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Clips from Documentary Now! - Gentle and Soft: The Story of the Blue Jean Committee Part 2 (S01E01)

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"I think we wanted different things,"
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"To a packed house, right there, mike?"
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"♪ you're going to the movies ♪"
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"♪ catalina breeze ♪"
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"♪ catalina breeze ♪"
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"♪ wiseman say if you want to know a man ♪"
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"♪ I'm headed down that rough and bumpy road ♪"
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"♪ till I'm paying my dues ♪"
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"♪ put on my walking shoes ♪"
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"- Let's go."
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"So you want to talk about the hall of fame?"
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"Let's do it. Yeah."
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"I think you will find that most rock journalists"
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"Come this way."
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"You know, I know some people are upset"
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"About how the blue jean committee"
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"Even though they only made one great album."
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"I spent a couple weeks with them in 1974."
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"Aha."
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"The blue jean committee."
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"Here's the original edition, first pressing."
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"If you listen to the records, you know about clark's voice,"
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"It is a fuse that gets lit, and the whole place goes off."
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"And I--I just remember as a young journalist, seeing this,"
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"And going, you know, "holy shit."
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""hold onto this moment. This is magic."
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"And those were amazing shows."
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"Had the kind of feeling"
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"And if you were at the eau claire show,"
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"Forget it."
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"- From chicago, illinois."
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"- "crawdaddy" named "catalina breeze""
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"Album of the year."
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"- People were sucking our dicks"
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"And gene was happy and..."
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"- You know, I'm just a kid from chicago"
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"Who, uh, went to sausage school,"
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"And it's, uh..."
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"It's very enriching,"
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"[cheers and applause]"
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"[soft organ music]"
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"♪ smooth and easy ♪"
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"Disappear so quickly."
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"They go in different directions."
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"You become more of yourself."
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"- Tension ratchets up,"
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"- ♪ captain tom ♪"
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"Album cover, they look so happy together."
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"♪ gentle and soft ♪"
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"It was like nobody else."
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"♪ la, la, la ♪"
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"- ♪ gentle and soft ♪"
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"♪ la, la ♪"
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"♪ la, la, la ♪"
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"♪ smooth and easy ♪"
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"♪ easy, easy ♪"
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"And I'm certainly not mad at clark."
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"I--I got no beef with him at all,"
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"- Let's hear everybody."
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"Isn't that pretty?"
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"Good night."
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"Talking about clark too much."
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"I love him, but there's other subjects."
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"Now let's talk about the roots of chicago blues."
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"You want to talk about that or no?"
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"You're just interested in clark."
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"Poco, david blue, america,"
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"[cheers and applause]"
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"The place was packed."
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"It was one of those vintage mid-'70s l.A. Rock nights."
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"- We get invited to this concert."
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"And so we're backstage and we're having a good time,"
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""what cause?""
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""animal rights now.""
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"Before I play an animal rights now rally."
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"[bleep] you."
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"- And they were just two chicago guys"
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"- A long and noble meat tradition."
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"I look over at the guys,"
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"And their eyes are just like lasers."
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"This was about being nice to cows and [bleep] pigs."
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"I mean, are you joking?"
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"I mean, what world am I in right now?"
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"And wh--what are you gonna do, you know?"
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"It was--it was kind of too late."
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"- I really wasn't worried about clark."
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"And said how he really felt, it was all over."
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"No more money."
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"So, yeah, I chose to put the band above my personal feelings. Okay?"
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"To play the gig."
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"- Well, clark wanted to do it."
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"He didn't have a problem, apparently,"
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"And, uh, I'm a-- I'm a sausage man."
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"And--and be the sausage man who I am,"
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"On the sausage community."
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"- So they go on..."
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"- What's going on, man?"
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"What are you doing?"
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"Playing for these--"
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"- [bleep] this, man."
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"[bleep] everybody here."
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"This is the wrong kind of show."
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"We should not be playing,"
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"- Carrying me too long?"
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"[audience booing]"
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"All right. Hey."
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"Uh... Hey, everybody."
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"Why don't you pet your pet pig, you [bleep] animal."
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"- So when the show ends,"
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"They come off the stage,"
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"That was the end of that."
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"That they can't get together one more time"
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"And just get that blend for us."
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"- Well, it's the great "what if," you know?"
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"- If that hadn't have broken up,"
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"But that must have been some show to see."
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