10-12-2020, 06:43 AM
Ah, the GoGo's. This is a pretty straight forward about the rise and fall and rise of the band. Their main focus point is that the GoGo's still aren't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It charts the course of how the band formed as part of the Los Angeles punk scene in the late 1970s. The hiring and firing of bandmates. The rise to fame. The squabbles over money. The break-up and then how they came back together.
Most of the focus of the show was how they got to their first single. I learned a lot of new details but I was pretty solid on the story. I think the biggest revelations was how they toured with Madness and The Specials in the UK and how formative that was for them. I knew about the heroin addiction of Charlotte Caffey but they just kind of touched on it and didn't delve too deeply into it.
They talked about the break up which came down to money and position in the band. Jane wanted to do lead vocals on a song she wrote and the band said no. So, she said goodbye.
And then there were the fights over publishing rights. Caffey and Weidlin wrote most of the songs so they got the lion share of the money. The other band members were shocked when they found out. But that always seem to be the case. They should hand out a booklet with every guitar and drum set at Guitar Center called "Know your Publishing Rights whey you start a Band"
It's a serviceable doc if you don't know the GoGo's full story. It's kind of hurried at the end. But the early LA Punk scene was fun.
Most of the focus of the show was how they got to their first single. I learned a lot of new details but I was pretty solid on the story. I think the biggest revelations was how they toured with Madness and The Specials in the UK and how formative that was for them. I knew about the heroin addiction of Charlotte Caffey but they just kind of touched on it and didn't delve too deeply into it.
They talked about the break up which came down to money and position in the band. Jane wanted to do lead vocals on a song she wrote and the band said no. So, she said goodbye.
And then there were the fights over publishing rights. Caffey and Weidlin wrote most of the songs so they got the lion share of the money. The other band members were shocked when they found out. But that always seem to be the case. They should hand out a booklet with every guitar and drum set at Guitar Center called "Know your Publishing Rights whey you start a Band"
It's a serviceable doc if you don't know the GoGo's full story. It's kind of hurried at the end. But the early LA Punk scene was fun.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm