PSA Friday 9.00 pm BBC4.

breakstuff

BBC 4

The Joy of the Guitar Riff.

Documentary tracing the evolution of the guitar riff over the last 60 years.
Followed by Great Guitar Riffs at the BBC and then Sound City.

Looks like great a Friday nights viewing.

not_the_dj

Nice one. I missed the first 15mins of the Sound City film last time it was on, but loved the rest (I was on Amazon ordering the soundtrack as the credits rolled).

the_jaffa

Nice one, cheers.  Tivo box set

impmann

Sound City is FUCKING FANTASTIC. Thanks for the heads up!!

Deijavoo

Cheers for the heads up mate.

Bucket

I'm out Friday but might have to give this a view on catch-up...

I've seen Sound City and it's fucking marvellous.

JDE

Sound City is great. Even my wife enjoyed it. Even my wife.

The riff thing looks good, judging from the ad. Thanks for the reminder!

Neil

Already spotted the guitar riff ones and Tivo'd (in case I want to watch it a hundred times.) 

Seen Sound City before, excellent.

57Deluxe

SO SO SO Fckuing annoyed me that the Tin Pan  Alley (aka history of Denmark Street) doc on BBC Radio 2 was pulled prematurely on the iPlayer last  week, cos Danny Baker got some facts about the Kinks wrong... bastard... was going to grab it and host on YT....

Deijavoo

Enjoying this a lot actually. Expected this to be the worst one of the night. 

Well, maybe least good.  

sunshinewelly

Surprised by the amount of variax s that were being played. Not so surprised by the number of mustangs . Must resist the GAS

johnnyurq

Yes Jennifer Batten had what looked like a US JTV-69 maybe even modded for her.

littlethoughts

I just caught the last 20 minutes or so - great to see Frank Black with hair!

horse

Just watched the riff programme. Did they really feature Heart and not mention Hendrix?

littlethoughts

horse said:

Just watched the riff programme. Did they really feature Heart and not mention Hendrix?

It's one of a series, each episode is focussing on different musical periods of a few years.

horse

littlethoughts said:

horse said:

Just watched the riff programme. Did they really feature Heart and not mention Hendrix?

It's one of a series, each episode is focussing on different musical periods of a few years.

Maybe I saw something different then on iplayer - covered from Chuck Berry through to Nirvana.

littlethoughts

horse;298755" said:

littlethoughts said:



horse said:

Just watched the riff programme. Did they really feature Heart and not mention Hendrix?










It's one of a series, each episode is focussing on different musical periods of a few years.





Maybe I saw something different then on iplayer - covered from Chuck Berry through to Nirvana.

Maybe I'm talking nonsense I had it in my head it was one of a series

mart

horse said:

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Maybe I saw something different then on iplayer - covered from Chuck Berry through to Nirvana.

Yeah, but those all took place within a 40 year period. There'll be another programme on Django, Segovia, etc, and another on John Dowland, ...

57Deluxe

...what you tend to find with these BBC4 music docs is that they segment up the interviews into different programme/subjects...so part of an interview and topic is discussed for Sound City and then something else will appear in say a prog about Fleetwood Mac etc...

The Sound City one was good by the way if you didn't see it first time round... I worked with the Ad Agency that had the Neve account...

Neil

I was pretty disappointed in the show TBH, typical mish mash without much sense.

Wayne Kramer sitting there with a guitar and not even playing or showing Kick Out The Jams?? 

:-O Iconic riff. 

They seemed to spend a lot of time with a woman from Heart and no Pagey?

mart

Neil said:

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They seemed to spend a lot of time with a woman from Heart and no Pagey?

Strange that they couldn't get Ritchie Blackmore to talk about Smoke on the water either.