New York, NY (Top40 Charts) We love a riveting music documentary here at T4C, as it's always super interesting getting a detailed insight into how some of your favourite musicians' accomplishments were achieved. If you feel the same, and are a fan of alternative rock, then there's a fascinating new feature being released that you should definitely seek out.
Meet Me in the Bathroom takes a deep-dive into the brilliantly scuzzy New York indie scene of the early 2000's, which produced some magnificent bands that kick-started an entire new generation to fall in love with guitar music. The most seismic of which, has to be The Strokes, who became a genuine sensation after the release of their debut album, 2001's
Is This It.
Meet Me in the Bathroom will be available to be streamed over on Showtime, after it has had a short stint in a select number of movie theatres. If you're looking for some more essential viewing rock music documentaries, then here's a few of our top picks. These must-watch films all about rock in its many forms will no doubt entertain you, amaze you and inspire you, all at the same time.
Woodstock
When it comes to legendary music festivals, one event stands head and shoulders above the rest, and that's 1969's Woodstock. The festival was held on a dairy farm in the state of New York, and managed to attract over 400,000 keen revellers. Just some of the key acts who performed on the various stages were; Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, The Who and the headliner of the entire thing, the guitar-melting Jimi Hendrix.
However, the main driver of the festival's now mythical status, was the documentary that appeared a year later, 1970's Woodstock. This film takes the viewer on a trip through the musical extravaganza, condensing the four-day festival into three hours of kaleidoscopic wonder, and all without them having to experience a single bit of mud.
Lemmy
When people say that they don't make them like that anymore, one of the greatest examples of this could be the rock icon Lemmy. The now deceased star, who sadly passed away in 2015 at the age of 70, lived life to the fullest. In fact, the only thing that was harder than his partying, was the music that he created with his revolutionary band, Motorhead. Formed in 1975, they kept performing right until Lemmy's death, and are now considered the precursor to heavy metal, inspiring an explosion of thrilling noisy bands.
The 2010 documentary Lemmy, is a dissection of the impact that he and his band have had on the landscape of music, with plenty of interviews with rockers who've been influenced by the mutton-chopped hell-raiser. It also takes a look into how he was living his life in Los Angeles during his twilight years, following him around as he went about his daily tasks. Most of these tasks involve him sitting in his local bar, playing on his favoured computerized poker machines, but what else do you expect by the man who wrote 'Ace of Spades'?
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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
You might think that a documentary about the heavy metal band Metallica would be a heavy-hitting film that is full of debauchery. No doubt it would've been if the doc had been made during their earlier days, but Metallica: Some Kind of Monster found the band at a more self-reflective time. Well, whilst they weren't raising hell out on the town, they certainly were, in their many therapy sessions.
Filmed between 2001 and 2003, Metallica were going through a turbulent period internally, with many members having personal problems and with each other, that put the entire future of the band in jeopardy. The documentary is an intriguing insight into just what extremes it takes to keep even a monumentally successful band together. It's also hilariously funny, with the diva antics being dialled up to eleven and scenes so comedic, you'd swear they were straight out of This Is Spinal Tap.
