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.