the historical ones, but enjoy all kinds. Any recs?
 
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Thanks, HK. Thing is, I was grown & married by the time KI opened such that my fondest memories are of its predecessor, Coney Island, where Riverbend Music Center stands now. Best part was living on hill above Ohio River and being able to look down upon that old park from the end of our street in Highland Heights. To top it off, there was a passenger ferry from the KY riverbank over to Coney - 35 cents round trip. Man had taken two WW2 front opening landing craft & put seats along the walls with a roof. Fun just to ride across. When we were teens, we could walk down the hill to the ferry and go by ourselves.

Only photo of the ferry I can find is in this FB entry:



Also, this article shows a lot of the Coney layout and rides:

www.cincinnati.com

Cincinnati’s old Coney Island, 1886-1971

Cincinnati’s original Coney Island amusement park opened in 1886 and closed in 1971 when the owners built Kings Island.
www.cincinnati.com

Note the Island Queen riverboat. Used to leave from the Cincy riverfront and steam upriver the 6-8 miles to Coney. Had band playing with dancing both ways. Burned to the river level in 1947 - even before me. My parents loved that boat.
 
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How about a thumbs down to the latest Zeppelin movie. While the music was great, frankly that took up too much of the movie. The interviews were only with the band members. No outside perspective, color. Uninteresting. And, I love Zeppelin

what I’ve liked, Meru- rock climbing doc, When we were kings- Ali, Momentum Generation- surfing
 
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SenseMaker_Cats said:
Train wreck series on Netflix. I’ve watched the Mayor of Mahem. About Rob Ford former partying maniac mayor of Toronto.

Poop Cruise -Carnival cruise that lost power and toilets stopped working. Passengers stuck on there for about 8 days.

American Apparel- about the absolute nutjob of the CEO of the company.
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I'm watching the Trainwreck Woodstock 99 series now.
 
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Watched a doc on the ownership of Monticello after Jefferson died. Quite surprising history to me. Was on Prime. 75 minutes.
 
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Rewatched Harlan USA few weekends ago. Looks just like I remember SWVa/Eastern Ky growing up. The mine camps, coal dust on everything, living in squaller. 90% of older men in my family worked in mines. I remember the strikes back in 80s & 90s and I thought those were bad, 72 was a lot worse.
 
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Tubi has or had a good documentary on Eddie Sutton called "Eddie", interviews with family and players. A significant portion about his time at UK. You really feel for Sean Sutton.
"The SunshineMakers" is another decent one on Tubi about a pair of LSD manufacturers who started with Owsley and trying to spread the gospel of the counterculture a step ahead of the law.
I've liked some of the Netflix series with both the "Toys" and the "Movies That Made Us". The toys like with the "Star Wars" toys and how Kenner out of Cincinnati got the contract, developed the toys was interesting to me.
 
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I’ve been watching a series of videos on YouTube called “Abandoned“. The guy doing the series videos old abandoned railways and towns out in the northwest…what seems to be Montana mostly. Some really nice scenery in his videos.
 
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Watched 2 hr War of 1812 doc tonight. Never really understood what it was about. Actually the idea in peoples' head was we might not survive as a country. People were scared sh!tless when DC burned. Still only 7.5M people.
 
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Watched the Bin Laden manhunt doc (Netflix) on a flight this past week. Pretty good.

I generally love most everything Burns does (looking forward to his Revolutionary War doc) but his doc on National Parks is unbearable.
 
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Great Thread, Documentary fiend here. Wild Wild Country is the craziest Netflix one to me, but there are so many contenders - I'm a sucker for anything cultish, HBO has a ton in that genre.


This is a crazy one I don't see talked about often, looks like you can view it on a few of the free apps.


 
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‘the civil war’ is never on PBS but they love showing the pointless documentary about the making of it during pledge drives
 
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funKYcat75 said:
I’ve been looking for more music documentaries. I’ve see the ones for The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Doobies, The Band, Country Music on PBS, and maybe a couple others. I really like the historical ones, but enjoy all kinds. Any recs?
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You might try searching YouTube for history on bands and artists you like.
There are many interesting videos to view.

if you google “list of music documentaries” … you will get MANY lists like these two, as examples.

www.rollingstone.com

40 Greatest Rock Documentaries

From meeting the Beatles to Hendrix burning guitars, here are the 40 greatest rock documentaries of all time.
www.rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com

top40weekly.com

Top 40 Best Music Documentaries - Top40weekly

Discover the 40 best music documentaries — from iconic concerts to untold stories. Must-watch films for every music lover, rock fan, and chart nerd.
top40weekly.com top40weekly.com

Not really a documentary, but a movie that I think you will enjoy as a music-lover … I LOVE it:
www.rottentomatoes.com

The Commitments | Rotten Tomatoes

Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for The Commitments on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!
www.rottentomatoes.com www.rottentomatoes.com

You can watch it FREE, with ads, on YouTube, if you cannot find it elsewhere.
 
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