While music producer Clive Davis was guiding and grooming the royalty of pop music, scruffy Danny Field was busy discovering and promoting the punk sound in lower Manhattan before it blossomed world wide. Iggy Pop, The Ramones, The NY Dolls, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Nico, Warhol and The Factory, Field was a tireless ( started doing amphetamines as a kid ) promotor of an underground movement with a sharp eye for talent that was ushering a new sound onto the music scene.
Field is a remarkable witness to the times of course but his engaging openness and honesty, comic sarcasm and lack of bitterness with little care for cash make him a wonderful guide to this period in history. There are brief interviews with some of the "surviving" players back then along with some footage from that rebellious era that Danny sardonically recalls. Iggy Pop among others chips in a good tale or two along the way but Danny remains the admirable focus of the doc, someone who labored for love and not greed and inadvertently helped change the music scene around the world a raucous way.
Field is a remarkable witness to the times of course but his engaging openness and honesty, comic sarcasm and lack of bitterness with little care for cash make him a wonderful guide to this period in history. There are brief interviews with some of the "surviving" players back then along with some footage from that rebellious era that Danny sardonically recalls. Iggy Pop among others chips in a good tale or two along the way but Danny remains the admirable focus of the doc, someone who labored for love and not greed and inadvertently helped change the music scene around the world a raucous way.