HBO's Vinyl

A music industry drama created by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese.  Just soak in that thought, and then consider tonight's two-hour premiere of Vinyl on HBO.  You will be taken back to the drug-filled, sex-craved, bell-bottomed 1970s where the music was everywhere and not something you kept to yourself on your iPod.  Here is a trailer of what is in store. 

Mick Jagger, whose son James plays a lead singer in the series, is not a fan of all the music during the period, as noted in this Billboard magazine interview:

It seemed anything was possible at that point. Creating any kind of music and mixing up any kind of music and making it into something that people wanted to hear was possible then. Of course, there was a lot of dreck. When I go through all the songs of the period, there are a lot of wonderful things, but there's also so much crap it's unbelievable. And that was one of the things we debated: how much crap music are we going to have in the show because we want to represent the period. We don't want to make out that the '70s was only Marvin Gaye and James Brown and Bob Marley. It wasn't. It was full of rubbish.

Hank Stuever at The Washington Post seems to be fan of the new series, though he sees the strong hand of producer Terrence Winter, stating:

Substitute the jazz age for glam rock, switch out the bootlegged hooch for endless lines of blow and “Vinyl” could very well be headed for a similar fate. “Vinyl” and “Boardwalk Empire” are in many ways the same show, even though “Vinyl” has a much lower body-count — so far.

Fox's Empire is no longer the lone story on the music industry.  We will see is Vinyl can catch the same level of excitement and viewership.

Update: Vinyl has already been approved for a second season after only one (long) episode, so someone likes it.