Friday, February 06, 2004
Salon's mood piece of the day Bands on the run
"You see what I mean. "Bands Reunited" is a basic-cable bonanza for music fans, reality fans, and anyone who's ever stumbled across a long-forgotten eight-track or cassette and wondered what happened to the group that recorded it. Similarly fascinating sagas are already in the can detailing the rise and fall of Extreme, Berlin, queeze and the Alarm. Of course, plenty of shows (VH1's own "Behind the Music, "for example) already chronicle the rise of famous bands.
A show documenting their fall is long overdue. When people make the journey from world tours to working day jobs, there's guaranteed to be drama, wreckage, lessons learned, and human interest in spades. And, with so many expired acts awaiting postmortem, it looks like this is a show that will go on. And on."
¶ 2/06/2004 08:33:00 AM
"You see what I mean. "Bands Reunited" is a basic-cable bonanza for music fans, reality fans, and anyone who's ever stumbled across a long-forgotten eight-track or cassette and wondered what happened to the group that recorded it. Similarly fascinating sagas are already in the can detailing the rise and fall of Extreme, Berlin, queeze and the Alarm. Of course, plenty of shows (VH1's own "Behind the Music, "for example) already chronicle the rise of famous bands.
A show documenting their fall is long overdue. When people make the journey from world tours to working day jobs, there's guaranteed to be drama, wreckage, lessons learned, and human interest in spades. And, with so many expired acts awaiting postmortem, it looks like this is a show that will go on. And on."
¶ 2/06/2004 08:33:00 AM
