Documentaries

[open face surgery]

Havent seen it yet but people seem so easily manipulated these days. The perfect storm for stupidity.

[Circlepit]

I watched it last night.
Louis Theroux didn't really have to do anything, just let them talk and their spiel became a ringing endorsement for their own stupidity.

The scary part is seeing really young teenage boys gushing over these clowns when they would meet them on the street.
The main gimpfluencer came across as such a moron.
The sort who would shout out GAY as a comeback for any sort of reasonable argument.

Of course my wife is now on hyper alert for any signs of it our young fellas circle.

[The Heretic]

It's like Brexit, play on your fears, promise you the world, then fuck off when it doesn't go as expected

[Bürggermeister]

Sounds related to this article I read yesterday. Unreal stuff. Sounds like some of these lads swung the hammer a little high, the odd time. I wouldn't want to be locked in a room with the kind of woman who would be attracted by these imbeciles, particularly if there were any knives.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx28z4zypkno

[Eoin McLove]

What ever happened to having a few pints and chancing your arm, eh?

In many ways it seems like the online world is turning culture inside out.

[open face surgery]

It's funny that all these fellas have the same background, making them an easy target in, what is for all extends and purposes, a pyramid scheme.

[Trev]

Got around to watching the new Louis Theroux one. Even if if he wasn't spouting shite, that HS fellas voice was fucking headwrecking, don't known how anyone could willingly listen to it

[Ollkiller]

There'll always be young impressionable males latching on to shit. Found the doc OK, should have gone more into their background and finances.

[Eoin McLove]

There'll always be young impressionable males latching on to shit. Found the doc OK, should have gone more into their background and finances.

Interesting point.

[Mooncat]

Just watched the new Chili Peppers doc on Netflix. They're a band I gave up on many years ago, but the focus of the doc specifically on Hillel Slovak and their 80s years is actually really interesting. All the 80s live footage is great, he was a really cool guitar player.

[Pentagrimes]

Yeah, I'd be the same, BSSM was the last album I'd have had any interest and I fucking despise them nowadays, but I loved everything up to that as a kid, and Slovak was a great player. Cool that they talked about "Behind the Sun" as kind of a turning point, that song is one of their best.
Didn't they disown this documentary or something?Odd given they're in it.

[Eoin McLove]

I watched it over the weekend. The only album I like by them is BSSM, and maybe Californication simply for nostalgic reasons as it's the beginning of their continuing beige era.

I never heard of the dude before seeing the doc. I thought the dude on BSSM was the original guitarist... I clearly knew very little above zero about the band 

But yeah, he seemed like a real talent. Very innovative on the guitar and it was interesting to get a glimpse of all of the various influences that went into the melting pot of their sound. Pity he got stuck on the old gear. A real fucking waste really.

I found the doc incredibly interesting I have to say. Any idea why the band have distanced themselves from it? I don't think they came off looking bad in it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Will have to watch that. Mother's Milk was always my favourite but also listened to Freaky Styley and Uplift Mofo Party Plan loads. BSSM was the last genuinely good album they had, but I'd pick One Hot Minute hands down over anything they did subsequently.

[Mooncat]

Hillel's brother James, who organised and is in the doc, is apparently a bit of a shyster and a cunt. Anyways, the doc is supposed to be directly focused on Hillel and that's what the band agreed to, then after the fact the marketing focus shifted to it being a doc about the rise of the Chili Peppers.

The band didn't so much as distance themselves from it as reclarify that this is a Hillel doc specifically, even though it does chart the rise of the band by extension.

Up until recently it was just called The Rise of the Chili Peppers, and then after the band pushback they added the subheading 'Our Brother Hillel'.

Bit of a non-story really. Prob just the band making sure the fans knew it's supposed to be about Hillel, and also pushing back against James a bit because they know he's a cunt.

[Mooncat]

I love their first 5 up to and including BSSM. I also like Californication for nostalgia reasons. It's the one time they really nailed the beige sound. I also remember it, more than any other album, being the album absolutely everybody owned that year.

I have to say the original self-titled is my favourite, but Uplift Mofo Party Plan and Freaky Styley are also fantastic. Uplift Mofo I think is the purest distillation of their 80s sound. I've been listening to it a bit this week after the doc. I'll bet their small club shows in this era we're fucking amazing.

The demo of the original album that Flea talks about in the doc is available to listen to on Spotify at the end of the tracklisting of the first album (or on the CD reissue if you have it). For a band of 4 young degenerate knuckleheads, the fact they went into a studio and knocked out those 5 tracks pretty much first take, that tight, with that complexity and that much energy is seriously impressive.