I'm in a Rock n Roll band! No not me, it's a tele programme

[JDC]

Quite surprised no one's posted this! Al Murray is a drummer, who'd had thought it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00sf772/Im_in_a_Rock_n_Roll_Band!_The_Guitarist/

[Johnny Mac]

I saw a program about drummers last weekend which was good. I think it's the same one. It was pretty funny too  :D

[Brow]

I've watched all 3 so far (Singer, Lead Guitarist and Drummer) and it's been quite a good programme tbh!

Offers a few insights into how people in bands act and why. According to the programme so far the Singer and Lead Guitarist are the egotists and drummers are nutters  :lol:

[Philly Q]

I watched a bit of the first programme (about singers) but I'm not a big fan of these "talking heads" shows - I lose my patience quite quickly with TV, hardly ever watch a whole series of anything.

I've been more impressed with the Guitar Heroes at the BBC programmes which are on the same night.  Loads of great old clips, mostly from The Old Grey Whistle Test.  And they play the whole bloody songs, not frustrating little snippets!

[AndyR]

I missed the drummer episode, but the first two were pretty good...

I thought it was particularly interesting (as an ex-frontman, of both singer and guitarist persuasion), that the other musicians in successful bands seem, in general, to have accepted the various foibles and ego-related issues as "part of the package" - ie if their front-person(s) weren't like that, then they wouldn't have been able to do a good enough job to get the band noticed/followed....

Of course, "non-front-people" viewing these programs might have come to entirely different conclusions!! :lol:

Philly - is the Guitar heroes thing a series as well??? I only saw the first one, it was fabulous :D

[Ian Price]

I've got them all 'taped' on to my Sky+ box. Will check them out over the weekend.

Would be good to get some good music programmes on again - Jools Holland was sh!t again last night.

[ToneMonkey]

Did you see Pete Moilinari on Jools the other week.  He's one of the wifes favorites (and I really like his first album).  Being honest, if you haven't seen him before, that introduction wasn't a good one  :?

I only saw the drummer episode, thought it was quite funny

[Philly Q]

Philly - is the Guitar heroes thing a series as well??? I only saw the first one, it was fabulous :D

There are 6 episodes, Andy. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lkrr7

Some would probably moan about the name "Guitar Heroes" because it's not all Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, but I just love watching those old '70s clips, no matter how obscure, guitar heroics or not.  The AC/DC and Johnny Winter clips last week were absolutely mindboggling.  :D

[AndyR]

Johnny Winter!! I missed that? Curses...

Yep I love seeing the old stuff. Eg the first week, Lowell George and Little Feat - not sure it was that stunning from Mr George, but I've never seen footage of Little Feat before, it was great. And it was nice to see a Brute Force and Ignorance from Rory Gallagher - even if I did have to wait until the end of the program, and it was obviously one of his "almost in tune" nights :lol:

It's all wonderfully low key and extremely "live". There's so much technology nowadays that live stuff on the box doesn't seem quite so, I dunno, organic and emotional (stunning as some of the performances can be, and just as valid as the old ones). I loved that old presentation - especially the original OGWT (even if I was actually too young to have enough power over bed-time and the TV itself to be allowed to watch it when these things were first aired...)

[Twinfan]

Did you see Pete Moilinari on Jools the other week.  He's one of the wifes favorites (and I really like his first album).  Being honest, if you haven't seen him before, that introduction wasn't a good one  :?

I thought he was awful - out of tune singing etc.

Jeff Beck bored me to tears the other day too...

[Philly Q]

Eg the first week, Lowell George and Little Feat - not sure it was that stunning from Mr George, but I've never seen footage of Little Feat before, it was great.

Was it "Rock And Roll Doctor"?  They always have that on OGWT compilations! :lol:  Great clip though.

[nfe]

Eg the first week, Lowell George and Little Feat - not sure it was that stunning from Mr George, but I've never seen footage of Little Feat before, it was great.

Was it "Rock And Roll Doctor"?  They always have that on OGWT compilations! :lol:  Great clip though.

I saw Little Feat last year (maybe 2008) in Edinburgh at the Jazz and Blues festival. They were great, if a touch self indulgent.

[Ian Price]

Jeff Beck bored me to tears the other day too...

Me too. Him doing Somewhere Over the Rainbow took me by surprise. Very, very boring indeed.

[AndyR]

Jeff Beck bored me to tears the other day too...

Me too. Him doing Somewhere Over the Rainbow took me by surprise. Very, very boring indeed.

I have to admit I that I've never seen footage of Jeff Beck :roll: - and although it wasn't that inspiring as a thing to listen to (he looked afterwards as if he thought he'd messed it up), it did make me think "bluddy hell" this bloke really is as amazing as folks say :lol:

The only other thing of note (for me) seemed to be that that woman at the start and finish (Alicia Keys?) can't sing in tune when she's playing the piano - fine when she stands up, but horrid when she's tinkling the keys... we switched off in the second song because of it :lol:

Also the that Pete Moilinari bloke... was he the guy that Jools introduced as "this man likes a bit of boogie..." - dreadful, utterly "what is this?! Rachel went "the band's not too bad...", I went "I think it's Jool's blokes..." .... I assumed he must have had a bad night, I have vague issues with Jules, but I can't see him wanting somebody as un-musical as this bloke seemed to be from that performance... poor bloke...

[Twinfan]

I think Alicia Keys had a cold - you could hear it in her voice.  She was off-key though, agreed  :)