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

its a casino's business to know who drops $90K in a night and figure out ways to get them back in. it would be someone's responsibility to recognize Richie and know what room he was staying in.

this is one of those shows where I watch assuming it's going to be 100% garbage and am pleasantly surprised when it's not

it's still definitely Mad Men + every "hindsight is 20/20" 70s music cliche

trying to walk that tightrope between actually being sexist and portraying women of the era as they would have lived

devon living at the chelsea and the ny scene stuff is halfway between mad men and forrest gump in terms of cheese

yeah i'm the same, Lester's EAB scene the only memorable one so far, i think. i like cannavale, romano, and parisse well enough. curious what they are working towards with clark and jorge with the DJ but expecting it to be stupid. also weird that kool herc appeared and was dropped (?) already.

I think having the actors portray actual historical figures with speaking parts is going to be kept very minimal, which I think is wise. Having John Lennon or Andy Warhol popping up every other episode to interact with the main characters would be horrible. They already pushed it with Warhol.

i kinda enjoyed the elvis scene.

heartbreaking

I've seen him in a few roles since then, but every once in a while I can only see Bobby Cannavale as "that creepy fucker from Boardwalk Empire"

God just got as far as episode 2 and thinking that watching any more might just be too much of a chore.
Nice to see teh Velvets but then again I guess they are just part of the furniture if you're thinking about rock from that time now aren't they?
& seeing somebody like the Grateful Dead might not make good tv or something.
Do wonder who else they could have used though. Hendrix doing stage showmanship? Townshend breaking a guitar?

people are still watching this?!

Has Butch Firbanks showed up yet?

some choice tidbits about the guy who plays Joe Corso
In 1998 Dietl's autobiography One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story was made into the film One Tough Cop starring Stephen Baldwin
The plot in Abel Ferrara's crime drama Bad Lieutenant is mainly inspired by Dietl's 1981 investigation of the rape of a young nun
Dietl appears in commercials for Arby’s fast-food restaurants
Dietl plans to run for Mayor of New York City in 2017

Dietl is in Bad Lieutenant.

Lawsuit!

http://pitchfork.com/news/65307-dj-kool-herc-sues-hbos-vinyl/

Good riddance.

http://deadline.com/2016/06/vinyl-canceled-hbo-season-2-martin-scorsese-and-mick-jagger-1201777356/

so unbelievably terrible

makes sense now that they have another probably terrible prestige rock and roll series to replace it with

i had always planned on watching it bc i really like bobby cannavale but oh well.

just want HBO to get going on that deadwood movie now tbh.

bobby cannavale is better in every other thing he's ever done

feel bad for ray romano though

another probably terrible prestige rock and roll series

what is this I missed it

it felt like salvaging it would be really difficult but possible, so I'm a little surprised, especially since they gave a third season to the leftovers (which is obviously in another league artistically but I doubt its ratings were even as good as vinyl's).

what is this I missed it

cameron crowe's "roadies." debuts this sunday.

has such a high-profile series had a renewal taken back like that? kinda wow

that shit is on showtime xp

oh! i wasn't paying attention, apparently. but how is that NOT on hbo?

hbo is prob smart to pull the plug on this, similar to axing luck when it did

i think subject matter wise it wasn't going to appeal to many people and artistically it sounds like it was a dead end for whatever reason. though i guess Arli$$ stayed on the air for like twenty years or something.

hbo is prob smart to pull the plug on this, similar to axing luck when it did

difference is luck actually killed horses, vinyl restricted itself to simply flogging dead ones

the kernel of a good idea in the premise was itself a blatant rip off of mad men but they couldn't match the writing of that show even a little, and seemed more content to be a boring jukebox instead.

haha it's so funny after falling asleep during the 1st episode twice and not finishing, i tried just skipping ahead to episode 2 last night and god what an unrelenting piece of shit

mook dickhead coked up macho record company hustlers are about the least appealing protagonists in the world, such terrible dialogue and zero real understanding of the era musically

barf

Vintage seventies (or sixties and eighties) magazine ads for albums

has such a high-profile series had a renewal taken back like that? kinda wow

Not this high-profile maybe, but HBO has been known to roll back renewals, most recently with the apparently horrible Tim Robbins/Jack Black war "satire" The Brink.

and yeah, Mann/Milch's quite good Luck, though those were...extraordinary circumstances

Oh man, that is nuts. The show was clearly a mess, but I liked it anyway. And I loved the Elvis episode.

rip coke-fueled rockist fantasy

I'll admit to having watched the whole thing. It had a half-dozen moments with good character performances or set pieces, but the underlying plot progression was based on characters having these epiphanies about punk and disco being viable directions, despite the old guard's complete lack of understanding, and a dismal subplot about organized criminals. Who'd have seen that coming, organized crime backing the business in a Scorcese production?

philips/polydor buying casablanca records right at the peak of the disco boom and then having to deal with the decline would make a great office politics/drug/music story. fuckin boomers. scorsese was his own worst enemy here.

but then there's this strange detail i just found:

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

In 2013, Justin Timberlake signed to star in the feature film Spinning Gold, a biopic of Bogart written by his son, Tim Bogart.[4]

TIL: Charli XCX covered "No Fun" with Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, James McNew, and Alan Licht for one of the soundtrack albums. The show is trash, but this cover is great

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

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

TS: Charli XCX "No Fun" vs. Rosalia "I See A Darkness"

Listening to this for the first time, and it's good. Everything sounds very live and analog.

Alex Newell , Jess Glynne, DJ Cassidy, Nile Rodgers– Kill The Lights

Charlie Wilson– Alright Lady (Let's Make A Baby)

Elvis Costello– Back Stabbers

Trey Songz– Life On Mars?

Iggy Pop– I Dig Your Mind

Charli XCX – No Fun

John Doe – Strychnine

Royal Blood – Where Are You Now?

The Arcs– Watch Your Step

Chris Cornell– Stay With Me Baby

Ty Taylor– I've Been Wrong So Long

Nasty Bits– Woman Like You

Sturgill Simpson– Sugar Daddy (Theme From Vinyl)

Julian Casablancas– Venus In Furs

Charlie Wilson– Love, I Want You Back

Humble Pie– Black Coffee

D17 Nate Ruess– I Wanna Be With You

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