Wired For Sound - A Guitar Odyssey
As riveting a biography of a musical instrument as the life story of any of its most gifted practitioners WIRED FOR SOUND: A GUITAR ODYSSEY looks at the humble beginnings of the acoustic guitar in the Kalamazoo workshop of inventor Orville H. Gibson and its emergence from the shadows of the big band rhythm section to the center stage of blues country and rock-and-roll.WIRED FOR SOUND: A GUITAR ODYSSEYFeatures vintage performance footage and original testimonials from some of the greatest players in music history including John Lee Hooker Chet Atkins Les Paul Tom Petty B.B. King Peter Frampton Hank Williams Jr. Emmylou Harris Dave Matthews the Elvis Presley Trio’s Scotty Moore Grateful Dead founder Bob Weir The Who bassist John Entwistle The Rolling Stones’ Ron Wood and Smashing Pumpkins front man Billy Corgan.The Kings of Blues Rhythm and Blues Country and Western and Rock and Roll tell the amazing true story of the Gibson guitar and how it rocked their world.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 030306782898 Manufacturer No: DVD7828
Customer Review: A Gibson Guitar Tribute but great interviews!
Though released now in 2007 by MPI, this documentary was originally produced in 2000 to celebrate the Centennial of the Gibson Guitar Company. (That explains presence of now gone folks like Chet Atkins and why Les Paul looks younger?) Actually some of the Heavy Metal rock stars look, well let’s just say “mature” and more mellow. The array of big names that talk about their first guitar is impressive and there are a few full-length performances. The “early” - pre- rock - are given short shift though there is a nod to jazz legend Charlie Christian.
If you play electric guitar you’ll certainly want to get this disc - and will also understand the terminology used. (Nope, I can’t play guitar. Someone has to be a listener, right?)
Anyway, it good that it’s being made widely available. Sure wish there were some bonus features though. That would have made this FIVE STARS.
Steve Ramm
“Anything Phonographic”
Customer Review: A fun watch
Wired for Sound - A Guitar Odyssey is a very well put together history of the GIBSON guitar throughout the developement of Western Rock and Roll from the blues movement all the way to the Smashing Pumpkins. Although not a great documentary because of the lack of hard data there are interviews from many influential musicians from the last 40+ years. Strangely enough, in the story of the Gibson guitar in rock history nobody mentions Jimmy Page. “BUY NOW”