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Frets Picks: TV Concert & Music Highlights Sep 21-27

Spinal Tap

Spinal Tap

A slightly condensed version this week, but it does go up to 11.

Palladia is showing This is Spinal Tap 5pm Fri and 11am Sat.  So is VH1 Classic (9pm Fri & 2pm Sat).

VH1 CL is showing the amazing The Strat Pack Live at Wembley Arena 11am & 11pm Fri and 8am Sat.

HDNET Highlights: Satriani Live (1pm Thu) and Peter Frampton Live in Detroit (8pm Sun).

Palladia is  airing Soundstage with Matchbox Twenty, John Mayer, Counting Crowes, and Robert Plant.

PBS is showing Soundstage with Stevie Nicks & Foreigner.

Classic Albums (on VH1 Classic) includes: Cream Disraeli Gears, Nirvana Nevermind, Metallica Metallica, Judas Priest British Steel, & Def Leppard Hysteria.  VH1 CL is showing Led Zeppelin’s the Song Remains the Same on Sunday.

Austin City Limits (PBS) this week is John Mayer (4pm Sun).

Frets Picks: TV Concert & Music Highlights Sep 14-20

Dave Matthews

Dave Matthews

Tavis Smiley will interview Dave Matthews on his show Monday night (PBS – Check local listings).  DMB will also perform on the Late Show with Conan O’Brien Monday night (11:35pm), and perform on Ellen DeGeneres Wednesday (2pm).  HDNET is featuring Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City Music Hall - The duo performs in New York City, including songs never recorded by the two (1pm Fri).

The Science Channel is showing Big Electric Guitar – Rock musician Peter Frampton joins the team for a public exposition of the 30-foot guitar (8am Mon).

VH1 Classic is airing BBC Crown Jewels: Chuck Berry (11am & 11pm Mon).

Ovation is airing Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll – James Brown, Ray Charles, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard perform the songs that made them famous. (3pm & 6pm Mon, 3am Tue)

Frets Picks: TV Concert & Music Highlights Sep 7-13

George HarrisonVH1 Classic is featuring George Harrison’s 1971 Concert for Bangladesh (Mon 8pm, Tue 10am & 10pm, Wed 6am, 8am, & 2pm, Th 12am) and the Concert for George organized by Eric Clapton on the first anniversary of George’s death in 2002 (Mon 9pm & 10pm, Tue 2pm, Wed 12pm). They’re also showing Blind Faith in Hyde Park (Fri 11am & 11pm),

PBS is airing Voces Tito Puente: The King of Latin Music this week, check local listings.

Palladia is highlighting V Fest 2009 this week, which features The Killers, Snow Patrol, MGMT, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga and The Ting Tings (Mon 9pm, Tue 12am & 1pm, Th 5:30pm).

The Wealth Channel is visiting the Taylor Guitars factory on Made in the USA (Mon 5pm , Th 1:30pm).

HDNET and VH1 Classic are showing One With Everything: Styx & the Contemporary Youth Orchestra of Cleveland (HDNET: Mon 1:55am, VH1CL: Fri 2am).

Frets Picks: TV Concert & Music Highlights Aug 31-Sep 6

Otis Redding

Otis Redding

The Science Channel is running a How It’s Made marathon Sunday 9/6, which includes electric guitars (8am) and guitar amplifiers (9:30am).  They’re also showing vinyl records (7am), drum heads (9am), drum shells & drums (10am), steel drums (12:30), carbon fibre cellos (1:30pm), and violins (5pm).

PBS is showing Austin City Limits “Tribute to Bluesman Jimmy Reed” – James Cotton, Delbert McClinton, Lou Ann Barton and others join guitarist Jimmie Vaughan to pay tribute to composer Jimmy Reed (check local listings).

Ovation is airing several episodes of the show Howard Goodall’s Big Bangs related to music, including the Invention of Musical Notation (8am & 11am Wed), Development of Equal Temperament (10am & 1pm Wed), History of the Piano (10am & 1pm Thu), & Development of Instruments to Record Sound (10am & 1pm Fri).

Lost Tapes: Me Playing Acoustic in 2007

I didn’t know this was being taped, and forgot it existed until I found it yesterday…me playing Pete Huttlinger’s arrangement of Josie and Laurence Juber’s tune Cobalt Blue at my company picnic 2 years ago.

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