Guitars go to the movies...

AlexAlex
edited March 2011 in General
I've always been both a music and a film buff, the latter has been sort of a profession for me as well...i m always excited to see guitars ( both as objects and as a musical approach ) play prominent role in a film... i'll add some links with some of my favourite "guitar moments" in some films i love, and hopefuly you will join in! :)



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  • TheRightHandManTheRightHandMan
    Awesome.....post more!!
  • JMHJMH
    Great topic!

  • johnanayajohnanaya
    I love the Black Orpheus. I have a sax friend here in town who demanded I learn it on guitar. I ended up adopting the "A Day in the Life of a Fool" lyric and playing it slower in the style of the Itzhak Perlman version. This is one of those classics that gets interpreted in so may ways! Beautiful!
  • AlexAlex
    edited March 2011
    The Black Orfeus is one of my favourite movies of all times... And Luis Bonfa's theme is unbelievably beautiful!
    Here's another one, a classic!



    And another one, from the Twilight Zone. She's so lovely...

  • TheRightHandManTheRightHandMan
    edited March 2011
    oooh ooooh.....I got one. Great Movie and great scene. Rio Bravo (1959) Feat. 'Deano' and Ricky Nelson

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  • floridaskaterfloridaskater
    Alex, I'm new to the forum.. and I just saw your movie clip above of Black Orpheus 5 seconds after my first post with the same on the Ernest Ranglin thread, what a coincidence....I think we will have a lot of "like" minds around this forum. Glad to meet you.
    Steve
  • AlexAlex
    Steve! That really is one hell of a coincidence! Great film, great score, i do agree with you, about the likeminded people around this forum. I mean , exquisite taste in music really does say smth about one person in general Joining the Campilongo forum, to me, equals great taste in music :)
  • Jeff_CalvinJeff_Calvin

  • AlexAlex
    Belushi. That's what im talkin' about! Awesome!
  • kgharperkgharper
    Oh yeah Jeff_Calvin..........it's violent.............but I like it. I'ts only make believe. I think.
  • AlexAlex
    How many times have we said that?

  • KevinBKevinB
    Fun topic!

    1968 Comeback Special (TV, but a killer guitar). The Hagstrom Viking II looks like a 335 body, Strat neck with a Guild tailpiece.

    Saw this cat, Arch Hall Jr. play at the Ponderosa Stomp in Memphis, 2005. Like crazy. Dig?
    From, EEGAH.

    From Wild Guitar.
  • kgharperkgharper
    Me n my little brother "Lester" seen that "Wild Guitar" movie at the "EL Rey Theatre" on "Ocean Ave" down in "San Francisco" when it come out. It was the first time my Mom let us go to the movie house at night all by ourselves. It was so hokie we was embarrassed just settin there watchin it. Me n "Lester" was laughin, blushin n groovin all at the same time........Might I venture to say that movie almost had as much influence over me n my approach to the guitar as the LSD I experienced a few years later. But then again, that "Jim Campilongo's" guitar playin was maybe even a bigger epiphany for me than when I realized I would probably never be elected president of the "United States Of America". Still, from all that time back then up till now I been obsessed with "The Twist" n "Twist" music. They got a bunch a other good stuff in that movie what just makes me cringe n wince with shame. Sometimes the memory of it makes me wish I was never born. Thank you Kevin for posting these visions from the past.
  • JimCampilongoJimCampilongo
    Thanks Kenneth, for the great post
  • MzDeVilleMzDeVille
    ANTON KARAS for his beautiful zither-y soundtrack to "The Third Man".

    . . . (Director Carol) Reed rushed into Karas' room, and lay at full length on the floor. "Now I'm dead! Only your zither can bring me back to life! Karas, play such a song as to raise me from the dead."

    And he did.
  • MzDeVilleMzDeVille
    Ooh, I almost forgot. Neil Young's shimmering soundtrack to "Dead Man". Quadruple plus: starring Johnny Depp and featuring Iggy Pop!
  • floridaskaterfloridaskater
    Twist Fever: OK I have to ask, What's with the feathers?
  • BrianSSFBrianSSF
    Just remembered the greatest guitar movie of all time, Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny... just as Who's Next is quite possibly The Last Rock Album, Pick of Destiny just may be The Last Rock Movie.
  • JMHJMH
    edited December 2011
    This thread deserves to rise from the ashes.

    The classic guitar/banjo duel from Deliverance surely qualifies:



    An added bonus from Repo Man - the Circle Jerks doing a cheesy lounge rendition of one of their songs with acoustic guitars and complete with a scat solo of all things. "I used to like these guys!"

  • AlexAlex
    Awesome clips mr JMH! Happy new year everyone!
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