BEST EPISODE OF CLASSIC ALBUMS

THIS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER. FLEETWOOD, STEELY, FLOYD AND U2 EPISODES ARE SOOOOOOO GOOD. SUCKY ONES INCLUDE: STEVIE WONDER (eXCEPT WATCHING HIM PLAY DRUMS IS PRETTY AWESOME) AND PAUL SIMON WAS BORING!! GRATEFUL DEAD AND NIRVANA IVE SEEN A MIL TIMES BUT DONT REMEMBER THEM. I AM VOTING FOR THE MOTORHEAD EPISODE. PHILTHY IS *AMAZING* IN THAT@!#!@!@!@ WHO KNEW THERE WAS A TAP DANCER TRACK ON ACE OF SPADES. ALSO DAVE BROCK IS IN IT!!

Voted "A Night At The Opera" because it made me love the album even more. The Steely Dan and Pink Floyd ones were great too though, not least because of Donald Fagen being his usual sarcastic and ironic self. :)

motorhead one killed it.

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actually i've only seen three (rumours, the queen one, transformer) but they were all really really good

The Meatloaf one seems to be the one that's always on VH1 UK.

I have the DVD of the Sexpistols one.

Steve Jones hosts a guitar masterclass as one of the extras.

geir, what involvement did donald fagen have in the pink floyd episode?

DF: "Yeah, that Pink Floyd album was really Interesting and Exciting!! hur."

XP: Zilch. It was a clumsy sentence. :)

Nevermind. Butch Vig at the control board talking about the record he produced was really cool.

Purple or Maiden. Then again those are the only two I've seen.

The Motorhead one is good as a series of anecdotes - Philthee nearly breaking his neck, punch up with a gang of trouble makers at a German gig, etc. - but low on tech details.
The Pink Floyd one is good for the way it goes into how they recorded the album - confirms Gilmour as the most boring person alive though.
Simply Red = a hour of looking at Hucknall's smug face.

This show rules, especially the Steely Dan and Meat Loaf episodes. And chaki's right that the Stevie Wonder one is definitely the most disappointing. I'm probably gonna vote for Phil Collins, though, just because that was the episode that most made me want to hear an album I haven't heard (I liked the singles and wanted to hear it before, but the show really made me want to hear it).

This list doesn't include the latest episode, for Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt, which I haven't seen yet.

I can't really hate the Stevie episode. I mean, chaki's right: how often do you see extended footage of Stevie drumming???

I voted for Rumours – besides the obvious virtues, I really admire how these people STILL manage to say a few half-interesting things about an album they and everyone has discussed 67,890 times since 1977.

The Band episode was pretty stunning, for John Simon's insights, for Levon being Levon, for Danko's heartbreaking solo "Unfaithful Servant," and for Garth's keyboard playing in lieu of an interview. But Robertson's pompousness is absolutely off the charts, and he's pretty much unbearable to watch/listen to.

So I gotta go with the Who's Next episode, not just because it's the best record in the series, but because there is no better interview in rock than Townshend. And Daltrey's explanation of Moon's genius (while messing with the multitrack of "Behind Blue Eyes") is beautiful.

Oh yeah, I love the stuff in the Who's Next episode with Pete and Roger behind the boards. I think I've only seen bits and pieces of that episode, but if I'd seen all of it it might be my favorite.

MORE LOVE FOR THE PISTOLS EPISODE!

Ah, fuck. I voted for Rumours before I remembered The Band's brown album one.

Oh, well. I'll say The Band would be my No. 1 were it not for Jeff Goldblum Robbie Robertson's interview portions.

Went with Rumours for Stevie telling the camera how she gave up so much and she's still here. Also, Lindsey Buckingham highlighting in solo Nicks' anguished background vocals on "Gold Dust Woman".

the mixing board stuff is always classic

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Also Fagan & Becker highlighting Michael McDonald's "Peg" vox.

lol daniel lanois at the mixing board with bono saying "look i know you want to talk right now but just be quiet and listen" was classique

A really badass bonus feature on the DVD would be a ROM feature where you were given a mixing board for one of the songs and got to play around with it like they do.

Is the Grateful Dead episode actually the Anthem of the Sun to American Beauty DVD? Do they sometimes cover wide swaths of an artist's career, rather than just one album? I think that the Anthem to Beauty DVD is in this series. The short interview with the artist that painted the cover for Anthem of the Sun is so great, he stares bug-eyed at the camera and talks about watching the Dead on New Year's on hallucinogens and having a vision of the band as a 6 headed hydra. There's some cool live footage and also snippets from their appearance on Playboy after Dark. Classic!

Also Fagan & Becker highlighting Michael McDonald's "Peg" vox.

How the fuck did they sit so stone-faced through it?

i thought they chuckled

no, Becker had a hairball stuck in his throat.

What do you expect--they're Steely Dan for god's sake.

the aja one wins

thread prompted me to find this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SCZv7786KY

motorhead, followed by the sex pistols. i liked the steely dan one, though they're terrifyingly anal.

fast eddie seems like such a nice fellow.

Going through the alternate guitar solos for "Peg" was pretty uncomfortable for Becker, Fagan, and the viewer.

I like the hilarious bonus section where Lemmy describes getting fired from Hawkwind.

its very sweet. he said he would've never quit hawkwind. he loved it.

All in 3-D. Foreign movie.

Love The Band and The Bollocks episodes. Love how at the end of the bonus guitar lesson when Steve Jones says "Wait, I'm showing you how to play 'Anarchy'!" and stops playing and cradles his guitar protectively.

Pity no Bowie album yet though. I believe another series of classic albums documentaries did "Ziggy Stardust" though.

wait this is a show

And, you know, I'd love to see "Selling England By The Pound" too, but at least I will get a "mini documentary" on that one when the remaster is being released next spring. The producer and engineer will not be around for that though (shame, really, that Genesis didn't bring people like David Henschel and Hugh Padgam around for those remaster interviews. Would have loved getting their views)

the aja one wins

is anyone else a little bothered by the repeated recorded-for-the-show band footage? i mean, it's fine and all, but not a patch on the original recording, and it seems like it's just there to pad out the running time. i seriously can't imagine that Fagan didn't have more to say about aja.

Love this show - wish I'd caught more than a half-dozen eps. (Only ones I remember: Kiss Alive, Ace of Spades, Joshua Tree, Nevermind, Rumours, Metallica.) Very informative - the entire procedure of record-making fascnates me, even as regards albums I have no use for, namely Metallica and U2.

Like snoball said, altho the Motorhead episode was tremendously entertaining, Fleetwood Mac takes it. The tech details themselves were excellent, of course, but the multiple-breakups backstory added an emotional element that the other episodes lacked. Oddly moving (and maybe a little self-serving) bit: Mick Fleetwood's assertion that he was as miserable as the other four, suffering relationship problems of his own.

Well actually I said that the Pink Floyd one takes it because of the tech detail. Especially the bits with Alan Parsons at the mixing desk. But you're right that the Fleetwood Mac one is up there too, not only for the information on recording an album in an expensive LA recording studio in the 70's, but the feeling of "how the hell did these people produce an album when they all hated each other?". I think it's John McVie who recounts an argument where he said to Lindsey Buckingham "I think you'd better leave" meaning leave the room but LB thought JM meant leave the band and then did.

thread prompted me to find this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SCZv7786KY

oh my god. that is astounding. i always knew he was a tremendous drummer, but holy shit.

The Pink Floyd one was pretty good, but if you want to talk about filler, try watching 20 minutes of London commuters placing one foot in front of the other to the tune of "Us & Them".

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

"a night at the opera" for the live footage of freddie singing backing vocals for "'39" dressed in a jester's leotard alone

Has NMTB won yet?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I don't think any of the top albums should have beat nirvana.

i for one am not interested of the inner workings of nirvana in the studio, unless it involves jack endino

pff!

I know you voted for Floyd rather than F.Mac, snoball - I only meant I agreed with your assessment of the Motorhead episode. But I phrased it poorly, so that's my fault, and it's all irrelvent now anyways.

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I Netflixed the Zappa episode and just finished watching it. I've four episodes of this series so far and they're all surprisingly good.

About 45 minutes of extras on the FZ DVD also.

I've SEEN four episodes...

just watched the rumours one and it was rad

have there been any more since? it's the AJA one for me all the way. always wonder what the 'other' guitarists make of that bit with PEG on it.

which bit was being linked to from you tube upthread? it's been removed now.

The 'Rio' one is great!

yea i definitely need to see more of these, DLing the Aja one now

The 'Rio' one is great!

^^^^ on this.

Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road was slept on.

Who's Next is awesome, esp for Entwhistle playing the French horn.

Daltrey dissecting/isolating Moon's drumming at 1:34 possibly my favorite moment in the whole series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLMc6J9h3mU

I enjoyed watching pretty much all of the ones I've seen, but the one that has always stuck in my mind is Hysteria, funnily enough.

I wanted so much to like the Grateful Dead episode but I hate hearing robert hunter talk. HATE. Also when Lesh said something like, 'I wanted it to sound like a thousand lotus petals opening' I shot myself in the face.

Fleetwood Mac was another one. Love that album so much, but as soon as Buckingham pulled the guitar over and started doing eyes-closed, white-man-overbite to his own song I had to bail. And Stevie "it was so haaaard it was like being in the aaaaarmy' like oh spare me you rich assholes

Search: The Band self titled, Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, The Who Who's Next, Def Leppard Hysteria, Black Sabbath Paranoid...and I thought the Purps one was pretty cool too, when they talked about trying to get back to the sound van from the room they were recording in that massive mansion.

The Sabbath one kept that very cool aura of superstition, care of old Bill I'm sure, you know that whole thing that 'something' happened during the recording of that album where every song just seemed to come together whenever they were the room together.

Priest one is funny mainly just because Halford always sounds like he's reading advertising copy, or something, I don't know what it is about him but I always get the lols whenever he starts talking. 'Heavy metal? Well it's that sound? It's really heavy? And it just really sounds, like metal?" Looool I love him so much.

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

Oooh and I love, LOVE the Sex Pistols one. Thought it represented the idea of the sex pistols as a bonafide band really well, or at least what they could have been.

sorry, I'll stop now.

of the more recent stuff Duran's, Peter Gabriel's and Primal Scream's were the best IMO.

i must see that Hysteria one Turrican.

I watched the 'dark side of the moon' one last night and tbh am amazed it got no votes here. it wasn't enlightening or essential, but the interviews (with all four band members, and storm thorgerson and alan parsons) were quite informative, especially in understanding who contributed what.

I slagged the Dark Side one above, but honestly, as I said on another thread, it's worth the price of admission just to hear Rick Wright describe how he thought to put that chord into the spinal column of "Great Gig in the Sky".

wright's interviews were the best bit imo. i had no idea he had such an impact on the album.

neither did waters

The one on The Doors coulda been great but unfortunately becomes unwatchable every time Ray Manzarek is on camera

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ray talking is a dealbreaker

neither did waters

iirc, not only did Wright admit not pulling his weight on subsequent records, but even Gilmour agreed with Waters on this point.

's a pity

But Wish You Were Here is unimaginable without Wright!

surprisingly Waters comes over as a decent chap in the Floyd one iirc. he cuts a chastened, humbled kinda figure, nothing like the obvious total pain in the arse that appears in the studio footage of '.. Pompeii'.

he always comes across as humbled in interviews, but I've also never seen him interviewed in a group

He has since admitted to being in the wrong when Floyd split:

He was right, I was wrong. It was really simple. I thought it should be retired but I was wrong. And I’m perfectly content with what they did. I had problems at the time. I don’t have any problems now.

Ha, that's quite a ways from THAT'S MY PIG UP THERE.

"Yes, Roger, but they're OUR BALLS."

feel like whenever i see waters interviewed, i think "there's a guy who has been through a lot of therapy."

Funny that my wife & I started watching these on netflix, then when I next bought some LPs I purchased the reissues of Paranoid, Nevermind & Dark Side without even thinking- prob my 1, 2 & 3 picks of this series.

THAT'S MY PIG UP THERE

considering a dn change

btw I only just found out that waters is pro-fox hunting and now I'm just like oh god

btw I love how gilmour is basically just a daggy uncle now

The one on The Doors coulda been great but unfortunately becomes unwatchable every time Ray Manzarek is on camera

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, January 22, 2013 6:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Replace 'The Doors' with any artist of your choice and replace 'Ray Manzarek' with everyone's favourite Liam Gallagher lookalike 'David Fricke' and...

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, January 21, 2013 11:31 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favourite part of that is when Fast Eddie is listening to one of his guitar solos...

Guitar solo: *widdlywiddlywiddlywiddlywiddlysqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Fast Eddie: "I think that's where I fell over..."
Guitar solo: *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*
Fast Eddie: "I think I make a recovery soon..."
Guitar solo: *eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewiddlywiddlywiddlywiddly*
Fast Eddie: "Ah, there!"

Aja and The Band are both excellent, the latter helped cement that album as one of my all-time favourites, the level of detail in the playing is incredible.

DSOTM one was great too - I have to say Waters came across worse in the more recent BBC Wish You Were Here documentary, still griping that they should've used his vocals on 'Have a Cigar' instead of Roy Harper's.

Replace 'The Doors' with any artist of your choice and replace 'Ray Manzarek' with everyone's favourite Liam Gallagher lookalike 'David Fricke' and...

From excellent ILM Classic Albums thread In every Classic Album TV/Radio documentary...:

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.

Watched The Band's one yesterday - it's so good. Rick Danko singing Unfaithful Servant!

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.
This guy is all over the Disraeli Gears episode. I had to avert my eyes.

that's de rigeur

But I did listen. Otherwise I would never have known how heavy the riff on "Sunshine Of Your Love" was, that the first time you heard it on the radio and whenever after, you just couldn't resist it.

Motorhead one is hilarious. Filthy is so weird.

It's probably my favourite CA, depending on whether or not I want to hear any studio/tech talk. And 'Ace of Spades' definately does not contain much of that, but it more than makes up for it by including all the other stuff that's cool about being in a band, especially the humour. ("There's nothing scarier than a naked man with a sword and a hard-on." / "These clothes are all rented." / "I am saying 'fuck' enough now?" / etc.)

That crazy lump on the back of his neck! O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYSUFZnhRLU

Not the best episode but a great moment

I think the one I enjoyed the most was the one for Hysteria, funnily enough.

hysteria's so good

The Band one is great, Levon Helm is so delightful throughout.

The Paranoid episode is my hands down favorite

Six words: David Fricke, leather jacket, enormous teeth.
This guy is all over the Disraeli Gears episode. I had to avert my eyes.

― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, January 23, 2013 8:48 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Fricke looks like a Ramone as drawn by Jack Kirby.

Skeletor. crossed with Stephen King.

How do we watch this show nowadays? Are we left with the few of them on youtube or tracking down individual dvds? Were they even all released on dvd?

And then why stop? Recorded music is still popular, when did everyone lose interest in the recording process? So many questions!

I wish Aja was twice as long, not because the album or programme is especially better than the others but I just want to hear B and F talk more about fly by night guitarists, Chuck Rainey and mixing desk mayhem

Lol @ Skeletor King Critic

I was able to find a torrent for the Hysteria one with 2 seeds on it. Not sure if that one is avail legally in the US.

The Hysteria one is hilarious. The straining for significance is just agonizing. The drummer seems determined to live down his past and show he's particularly thoughtful. The singer says "there was this lick floating around and I heard it and thought, yeah, I can add this other part over it" about 3 times.

"Hysteria" unplugged is something no one needs to hear, but the singer and guitarist provide it anyway on dual Hummingbirds

Pet Sounds! Tomorrow night on BBC2.

Okay, so the first season of Classic Albums started airing in 1997, and Rumours was a 20 year old record at that point... it's 2017 now, so where are the documentaries on OK Computer, or Urban Hymns, or Parklife, or Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, or...

I love you but you don't wannna know me
But I think you're great and I wanna see
I wanna see you
Smile into my face
Oh yeah

These could be the lyrics to the Black Keys' next single and no one would bat an eye

Elton one isn't earthshaking but there's one good knob-twiddle scene within the last ten mins, where they isolate the backing vocals from Candle in the Wind, and it sounds *damn* good in an "Eagles warming up with Seven Bridges Road at the start of the doc" kinda way.

Yes, it was really interesting to learn that Elton would just leave the studio and let the band arrange all the backing vox.

De-lurk to say Steely Dan is the correct answer. Purdie though like. 2 other threads to post on now.

The Stevie ep is better than the Steely ep, fuiud.

Many of these (all of these?) are on Amazon Prime, and I've caught up on some that I'd missed previously back in the days of dvd rental. I've long wondered, though... how in THEE EVERLOVING FUCK did Simply Red's Stars sneak into this series? Maybe it's renowned in the UK*, but Simply Red was dunzo in the US by that time.

*Wikipedia says yes, so I guess I've answered my own question.

cos money was too tight to mention

ha yeah that one threw me for a loop too

Mick Hucknell does not suffer from low self-esteem

watching Goodbye Yellow Brick Road episode now, really enjoying it

love the Elton ep

the rumours ep is really something, there’s not much that the band members weren’t willing to share. gotta reconvene and film a tusk episode haha

there have been a bunch of episodes made since the poll was created, a memorable one was about sabbath’s paranoid. no real earth-shaking revelations, but they make a fun recurring bit out of asking geezer what inspired his lyrics and geezer giving the most deflating, matter-of-fact answer possible.

Does Blowey Hole have one of these?

xp Re: Tusk; this is a similar thing, made for BBC radio in 2012.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hxpxp

challop: Every album should have a Classic Albums episode.

Like, as soon as you finish an album, you would be contractually mandated to have the producer and the most charismatic band member sit at a mixing desk and solo different parts and talk about how groovy they sound on their own, etc. Etc.

Then you should interview a crack session musician about how his or her part just "came together" on the first take. Preferably Nile Rodgers, but Jim Keltner will do in a pinch.

This should be required even if they did not in fact play on the album.

Do we also need to have a close up of David Fricke's huge teeth?

It's interesting how the episodes reflect the personality of the band as well as the particular album. Upthread someone said that the Steely DAn episode was anal. Well so are Steely Dan. The Motorhead and Fleetwood Mac episodes also give a strong sense of what it would have been like to be in those bands.

last two posts both otm

Hah, yes, David Fricke is required

Also required - totally unexpected appearance from an unrelated musician. I'd forgotten that the Steely Dan episode has Ian Dury in it. Also bonus points if you can get Bono to say how your album has "really influenced" him.

Motorhead episode is such a pisser, i hate that they’re all gone now ;_;

David Fricke really, really looks like a Peter Bagge drawing.

The Dark Side of the Moon episode is worthwhile. Remarkable how well I remember all of the tunes though it's been decades since I listened to the album.

The Elton one had a lot of scenes of producers pulling sliders up and down on the boards, the great heart of any great Classic

There was a show I thought was in this series that covered Anthem of the Sun and possibly the first Grateful Dead lp.

oh right, thought it covered more than one lp its Anthem to Beauty not just American Beauty

This here's a write-in vote for Rio

also liked the catch a fire episode because it was a genuine revelation that the amazing organ and guitar parts of that album came courtesy of cornpone alabamans

Also required - totally unexpected appearance from an unrelated musician. I'd forgotten that the Steely Dan episode has Ian Dury in it. Also bonus points if you can get Bono to say how your album has "really influenced" him.

Which is the one that has the guy from Disturbed in it? Was he in the Songs from the Big Chair doc? (Was that Classic Albums canon or just some doc?) Anyway, I know Disturbed covered Tears for Fears, but no one cares what that guy has to say about it.

Some of the lesser ones, like the Judas Priest one, still have great stuff in it, like the revelation the album was recorded in Ringo's house and whichever song sounded like it had a marching army in it, that was just them rattling his silverware drawer.

Just watched Transformer, Key of Life, Catch a Fire, and So episodes recently. Transformer's highlight was of course the Herbie Flowers bassline, which I had seen years ago and didn't realize was from this show. Key of Life could have been twice as long- maddeningly, it spends more time showing the reassembled band standing around than playing. The behind the boards stuff was some of the best of any of the episodes I've seen so far.

whichever song sounded like it had a marching army in it, that was just them rattling his silverware drawer.

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one of my favorite details from classic albums! i think it was "metal gods"?

Transformer's highlight was of course the Herbie Flowers bassline, which I had seen years ago and didn't realize was from this show.

The parts where they get Lou to sing the songs with acoustic guitar are absolutely hilarious, Lou can't get anything right - the singing, the phrasing, the timing, the guitar playing, the words.

/pvmic

Look, how can you blame him? With all the time he no doubt spent practicing the Tai Chi he probably had next to nothing left to work on that other kind of thing.

The three that I've liked most are The Band (probably my favorite), Steely Dan's Aja and maybe John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band.

Plastic Ono Band has the obvious disadvantage of Lennon being gone, but there's a lot of little things they do very well, like Ringo's role in album (with Voorman emphasizing "Ringo has taste, that's why he's a great drummer" and even Ringo dropping his usual aw-shucks modesty to show that he knows exactly what he's doing behind the kit). The most priceless info IMHO is when Arthur Janov explains how Lennon came up with "God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

As much as I enjoy Aja, it's not among my very favorite Steely Dan albums but Fagen and Becker are hilarious (not a given - their liner notes' attempt at humor usually fell flat) and thanks to the way Aja was made, there's plenty of good material for a doc. The “Deacon Blues” exchange was probably the funniest moment for me of any Classic Albums episode: “Those were the days when I was singing like Jerry Lewis. Remember that?” “Yes, that was a very fertile period for you.”

Thought the Suede episode was amazing, especially seeing as I never liked Coming Up much after the giddy heights of the Bernard Butler era. Made me have a bit of a rethink all round.

I think I've only ever seen the one about Peter Gabriel's So (unless that wasn't actually this series?)

ok - it was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums

Which is the one that has the guy from Disturbed in it? Was he in the Songs from the Big Chair doc? (Was that Classic Albums canon or just some doc?) Anyway, I know Disturbed covered Tears for Fears, but no one cares what that guy has to say about it.

The Songs from the Big Chair episode was great, some interesting stories and in-studio breakdowns of the songs. Can't remember if the Disturbed guy was in it, but if he was, it would have been a small part

The other thing I took from the "Transforner" episode was that Lou himself did not consider it a classic album, so he was not exactly the most engaged of participants.

Because he thought it was more of a Bowie/Ronno thing that corrupted the purity of his vision?

And then later Ronno beat him out in the picker sweepstakes for The Rolling Thunder Revue.

It's possible he thought it was too much of a Bowie/Ronno thing, not about purity of vision tbh. I think his closing comments were, "It's just an album" *shrug*

Lou's attitude to any album being singled out for praise would probably be: "Why, what's wrong with [other Lou Reed album]?"

Ha, yes, exactly!

The Bat Out of Hell episode is so great. I could watch Meat Loaf, Steinman and Rundgren talk for hours.

love the opening with jim playing piano in a sick af cape

The Joshua Tree ep has a great moment where Eno corrects for the record the legendary story of him trying to erase the “Where the Streets Have No Name” tapes that U2 couldn’t get right. Quietly seething that anyone would suggest he was trying to destroy the tape out of anger, I distinctly remember him beginning his version of the story with an exceptionally arch “And now I shall tell you what actually happened” – before going on to describe some typically Eno-esque motivational technique of erasing the tape to force the band to start over.

I enjoyed the Apostrophe/Overnight Sensation Zappa episode that I rewatched somewhat recently. The Ikettes stuff and Ruth Underwood were the best parts IIRC. I’d love to watch the Freak Out episode, which I believe is on Prime.