Roy Buchanan DVD cover by Noë the G and John Peden Originally uploaded by Doctor Noe PS, we finally put up our “sneak-peek trailer version” of highlights for BlipTv and YouTube. Remember, this is a teaser, containing a fraction of the original footage on the DVD it is meant to promote. To get the full-scope, full-sound, complete experience, buy the DVD! Here’s how we look on BlipTv: And here’s the “Telly Talk Teaser” on YouTube: We wanted to test the waters to see if there would be a demand for a similar kind of musician-with-guitar talk and demo in a Guitar Galaxy series with some of our old friends … Billy Gibbons, Steve Stevens, Steve Vai, Joe Satch, Yngwie, Eddie Van H. (my kid goes to school with Wolfie) and Keef (I interviewed him last summer — see this:) . … JC-017 Photo Credit: Jacob Cohl Keith Richards (left) and director Martin Scorsese (right) backstage at the Beacon Theater while filming the Rolling Stones concert film “Shine A Light.” Paramount Classics in Association with Concert Productions International and Shangri-La Entertainment Presents A Martin Scorsese Picture “Shine a Light” starring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood. The film is directed by Martin Scorsese. The producers are Victoria Pearman, Michael Cohl, Zane Weiner and Steve Bing. The executive producers are Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood. This film has been rated PG-13 for brief strong language, drug references and smoking. © 2008 by RST Concerts, Inc. All Rights Reserved. From my interview with Keith: Keith Richards is also a major fan of Scorsese’s and says he’s studied “every one of his movies. Some of them I know most of the dialogue,” he says. “All I heard was that Marty might be shooting the Stones, and I said, ‘Yeah!’ Given the opportunity to get a Stones show shot by a master, who’s going to say no?” Richards and the Stones have been no strangers to the cinematic treatment by film masters. Of the more than 18 documentaries that have been made about them, “Shine A Light” is one of more than half a dozen helmed by an “auteur.” There was 1968’s Jean-Luc Godard activist-arriviste take on the band, “Sympathy for the Devil: One Plus One”; Robert Frank’s very-limited release (it was shown publicly perhaps three times) documentary about their debauched life on the road, “Cocksucker Blues”; Peter Whitehead’s 1966 art-scene film “Charlie is My Darling”; The Maysles Brothers’ “Gimme Shelter”; and Hal Ashby’s “Let’s Spend the Night Together.” Film scholar that he is, Richards says “Don’t forget ‘Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll,’” Taylor Hackford’s documentary about a legendary Chuck Berry concert, in which Richards appeared and also co-produced. “To me, ‘Shine A Light’ is on a par with that film. It’s different because it’s a Stones show but it’s a very superior rock ’n roll film.” And why was that one so important to him as a performer and as an artist? “Actually, to me,” says Richards, “what was really intriguing was getting Marty’s take on it, and his vision. To me, the thing was that Martin Scorsese wanted to do something, and I thought, well, he must have something in mind that is beyond the usual sort of video scan. So I really wanted to find out what Marty wanted.” Who would have guessed that beneath the guise of the ultimate rock ‘n roll outlaw beat the heart of a cinematheque-denizen film scholar who wanted nothing more than to please a master auteur? “When you’re actually up there doing the work, you really pass all of that onto the director so that in a way, you just do what you do and try to do it as well as you can, and at the end you see whether you did it or not and then you stop to see – ahh! his vision of it,” observes Richards. “As it slowly unfolded with “Shine A Light” – Marty’s great use of old footage and live footage, for instance, had a great feel about it. It slowly dawns on you as you’re watching it. Otherwise, you have no idea. You can’t climb inside of somebody else’s brain.” At this point in the conversation, Keith says, “Lord knows, there’s been people trying to get into my brain, but that was a necessity,” referring to his own brain salad surgery. From the Production Notes for the movie “Shine A Light” Noe Gold, aka Noe the G is featured for his interviews with Mick and Keith in the Mahalo Daily show’s report on the Martin Scorsese Rolling Stones movie “Shine a Light,” which opens stateside April 4, 2008. Check out the episode here . P.S. Please check out my latest links … This just in: > “}}}}));> Noe Gold, aka Noe the G is now a regular contributor to Fancast.com, an entertainment news website sponsored by the movie-obsessed Fandango service. His blog kicks off with his interviews with Mick and Keith in a report on the Martin Scorsese-Rolling Stones movie ‘Shine a Light,’ which opened stateside April 4, 2008: bigpicture.fancast.com/2008/04/fancast_interview_mick_jag… . > “}}}}):;> Noe was interviewed about how he came to talk to Mick and Keith on the Mahalo Daily show’s episode here: daily.mahalo.com/2008/04/04/md093-shine-a-light-exclusive… [ http://daily.mahalo.com/2008/04/04/md093-shine-a-light-exclusive-footage-and-interviews/ ] April 4, 2008 — Mahalo Daily, (http://daily.mahalo.com/) ranks consistently in the top five podcasts on iTunes. We recently put out a video which reached 350,000+ views on YouTube, and was most viewed for several days. There will be more from my Mick & Keef conversations here. So whaddayasay, Guitar World flickr-ites? should we do it? will there be an audience for this sort of thing? Lemme know. Continue reading →
