Nashville the movie

[Daniel Iribarren]

I just saw Nashville, a great film by Robert Altman from the mid seventies. There was a lot of great players and tunes throughout, and most looked like it was shot live. I was just curious if anyone would know who sitting behind the steel, it looked like the same player more or less throughout the film. I think I recognized Lloyd Green in one shot of a recording session.

[Cliff Kane]

I think that in the same studio scene where Lloyd Green is playing pedal steel, Jeff Newman is playing banjo.

[Sonny Priddy]

The Steel Player In The Movie Nashville Most Of The Time was STU BASORE. SONNY.

[Bob Blair]

Yeah, Stu Basore with Ronee Blakey's band. And Lloyd in the studio scene with Jeff on banjo. But also there is a shot of Doug Jernigan in a club scene, and Weldon himself may have been on the Opry scene.

[Alan Brookes]

I first saw that film in Antwerp, Belgium, just after it came out. It had French and Dutch subtitles. The sound was so bad that I couldn't understand the English soundtrack and I was reading the Dutch and French subtitles. Ironically, when I was able to understand the English I noticed that the original soundtrack and the subtitles differed enormously. There was no direct translation. The three different languages had three completely different scripts ! Fortunately the music made the whole thing entertaining, but the script was awful...

[Micky Byrne]

Great movie, I still have it on video cassette. Yes there were scenes of Lloyd, Doug and Stu Basore on it. Quite a humourous movie in parts and Karen Black doing some great acting as a singer. My band at the time did many numbers from that film....like "It don't worry me" .. "I'm easy" .. "Tapedeck in his tractor"

Micky Byrne United Kingdom

[Mark van Allen]

Great movie, strange and fun, with some great musical moments. I can imagine several Nashville icons being not particularly flattered by somewhat obvious riffs on their personalities! There's a great shot on the riverboat section where Stu is doing flawless backup to a Ronee Blakely tune, ending with a harmonic run at the very end of the tune, and he muffs the very last note. You can clearly see him cussin'. Priceless.

[Daniel Iribarren]

Thanks to all for the info. There were some great musical moments indeed in the film, and in watching it again I realized that really most of the music footage was indeed shot live, not lip-synced. A very nice touch I think, and something you never see in feature films. Great players. I'm going to try and cop some licks from Stu now.

[Alan Brookes]

Daniel: did the version you saw have German subtitles ? If so, did they follow the English script ?

[Daniel Iribarren]

Alan, I had to buy the DVD through Amazon US and so the version I saw had no subtitles at all. I have wanted to see this film for a long time but it unavailable in Europe and never released here because of problems with music copyrights.

[Alan Brookes]

Maybe I should buy the DVD. As I said, I watched the movie in a cinema in Antwerp and the soundtrack was really garbled.

[Dave Harmonson]

I always enjoyed Nashville the movie, but have you noticed a lot of non musicians just didn't get it. Plus Robert Altman was famous for a lot of subtlety. For those of us who like dry humor it was great. One of my favorite scenes was when that little folk group finally got a gig at the Nashville Speedway and you can't hear a thing they play. I haven't played in conditions quite that bad, but I think I've been close a time or two.

[chris ivey]

alan...hope you get to see the normal american version sometime....nice and shallow with a parodoxical slant. great music and view of the modern music vs. personal/artistic point of view.
doug jernigan, vassar clements, pig robbins, lloyd green, stu basore...was pete drake in there?