Great guitar riffs at the BBC

Great guitar riffs at the BBC

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Zyp

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14,673 posts

188 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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BBC four - actually nearly finished.

Some brill riffs, although I could've done without Radiohead..... Leaves me feeling somewhat down...

Supernova190188

885 posts

138 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Yeah, Radiohead real dreary as usual, no idea what he is singing! Stone roses much the same too , ste!! Some good bands on there though! Programme before was pretty decent.

southendpier

5,254 posts

228 months

Friday 18th July 2014
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Stop it. Radiohead were fab. The whole programme was very good.bbc4 been putting out some good music stuf recently.

Zyp

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14,673 posts

188 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Sound City on now is a good documentary.

Kinky

39,344 posts

268 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Sound City is a great story.

As for the guitar riffs - I thought it was a poor show. But then, we'd all individually have done it our own way smile

Fantuzzi

3,297 posts

145 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Kinky said:
As for the guitar riffs - I thought it was a poor show. But then, we'd all individually have done it our own way smile
The doc was terrible, very music journo, lots of bullst phrases thrown around with very little musical meat to it.

Kinky

39,344 posts

268 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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I was not alone bounce

Justin Cyder

12,624 posts

148 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Metallers always likely to be disappointed in BBC4. Radiohead & Stone Roses were the axis of awesome as anyone knows. nuts

Fantuzzi

3,297 posts

145 months

Sunday 20th July 2014
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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. nuts
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.

gpo746

3,397 posts

129 months

Monday 21st July 2014
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Rather weak really IMHO

mrmaggit

10,146 posts

247 months

Tuesday 22nd July 2014
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Like a powerchord, it got weaker the longer it went on.

garycat

4,382 posts

209 months

hornet

6,333 posts

249 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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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.

Fantuzzi

3,297 posts

145 months

Friday 25th July 2014
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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.
Absolutely, BBC4 is very much aimed at the 'rock dads' of a certain vintage with their music documentary's. Which is great, but can make it seem a little too short sighted.

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

20,854 posts

274 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Just caught up with this.

Fairly ambivalent most of the way through - misses a lot - but got quite fired up with Heart, of all things. Barracuda is such a most excellent riff which adversity has given us......


Am I wrong?

Fantuzzi

3,297 posts

145 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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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,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvJDRAXOecE

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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K12beano said:
Just caught up with this.

Fairly ambivalent most of the way through - misses a lot - but got quite fired up with Heart, of all things. Barracuda is such a most excellent riff which adversity has given us......


Am I wrong?
You are not wrong!

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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anonymous said:
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I remember my youngest daughter looking at the cover of Little Queen and asking if it was a folk album...

irocfan

40,152 posts

189 months

Saturday 2nd August 2014
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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.
grab hold of this series...

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?"

Fantuzzi

3,297 posts

145 months

Saturday 2nd August 2014
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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.
grab hold of this series...

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?"
That seems like a good series! Very comprehensive. Thanks for the heads up.

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.