Electric Purgatory may be one of the more pivotal music documentaries in recent years. It documents the displaced existence of black rock musicians in America. Much like black jazz musicians of the '50's and '60's who were not accepted by white establishments and suffered social neglect by black Americans more interested in Motown music, Electric Purgatory depicts the existence of black rock musicians "caught in the middle" of a pop culture war in America over what is an acceptable image for black music artists. "I feel that this was the decade of being black and we weren't invited." - a quote from the documentary that is representative of the angst and displacement in the music industry that black rock musicians deal with on an everyday basis. The film wonderfully uses the famed black rock group, Fishbone, as the "vehicle" to personalize this struggle for the audience. I was even more impressed with how much empirical information was in the film. I think it would be a great film for any music professor to use in teaching his or her college students. The film also includes interviews with Vernon Reid, Spacey-T, Fishbone singer Angelo, Doug Pinnick of King's X and a formidable grouping of other black rock musicians and music critics who illustrate with great accuracy the state of black rock musicians in rock music and the state of rock music to some extent. The director did a solid job on this film. You can tell he put his heart into this film. Thumbs up for me.