Count Me In
- 2021
- 1h 21m
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6.8/10
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You can have rhythm without music but you can't have music without rhythm.You can have rhythm without music but you can't have music without rhythm.You can have rhythm without music but you can't have music without rhythm.
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If you like drummers you may like it, but without some of the greats it feels incomplete.
It was a great watch. But there is no way you make this film and not even mention Neil Peart, or even feature him. Any rock drummer list has him in the top 4 of all time. Otherwise it was a great watch.
I enjoyed this documentary but it lost a lot of credibility by omitting Neil Peart, considered by most rock fans and all industry magazines as one of the top two or three greatest drummers of all time. His estate might have restricted use of footage but IP laws don't prohibit talking about someone. Wow!
Even thought I'm not really a Neil Peart fan, leaving him out of this documentary is virtually a hate crime. Lots of other Iconic drummers are left out, especially the session guys (Blaine, Palmer, Gordon, Porcaro, Purdie, all the Motown drummers). All of the above mentioned would have been much more satisfying than the inordinate amount of screen time devoted to Nicko McBrain, Chad Smith, and the parade of obscure drummers we see here.
The documentary went through a timeline of drummers in chronological order, paying the right amount of respect to every drummer that it covered, starting with the old jazz greats before shifting gear into Rock specific territory for the rest of its run time. Ringo Starr, Charlie Watts, Keith Moon, John Bonham and Roger Taylor, right up to Dave Grohl. Everyone you'd expect is touched on... Except Neil Peart, which frankly I just don't understand, especially with him passing away only last year. Anyone who knows Rock n Roll would count him as a top 5 drummer, he is every bit as influential and inspiring to young drummers as any of the others covered, in fact more so than most. It really seems like he was deliberately omitted for some reason and they could've easily squeezed him in, especially when Keith Moon is covered TWICE, and there's a kinda forced feministy bit at the end with drummers that... be honest... no one has really heard of. They at least could have talked about Meg White for that part, a female drummer who is a respected household name, and another pretty egregious omission, especially during the girl power bit. So yeah, I enjoyed it, and it wasn't a bad documentary, I would recommend it, but omitting Peart is like omitting Eddie Van Halen from a doc about guitarists.
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- TriviaThe opening drum circle was filmed at Mount Wilson Observatory, 5,715 feet above Los Angeles.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Benny Goodman Story (1956)
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- Cuestión de ritmo
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- LIverpool, England, UK(archive footage)
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- 1h 21m(81 min)
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