Conference napalm::guitar

614.0. "Cable TV show for Guitar Players" by DREGS::BLICKSTEIN (The height of MIDIocrity) Fri Apr 29 1988 13:13

    I understand that some cable company in NY is running a weekly show
    about guitar playing.  The lists of guests was mind-bogglingly
    impressive.  I think I'd like to have a tape of every single show.
    
    Can anyone provide details?
    
    I was thinking of lobbying my cable company to pick this up (if it's
    available) but I regret that it's probably hopeless:
    
    	1) They don't even provide the SportsChannel even though
    	   there's a few zillion Boston Celtics fans who have
    	   regularly bugged them for it.
    
    	2) Hudson, NH isn't exactly a guitar Mecca (so far as I
    	   know, there's me and Rik Sawyer...)
    
    	3) They haven't even run the cable to my neighborhood.
    	   This doesn't bother me cause I don't want it, but
    	   if they got this guitar show (and the Celtics) that
    	   might be enough for me to get it.
    
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    db,
    
      You may be thinking of a show I watch on the PBS station out of
    New Hampshire. It's is on Saturday afternoons around 3:00 or 4:00.
    It's called Rockschool, and has a lot of guests teaching to the
    camera. This may not be the show you're talking about, because it
    is not only for guitars, but for many different instruments.
    
      I catch it every now and then. The last on I saw was a couple
    of weeks ago, and was on sequencers and how to use them. Guests
    included Jan Hammer and Herbie Hancock.
    
    Alan S.
    
    (And you probably don't even need cable!)

    Nope,
    
    I know about ROckschool.  That ain't it.  There's a short article on this
    show in the current Guitar Player magazine.
    
    I got the distinct impression that this show is aimed at a higher
    level of player than Rockschool (which starts out by assuming that you
    do NOT know how to tune your guitar).
    
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