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Clips from Documentary Now! - Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee Part 1 (S01E01)

"- Hey! We're the blue jean committee!"
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"[lively rock music]"
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"♪ sing a song just like a southern melody ♪"
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"That only comes once in a lifetime."
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"- Those were amazing shows,"
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"And the people that are there"
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"Really marked the times in their life"
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"Every song was a single,"
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"The fantastic album of the '70s"
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"- ♪ baby, you're a dancer ♪"
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"And, like, when we listen to that music,"
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"You know, you can't make music like that"
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"[vocalizing]"
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"- ♪ gentle ♪ - ♪ gentle ♪"
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"[whirring]"
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"In the magazines I used to read and to be in 'em,"
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"That's really something."
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"You go, "well, you know, there's someone I admire."
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"And what's--what's my mug doing in there?""
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"So that was, uh, really nice,"
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"And it's very, uh, very thankful for every moment"
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"That someone said something nice."
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"It meant a lot to me."
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"Yeah, it's a glamorous job."
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"It's been a long time since"
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"- Oh, we got this house in, uh, '98."
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"So I got to knock all that out."
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"Got my nice house."
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"When I look at what I've got,"
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"This blue jean committee thing.""
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"- They had such a sound."
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"I remember the first time I heard it."
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"I was driving down pch, top down,"
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"All at the same time."
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"I said, "where the heck did this music come from?""
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"[laid-back jazzy music]"
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"♪ ♪"
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"People always said I was a bit of a handful,"
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"Which was probably a nice way of saying"
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"That's where they met."
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"Schwenke's is the best."
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"And my dad worked on the line."
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"To bring 'em back home."
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"And, uh, we knew each other from, you know,"
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"I saw him here and there,"
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"- You know, and I loved being on the wrestling team."
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"First time he'd said anything to me,"
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"Uh, can I go down the hall?""
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"He says, "no."
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"[laughs softly]"
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"Me and my gals pals thought it was pretty cool, though."
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"I think derene berezowski blew him,"
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"And was living in new york and traveling--"
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"- And so we--so we, "we got to-- got to find a recording studio."
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"Over on the north side, capstone studios."
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"- The original capstone studios"
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"Where the boston market is now."
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"- There's not a boston market at the corner"
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"A panera bread corporation."
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"And that is a fact, case closed, next subject."
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"About where the name comes from,"
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""look like some, you know, regular guys,"
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"- What they now refer to as a canadian tuxedo, right?"
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"- A bunch of dungarees and jeans,"
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"- Just punched them,"
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"- Put me in the hospital."
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"- Yeah, nerve damage."
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"When you're right, you're right, you know?"
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"To chicago."
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"- I wanted people to-- to really feel chicago"
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"We just wanted to be a good chicago blues band."
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"Let's put it that way."
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"- ♪ chicago ♪"
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"- ♪ oh, whoa, whoa ♪"
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"♪ ♪"
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"- So we cranked out two records, lickity split:"
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"♪ hey, miss ♪"
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"Put out "221 pulaski parkway.""
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""lip service.""
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"♪ ♪"
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"Clark, he holed himself up"
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"We're not going through this again."
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"- I went to a dark place, man."
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"They got me thinking about the ocean and the sand"
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"I mean, it's a better story with seagulls."
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"- Then clark called me and said that"
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"I said,"
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"You know, feeling the breeze and the air"
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"It's not that hard."
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"While residing in chicago."
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""you know, we're not even from there."
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"I--I just--I knew beer and blues."
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"[lively percussion]"
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"He was california music."
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"- Yeah, izoff, I'd call him a world-class asshole for sure."
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"We just waited."
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"And this lunatic hops in, waving a cassette tape."
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"And I go, "I'm your next star."
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"I had my forearm on his neck like that."
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"- ♪ kielbasa ♪"
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"- ♪ kielbasa ♪"
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"The band shreveport, remember them?"
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"[upbeat rock music]"
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"[somber music]"
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"- Word on the street was that me and gene"
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"- Which was not true."
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"- And in chicago that's a death sentence, you know?"
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"- You can get away with insulting"
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"A lot of things in this city,"
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"Because we're a liberal town."
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"And they went bonkers and firebombed my apartment,"
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"I ever wanted to get out of chicago."
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"His little dweeb mind of his"
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""what are the singles on your record?""
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"- It's like..."
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"[guitars noodling]"
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"♪ walk a mile in his shoes ♪"
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"You know, it was-- it was one night, you know?"
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"And we were exhausted."
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"In 72 hours."
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