Great guitar riffs at the BBC
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Justin Cyder said:
Metallers always likely to be disappointed in BBC4. Radiohead & Stone Roses were the axis of awesome as anyone knows.
Not really, the documentary was just rather dull, leaving out rather massively important movements in the electric guitar, both heavy and soft.BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b049mtxw/the-...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b049mtxy/grea...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b049mtxy/grea...
Edited by garycat on Wednesday 23 July 20:51
Fantuzzi said:
Not really, the documentary was just rather dull, leaving out rather massively important movements in the electric guitar, both heavy and soft.
BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
BBC4 has been good for heavier stuff, but it does tend to retread the same territory and gives the impression that heavy music stopped in the mid-80s. Would be nice to have something that looked beyond Sabbath and into the explosion of genres and sub-genres they helped influence.BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
hornet said:
Fantuzzi said:
Not really, the documentary was just rather dull, leaving out rather massively important movements in the electric guitar, both heavy and soft.
BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
BBC4 has been good for heavier stuff, but it does tend to retread the same territory and gives the impression that heavy music stopped in the mid-80s. Would be nice to have something that looked beyond Sabbath and into the explosion of genres and sub-genres they helped influence.BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
Given the electric guitar theme they seem to be going with, a good documentary on the 'most influential guitarists' or the like would give them a lot of scope, so everything from the 50s with Rock and Roll, to the classic 70s guitar gods, to the 80s shred era of vai and satch etc.
A metal documentary would be great, as there would enough to keep the classicrock dads happy yet also show how metal branched out into thrash, hair metal, then into a various amount of subgenres and styles.
K12beano said:
Barracuda is such a most excellent riff which adversity has given us......
Am I wrong?
Its a gnarly riff for sure, I was reminded of it through the excellence of Suburgatory,Am I wrong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvJDRAXOecE
hornet said:
Fantuzzi said:
Not really, the documentary was just rather dull, leaving out rather massively important movements in the electric guitar, both heavy and soft.
BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
BBC4 has been good for heavier stuff, but it does tend to retread the same territory and gives the impression that heavy music stopped in the mid-80s. Would be nice to have something that looked beyond Sabbath and into the explosion of genres and sub-genres they helped influence.BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Evolution
on the whole quite good - problem being (as with anything) there is only so much you can cover and the chances are there'll always be something where you think "how that hell did they forget about XYZ?"
irocfan said:
hornet said:
Fantuzzi said:
Not really, the documentary was just rather dull, leaving out rather massively important movements in the electric guitar, both heavy and soft.
BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
BBC4 has been good for heavier stuff, but it does tend to retread the same territory and gives the impression that heavy music stopped in the mid-80s. Would be nice to have something that looked beyond Sabbath and into the explosion of genres and sub-genres they helped influence.BBC4 has been pretty good on the heavier stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Evolution
on the whole quite good - problem being (as with anything) there is only so much you can cover and the chances are there'll always be something where you think "how that hell did they forget about XYZ?"
You're right they will always miss some, but it felt like 'great guitar riffs' was trying to be diplomatic rather than comprehensive in noting the most iconic riffs.
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