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William Hooper
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From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 03-28-2005 03:45 AM
I finally got a chance to see it all the way through on DVD. It's a joyride of New Orleans theaters: the Saenger (the big atmospheric one-balcony house), & the Orpheum (two balconies, & looks like it has a proscenium over the top balcony) are used a couple of times. The hottest interior shot is in the Saenger: Ray Charles getting the idea from Milt Shaw to move to ABC at the top of a stairwell in the Saenger & getting upstaged by the ceiling & a small chandelier.
It's missing the Loew's, but it's got the 1930-ish Municipal Auditorium (built with pipe chambers), & most fun, an exterior of the New Orleans' oldest theatre: the Civic/Poche' (the Weeniemobile scene is in the now-glassless arcade).
A lot of the little stuff is delightful: listening to the commentary track, it turns out that the guy in the Atlantic booth to whom they don't have enough time to give a lot of exposition is the legendary Jesse Stone. He BELONGS there, & in his own movie, too.
Good lord, that Ampex was a visceral flashback.
quote: Steve Guttag
I didn't like the big time-jump in the last reel (post addiction).
The commentary revealed that the story for the movie was over, but Ray Charles insisted on including this episode.
One of the things that got missed (probably due to architectural differences, since they were using the LA capitol to stand in for the circular GA capitol) was in the scene where the State of Georgia made Ray Charles' version of "Georgia" the official state song: that day, they cleared out the floor, brought in a grand piano, & Ray Charles performed it there in the capitol building. Very cool moment.
I see Atlantic's still being cagey about "Mess Around" being lyrics over a more uptempo
Cow Cow Blues.
They found the *perfect* place to put Willie Metcalf, too.
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Martin Brooks
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From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: May 2002
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posted 05-04-2005 01:15 PM
quote: William Hooper
A lot of the little stuff is delightful: listening to the commentary track, it turns out that the guy in the Atlantic booth to whom they don't have enough time to give a lot of exposition is the legendary Jesse Stone. He BELONGS there, & in his own movie, too.
If you're referring to the engineer who edited "What I'd Say" and later built recording consoles for Ray, that's Tom Dowd, not Jesse Stone. And there is a documentary about him called "Tom Dowd & the Language of Music".
One thing the movie left out was that it was actually Ahmet Ertegun's brother Neshui who produced many of Ray's recordings. Unless I missed it, the Neshui character didn't seem to be in the movie at all. Also, while I'm not 100% sure, the movie implied that a live recording of "What'd I Say" was released. That's not accurate, the "live" recording was re-created in the studio.
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