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Thread #114984   Message #2459627
Posted By: Phil Edwards
07-Oct-08 - 05:44 PM
Thread Name: BBC TV Guitar Series
Subject: RE: BBC TV Guitar Series
we had a wonderful clip of Django, and John Etheridge's contribution; also, the man from Virginia building guitars

I missed all of that. I very nearly switched off after the first section - ooh guitars, remember guitars, old footage of guitars, Bert Weedon playing guitar, first guitar I ever had was a ukulele, well the first guitar I ever had was a Fender Stratocaster, yeah well I've never even picked up a guitar and I'm presenting the programme, ooh look that one's got knobs on, wonder what they do... It was a 90-second introductory montage stretched to a quarter of an hour (or maybe it just felt that long). Then there was some history, which was good - but somehow even that managed to be simultaneously rushed and boring. Then Mrs Radish fell asleep and I thought, am I enjoying this enough to watch it on my own? And I decided I wasn't.

Django, though. Sorry to miss that bit.