not logged in
| re: John Travolta And The Doors | |
Posted by:  |
rockfenris2005 05:56 am UTC 10/24/13 |
| In reply to: | re: John Travolta And The Doors - steven_stuart 03:41 am UTC 10/24/13 |
> > > I am still most interested in what the Jim/De Palma film > > > from the point of view of a guitar would have been like. > > > > Brian wasn't involved with that. "Guitar" is another > > project. > > Oh right. Evan wrote: "I seem to remember an article from > way back where Jim mentioned a project between himself and > De Palma centered around the story of an electric guitar. > The film would've taken place from the guitar's point of > view through all the great eras or rock music." > > That sounds quite interesting. Who was Jim doing that > with? Here's a quote from Jim about the project: "But then there's a song - the third song on the album which is really not so much a song as a speech - a sort of spoken fantasy called Love And Death And An American Guitar. And I was really influenced by The Doors. I know I loved The Doors growing up and they did stuff like this and no-one's been doing it since and I wanted to do a spoken piece when the rhythm wasn't coming from the drums so much as the voice - the rhythm of the spoken voice and the heartbeat behind it. So this piece is part of a movie I'm writing called Guitar which is really the life story of one Fender electric guitar - the first Telecaster guitar from 1953 to 1986. I don't know if you saw the movie? There's a movie made a couple of years ago called The Yellow Rolls Royce. And there' s been a few of the style. That one followed one yellow Rolls Royce down through like 30 years and all the people who owned it and four different stories. Well, this one follows this one electric guitar from 1953 to 1986, and it's narrated by the guitar. The guitar tells the story itself. I've been writing the narration of the guitar. That's the most fun of it because it's great to hear the voice of the guitar speaking and it basically tells you its life from 1953 to 1986 and by doing that you not only get an adventure story about what happens to the guitar - I mean, who owns it, who loses it, who finds it, who steals it, how they use it, how they abuse it, the people who exploit it, the ones who exalt it and worship it, the ones who hate it, try to destroy it. It's used to smuggle drugs. It's used as a murder weapon and it just has an amazing life and you hear an entire history of the music over that 30 year period. Through the guitar sounds you can hear everything that happened in rock'n'roll and pop music and beyond that. If it's done well it becomes a saga of a history of America because it's set in America - of how America changed over those 30 years, because when you think about it, the sounds of the guitar represent the sounds of the country in which it exists. I means the minute you hear Jimi Hendrix you know that has something to do with the late '60's. That music sounded that way because the world was a certain way. When you hear the kind of music Clapton's playing now, you know it is a much kind of more passive, mellower age and when you hear Townshend - the kind of music that The Who did in the early '60's - it's a lot more violent than the music they're doing now, and you really get a sense of the kinds of - you know, the way the times change. So you get a sort of adventure about the guitar, a history of the music and a saga about the country and the world and all this narrated by the guitar. And plus, I see a lot of it filmed from the guitar's point of view, like in Jaws when you see things from the shark's point of view through the water. l see a lot of it like if you were inside the guitar like someone reaches out - Like a great sequence where the Hendrix character tries to play it by, you know biting the strings, by setting fire to it, and you're inside the guitar and you can imagine the disgust of the guitar that has lighter fluid - the guitar has a great attitude to all of this. It's very sarcastic. It's like the computer Hal in 2001. It's attitude to the whole thing is sort of like "none of you are really good enough to play me"... | |
| URL: | BBC ROCK HOUR SPECIAL: JIM STEINMAN |
| reply | | |
| Previous: | re: John Travolta And The Doors - steven_stuart 03:41 am UTC 10/24/13 |
| Next: | re: De Palma - steven_stuart 01:57 am UTC 10/22/13 |
| Thread: | |