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Topic: Nashville the movie |
Daniel Iribarren
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Berlin, Germany
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Posted 6 Jan 2008 4:02 pm |
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| I just saw Nashville, a great film by Robert Altman from the mid seventies. There was a lot of great players and tunes throughout, and most looked like it was shot live. I was just curious if anyone would know who sitting behind the steel, it looked like the same player more or less throughout the film. I think I recognized Lloyd Green in one shot of a recording session. |
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Cliff Kane
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the late great golden state
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Posted 6 Jan 2008 4:06 pm
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| I think that in the same studio scene where Lloyd Green is playing pedal steel, Jeff Newman is playing banjo. |
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Sonny Priddy
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Elizabethtown, Kentucky, USA, R.I.P.
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Posted 6 Jan 2008 4:12 pm movie nashville
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| The Steel Player In The Movie Nashville Most Of The Time was STU BASORE. SONNY. |
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Bob Blair
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 6 Jan 2008 7:05 pm
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| Yeah, Stu Basore with Ronee Blakey's band. And Lloyd in the studio scene with Jeff on banjo. But also there is a shot of Doug Jernigan in a club scene, and Weldon himself may have been on the Opry scene. |
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Alan Brookes
From:
Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 7 Jan 2008 8:00 pm
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I first saw that film in Antwerp, Belgium, just after it came out. It had French and Dutch subtitles. The sound was so bad that I couldn't understand the English soundtrack and I was reading the Dutch and French subtitles. Ironically, when I was able to understand the English I noticed that the original soundtrack and the subtitles differed enormously. There was no direct translation. The three different languages had three completely different scripts ! Fortunately the music made the whole thing entertaining, but the script was awful...  |
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Micky Byrne
From:
United Kingdom (deceased)
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Posted 8 Jan 2008 1:44 pm Re: Nashville the movie
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Great movie, I still have it on video cassette. Yes there were scenes of Lloyd, Doug and Stu Basore on it. Quite a humourous movie in parts and Karen Black doing some great acting as a singer. My band at the time did many numbers from that film....like "It don't worry me" .. "I'm easy" .. "Tapedeck in his tractor"
Micky Byrne United Kingdom |
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Mark van Allen
From:
Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 8 Jan 2008 4:48 pm
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| Great movie, strange and fun, with some great musical moments. I can imagine several Nashville icons being not particularly flattered by somewhat obvious riffs on their personalities! There's a great shot on the riverboat section where Stu is doing flawless backup to a Ronee Blakely tune, ending with a harmonic run at the very end of the tune, and he muffs the very last note. You can clearly see him cussin'. Priceless. |
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Daniel Iribarren
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Berlin, Germany
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Posted 9 Jan 2008 1:42 pm
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| Thanks to all for the info. There were some great musical moments indeed in the film, and in watching it again I realized that really most of the music footage was indeed shot live, not lip-synced. A very nice touch I think, and something you never see in feature films. Great players. I'm going to try and cop some licks from Stu now. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 9 Jan 2008 6:22 pm
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| Daniel: did the version you saw have German subtitles ? If so, did they follow the English script ? |
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Daniel Iribarren
From:
Berlin, Germany
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Posted 10 Jan 2008 2:01 pm
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| Alan, I had to buy the DVD through Amazon US and so the version I saw had no subtitles at all. I have wanted to see this film for a long time but it unavailable in Europe and never released here because of problems with music copyrights. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 10 Jan 2008 7:08 pm
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| Maybe I should buy the DVD. As I said, I watched the movie in a cinema in Antwerp and the soundtrack was really garbled. |
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Dave Harmonson
From:
Seattle, Wa
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Posted 10 Jan 2008 7:18 pm
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| I always enjoyed Nashville the movie, but have you noticed a lot of non musicians just didn't get it. Plus Robert Altman was famous for a lot of subtlety. For those of us who like dry humor it was great. One of my favorite scenes was when that little folk group finally got a gig at the Nashville Speedway and you can't hear a thing they play. I haven't played in conditions quite that bad, but I think I've been close a time or two. |
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chris ivey
From:
california (deceased)
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Posted 10 Jan 2008 7:22 pm
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alan...hope you get to see the normal american version sometime....nice and shallow with a parodoxical slant. great music and view of the modern music vs. personal/artistic point of view.
doug jernigan, vassar clements, pig robbins, lloyd green, stu basore...was pete drake in there? |
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