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

"- Not just the hits, but, like, the whole record."
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"- ♪ strap 'em on, lace 'em up ♪"
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"♪ put on my walking shoes ♪"
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"You got "hibiscus.""
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"- "satin symphony.""
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"- "gentle"-- I mean..."
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"- All career-making songs."
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"- And I needed something that distinguished me"
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"From everybody else,"
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"You know, a standard issue way"
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"Is the singer sings a fifth, he sings a seventh,"
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"But that--it sounds like everybody else."
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"It was like a signature sound."
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"- I don't know, I just-- I just kind of bare down"
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"When I get up there."
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"By a woman--"
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"Like a really young, very waifish small girl."
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"- Didn't want to let clark hear that."
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"You'd have a boot up your ass real fast."
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"- Falsetto is a very phallic form of singing,"
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"Just very-- it's a very manly--"
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"Got a lot of confidence,"
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"- One, two, three, four."
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"[laid-back guitar strumming]"
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"♪ ♪"
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"♪ is not the road that you would choose ♪"
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"♪ ♪"
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"♪ a barstool intellectual ♪"
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"♪ and going to the movies ♪"
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"[cheers and applause]"
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"- ♪ catalina breeze ♪"
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"- I suppose in retrospect,"
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"When you have one guy in the band doing everything"
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"- ♪ catalina breeze ♪"
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"- ♪ oh ♪"
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"- ♪ ooh ♪"
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"♪ ooh, ooh ♪"
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"♪ oh, oh, oh, oh ♪"
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"- A band like blue jean committee,"
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"But they really got it."
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"That was the quintessential california record."
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"♪ freeway, ride me along ♪"
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"Like, we feel the love."
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"Thinking about what clark is like,"
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"I'm trying to buy that guy out,"
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"Is obstructing my view of the ocean?"
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"I live here."
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"They somehow captured everything we'd all been after."
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"Over on north damen."
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"He was a packer."
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"But mostly I liked playing music."
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"The hallways and stuff."
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"By the dave clark five."
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"It happened very organically."
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"We're in a group now, starting now.""
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"- Uh, mom and dad didn't like the music thing."
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"And he's singing all these ootsie-tootsie songs"
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"- Me and clark, we just went out and we played, uh,"
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"Was open in 1967 at the corner of clybourn and halsted."
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"- Not now, no,"
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""we should wear some blue jeans,"
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"So we went to marshall field's and we got, uh..."
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"And, uh, looked pretty good."
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"I says, "who sent you? The blue jean committee?""
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"- The funny thing is, a couple days later,"
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"♪ ♪"
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"You should tune that up a little bit."
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"♪ in the outskirts and in the in-skirts ♪"
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"- It tanked, you know, and we had, uh,"
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"- Oh, things got bad."
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"[dramatic organ music]"
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"- California was the vibe."
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""gonna write about?"
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"Everything was about california at the time."
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"With, uh, some kind of half-baked plan,"
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"If anybody can make this happen for us,"
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"He was trying to sign peter cetera."
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"- I leave baggage claim at o'hare airport."
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"Suddenly the door flings open,"
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"Little guy."
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"- Gets in my face and says,"
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"Which was on the tape."
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"Was a major issue."
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"Had gone vegetarian."
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"- And so we had to hole up in the studio."
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"Everyone talks about, like,"
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"What that sound is."
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"- ♪ weather gets rough ♪"
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"- ♪ yeah ♪"
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"It was like gene had flipped a switch."
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"Not just in bjc, but everybody else in the game."
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"I can sing pretty high, you know?"
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"It's very, "yeah!""
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"- "catalina breeze,""
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"- ♪ catalina ♪"
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"And the other guy just singing high."
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"- Okay!"
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"Is real tranquil and placid and relaxing,"
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"You don't mind the camera's here, right?"
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"And I was blown away."
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"- Well, I'm chicago born and bred."
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"Three years running."
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"I wouldn't call it a brand-new sound,"
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"- There's a pretty funny story"
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"- Completely flattened his nose,"
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"♪ watch out ♪"
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"♪ everybody's steamin' ♪"
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"That's who you want to talk to."
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"- He was scared shitless. He's a little guy."
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"Almost killed me and the girl I was banging at the time."
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"♪ catalina breeze ♪"
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"I'm still numb from here to here."
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"Our debut "st. Stanislaus' matinee"..."
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"I can't see the ocean from here,"
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"- ♪ hey, miss ♪"
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"I mean, fame is a good thing, you know?"
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"♪ ♪"
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""teach me how to be a california pansy.""
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"I don't even know how they chose."
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"- You know, what's crazy is it was so fast."
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