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THE GUITAR HERO SUMMIT

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June 18, 2013

THIS MIGHT GET LOUD directed by Davis Guggenheim (USA, 2009)

This is a film that celebrates three well established guitar heroes – Jack White, The Edge and Jimmy Page.

See if you can match the following quotes with each;

  • “When you start to treat the sound, you start to invoke location”.
  • “People know when it’s fake”
  • “I never wanted to play the guitar ………. what’s the point?”

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LORETTA LYNN : YOU’RE LOOKING AT COUNTRY

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April 2, 2011

The Coal Miner’s Daughter directed by Michael Apted (1980)

I’m not a huge fan of traditional Nashville Country but listening to the fine Celilo Falls album by Rachel Harrington, drew me to one of that singer’s main inspirations.

I didn’t see this movie when it came out and didn’t really know a lot about Loretta Lynn’s life.

It gives a highly entertaining, if somewhat rose-tinted, summary of Loretta’s rise from humble beginnings to her iconic status as “the first lady of country music”.

Hollywood’s account is not intended as social realism so the poverty of her upbringing in the Kentucky coal mining community is very romanticised and there’s quite a heavy gloss too on her husband, Doolittle ‘Doo’ Lynn  (b.1926).

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