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I love music documentaries, can\u2019t get enough of \u2019em. Here are three I saw recently:<\/p>\n
First up, Becoming Led Zeppelin<\/em>. No fucking way<\/em> I was gonna miss this. I was never really much into their excessive concert movie. But I really did want to see what I\u2019ve read so often about which is their early days. I wanted to see this in IMAX but Sonny Boy and I went to an IMAX theater which was actually playing something else on that screen. For the record, six people in the audience. I think that has less to do with lack of interest as it does lack of promotion.<\/p>\n And make no mistake, this is BECOMING Led Zeppelin. It goes as far as Led Zep II<\/em> in 1969 and that\u2019s it. But it\u2019s fun and interesting to see the three surviving guys (and recordings of Bonham) talking about how the band formed. I guess the only downside is they interview literally nobody else, no fellow musicians, no rock journalists, no nothin\u2019. And no, there\u2019s nothing about their plagiarism or debauchery or any of that crap. Just their pure love for music.<\/p>\n And there are gobs of videos, some of which go on for maybe 10 minutes. The power of this (essentially) three-piece band is undeniable from the very start. Here they are in Sweden completing the Yardbirds tour after all the guys except Page dropped out:<\/p>\n