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Thread #141280 Message #3251119
Posted By: Desert Dancer
06-Nov-11 - 12:11 AM
Thread Name: Give me the banjo ,PBS Doc.
Subject: RE: Give me the banjo ,PBS Doc.
Watched it on the DVR this evening and really enjoyed it. I hope that they can pull together the DVD -- this was a 90 minute distillation from some 350 hours of footage. I think they originally hoped to make a 4-hour TV program. They're working on licensing issues for the DVD - this from Marc Fields (via e-mail to Kickstarter supporters):
"We're still trying to finish negotiations for creating the DVD. Because of the exorbitant licensing fees demanded by certain music recording companies (like Sony/Columbia), I can't yet legally provide downloads or DVDs. If we can't get reasonable rates, I will have to replace music in the program with other selections that are less expensive (but not necessarily the best choices) and re-master the program for DVD release."
Meanwhile, there are more video clips at the Banjo Project website, as well as at http://www.pbs.org/arts/exhibit/give-me-the-banjo/.
I was slightly annoyed by the afterprogram with Roseanne Cash and [can't remember - some guy], who talked about the "flailing" banjo influence on some of their guitar style.
It was poignant, to me, to see Mike Seeger, close to the end of his life. And wonderful to see the footage of him and Pete and others when they were so young.
Hubby kept saying, "what about the mandolins?"
~ Becky in Long Beach