IDS 101: Electric Guitar: Films & Recordings

A young classically trained guitarist learns the blues from an old bluesman who supposedly got his talent to play the blues from the devil.

A comedy "rockumentary" about the English group Spinal Tap, as they embark on a crazy and chaotic nationwide tour.

A diehard rock guitarist/slacker fakes his way into a teaching position where he turns his fifth graders into a rock group who compete in a battle of the bands.

[Music by Eric Clapton].Two unemployed buddies who convert a dilapidated van into Bimbo's Burgers, a mobile fast-food joint selling fish and chips and hamburgers.

Rock opera musical version of the last days of Jesus Christ

The story of the electric guitar: from its invention in the 1930s straight through to the digital guitars of the future. Through a series of guitar stories, we will meet all kinds of people - from rock stars, to congressmen, CEOs, and teenage virtuosos - to try to understand their emotional connection to their guitars and their quest for perfect tone.

A performance of improvised dance and music, featuring dancers Mao Arata and Makoto Matsushima and musicians Mike Nord and Georg Hofmann.

Features Wes, in intimate studio settings, leading three different lineups through some of his best-known tunes. This rare footage illuminates Wes's extraordinary musical vocabulary and unconventional picking technique.

Born on the plantations of the Mississippi Delta, the blues is America's root music.

Mike Nord, composer, performer.; Georg Hofmann, composer, performer.; Andreas Stahel, composer, performer

A three-part composition for a large electric guitar orchestra written to be performed in the basilica of Sacré-Cœur (Paris) to take advantage of the building's 15-second reverberation.

An electric adaptation of a guitar trio (all played by Josel) and channels the propulsive nature of Flamenco rhythms.