Here's the link to last night's BBC2 programme on rock guitarists (region restricted)
It features Johnny M playing the intro to 'This Charming Man' intercut with James from the Manics struggling with the same. The I'm In A Rock & Roll Band series is produced by John Piper, who made The Brit Girls and My Generation programmes for Channel Four with me back in the 1990s. We also worked together on the T. Rex: Dandy In The Underworld documentary with valuable contributions from Mozz and Boz Boorer. (Available on the TV Rex On TV DVD)
This episode of I'm In A Rock & Roll Band is directed by Matt O'Casey, another of our Manchester music-loving production colleagues. (Matt made When Boxing Ruled The World with me for BBC1 and recently did the BBC4 programme on Dennis Wilson.)
There haven't been enough good music docs on British telly in recent years so it's good to see programmes like I'm In A Rock & Roll Band getting a decent budget and a good primetime TV slot. The series comes out of the same BBC department that produces Later...With Jools Holland. Mark Cooper is the head man there.
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you tube clip (Score:2, Informative)
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us U.S.A. people got blocked from the U.K. link!
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Those other guitarists featured... (Score:2, Interesting)
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charming man (Score:1, Insightful)
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Must be a coincidence that the two genius guitarists mentioned above are Mancunian...
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Hence, a Pavlovian drool trickled from the side of my mouth as clicked your youtubian link - somebody better than Johnny Marr?!. Wow!.
However, I was truly let down and disappointed just like the way a lotto winner isn't and my mouth suddenly went dry...
If you think that's good, you should see Seamus Sheridan - the plucky guitarist in our local parish folk group. We call him The Octopus.
However, it's all pish posh really. Guitar playing isn't a urination distance contest. And Johnny Marr above all is testament to that. I'm glad he's not a "virtuoso" octopus fingered robot. That's exactly what he avoids and makes him unique and great as well as his sunblessed melodic gifts.
God night and good bless
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