Interesting Guitar TV show coming up on Friday..

Neil

Rock 'n' rolls guns for hire, the story of the sidemen.

Friday BBC4 at 21.00.

Looks like it could be good, I shall certainly record it.

Sesh

Sounds good. Cheers for the heads up!

newi123

Cheers!

EricTheWeary

Ahh, okay, ta. Not had anything very interesting on Beeb 4 for a while. 

guitars4you

saw that listed and will watch it 

mudslide73

Thanks for the heads up. 

peteri

Thanks - is this the recent one pushed by Phil X?

EricTheWeary

Presented by Earl Slick.

peteri said:

Thanks - is this the recent one pushed by Phil X?

No mention of his name in the preview stuff  FWIW.

Sassafras

Keith Richards is a contributor. 
He's always good value.

jeztone2

There's  also a Netflix Documentary called Hired Gun that's due to drop soon. 

Rocker

Thanks for the heads up, recording set for the show

guitars4you

EricTheWeary said:

Presented by Earl Slick.

peteri said:

Thanks - is this the recent one pushed by Phil X?

No mention of his name in the preview stuff  FWIW.

I knew Earl was in the show - did not know he was the presenter

EricTheWeary

guitars4you said:

EricTheWeary said:

Presented by Earl Slick.

peteri said:

Thanks - is this the recent one pushed by Phil X?

No mention of his name in the preview stuff  FWIW.

I knew Earl was in the show - did not know he was the presenter

Pretty sure that's right ( that's what it said in the paper anyway). 

EricTheWeary

Definitely presented by Earl ( and promoting his new projects to some extent) and no Phil X ( so he's in the Netflix one then). 
I don't know if I learned much from it but not bad. Sidemen for Bowie, Prince, Billy Joel, Beyoncé, Rolling Stones. 

robgilmo

Was it any good? I missed it, there was a few programs on bbc 4 last night about guitars.

EricTheWeary

robgilmo said:

Was it any good? I missed it, there was a few programs on bbc 4 last night about guitars.

It was from the previous week. I quite enjoyed it - people taking about bands and stuff - although it's probably not going to blow anybody's mind. The Stones were quite well represented so for a fan maybe worth it for those bits. 

mudslide73

Last night was Joy of the guitar riff and that one about touring with Rick Wakeman. 

boogieman

mudslide73 said:

Last night was Joy of the guitar riff and that one about touring with Rick Wakeman. 

Again. Sigh. With the amount of stuff the BBC must have in their vaults you'd think they'd show something new. 

Sassafras

boogieman said:

mudslide73 said:

Last night was Joy of the guitar riff and that one about touring with Rick Wakeman. 

Again. Sigh. With the amount of stuff the BBC must have in their vaults you'd think they'd show something new. 

I'm not sure about that. The BBC had an unfortunate habit of wiping their tapes to re-use them. Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to pay their top tier management nice fat salaries.

boogieman

Sassafras said:

boogieman said:

mudslide73 said:

Last night was Joy of the guitar riff and that one about touring with Rick Wakeman. 

Again. Sigh. With the amount of stuff the BBC must have in their vaults you'd think they'd show something new. 

I'm not sure about that. The BBC had an unfortunate habit of wiping their tapes to re-use them. Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to pay their top tier management nice fat salaries.

In the past maybe, but they must have plenty of stuff from the last 20 odd years? Probably longer than that. 

Actually that reminds me, I've got a mate who worked for the BBC. He "borrowed" a tape of a Whitesnake appearance and made his own copy. When they were looking to show it again someone realised the original had been wiped. My mate confessed what he'd done and they used his copy. 

Funkfingers

boogieman said:

With the amount of stuff the BBC must have in their vaults, you'd think they'd show something new.

All of the above-mentioned programmes were transmitted on BBC4. A high proportion of content on this channel now seems to be repeats. A skeptic might suspect that the BBC had plans to kill the channel off - just like they did with BBC3.