Posts tagged: film

Feb 26 2010

Guitar Documentary

guitar documentary
Classical Guitar: What is the name of the piece written by Yepes/Segovia after the death of his son at birth?

I am not sure if it was written by Narcisco Yepes or Andres Segovia … it is a wonderful piece that I have been trying to find for some time. It is definitely classical guitar. Would love to be able to get a copy of it once I know the name. It was years later that I saw a documentary that explained the sadness of the music and how it came to be written.
… can’t believe it … just found it after all this time … it’s Concierto de Aranjuez … perhaps a different composer though …

concierto de aranjuez was composed by blind composer joaquin rodrigo,,,second mvt is indeed
grief crystallized

Guitar Documentary: Life On Six Strings pt1


Guitar Method: In the Style of Pink Floyd [VHS]


Guitar Method: In the Style of Pink Floyd [VHS]


$2.35



Chuck Berry - Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll [VHS]


Chuck Berry – Hail Hail Rock ‘n’ Roll [VHS]


$19.98


Two distinct portraits of Chuck Berry emerge in this lavish four-disc set built around Hail! Hail! Rock n’ Roll, director Taylor Hackford’s 1986 documentary/concert film. On one side there’s the Berry who wrote a catalogue’s worth of genre-defining songs (“Maybellene,” “Johnny B. Goode,” “Roll Over Beethoven,” and so many others), all of them filled with wit, delightful stories, and poetry. He’s a…

Riding the Rails [VHS]


Riding the Rails [VHS]


$14.99


Desperate times call for desperate measures, and perhaps no time in America’s history has been so desperate as the Great Depression. Hundreds of thousands of young men and women left home seeking work and money wherever they could find it, and many of them took to hopping trains as a means of cheap, speedy (though by no means safe) travel. Riding the Rails lets survivors tell their stories of thri…

Once


Once


$4.49


Winner of the World Audience Award at Sundance, Once starts out as a small-scale romance, like Before Sunrise, before arriving somewhere unexpected. An Irish busker (Glen Hansard, the Frames and The Commitments) meets a Czech flower seller (Markéta Irglová) while singing on the streets of Dublin. (In the credits, they’re listed as Guy and Girl.) She likes what she hears and lets him know. Turns …

It Might Get Loud [Blu-ray]


It Might Get Loud [Blu-ray]


$8.54


Three generations of rock guitarists come together for It Might Get Loud, a 2009 documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth). These are not just your garden-variety guitar gods: Jimmy Page, in his mid-’60s at the time of the film, founded Led Zeppelin, who dominated the 1970s following the breakup of the Beatles. As a member of U2, 48-year-old David Evans, better known as the …

It Might Get Loud


It Might Get Loud


$8.50


Three generations of rock guitarists come together for It Might Get Loud, a 2009 documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth). These are not just your garden-variety guitar gods: Jimmy Page, in his mid-’60s at the time of the film, founded Led Zeppelin, who dominated the 1970s following the breakup of the Beatles. As a member of U2, 48-year-old David Evans, better known as the …


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