DWilson

Ditto.

Decker

Has there ever been as parabolic a film career as Cameron Crowe's? He starts writing Fast Times, then directs Say Anything, Singles, Jerry Maguire -- all better than the last. He absolutely peaks with Almost Famous. Then he stumbles a little with Vanilla Sky. Then comes the dreck of Elizabethtown, We Bought a Zoo and the truly awful Aloha. Now he's found a new low with this show. I couldn't even make it through the pilot in one sitting it was so dull.
I does make for a fascinating career arc though. I've now given up hope of him ever regaining his form.

CRM114

Yes, on a far more epic scale. (Forgive the pun.)

slop101

Yeah, that's a good point - he's been working his way to Almost Famous, and after blowing his load on that, he was spent, with nothing left to say or do.

CRM114

He's trying to recapture that fire. Not going to happen, the 70s were the 70s.

Jadzia

Peter Bogdanovich...

Decker

Bogdanovich was a wunderkind - The Last Picture Show was his first major motion picture. Plus he had a bit of a career resurgence with Mask in 1985.

Coppola is a more parabolic, but he did make better films after his personal disaster One from the Heart such as The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Cotton Club and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Plus as great as Apocolypse Now is, I still think his peak was The Godfather 1 & 2. A fairly parabolic career, but not nearly as perfect a parabola as Crowe.

flashburn

This show is kind of losing me... it's just not going anywhere. But I gotta say, that live performance of Lindsay Buckingham doing Big Love was fucking great. Was that recorded especially for this show?

It reminded me of this amazing (live) cover of it:

Coral

Was just checking in to see if the 3rd episode has miraculously gotten better - but I guess not. I think everyone else has bailed since there's only been 1 post since the latest episode.

Because you mentioned Lindsay Buckingham being on it, I streamed the episode and skipped right to his performance. "Big Love" looks to be recorded just for this episode with crowd noise dubbed over top. It's very similar to his rendition of it the first time I heard it on the live CD/DVD "The Dance" from 1997. It really is incredible.

Coincidentally (or maybe not so coincidentally), Cameron Crowe used that exact cut in his movie "Elizabethtown".

wendersfan

We watched the first episode last night and, my god, was that awful or what. Based on what I've read it doesn't get better, so I guess I'm out.

slop101

Even as a huge fan of rock & roll, what kills this show for me (and also Vinyl) is how they mythologise rock & roll as if they're gods or something. They take themselves WAY too seriously. Some ground-level shit, where they take the piss out of themselves would've worked so much better. But then, how do you do that after Spinal Tap?

Damfino

This.

I really wanted to like this show, but this was a fatal mistake even with Phil now appearing on Skype.

And what about that stupid Cincinnati curse thing that dominated this week's episode?

I will admit that I enjoyed Vinyl even for all of its silliness, but Roadies is just awful.

Josh-da-man

I sort like Imogen Poots and her character, but it's just a fucking misfire on every level. It doesn't know if it wants to be an unfunny comedy or an undramtic drama, and it's trying too hard to make us like it. It's mawkish and cloying and corny, badly written, badly acted, and badly directed.

And, yeah, Phil was sort of interesting in his first few scenes, but he was quickly revealed to be a total idiot.

I have no idea how this thing made it onto Showtime. J.J. Abrams swinging his big lightsaber dick around?

DJariya

Apparently unlikely to return for a 2nd season: http://www.spoilertv.com/2016/08/roadies-cancelled.html

David Nevins, Showtime's President, was quoted as saying "Probably at the end of its run."

Sonny

My husband and I really like this show. It's funny, touching, and I find the characters engaging. Maybe it's because we're both in our 60's and lived through the era when rock concerts were one of the most important things in life. I was in the music business for many years and find this show is spot-on for how it really was.

arminius

Yep, vinyl, though heavily flawed, had potential. The stuff with The Dolls, Alice Cooper, Led Zep... was pretty good. It gave you a feel about how loose everything was back then. It coulda been a contender but the new guy did not like it. Roadies is just mawkish. And it makes rock look boring.

Coral

I think that's part of the problem - the show is accurate for how the music business WAS. However, the show is set in 2016 and Crowe is still romanticising the 70's era of music. It doesn't ring true. He's basically trying to re-create Almost Famous for the modern day.

windom

Not surprising...Roadies has been canceled by Showtime.

http://deadline.com/2016/09/roadies-...on-1201819244/

Coral

Crowe's track record since after Almost Famous has been pretty poor. You know you're not doing good when the best thing you did in 16 years is "We Bought a Zoo".

phantom_azazel

no more weekly imogen poots

Michael Corvin

I guess I'm fucking crazy but I fucking love this show. Just started streaming it, and only have 2 episodes left. It has a wonderful, eclectic bunch of characters that only Crowe could come up with. Ron White is the highlight and what a surprise he has been. More on that later. Rafe Pall is great as the outsider exec. Plots is cute as a button. Romanticizing rock works for me. I loved the tribute to the 11 that died in the Cinci Who concert.

For those that bailed you totally missed Phil's return. It's a flashback episode of his days starting out with Skynyrd. It was damn good...i could watch a whole movie about it. To close the episode, he has an amazing speech about how his friend, RVS, died in the plane crash. It's rare that a tv show or actor moves me, but Ron White fucking nailed it, in spades. It's basically a stand-alone episode that could be watched out of context since the bulk of it is a flashback.

I can't wait to finish it up.