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

"- The songs just started coming."
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"- "walking shoes,""
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"- "montecito memories.""
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"- They had "funny feeling.""
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"- "gentle & soft.""
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"- So we were laying down vocal harmonies."
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"Nothing unique in that."
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"- No, and then clark found his own thing."
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"It was magical."
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"♪ ♪"
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"- Seemed as if it was being sung"
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"- No, you don't let him hear that."
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"Got a lot of strength."
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"- "catalina breeze.""
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"That's one for the ages."
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"It summed up all our lives."
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"♪ ♪"
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"♪ tv says you got them high-class blues ♪"
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"♪ seems the caravan to aruba ♪"
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"- ♪ catalina breeze ♪"
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"- ♪ catalina breeze ♪"
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"It's predictable that this was going to self-combust"
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"- ♪ oh ♪"
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"- ♪ catalina breeze ♪"
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"All right."
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"[lively instrumental music]"
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"♪ ♪"
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"- Good evening."
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"I'm helen mirren,"
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"Some rock bands endure for decades;"
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"Others are gone in an instant."
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"But every so often that instant"
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"Creates music that lasts forever."
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"Gentle & soft:"
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"The story of the blue jean committee."
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"♪ gonna dance around the city ♪"
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"- ♪ you're a dancer ♪"
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"By the time they spent watching blue jean committee."
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"- For the two years that record was popular,"
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"It was like fleetwood mac "rumours.""
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"- I was completely blown away by that record."
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"We'd all tried to capture that thing,"
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"- "catalina breeze,""
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"In that moment, they were on top of the world."
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"- ♪ freeway, ride me along ♪"
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"- The sonic quality of the music"
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"Which was extremely bombastic and--and aggressive."
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"And not, you know, love each other."
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"- ♪ and soft ♪"
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"- Morning. - Morning."
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"- In all of the pictures and everything"
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"So, uh, it was-- it was a good feeling."
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"My name is gene, I live in, uh, chicago,"
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"And apparently you guys are interested in talking to me"
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"You know, I mean, to be honest,"
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"I mean, I haven't thought about him in quite a few decades."
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"Perfect."
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"I've got a lot of good memories,"
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"But, uh, as far as, you know,"
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"I've, uh, really thought about him."
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"I hadn't seen him in a long time."
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"It's my money. I bought all this."
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"I bought all these guys out."
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"'cause, see--see how his telephone pole"
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"If you're sitting here,"
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"It's--it's all been worth it."
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"I say, "thank god I thought up"
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"Heard this thing; it was like nothing I'd ever heard before,"
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"And yet everything about california"
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"I was a little dickhead."
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"My pop was the foreman at the old vienna beef factory"
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"Mom did, uh, quality control."
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"She took it real serious,"
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"I used to, uh, play with the hairnets;"
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"This is going back a long ways, you know."
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"Doo-wop is, uh..."
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"It's--it's not just oldies;"
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"It's ancienties."
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"And, uh, think he was, uh, kind of a trouble-maker."
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"- I was on the wrestling team."
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"- In school I'd play little assemblies and stuff,"
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"And I'd play for everybody,"
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"The wrestling team was a great thing,"
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"But wha--what the problem was, I started noticing"
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"That the guys with the guitars were getting more chicks"
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"Which, you know, I didn't like."
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"- So one day clark finally comes up to me,"
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"And he says, "hey, you're in my group now.""
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"When gene and I decided to become a band,"
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"- I said, "okay, we're in a group now."
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"I said, "okay.""
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"[groovy rock music]"
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"Is gene allen,"
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"To a bunch of dopers on the north side."
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"Or at least a tug job of some kind took place there."
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"- First time I heard gene & clark,"
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"I was just coming out of philadelphia"
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"Just starting to tour all over the world."
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"But it was so much of its-- of its time."
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"And I was going, "okay, man, these guys,"
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"I think maybe they have a future.""
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"[laid-back jazzy music]"
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"You know, open mics and diners and pizza places"
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"We got to--you know, where we gonna do this thing?""
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"In chicago there wasn't a lot of places,"
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"So, uh, I booked us some studio time in this little place"
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"- No, it was halsted and north."
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"- No, it was right there where clybourn does that little jog."
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"- Fedex kinkos is one block up on halsted and clybourn."
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"We were one block down on halsted and north,"
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"Of clybourn and north."
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"But there was one,"
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"- The panera bread is at the corner"
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"Of clybourn and halsted,"
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"You know, the-- the blue jean committee."
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"- We saw, uh, "easy rider,""
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"And we thought, "well, that's kind of--of a good look."
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"But still with some style.""
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