Seven Ages of Rock documentary starts 19 May
 

BBC2, Saturday evenings, 9.10 pm - 10.10 pm, for seven weeks.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/

Cool thanks, I'm going to try to watch this.

yeah, saw this advertised last night on TV, it looks good.

let's hope they deliver

The BBC tends to do quite a good job with things like that.

I'd been determined all week to remember about this, but I had actually forgotten. So thanks for the reminder.

We saw a trailer last Saturday. It looks decent.

I expext it to be mainly rubbish. The Velvet Underground bit has only got footage from the psyciatric convention, for example.

How will they sleep at night? The shame of it!

I'm looking forward to it... though it'll basically be a refresher of rock history.... with loads of clips of paul morley talking about how much more clued into it than everyone else at the time.

Yeah, right.

A series on rock that manages to ignore Elvis, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard etc from the off? Hmmm....The Sabbaff episode should be good, hopefully.

Don't get me wrong, I like Sabbath, a lot, but I'm starting to find their recent over-exposure on TV shows a bit annoying. Obviously it's a result of the whole Osbournes phenomenon but they do seem to have eclipsed almost every other area of British metal - much of which, like Judas Priest or Iron Maiden, is arguably far more influential.

Not saying they don't deserve the recognition, but a bit of balance would be quite nice too.

^^^Maiden may get a mention, but not Judas Priest, or any of the other NWOBHM lot. They'd NEVER mention Venom either - another highly influential band. Perhaps you're right, maybe there should be a moratorium on not mentioning Ozzy et al for a bit.

I think he deserves to be mentioned, but he has sort of become (alongside possibly Lemmy) some kind of spokesperson for an entire genre. Re-writing history, the swines!

"History is written by the victors" (MellySingsDoom)
"What-eva" (those damn impudent young people of today)

I shall not rest until Diamond Head receive their just recognition.

demonrail666 lifts the sword of NWOBHM, and leads the tribes of bullet-belted denin-clad Uruk Hai to the Royal Standard in Walthamstow, where a Saxon tribute band are playing, as they do every week.

Christ, it's a dirty job but someone has to do it I suppose.

Now, what did I do with that Sweet Savage cassette?

black sabbath are over exposed these days are they?

I'd say so, yeah.

Tom Smith disapproves.

are they on tv and stuff these days? i haven't watched much tv in the last few years but i was slightly agrieved that after the initial success of the osbournes there was no return to the spotlight for black sabbath.

I'm with T&B on this. The Osbourne family is hideously overexposed, but not Sabbath. I bet you 99% of the nation would be unable to name one Sabbath track other than Paranoid.

The Osbournes tv show was like Cops - it's entertaining to watch, but nothing you live for or care to view again once it's been on. Sabbath on the other hand are fantastic listening. I grew up listening to that shit. Which reminds me, I must ask dad for his Sabbath vinyl if he don't mind.

Looks like it could be quite good. My VCR is on standby.

I think "meh" is an appropriate response to Episode 1.

Well enough put together, some good clips which are always good to see. But nothing new, in fact nothing we haven't heard countless times before.

Better than a poke in the eye though, I suppose.

Like Pookie already metioned, nothing new, but there was some live footage and interviews I had not seen before.

Although I will add that I found the first programme a very entertaining hour.

If you just view it for the live performances and the interviews, then you won't be disappointed.

And it was well put together.

AND, it's always good to be reminded what a fantastic band The Who were.

I quite enjoyed the programme. There was some great footage in there and some of the commentary linking different bands together and showing their shared influences was quite good. It could have done without the music journalists talking heads though.

It's repeated tonight, by the way, on BBC1 from 11pm to midnight UK time.

And Charles Shaar Murray is better to read than to look at.

There was some twat with a silly beard too. He could do with a heavy weight being dropped on his head from a great height. Just for the crime of having a silly beard. Oh, and an odd shaped face.

It did seem a fairly random selection of talking heads.

Still, could have been worse:

The guy from Rolling Stone magazine was also on the "Put The Blood In The Music" documentary. He hasn't changed at all in 18 or 19 years. And he wasn't very cool-looking 18 or 19 years ago.

He's been on so many things and yes, unfortunately for him, he never changes

That was awful! They never mentioned AMM! D':

which guy from rolling stone was it?

David(?) Fricke

Say what you will about these programmes (hehe) being wrong about this or that or remiss for leaving this or that artist out of the content, I just really love this series.

I've seen the first two, and I'm eagerly anticipating watching the third one, "Blank Generation." I'm settling in to enjoy it now.

I remembered we had a thread about this awhile back. I signed back on tonight to post here, but got side-tracked for a few minutes in the other thread.

I watched the Blank Generation episode yesterday evening - lots of great footage that I've never seen before, of Television and patti Smith for instance. Not terribly informative, but great to watch anyway.

next week... the heavy metal years. I am (without irony) hoping for some good Iron Maiden footage.

Part 1 and part 2 can be watched on here, and the quality is good. You just need to download the divx player, but it's well worth it:

http://stage6.divx.com/videos/search:seven+ages+of+rock