Come anticipate or vaguely boggle at the VINYL rock and roll HBO series from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger & Terence Winter!

Does he flirt with a Sylvia Morales character?

"robert plant" is hysterically bad. "peter grant" is about 1% as ferocious as he was in real life. the scene where bobby cannavale almost discovers the birth of hip hop is excruciating. so much to dislike in this yet i know i'm going to keep watching.

oh, and the line about suicide being a "niche act"......

Haha otm. Also, did people say a band "killed it" in 1973?
A lot of this reminded me of the wonderful CBGB feature from a couple years back.

Peter Grant also 1% as fat!

the guy at my local deli, who is a die-hard punk /early hip hop scenester said that "everybody on the internet is beggin' for double penetration from that fuckin' HBO show about the music industry but i thought it was horseshit"
he is making me watch the first half hour so that we can complain about it together

The first 30 minutes are the worst. Then it becomes an entertaining clusterfuck.

Distractingly soundstage-y and kind of cheap.

Most cringeworthy moment for me is near the beginning, Bobby C in the middle of the dance floor, having an awkward moment of satori.

Bonzo Halloween costume pretty good

Peter Grant also 1% as fat!

lol this was my reaction too

The actual conversation with the Plant guy was p bad, but I sorta felt it was compensated for when he got onstage and did Plant's foppish floppy-palms dance

When Plant guy does his little signature wrist twist at the end of the conversation - as if to say "Over, bitch!" - I realized we were in for some silly shit.

I take that back. Kids running over the car and girls "wooo-hooo"'ing towards the Mercer Arts Center, like some godforsaken version of "Fame", was when I gave up hope.

I thought that was more Velvet Goldmine but yeah it was p ridic

A lot of this reminded me of the wonderful CBGB feature from a couple years back.

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, February 15, 2016 10:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

CBGB was total fun Showgirls trash though! this sucks because it's not really trash but it's not good either

can't wait to see scorcese tackle the saga of some aggro east coast guys who build an empire throughout the 60s and 70s just to have it undone by hubris and drug use at the turn of the 80s!!!

Makes me pine for "Hugo"...

I caught some of this last night- seems as if Scorsese's finally made his Boogie Nights.

uh, he did, it was called Raging Bull

the scene @ dices place def did recall the alf Molina firecracker scene yeah xp

yes exactly

right down to the boxers & silk robe

Season 2 is a go!!

the alf Molina firecracker scene yeah

there was something else i saw recently that stole from that scene even more blatantly (random firecrackers used to increase tension) but now i cant remember what it was.

I recall that too, but cant place it either

mightev been quinquin that im thinking of

i agree with this thread

so much excruciation, the "robert plant" scene, the "deejay" scene. i cdn't believe it was really scorsese; it seemed like it was in martin parody mode.

i'm only an hour in but let me give you my harsh take: i think mad men is casting too long a shadow over it. sure, we want to have a hero in the period piece who has such a sure eye, or ear, for the future, but come onnn

i loved the "hit men" book so my fave bits are with the dutch/german conglomerate guys. that evolution in capital is interesting!

i'll probably stick with it; i do with a lot of dumb hbo stuff

the only correct thing bob lefsetz has ever written is that "empire" is better than this.

(and still i find it reasonably entertaining. but i find a lot of crap reasonably entertaining.)

Wow this just got hilariously worse as it went on. So lazy and ridiculous. I cant commit to this.

HBO's drama track record is really sad post-Sopranos

well they did do game of thrones which obv i dont give af abt but is wildly successful by any measure

Its a hit but its not good

Deadwood, Rome, The Wire are all post-Sopranos

They weren't post-Chris Albrecht, who developed them. The shows of that period all were very loyal to their sense of place -- the stories could only take place in the city where they were located. Vinyl feels awfully fake in comparison, corroborated by the 70s-music folks chiming in negatively about it.

Watched the first half hour, it is garbage

Season 2 is a go!!

HBO gives virtually everything it produces a second season.

Couldn't get through more than 30 minutes of this.

"robert plant" is hysterically bad. "peter grant" is about 1% as ferocious as he was in real life.

This is otm, and everything about that scene is so overwhelmingly lazy. "Plant" sounds/acts nothing like Plant, and I swear I heard the actor slip into a Liverpool accent at one point.

Normally with shows like this, I'll get preoccupied by details they got wrong -- Thunders didn't play Orange amps at the Mercer, Jerry Nolan wasn't right-handed, nobody said "killed it" -- but the performances and dialogue were so ludicrously clunky that it managed to distract me from the show's other problems, so...kudos to them for that, I guess.

Wait, so I haven't seen this show, but does it seriously start off at that same New York Dolls gig that kicks off the Will Hermes book? Seems like kind of a ripoff, since I haven't seen him credited in any way (though, from what y'all have been saying, I guess he might not want credit).

this is embarrassing

hbo has sort of gone to shit. silly stuff like Veep & Silicon Valley pretty much the only reason i turn it on anymore

Yup

the last season of the leftovers is probably one of the best seasons of a tv drama ive seen. but of course no one watched it.

Wait, so I haven't seen this show, but does it seriously start off at that same New York Dolls gig that kicks off the Will Hermes book? Seems like kind of a ripoff, since I haven't seen him credited in any way (though, from what y'all have been saying, I guess he might not want credit).

man the fuckin bo diddley scene

First 10 mins of episode 2 so much better than the entirety of 1. Maybe it was Marty?

Ok. Wait. Now the VU and Nico have made an appearance. Wow.

Lol wut this was straight garbage. I'm done.

Yeah this is terrible. Hahaha

The line-up per the credits is Lee, Sim Cain (from the Rollins Band!), Sal Maida (from Roxy Music!) and Matt "Rick Beato Who's Done Angel Dust" Sweeney

Thanks for finding the credits. I found only this article on Lee's involvement and it didn't mention all the players.
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1021-how-vinyl-and-lee-ranaldo-turned-a-lost-70s-act-into-tvs-next-great-fictional-band/

They are not easily available for the whole record, those I posted are from the song's youtube page and even then I had dig a little, the Julian Casablancas vers of "Run, Run, Run" (which pains me to admit is fucking awesome, literally sounds like Richard Hell fronting 1967 Velvets) the credits aren't available on the song's Youtube page and I could only find the deets on Alan Licht's site, cuz plays the INCREDIBLE guitar solo on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc-MliXZrlU

JC, Lee, Don Flemming, Alan Licht, Sim Cain, Tony Shanahan & Karen Waltuch