DVD-The Guitar Of Paul Brady

Starring:Paul Brady
Studio: Homespun Tapes
Product Type: DVD

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Paul Brady has chosen ten of his most popular songs - four traditional and six original - and teaches the elements that make his powerful guitar arrangements unique. He demonstrates his various tunings, chord voicings, chord shapes and the driving rhythms he achieves with his flatpick-and-fingers approach. In addition, Paul discusses important aspects of his background, history, influences, and the vocal technique and musical ideas that have given his artistry its singular impact.

Paul's arrangements of such traditional Irish songs as "Lakes of Pontchartrain," "Arthur McBride and the Sergeant," "I Am a Youth That's Inclined to Ramble" and "Mary and the Soldier" have achieved legendary status. For the first time, he takes each one apart to show the alternate tunings, harmonies, moving lines, picking techniques and other skills necessary to play them with the harmonically rich and compelling sounds that have long been his trademark.

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Bizarre & hysterical.......2007-03-26

The finest lesbian western ever! Watch it as a simple entertainment or as a wonderland of Freudian symbolism; either way you'll be mesmerized and astonished. Highly recommended!

Crawford vs. McCambridge.......2007-02-27

As Westerns go, they don't come more offbeat than this. There's more Freud than tumbleweed in this one. Actually I think there was quite a bit of tumbleweed when I think about it. In any case director Nicholas Ray once again comes up with a strange one. But I think Sam Fuller has Nicholas Ray beat with his FORTY GUNS.

Western where women rule.......2006-05-14

I first saw this movie some years ago and completely fall in love with it. The story, the actors, the directing, cinematography, et caetera.

Joan Crawford's Vienna & Mercedes McCambridge's Emma are the most unbelievable woman characters in Western movies. At first we see them both wearing colours for each state of the spirit. Vienna in black. Emma in green. It's a diversion from Nicholas Ray. In the course of the film the costumes colours are changed to match the true nature of the characters.

I think Emma is THE most evil woman character in cinema history. Those evil eyes when she spread fire over 'Vienna's Saloon' is speechless... And - now - she wears black and Vienna a long bright white dress.

In a very fabulous 'camp' aesthetic, 'Johnny Guitar' is unique.

Guitar... Johnny Guitar........2006-02-17

This is an old school western with a tough as nails lady who owns a saloon against a town of overbearing, gas bag, judgemental townsfolk. The movie is a wonderful trip back in time to a simpler hollywood where good guys are tall rugged and handsome and play a mean guitar. The women are as rough and tumble and can sling a six gun as fast as any man and Ernest Borgnine is a big old barrel chested gorilla that will brawl with the hero toe to toe, fist a flyin'. Sterling Hayden is the perfect hero and Joan Crawford with her big eyes and quick draw delivery is perfect as the heroine. This movie is a fun western and I highly recommend it.

What does it mean to be a man?.......2006-01-17

What does it mean to BE a MAN? Vienna (Joan Crawford), saloon owner, independent thinker, proto feminist, ambitious enough to own the world and lover of REAL men, will tell you. How do you make a great movie? Study Nicholas Ray VERY carefully and this film in particular. A transcendent, stunning film, which is a rich viewing experience, it is also worthy of study. Not a wasted word, rich characters played at full tilt by all concerned - Ernest Borgine the baddest and you can tell by his lousy hat; Scott Brady the miner and gang leader whose handsome and upright character is held in a little doubt because he is a left hand draw; Mercedes Cambridge (Emma) a bundle of unadulterated EMOTION, including LUST, HATE, ENVY; Sterling Hayden who PLAYS Johnny Logan aka Johnny Guitar, the tallest handsomest fastest wittiest hero who also SINGS and plays guitar meaning he also has a SOUL but man, DO NOT get him riled! The small parts include such luminaries as John Carradine and Ward Bond. But it may be Joan Crawford's greatest role as VIENNA. Strong? this woman will stand against a TOWN, ALONE. Sexy? She has had many men but none worthy of her libido to hang around for long, except for Johnny who has returned to claim her. Good employer? She pays and pays well, and gets the greatest loyalty from her staff who are willing and do, DIE for her - occupational health and safety considerations are set aside for Vienna. She is ALL woman and ALL man as well.
As well, there is MURDER, MAYHEM, MOB FURY, ORATORY, HOLDUPS (Bank and Stage coach), GOLD, SILVER, MOUNTAINS EXPLODING, UNDERGROUND TUNNELS, FIST FIGHTS, SECRET HIDEOUTS through WATERFALLS, GAMBLING, HANGING, FORGIVENESS, REDEMPTION, SACRIFICE, and LOVE TRIUMPHANT.
There is also a HAUNTING music theme, lurid photography, costumes to delight, and MUCH MORE.
This film is a transendent movie experience and if it is true that Mr Scorsese likes the film I can understand why.

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Release Date: 2004-02-01

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Paul Brady has chosen ten of his most popular songs - four traditional and six original - and teaches the elements that make his powerful guitar arrangements unique. He demonstrates his various tunings, chord voicings, chord shapes and the driving rhythms he achieves with his flatpick-and-fingers approach. In addition, Paul discusses important aspects of his background, history, influences, and the vocal technique and musical ideas that have given his artistry its singular impact.

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"I've never seen a woman who was more like a man," a character observes of Vienna (Joan Crawford), who has just opened a saloon that hasn't exactly endeared itself to the local townspeople. Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed, lynch-happy harpy, is particularly displeased. Vienna is wooed both by the Dancin' Kid (Scott Brady) and by Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a peripatetic tough guy-turned-troubadour with whom she has a past.

When the Kid's gang (which includes Ernest Borgnine) decides to knock over the bank before heading to California, Emma wants just about everyone in sight on the business end of a rope. Nicolas Ray's 1954 epic was considered one of the downright strangest Westerns of all time--the women were far tougher than the men (Johnny watches on laconically during the bank robbery, not bothering with heroics), and some saw in the film a bizarre allegory for the McCarthy Red scare. A half-century later, it's still a curious, intriguing piece of moral ambiguity from a time when such a thing ostensibly didn't exist. Hayden is an enigmatic presence, and Crawford's commanding star turn is what you'd expect. --David Kronke

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I'd put my money on Joan .......2007-01-11

Joan Crawford really is the actress of the 20th Century. In the 1950's during a boring time in her career she decided to re-invent herself as a western rebel in "Johnny Guitar."

Joan plays saloon owner Vienna who's just as tough and heavy-fisted as the men that frequent her bar. Vienna's nemesis is the equally butch Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge.) Emma wants to run Vienna out of town because she believes that she is a wonton women that was behind her brother's death.

The personal hatred between Joan and Ms. McCambridge was very real. I think that's what made their characters so interesting to watch. Anyone looking at them shoot each other down can tell that they each had pure spite in their eyes. Both ladies were desperately jealous of each other (both on the silver screen and off!) I love the part in the middle of the film when Vienna is standing on the stars in her saloon and Emma says to her "I'm going to kill you..." and Vienna says, "not if I kill you first..." If I was a betting man I'd put my money on Joan to win this battle!

This is a fantastic movie that is very wholesome and pleasant to watch. Also it projects a different mage of women as western rebels which may have been one of the first movies of its genre...?

Johnny Guitar - The spoof musical.......2006-09-29

Very well put together spoof of westerns put together as a musical.
I watched this production this year at the Cedar City Fall theatre festival. Well done and funny/

Sex, dominant women and death, 50's style!.......2006-08-24

Emotions run high in a small western town where the civilizing influence of the railroad has not quite arrived. Untamed outlaws rob the stagecoach and the local bank, and frontier justice in the form of lynching is still a matter of course.

In the center of local controversy is Vienna (Joan Crawford), a woman who has used her wicked wiles to build enough capital to invest in a saloon where the train has plans to build a depot. The locals are angry at the changes the train will cause in their lifestyle. One woman in particular, Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), has a maniacal jealousy of Vienna's flagrant sexuality, power and beauty. Emma is driven to insanely accuse Vienna of every crime committed locally. The arrival of a guitar playing cowboy, a former lover of Vienna, does nothing to endear the locals to Vienna's cause.

The story takes place at the culmination of tensions in this town--every scene is played for maximum dramatic value. In an intruiging introduction to the film by Martin Scorcese, he points out that the color scheme was designed to show primarily black and red to highlight its "operatic sensibility." Directed by the iconic director, Nicolas Ray and played to the hilt by Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge, Johnny Guitar fascinates in its intensity. A must-see for cinemaphiles but could be a turn-off to classic western fans!

Joan At Her Best!.......2006-03-15

I loved this movie.Its one of Miss Crawford's finest.Lots of camp and fun.Does anyone know of a release date for this title on dvd in the U.S.? Or what, if any studio is planning "Johnny Guitar" to release? Aloha Craig

Crawford and McCambridge in the blueprint for "Mommie Dearest".......2005-10-29

JOHNNY GUITAR is a very enjoyable western melodrama with Joan Crawford, strikingly filmed in colour, as Vienna the misunderstood saloon owner who spearheads the drive for a railroad to be built through her small town. She comes under the hatred and scorn of her fellow townsfolk, not the least of which a scary pariah called Emma Small (played wonderfully by Mercedes McCambridge in another of her trademark characters with bull-dyke tendencies). Vienna's only help lies in her former love, Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden). When Vienna is accused of taking part in a robbery it sets into motion a chain of events that could end in her lynching...

This film is a hair's breath from being high-camp. Joan Crawford plays Vienna in her usual style, exchanging insults and threats with McCambridge in the film's most memorable scenes. A choice line of McCambridge is "She's nuthin' but a railroad tramp". Watching their scenes made me think of Faye Dunaway and Diana Scarwid in MOMMIE DEAREST, they seem to create the same energy on screen, perhaps they watched JOHNNY GUITAR in preparing for their performances?...

JOHNNY GUITAR is more than a western, and a must-see for fans of Crawford.

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