Greatest guitar riffs, Sky Arts

Philly_Q

For anyone who forgot to watch (e.g. me) all three episodes are repeated next Saturday, 2 December, starting at 9pm. 
I'll try to remember this time.

lustycourtier

Philly_Q said:

For anyone who forgot to watch (e.g. me) all three episodes are repeated next Saturday, 2 December, starting at 9pm. 
I'll try to remember this time.

They are all on catch up, with no adverts. I wouldnt watch them again though. 

Offset

Sorry @lustycourtier - where can you get them on catchup if you don't subscribe to Sky (which I don't)?

lustycourtier

Offset said:

Sorry @lustycourtier - where can you get them on catchup if you don't subscribe to Sky (which I don't)?

oh no clue sorry. It is a free channel, but I dont think freeview etc have catch up features? Seriously though, Its nothing youve not seen before, unless watching Brian May and tony iommi play out of tune over each other for for an eternity is your thing. 

Philly_Q

lustycourtier said:

Offset said:

Sorry @lustycourtier - where can you get them on catchup if you don't subscribe to Sky (which I don't)?

oh no clue sorry. It is a free channel, but I dont think freeview etc have catch up features? Seriously though, Its nothing youve not seen before, unless watching Brian May and tony iommi play out of tune over each other for for an eternity is your thing. 

No, there's no Freeview catchup service.  As mentioned on the previous page we could get a short-term Now TV sub if we were really keen.

Brian May and Tony Iommi playing out of tune over each other for for an eternity?  Sounds better than I expected.

Rob1742

I watched the first one on catch up last night.

Not as good as I wanted it to be, but getting close ups on Brian Mays and Iommis guitars were a positive.

With regards to riffs I found it all a bit dull to be honest.

Interesting to see how Iommi adapted to playing with his missing finger ends, so used his pinky more, so had to really adapt.

So outside of the riffs it was okay.

They are defo on catch up though so I will watch the other two 

Headphones

And they didn't mention "that riff".

Not once.

Supportact

I watched the first one tonight, I didn't really rate it. It didn't seem to have any cohesive narrative, and I couldn't really see what it was trying to say. Even the talking head bits seemed to just go off at tangents, and if someone did say something interesting it wasn't developed in any way. 

Philly_Q

So I finally watched all three episodes this evening. 

Enjoyed the Iommi one the most, I guess because it aligns the most with my own musical taste.  He's a good chap and the scenes with Brian May were quite fun (despite the aforementioned out of tune jamming).  Dave Davies quite entertaining too.

The Andy Summers show was OK, he's slightly sardonic and makes a good presenter.  I can't say I took a shine to George Benson.

Nancy Wilson's a bit hippy-dippy and it seemed like they struggled to stretch the material to fill an hour (even with five minutes of a gurning, pub-singing Richie Sambora).  And only really Mike McCready as a celeb Heart fan to talk about their music.  It felt like they had to talk about other players much more than in the first two shows.

As expected, largely the same talking heads in each episode.  Captain Kirk Douglas probably the most articulate of them.  Overall, as disjointed as it sounded on paper, but worth a watch.

EricTheWeary

Caught most of the Iommi one  now as well. Better bit of Tom Morello who seemed to have no purpose in the other shows. Some nice introductory stuff about Tony and Sabbath, although if you have enough interest in the subject to watch this show maybe you know this stuff already. The jams with Brian May weren't long but weren't great, I felt included because they had them rather than worthy of including. The bit with Dave Davies vandalizing an amp was quite funny.

Some level of access to all these guitarists there could have been something better. But it's watchable. 

Kurtis

Headphones said:

And they didn't mention "that riff".

Not once.

What riff is that then? 

MagicPigDetective

What did Kim Thayil have to say on the third episode? 

EricTheWeary

@MagicPigDetective Kim is on Pete Thorn's YouTube channel on 10th December I noticed. I presume a zoom type interview.
I can't remember him on the Nancy Wilson one, maybe he was but not all the talking heads featured on each one. 

Philly_Q

Kim Thayil was indeed on the Nancy Wilson programme.  He said some nice stuff about Heart (being from Seattle and all), waffled on about one of their riffs (Barracuda probably) but said he didn't know how to play it.  I got the impression Mike McCready is more of an actual fan.

MagicPigDetective

EricTheWeary said:

@MagicPigDetective Kim is on Pete Thorn's YouTube channel on 10th December I noticed. I presume a zoom type interview.
I can't remember him on the Nancy Wilson one, maybe he was but not all the talking heads featured on each one. 

Thanks for the tip off, I shall be watching that. 

matt_sefton

If anyone missed the Tony Iommi one it’s on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/OHfZrCpL7-Y?si=YxKQarfZx1BslFlq

MagicPigDetective

matt_sefton said:

If anyone missed the Tony Iommi one it’s on YouTube here:
https://youtu.be/OHfZrCpL7-Y?si=YxKQarfZx1BslFlq

Thanks.

Wasn't expecting much from the comments made here, but I really enjoyed that, good stuff. Yeah, nothing new for us guitar obsessives, but still a good watch. 

Hopefully the other two episodes will appear on youtube. 

Headphones

Kurtis said:

Headphones said:

And they didn't mention "that riff".

Not once.

What riff is that then? 

Thought this was a guitar forum...

Philly_Q

Headphones said:

Kurtis said:

Headphones said:

And they didn't mention "that riff".

Not once.

What riff is that then? 

Thought this was a guitar forum...

If it's the one I'm thinking of, they didn't mention it but I'm pretty sure it was heard in the first episode.

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

Headphones said:

Kurtis said:

Headphones said:

And they didn't mention "that riff".

Not once.

What riff is that then? 

Thought this was a guitar forum...

If it's the one I'm thinking of, they didn't mention it but I'm pretty sure it was heard in the first episode.

T'was.