Electric guitar documentary

[cockroach]

This may have been posted before, quite interesting , especially the young chap who is a Hank fan...

https://youtu.be/RKxyibNOtAs?t=

[Moderne]

Thanks for posting! This was originally part of a science series on Channel 4 called Equinoxe - I remember watching it in 1987 when it came out and recording it on a videotape! My friends and I marvelled at Jerry Donahue's version of The Claw (this was several years before he became one of the Hellecasters - anyone remember them backing Hank at Wembley in about 1996 at a guitar show?..Jerry had a stroke last year and may never play guitar again, apparently ) were fascinated by the Burns factory clip (from Look at Life, I believe) and the bit where Unit Four Plus Two perform Never Been in Love Like This Before... At the time there hadn't been anything on telly which explored the "limitless possibilities between strings and fretboard" - as 'Q' magazine put it when they issued their 'Guitarists' supplement around the same time - which included a great pic of Hank (+ Burns Marvin) and Cliff doing Throw Down a Line on TOTP... Sorry - I've got carried away. I was 23 then...I'm 54 now.

[Uncle Fiesta]

At about 8 minutes in, at the Burns factory, didn't I hear the voice over telling us that the body had to be GROUTED?

[JimN]

At about 8 minutes in, at the Burns factory, didn't I hear the voice over telling us that the body had to be GROUTED?

Probably a Tyler guitar...

[Iain Purdon]

Saw what you did there!

I think the clipped voice actually said "routed"

(... almost as if they were real musical instruments...)

[cockroach]

Saw what you did there!

I think the clipped voice actually said "routed"

(... almost as if they were real musical instruments...)

Yes- the commentator's words in the later documentary were copied from those in the Pathe (I think) documentary short film about Burns manufacture which had such ignorant mocking comments...