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Blood, Frets and Tears Documentary





Blood, Frets and Tears: In the Hands of Gods is the revealing and insightful exploration of history’s great and gifted guitar players: the legends we call our Guitar Heroes.

Wood, wire and simple electronics. The mind is blown in trying to imagine how these inanimate objects given life in the hands of humble luthiers could result in such a range of divergent musical styles—rock, blues, jazz, country, R&B, soul, bluegrass, classical and more—and create such profound emotions in the listener. From the staccato stabs of Albert King and the transcendent psychedelic rock of Jimi Hendrix, to the majestic fire of Eddie Van Halen, the electric guitar has been a transformative presence in our lives—not only musically but culturally—since its birth over 85 years ago.

The world was first brought to its collective knees through the innovations and inventiveness of four extraordinarily gifted Guitar Gods who emerged during the 1960s: Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. True masters, this quartet revolutionized the sound and style of the electric guitar. Then in the late ‘70s, another God-in-waiting emerged, a European immigrant who would create his own six-string vocabulary. What Eddie Van Halen wrought on “Eruption,” a track from the group’s eponymous debut album, was a style that would come to be known as tapping. This unorthodox approach to guitar playing coupled with his spectacular fretboard wizardry and mindblowing musicality and imagination, ushered in a new generation of players all consumed by the pursuit of mastering this new tapping phenomenon.

Randy Rhoads, Yngwie Malmsteen, George Lynch, Steve Vai and other forward-thinking fret warriors cracked the code and added personal twists, deviations and left turns in writing a lexicon all their own. These whammy bar wonders were out in front in leading the charge of a sonic assault that was eventually heard ‘round the world.

Blood, Frets and Tears: In the Hands of Gods, directed by Andrew Klein [Randy Rhoads: The Quiet Riot Years (2012) and Tuff Luck (2015)] not only uncovers the musical contributions of these gifted individuals but chronicles their journeys toward greatness.

Blessed with extraordinary gifts and driven in a singular fashion that is difficult to imagine, these electric troubadours sacrificed all they had in hopes of finding their own voices. Now these plugged-in pioneers tell their tales in a series of candid and historic interviews. The film brings together compelling conversations with legendary guitar builders, renowned music journalists, photographers and influential record executives who closely examine both the birth and aftershock of an unprecedented musical movement.

Join us for a momentous and joyous musical trip in the most definitive celluloid document ever filmed on the sound and soul of the electric guitar; Blood, Frets and Tears: In the Hands of Gods.

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As early as the mid-80s, music programmers for commercial radio stations began to advise radio DJs to avoid playing songs with guitar solos because market research had showed them that those screeching parts in songs caused some listeners to change the channel.

This credo that guitar solos would be bad for a station's ratings has been exported from the US to Western Europe during the 90s, and now, when Guns N Roses' "November Rain" is played on the radio, it's usually the short version that is devoid of the stunning solo and the dark coda at the end of the song. Such a thing was created when music producers still tried to cater to radio stations to get airplay for their record. Some stations and/or conglomerates of stations create their own mixes of hit songs today which take out the parts of a song that market analysts deem undesirable.

That's why there are no new guitar gods anymore.

I can even hear the influence of this kind of development on the Stones very own "A Bigger Bang" album.

Thanks to the art teacher farther above in this thread for letting us know about the reactions to "McJagger" and rock music VS EDM from people currently in their late teens and early 20s.
I'm aware that EDM / Pop / r'n'b and some hip hop is what's popular today.

However, what I find a bit distracting about this, to say the least, is that the stylistical crossover between the music of this generation and that of older generations is rather little, mainly due to the minimalist tendencies in EDM, the one notable exception being swing jazz influences in EDM.

Maybe playing Gary Moore's song "Go On Home" to your students might help them appreciate what can be done with a guitar? That's from the late 90s when he dabbled in then-current electronic genre of Big Beat.

Most young (below 30) people today haven't got a clue. I'm 35 and when I was 25 I still could pick out Sinatra, Count Basie, Glenn Miller , Max Schreck, Marlon Brando, Robert Johnson, Son House, Louis Armstrong and thousands of other cats who were 50-60 years (and still are) ahead of me.

The kids today basically are ignorant. Maybe it ain't their fault (iphones anyone?) but if the World ended in 30-40 years I wouldn't feel sorry for them. How can you slag off guitars? Or not knowing who Mick Jagger is??

Stupid bunch of students. On the other side though, it makes us more unique....
Maybe in 20 years time the boys will play our living rooms when going on tour....

THE ROLLING STONES WILL LIVE FOREVER

I don't see a problem, really:

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Most young (below 30) people today haven't got a clue. I'm 35 and when I was 25 I still could pick out Sinatra, Count Basie, Glenn Miller , Max Schreck, Marlon Brando, Robert Johnson, Son House, Louis Armstrong and thousands of other cats who were 50-60 years (and still The kids today basically are ignorant. Maybe it ain't their fault (iphones anyone?) but if the World ended in 30-40 years I wouldn't feel sorry for them. How can you slag off guitars? Or not knowing who Mick Jagger is??

Stupid bunch of students. On the other side though, it makes us more unique....
Maybe in 20 years time the boys will play our living rooms when going on tour....

THE ROLLING STONES WILL LIVE FOREVER

The hilarious irony of this stance is that YOU are the one who is out of touch.

Your comment is absolutely ridiculous.

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Most young (below 30) people today haven't got a clue. I'm 35 and when I was 25 I still could pick out Sinatra, Count Basie, Glenn Miller , Max Schreck, Marlon Brando, Robert Johnson, Son House, Louis Armstrong and thousands of other cats who were 50-60 years (and still The kids today basically are ignorant. Maybe it ain't their fault (iphones anyone?) but if the World ended in 30-40 years I wouldn't feel sorry for them. How can you slag off guitars? Or not knowing who Mick Jagger is??

Stupid bunch of students. On the other side though, it makes us more unique....
Maybe in 20 years time the boys will play our living rooms when going on tour....

THE ROLLING STONES WILL LIVE FOREVER

The hilarious irony of this stance is that YOU are the one who is out of touch.

Your comment is absolutely ridiculous.

You're right about that one - because one can not be "more" unique:

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being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.

"The hilarious irony of this stance is that YOU are the one who is out of touch.

Your comment is absolutely ridiculous."

Oh dear bastion, did I offend you in any way?? Me out of touch, well I couldn't care less of being outta touch than one could in todays world of "so-called Music". Mind you, I always get to listen to one or two new songs/beats/whatever it is when I'm in the nightclubs looking for ladies. Luckily, (for my ears at least), I usually don't end up staying too long.

You're a rag trade girl, You're the queen of porn, You're the easiest lay on the white house lawn!!

The six string guitar -electric and acoustic has never been as popular as in these days, from a statistical point of view. Anyone can play a few chords, and since we have youtube and tab-sites i.e. the internet, the younger generation has a huge advantage in learning compared to the older generation.



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The six string guitar -electric and acoustic has never been as popular as in these days, from a statistical point of view. Anyone can play a few chords, and since we have youtube and tab-sites i.e. the internet, the younger generation has a huge advantage in learning compared to the older generation.

And it's amazing how quickly they learn that way!

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Most young (below 30) people today haven't got a clue. I'm 35 and when I was 25 I still could pick out Sinatra, Count Basie, Glenn Miller , Max Schreck, Marlon Brando, Robert Johnson, Son House, Louis Armstrong and thousands of other cats who were 50-60 years (and still The kids today basically are ignorant. Maybe it ain't their fault (iphones anyone?) but if the World ended in 30-40 years I wouldn't feel sorry for them. How can you slag off guitars? Or not knowing who Mick Jagger is??

Stupid bunch of students. On the other side though, it makes us more unique....
Maybe in 20 years time the boys will play our living rooms when going on tour....

THE ROLLING STONES WILL LIVE FOREVER

The hilarious irony of this stance is that YOU are the one who is out of touch.

Your comment is absolutely ridiculous.

You're right about that one - because one can not be "more" unique:

u·nique


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being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else.

I think if you compare unique persons and/or things amongst each other, you can.

But rest assured: I'll get me coat...

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The six string guitar -electric and acoustic has never been as popular as in these days, from a statistical point of view. Anyone can play a few chords, and since we have youtube and tab-sites i.e. the internet, the younger generation has a huge advantage in learning compared to the older generation.

And it's amazing how quickly they learn that way!

Correct, and not guitar only.

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The six string guitar -electric and acoustic has never been as popular as in these days, from a statistical point of view. Anyone can play a few chords, and since we have youtube and tab-sites i.e. the internet, the younger generation has a huge advantage in learning compared to the older generation.

And it's amazing how quickly they learn that way!

Yeah and we had to learn our scales and chords and use our ears .Something us old people did and still do because we did not have Iphones .I might not be the best six string slinger but I am a damn proud one .Walk past my domicile any weekend day and hear my Marshall 2555X AND MY 2551AV 4x12 pushing air .

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The six string guitar -electric and acoustic has never been as popular as in these days, from a statistical point of view. Anyone can play a few chords, and since we have youtube and tab-sites i.e. the internet, the younger generation has a huge advantage in learning compared to the older generation.

And it's amazing how quickly they learn that way!

Yeah and we had to learn our scales and chords and use our ears .Something us old people did and still do because we did not have Iphones .I might not be the best six string slinger but I am a damn proud one .Walk past my domicile any weekend day and hear my Marshall 2555X AND MY 2551AV 4x12 pushing air .

Or the songs, rewind rewind rewind.: my poor Denon drm 800 cassettedeck dual capstan



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I don't see a problem, really:

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