Crossroads had an alternate ending ...

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:22 pm

We all love the movie Crossroads, did you know it had an alternate ending? Check it out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K-AAmIH ... re=related

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 1:58 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smplqf0F ... h_response

Could the kid have played this?

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:01 pm

undercoverjoe wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smplqf0F ... h_response

Could the kid have played this?

Ralph Machio couldn't play Mary had a Little Lamb ..

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 2:11 pm

But Stevie could.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRDdnsax ... re=related

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 3:17 pm

Joe, that is one of my favorite songs from Stevie ..

Jasaoke · Post by **Jasaoke** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:26 pm

Chet makes it look effortless.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 6:54 pm

Chet made everything look effortless ..

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:02 pm

Steve Vai vs Ry Cooder (Crossroads Guitar Duel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4fdezFxZqc&feature=fvst

Ry Cooder, who did the guitar work on this for Ralph's part, is an incredible guitar player.

Remember this supergrouo called Little Village with Ry Cooder, John Haitt, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI37YTIO ... re=related

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:30 am

moxham123 wrote:Steve Vai vs Ry Cooder (Crossroads Guitar Duel)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4fdezFxZqc&feature=fvst

Ry Cooder, who did the guitar work on this for Ralph's part, is an incredible guitar player.

Remember this supergrouo called Little Village with Ry Cooder, John Haitt, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI37YTIO ... re=related

I understand that it was Arlen Roth who played the Ralph Macchio guitar parts. I love Ry Cooder, but he never had the chops to do the head cutting, quasi-classical guitar shredding scene.

Here is Arlen's own words about that movie.
http://arlenroth.com/html/crossroads.shtml

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:46 am

[/quote]I understand that it was Arlen Roth who played the Ralph Macchio guitar parts. I love Ry Cooder, but he never had the chops to do the head cutting, quasi-classical guitar shredding scene.

Here is Arlen's own words about that movie.
http://arlenroth.com/html/crossroads.shtml[/quote]

That is interesting. Everywhere I read, it mentions Ry Cooder played the slide and some other guitar parts and did the soundtrack and Steve Vai did the other guitar work.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090888/trivia

http://www.fast-rewind.com/music_crossroads.htm

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 1:58 am

Ry Cooder did play most of the bluesy guitar parts in the movie, he was the musical director. But Ry never had those Paganinni classical shredder chops that are in that last scene.

BTW, he does a lot of movie soundtracks today, especially anything with cool, greasy slide guitar work.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:58 am

My understanding has always been that Ry Coder played those parts as well.

Also, I forgot about John Hiatt. I always liked him. He kinda reminds me of chris ledoux ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z5-X8149KM&ob=av2e

Have I ever said that LeDoux was awesome?

VENTGtr · Post by **VENTGtr** » Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:20 am

The Classical/Neo stuff was also Vai (The part that beats Vai's character at the end). Cooder played the slide, bluesy stuff. Arlen Roth was the consultant to teach Machio how to pass it off as him playing.

Apparently, Machio did start playing after the movie. Dunno how serious he ever got, though.