"Before the Music Dies" featuring Dave Matthews (B

[gcom007]

Alrighty folks, so Dave Matthews is interviewed and DMB performs in this upcoming documentary that hopefully will be a big cultural splash. It's a documentary on the history of American music and it also serves to expose the current hideous trends towards superficiality that exist in todays popular music. Here's the summary from the doc's website...

"With outstanding performances and revealing interviews, Before the Music Dies takes a critical and comedic look at the homogenization of popular music with commentary by some of the industry's biggest talent such as Erykah Badu, Branford Marsalis, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Questlove (from hiphop group the Roots), and many more. Using historic footage the film looks at the evolution of American music and the artists who created it and pulls back the curtain (in a very creative way) to expose the sad truth behind today's "artificial" music stars.

"The reality is that superficiality is in," says Marsalis. "And depth and quality is kind of out."

After the death of his musician brother, director Andrew Shapter was inspired to make this film. He and Producer Joel Rasmussen and the film crew traveled thousands of miles, visiting dozens of cities, speaking with hundreds of fans, journalists, record executives and musicians while searching for "real" American music. What they found were mega-talents without a major label, including one artist Eric Clapton believes is "the real thing."

"I've never heard anyone like him," says Clapton. "He plays like nobody else."

In addition to the artists, Shapter and Rasmussen put the questions to writers and critics from The Future of Music Coalition, Indie 911, CNN, USA Today, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, NPR and others. Many questions were raised such as "why do they always play the same few songs over and over again on the radio? Why do major labels no longer allow musicians to develop their career over time? Why do local radio stations not feel so local anymore? In addition, why is it that all the acts promoted as the 'new thing' seem to resemble fashion models?"

The film also features live performances by many of the artists featured in the film including Dave Matthews, Erykah Badu, Calexico, Branford Marsalis, Eric Clapton, Blaze, Guy Forsyth, and Correo Aereo." (from beforethemusicdies.com)

I'd suggest checking it out if you can or calling your local arts theater and encouraging them to try and pick this film up. It could turn some heads that desperately need turning...

Click the following link for more information...

http://www.beforethemusicdies.com

[Speenis]

Sounds pretty cool, thanks for the heads up ya crazy bastard

[Nitro1515]

Sounds cool. A pre Everyday DMB would be perfect for this, however its almost laughable to have Dave talking about homogenization and superficiality when he has created two albums like ED and SU.

[carter29]

this sounds awesome

[Sciaracastro]

Sounds cool. A pre Everyday DMB would be perfect for this, however its almost laughable to have Dave talking about homogenization and superficiality when he has created two albums like ED and SU.

ED isnt superficial at all

[Nitro1515]

Sounds cool. A pre Everyday DMB would be perfect for this, however its almost laughable to have Dave talking about homogenization and superficiality when he has created two albums like ED and SU.

ED isnt superficial at all

[dmb_josh]

to each their own...

[Cor]

Sounds cool. A pre Everyday DMB would be perfect for this, however its almost laughable to have Dave talking about homogenization and superficiality when he has created two albums like ED and SU.

ED isnt superficial at all

I agree. I know the band intentionally kept every song on that disc under 5 minutes for the pop sensibility factor.

Possibly hindering a song's potential growth by cutting it's length based on the fact that it's more pop-sensible=superficial

[Nitro1515]

Sounds cool. A pre Everyday DMB would be perfect for this, however its almost laughable to have Dave talking about homogenization and superficiality when he has created two albums like ED and SU.

ED isnt superficial at all

I agree. I know the band intentionally kept every song on that disc under 5 minutes for the pop sensibility factor.

Possibly hindering a song's potential growth by cutting it's length based on the fact that it's more pop-sensible=superficial

exactly

[brian_ok]

This will be cool, I'll be checking it out

[jsgksu]

(B ?

[onid41]

(B ?

[Nitro1515]

(B ?

I think he was going for Band but ran out of room

[Raif2032]

Sounds cool. A pre Everyday DMB would be perfect for this, however its almost laughable to have Dave talking about homogenization and superficiality when he has created two albums like ED and SU.

I guess it makes sense to judge a band entirely by one or two albums instead of their overall body of work and their outstanding live performances...

[a1075dd63aa12]

Sounds cool. A pre Everyday DMB would be perfect for this, however its almost laughable to have Dave talking about homogenization and superficiality when he has created two albums like ED and SU.

I guess it makes sense to judge a band entirely by one or two albums instead of their overall body of work and their outstanding live performances...

but its still the current dave talking. if we had a time machine we could go back and get pre-everyday dave. in case you missed it the point of nitro's post was that he is hardly credible at this point when it comes to this topic.

oh and...