There was a great set of scenes where after the bands all talk about their various day jobs and financial wrangling; they talk about support from their families. With a couple exceptions, the bands’ families are extremely supportive. It was nice to see the normal family background of a lot of these musicians, far removed from the stereotypical broken-home back-story.
Rock Star is a good music documentary and should be essential viewing for any aspiring band. There were some things overlooked, namely the emergence of music downloading and the exposure from sites like MySpace and YouTube. But aside from those misses, it’s an accurate picture of the pitfalls of the music industry, and of bands shredding their way across the music world for themselves and the fans, businessmen be damned.
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