re: The Greatest Night in Pop…. Netflix…

I watched this last night, and loved it. Big time nostalgia vibes, but more than that it's just cool to see some behind the scenes stuff of how it was made and how that night went and how they pulled it off. It's amazing to me how these people wrote some of the best and most memorable songs of that time out of thin air. I could sit and listen to someone like Richie, MJ, McCartney, anybody like that...talk about their songwriting process forever. That shite fascinates me.

Dan Akroyd being there is still hilarious. I loved how nervous Huey Lewis was. And it was also cool how for the most part everyone did actually leave their egos at the door. It was also cool how Lionel Richie basically told Prince to frick off when he said he wanted a guitar solo and wanted to come record it in a room by himself and not be a part of the group. I loved Quincy Jones saying "He wants a guitar solo, but that's not what we're doing here..."

And Bob Dylan looked like he had autism or something. Talk about a fish out of water, which is hilarious considering he was one of the most musically-influential people in the room.

I was reading about WAtW on Wiki after watching the doc and it said that Waylon Jennings left for a short while and came back to participate in the recording. But that's not at all how it was portrayed in the doc. Weird.

Really great doc. Excellent even.

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Plus he was blind

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