I wasn't at the Mercer in 1972, 73, but I feel pretty confident in saying that Dolls fans weren't running through the streets, stomping on cars and turning over trash cans on their way toward the entrance of the place. It was New York City after all, please show some decorum.
The first episode of that show really bugged me, but it is so campy-cheesy-over-the-top-ridiculous that you can't help but like it. It's about capturing a spirit after all, it isn't meant to be a documentary. There's a looooong and boring discussion about it on
another forum, and oh, the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the
inaccuracies and
unrealistic way everything is done!
"Oh my god - they're not even cleaning the records before they play them! Fuck Martin Scorsese!"
"Sorgonsen didn't make the P113Ta2 turntable until 1979! What a bunch of shit!"
"I don't watch TV. I didn't spend $10,000 on speaker cables so I could waste my life on such pablum. We should be talking about Electric Light Orchestra."
Oh, lord, it's tragic. Ha ha ha. If you think this forum is bad, spend 10 minutes over there. You'll want to kill yourself.
But as I pointed out over yonder, an accurate show about the record business would be an hour of people looking at spreadsheets and talking on the phone every week, so I'll take this melodrama and historical hodgepodge over that any day.