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Post subject: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 6:29 pm
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The Train is A'Comin on Tuesday's American Masters show, DVRs to the ready.


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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 7:16 pm
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+1 can't wait to discuss it with all my fender friends


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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 8:33 pm
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Thanks very much for the heads up my TV will be set up for that for sure.

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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 11:06 pm
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Excuse me while I go on a rant. YES it is great PBS is doing this. But, can you imagine PBS, the stuffy PBS of 1969 doing this when it was actually happening LIVE? They were running Alistair Cooke. It would never have happened.

Now WE have the money. PBS wants our money. You can bet your bottom pledge week dollar that they will go on a non-stop beg-a-thon all during the Jimi Hendrix special. "For $100 you get a CD of all this great music!" "For $300 you get a Blu-Ray disc of Jimi's actual performance!"

Funny as all get out to me! Radio stations will not play this music because "nobody will listen to it." However when PBS needs to raise money, big money...what does PBS put on? The very music radio stations don't play because nobody would listen to it.

What radio stations really mean is nobody ages 12 to 24 will listen to it. They should be honest and say that.

I'm telling you an inside advertising thing here. Advertising agencies do NOT care one whit about ANY ratings except 12 to 24. If you are over 25 they just don't care. Demographics 35+ are a joke to them. They'd might as well buy newspaper ads.

However the 35+ crowd actually has the money to spend. Or in PBS's case donate. Ad agency logic is that once you hit 25 and certainly by 35 your buying patterns are set for life. By 35 you have a favorite bank, car insurance company, washing machine brand, beer, soda, coffee, bacon, brand of blue jeans, laundry detergent, deodorant, automobile and everything else. You are no longer easily fooled into trying something "new and improved." After you hit 35 there is little advertising can do to sway your allegiance to brand X short of brand X going out of business.

It galls me no end that radio stations no longer play this stuff, at least around here, but whenever PBS needs a huge cash injection they know HOW to get the cash! Give the people with the cash what they want and they'll be so flabbergasted that someone is actually putting it on TV that they'll open up their checkbook and "invest" in the ONLY medium that gives them what they want!

If there is less than 20 minutes per hour dedicated to begging for cash on this broadcast I'd be amazed. The ONLY reason they are doing this broadcast is to get cash. PBS knows who has the cash. Anytime there is actually a music program on PBS that appeals to me other than "Austin City Limits" it doesn't take me but a nanosecond to realize why it is on there.

But I could be wrong. But I'm probably not.


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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:48 am
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brotherdave wrote:
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I'm 12-24 and listen to it? I've heard machine gun in its entirety on a local radio station (probably because the host needed to hit the head lol).


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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:58 am
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brotherdave-i am with you on this. that is why i'm recording it to watch later. skip right thru the begging.

reminds me of a fund raiser our local opera used to have. they would bring in a 60's or 70's band around like rare earth, charge admission, and have a pizza contest to raise money. if they had the same event with opera playing and some fancy food, the crowd would be much smaller.


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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 4:34 am
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DVR will be ready...some preview clips:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters ... ence/2747/

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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:39 am
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Our local PBS affiliate is showing it in this market at the proper time!! I'm amazed. Most music-related shows get shuffled to other time slots . . . except during the Beg-A-Thons. Austin City Limits comes on at 11:00p here. Hard to keep my poor old eyes open.


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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:52 am
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I love Brother Dave's rant. Unfortunately, in many respects, we have become our parents and have acquired the assets as well. Draft card burners turned conservatives. Do remember Joe Franklin's Memory Lane. Same generational retrospective format.
In this case, you've already paid for the show through your tax dollars. Sit back and enjoy it.

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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:25 pm
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TheMaxwell wrote:
brotherdave wrote:
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I'm 12-24 and listen to it? I've heard machine gun in its entirety on a local radio station (probably because the host needed to hit the head lol).


You are one of the few in the 12-24 demo with any taste. LOL. And that local station should be syndicated nationwide! LOL.


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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:17 am
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I really enjoyed the program.

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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:28 am
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i liked the show. i don't care what station they show stuff like this on, i'm not giving them any money anyway. i thought the show had a good look to it, it looked like they cleaned up the footage and the sound. . jimi's always "groovy" in my book.


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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:33 am
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And it was an awesome documentary. I learned a lot about Jimi and there was no begging. I watched about an hour of it when my wife sat down and exercised her veto right. So I'll have to watch the rest in the next day or so. But what I saw was great.

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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 8:00 am
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I thought the piece was very well thought out and executed. Dweezil Zappa's remarks were quite cogent. Jimi gave Frank Zappa one of the concert burned Strats, and Dweezil has since resurrected it {not shown or spoken of here}.

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Post subject: Re: Jimi on PBS
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 9:02 am
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Enjoyed the program myself.
I thought it gave good insight to his background, the course he took to get to where he was and what he might be trying to accomplish.
I liked how all the people that were close to him commented on how he always had a guitar in his hands.

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