As usual, I will give the Fresno Undercurrent more of the exclusive than other area community media sites:

I'm not sure if the Bakersfield Californian newspaper is going to slam my documentary, "The Last Band," but they're launching an article on Thursday that includes a discussion of the film.

The half-hour ABC documentary discusses some of the attitudes about history, music and cultural reverence for Buck Owens former recording studio where Korn recorded their first album and country greats like Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and Buck Owens once recorded...

The controversy is not just who the last band who recorded there was, but the attitudes between younger bands and old timers. Do country legends have no care for the old recording studio? It's a historic building, was once the River Theatre in the 1930s and converted into a studio in 1968. It was state-of-the-art for the time and many No. 1 country music hits were recorded there.

Younger bands still hold the studio in high reverence.

What more will be said? Will Buck Owens Enterprises slam the documentary as they still own the old building? Are they all about the Crystal Palace music theatre and museum?

Is this a prime example of central valley cultural and arhitectural legacies swept under the rug?

The film can be watched in its entirety on YouTube.

- Nick Belardes, ABC23/Noveltown