Rock Docs

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir, released in 2014, directed by Mike Fleiss. It's available to stream on Netflix. This one, about the Grateful Dead's rhythm guitar player, is right in our wheelhouse. Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is Randy Rhoads: Reflections of a Guitar Icon, released on Amazon Prime in 2022, directed by Andre Relis. Randy Rhoads was a guitar innovator who co-founded Quiet Riot and went on to play with Ozzy Osbourne, co-writing hits such as "Crazy Train". He died tragically at age 25 in a plane crash in 1982. We take a look at this tribute...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is Trainwreck: Woodstock 99, released on Netflix in 2022, directed by Jamie Crawford. This is not to be confused with the other Woodstock 99 documentary, "Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage", which came out on HBO Max in 2021. Or any future Woodstock 99 documentaries which are yet to be released. OK, let's do some comparing & cont...

This episode is a rerun of our 2021 review of "Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage" (on HBO Max) + our interview with director Garrett Price. Stay tuned for our upcoming episode on Netflix's Woodstock 99 documentary. Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod Instagram: @RockDocsPod Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check him out on Instagram at @NCWintersArt

This episode was initially released on November 16, 2021 Rock Docs: A Podcast About Movies About Music Today's documentary is Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, released in 2021, directed by Michael Rapaport. Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod Instagram: @RockDocsPod Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check him out on Instagram at @NCWintersArt

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries We answer a few listener questions and reconsider the eternal question - are music biopics good? Questions, comments, suggestions, whatever? Hit us up on Twitter @RockDocsPod Oh and hey feel free to throw us a review too. Thanks!  

Today's documentary is Reality 86'd, about Black Flag's final tour, in 1986, with the bands Painted Willie and Gone. The documentary was directed by David Markey and released in 1991. It's not officially avaiable at the moment, but in theory we have heard of people tracking it down on YouTube and Vimeo. For this episode we are joined by Very Special Guest Jim Ruland, author of the fantastic recent...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's episode of Rock Docs is actually an episode of the podcast The Cue Sheet, hosted by former Rock Docs  Very Special Guests: Candice Renee and Jeff Terich of the band Blood Ponies, the music website Treble, and much more. The Cue Sheet is a podcast about TV music, and they had us on to discuss Mad Men. And they were nice enough to let us share t...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is Elvis Presley: The Searcher, released in 2018, directed by Thom Zimny. It's a 2-part documentary that covers Elvis from birth to death, so we had a lot to say about it. Available on HBO+. It's good! Elvis rocks! Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod  

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is "Bob Dylan: Both Ends of the Rainbow 1978 - 1989" aka "Bob Dylan: Under Review 1978-1989", released in 2008. There is no credited director for reasons that may become clear as you listen to the show. For this episode we are joined by Very Special Guests Ian and Evan of "Jokermen", which was formerly a podcast about the mid-to-la...

Originally Aired December 7, 2021 Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is Hype!, released in 1996, directed by Doug Pray. For this episode we are joined by some Very Special Guests: Candice Renee and Jeff Terich of the band Blood Ponies, the music website Treble, the podcast The Cue Sheet, and much more. Hype! describes the rise, and, to a lesser extent, fall of the S...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Just an update! Dave & Andy are both traveling a bit this summer with their (respective) families, so some Tuesdays will have reruns of beloved classic Rock Doc episodes. But we're not going anywhere, we've got some exciting guests lined up and some docs that we can't wait to discuss. Questions, comments, suggestions, whatever? Hit us up on Twitter @R...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, released in 2020, directed by Frank Marshall. This documentary is an all-timer. At times thrilling, occasionally heartbreaking. Great talking heads, and a classic Rock Doc villain. Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is The Sparks Brothers, released in 2021, directed by Edgar Wright. Who are Sparks? Are they brothers? Where are they from? What is their deal? Which talking head fails to compy with the dress code? All this and more today on Rock Docs. Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod  

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, released in 2019, directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Does this doc stand on its own, or is it merely another entry in the History of the Eagles Cinematic Universe? Plus: an update on a question raised in the Festival Express episode, and some chat about the upcoming Creedence Cle...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries We're joined by Very Special Guest James Campion, author of Take a Sad Song: The Emotional Currency of "Hey Jude" . We discuss his book about "Hey Jude" and the influence that the song had on the "Let It Be" sessions that led to Get Back. James shares his insights after talking to songwriters, musicologists, and even Michael Lindsay-Hogg himself about...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's Very Special Guest is Joseph Patel, the Oscar and Emmy-winnning Producer of Summer of Soul. Follow him on Twitter @ jazzbeezy Joseph tells us about how Summer of Soul came to be, how Questlove was brought on and how they determined what shape the movie would take, how they went about finding so many great interview subjects, and what's next, i...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries We're joined by Very Special Guest Thomas Robsahm, director of a-ha: The Movie (2022). Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod Instagram: @RockDocsPod Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check him out on Instagram at @NCWintersArt

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries We're joined by Very Special Guests Ondi and David Timoner, director and producing partner of DIG! (2004). DIG! is one of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time. It's a documentary about the 90s indie rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. Drugs are consumed, fights are had, Harry Dean Stanton Shows up, there's a lo...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Ranking the Rock Docs - Part 2 In which we rank the rock docs that we've reviewed so far, from 20 to 1, and argue about our rankings along the way. Last episode we ranked from 20 to 11. We rank the rest, from 10 to 1, this week. Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod Instagram: @RockDocsPod Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check hi...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Ranking the Rock Docs - Part 1 In which we rank the rock docs that we've reviewed so far, from 20 to 1, and argue about our rankings along the way. Well, in this episode we actually go from 20 to 11. We rank the rest, from 10 to 1, next week. Plus: our first bad review! We've really made it now. Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @Rock...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's episode is an interview with N.C. Winters, who is celebrated worldwide for having created the Rock Docs podcast logo, but also has a career as a professional music poster artist. He's worked with huge bands like Metallica, Dead & Co., Nine Inch Nails, Primus, Dave Matthews Band, and more. N.C. tells us how he got into the world of music poster...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Season 2 Finale! Today's documentary is Festival Express, a 2003 film directed by rock doc lifer Bob Smeaton. Festival Express is about a rock festival tour that took place in Canada in 1970. The musicians included The Grateful Dead, The Band, Janis Joplin, Buddy Guy, Delaney and Bonnie, Ian and Sylvia, local heroes Mashmakhan, and of course everyone'...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is Mavis!, released in 2015, directed by Jessica Edwards. Mavis! is the first full-length documentary about gospel and r&b legend Mavis Staples of The Staple Singers. What was Pops Staples like? Did Mavis, in fact, "smooch" with Bob Dylan? And more! Hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod Instagram: @RockDoc...

Rock Docs: A Podcast About Music Documentaries Today's documentary is It Might Get Loud, released in 2009, directed by Davis Guggenheim. For this episode we are joined by Very Special Guests Molly Mary O'Brien and Chris Wade of "And Introducing", A Podcast About Words About Music. Check them out at Twitter @andintropod  and listen to their show wherever you listen to podcasts. "It Might Get Loud"...