Agreed times a bajillion. There has never been finer television analysis on this site than BB and Newsradio. If anyone else had been assigned this series, I would have kicked every elevator-waiting-area-trashcan I could find.

My buddy Seth made this, and it's great, as are all the short films he's made with RedGiant. Super talented guy. And his brother Ben (actor/composer) is always sweet and funny in these. Really happy to see him nab Patton for this. Perfect voice for the narration.

Glad you found it. I have a bunch of Crowes live compilations I'm happy to send to anyone interested in hearing them. In light of their demise, I feel like sharing some gems from the glory days of '97 and '05.

Sweet Pickle Salad. 4-5 songs. One day in the studio. All live to tape. Every song is like 8+ minutes. Chris on vocals. Marc Ford and Craig Ross on guitar. Roger Manning on keyboards and backing vocals. Andy Sturmer on keyboards and backing vocals. It's usually found with a google search. If you can't find it, let me…

I know no one hear will care, but The Black Crowes are among my favorite bands of all time. Part of it is age, I grant you. Southern Harmony came out when I was 14. That album changed my life. But there are plenty of other early 90s bands that I enjoyed in my youth that I never kept up with (someone mentioned Blues…

I agree with all this. I love Cross, but his fanbase has aged and likely doesn't care about a personal connection with him as they once did. I was obsessed with Mr. Show in college in the late 90s. I drove to Chicago from Nashville to see the live tour. I considered taking a semester off school to P.A. on Run Ronnie…

I did this at "The Guest" earlier this year. One Dasani water bottle. I'll note that I was alone, and there were only two other people in the theater (middle-aged men) sitting near the front, while I was in the back row. "The Guest" was awesome, and I was not going to miss a frame. I regret nothing.

Thanks for those links. As a schlubby British guy proffering white soul, I can only assume Paul Carrack grew up worshipping at the altar of Cocker. Makes me wonder if there's a Cocker version of "Living Years" as well.

Up there for sure. "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" is a stunner from start to finish because Cocker and Leon Russell both had a knack for finding the right material and giving it their own spin. You look at that tracklist and half of it shouldn't work, but it all does. RIP to the Englishman.

Don't get me wrong. I like D'Angelo. The Voodoo Tour was among the best shows I've ever seen. I'm just surprised by how universally beloved he is for songs that generally come across as half-formed to me. One man's opinion and all that.

I'm by no means an expert in R&B, but the Eyrkah Badu comparison seems apt to me. So much talent, so much charisma and inimitability, and yet I hardly find myself humming any of her songs. That being said, I saw her during the Mama's Gun tour, no really knowing her work at all, and was blown away.

John Blackwell played with Prince for years. He is off the charts great. If D'Angelo tours with just those three players, it will be the show to see of 2015.

Not trying to be contrarian, but it didn't do much for me on the whole. Truthfully, I've never loved any of D'Angelo's albums, though his talent is undeniable and he's one of the best concerts I've ever seen. There's no doubt that he towers above the competition when it comes to "modern R&B," but I go back and listen…

Yeah, he rambled a bit, and he's someone I generally don't care for, but I found myself agreeing with everything he said. For me, it's always about the melody first and foremost. Like he said, that's the part of music that can't be replicated in poetry, or a novel, or whatever other artistic medium. Lennon was an…

Thank you! It makes my skin crawl every time I hear of an album "drop." This started 15 years or so ago, didn't it? I should be over it by now, but nope. It makes my furious every time I hear it, which is every damn day.

I assume so. I just remember a jarring edit, picture sound, everything. And it just jumped to the end of that scene, on Burt's face. After that, what had seemed "off" was clearly defined. This was like a bizarro airplane edit or something. But not smooth. No overdubbing of voices for profanity or anything. Either the…

I saw Boogie Nights opening night with several of my friends. I was 19 or 20 at the time. It was like the first time we'd seen Pulp Fiction a few years earlier in high school, just a blast of filmmaking energy that reshapes everything you think a movie can or should be.

I worked on the promos for Carlos when it was on Sundance, so I had to watch that movie a bunch of times. I never tired of watching Ramirez. He's a phenomenal talent. Magnetic is the right word.

I frequently refer to strawberries and blueberries as "strawbs" and "bluebs," and my wife justifiably makes an angry face every time.

Was excited to hear a new Faith No More song. Was bummed that it ended up not striking a chord with me. Was way more bummed to be redirected to Rolling Stone. Was even more bummed to see there that Mike Nichols has passed away. May go spin "Angel Dust" to feel better?