I agree, it's a well-made film.
But I must be the only one who's not getting it. It was a little annoying to see 'the drummer' portrayed as some kind of lonely-I-lack-social-skills-and-can't-pay-my-bills-on-time-and-have-to-live-in-a-crappy-environment type of person. It seems so stereotypical of the down-and-out would-be hipster portrayed in Steely Dan's Deacon Blues. If anything, it kinda' makes me not want to identify with being a musician. But I suppose somewhere deep inside I do identify because in a way I've been there - totally down on my luck, and then go out and do one gig and things change overnight. Even then, at the end of the movie when you hear the phone message about the drummer being free for the next year, that's real cool and all, and if I was 20, that'd be something. However when you're in your 40s you realize, it's only a year. What about after that? Sorry, I seemed to identify with the dad calling him on the phone telling him to get his act together, too.