Songbirds - A Documentary on Prime Video

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Maybe this is old news but I just watched this and was amazed. So much guitar history. So many great artists. Sad that it had to end, but inspired and grateful that it even happened.

Songbirds

Worth signing up for Prime, or at least a free trial. More info here on their Facebook page:

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Oooo, I'll have to check that out, thanks!
 

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"A victim of the pandemic", just a third visible now of what it used to be five years ago...
"The museum was reopened in 2021 as a non-profit led by Executive Director Reed Caldwell. The Songbirds museum is now a music venue and museum which displays about 550 guitars.":






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I watched this last night and honestly found it pretty frustrating. For what is described as the biggest/best/most impressive collection of solidbody guitars in the world, they sure didn't show much of it. They talked about how the guitars themselves are the stars and how they don't like to focus on star owned guitars....then the only case in the whole collection where they go through all of them one by one was the star owned guitars! Lol. Heck, some local yokel who bought a lifetime membership got more airtime than any guitar in the place. Seems all I kept seeing was a tracking dolly shot of the same case of all the explorers and firebirds in every color/finish available. Never saw the VIP room, the green room, no walls full of LP's and ES's. They showed almost an entire song played by a local band in their concert venue. Ugh. I just wish they would have taken 1/2 the sit down face to face interview footage w/ the curators/talent purchasers/visitors....and just used that audio to put on top of a comprehensive virtual walkthrough tour of more of that collection. It was said several times during the film that with them closing their doors for good, the world will likely never see a collection of that magnitude/importance ever again.....and the way that film was shot/edited, we still haven't seen it, and now never will. 😔

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I watched this last night and honestly found it pretty frustrating.
Agreed! Even Mrs. Jaguar didn't understand what they were trying to say - we're a museum, we're a performance venue, we're historians and curators, we're supporting young guitarists, we want people to play vintage guitars. Way too disjointed. Just watch the first 15-20 minutes and then turn it off.
 
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