Aquarium Drunkard Presents: Big Star & Beyond
Last year’s Big Star documentary, Nothing Can Hurt Me, is now streaming over at Netflix…which I’ll use, here, as an excuse to highlight both the group and solo work of Chilton and Bell. If nothing went right for Big Star during their formative years in the early-mid ‘70s (bad distribution, zero management, internal creative strife), in terms of their legacy, it’s all came out golden in the end. As evidenced in the moving, sad and celebratory documentary, the band has touched many diverse lives, personally and professionally.
If there’s a power pop heaven, you know they’ve got a hell of a band.
ABOUT AQUARIUM DRUNKARD
Based in Los Angeles, Justin Gage is the founder of the long-running, eclectic music blog Aquarium Drunkard. In addition to the blog you can catch his weekly radio show, Fridays, on SIRIUS XMU satellite radio -- noon-2pm EST.
Gage is also the founder of Autumn Tone Records and works as a music consultant and supervisor.