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Well now,

That certainly ain't no bucket of blood he's playin' in, but that's some FINE playin' he's doing.

The surrealism, however, is peging the effects meter. What's wrong with this picture? The french-speaking black girl is introducing the white, emotionally-challenged audience to the icelandic blues player. Huh.

Robert Johnson's shade probably started drinking again after seeing that one. :)

Respects,

AW1,
More evidence that music is for homo sapiens, not Americans or French or black, white or yellow.

I like how this dude doing is his thing with a fair amount of energy, but everyone around him looks either minorly disinterested or, like the old timer (host?) flipping through the newspaper, like he'd rather be somewhere else.

As for his guitar mojo, Johno could play that with one hand up his ass.

That is, one hand up his own ass, not up Berge's ass.

Although he could still do it with his hand up Berge's ass.

OK just so we're clear, Johno could play that with his hand up anyone's ass, including his own.

GL,

I am somewhat disturbed by the mental images, but yeah, I agree with you.

I also agree with the music is for everyone bit. I just find it somewhat disconcerting that Euros pretty much hate erything we stand for and/or do, but have no problem incorporating our music. heh.

Audience full of French poseurs, however.

Respects,

The guy reading the paper wouldn't seem that much more out of place if he were instead flogging the bishop. Odd, and odder still that the camera seemed to keep coming back to him. I'm sure there's a message in there, somewhere.

The play didn't strike me as virtuoso (I heard a couple of what sounded like small goofs), but he's clearly quite good, he put on an interesting show, and I liked the song.

And that was even before I knew someone might have had their hand up his ass the entire time.

See that's the thing.

Sure we could sit around all day and point out who had who's hand in who's ass.

But at the end of the day, it was a still a dece track, the playing was fine, but more importantly I think it was believable. Aside from it looking like he was playing in Jor-El's home on Krypton.

AW1 Tim,
I had the pleasure of seeing Tony Vacca once (http://www.tonyvacca.com/). During his little impromptu thing he had a rap about a drum kit.

He said if you think about a modern rock band's drum kit, you get percussion from all around the world in it. A big bass drum from the Euros, toms from Africa, snares from here, cymbals from there, etc etc.

It was a neat way to talk about "world music" in a concrete way and without having to protest war, proselytize about hemp, or save the planet.

But you know, you wanna talk about stealing "our" music- it took skinny white kids from England to show mainstream America what our own music was!

GL,

Yup... skinny white kids from England who took blues derived from slave/gospel music and formed a new highbrid... waykewl. Seriously.

I also understand the drum analogy. I was a percussion major in college (which, likely, explains a great deal about me) and played professionally for a few years (and busted my butt as a roadie for 3 years too). It's a fun, but very hard way to make a living.

I like this fellow's style, and you're right about performing on Krypton :) Heh. Great imagery.

I'm not trying to sound ethno-centric regarding music, even though it probably comes out that way. I'm just pretty stuck in my tastes which, surprisingly, cover a lot of different bases. I don't get the whole rap thing, nor the afro-celt genre so popular in bohemian/poseur coffee shops and leftist watering holes these days. I do like Sabbath, Manson, most Goth, most country, (did you know there's a whole Goth-Country genre) and old-time blues of various species (delta, chicago, etc.) Even like some big-band from time to time.

I still don't like zombies. Especially Rob Zombie. Do you think the Tedster uses zombie profile targets on his range? I would.....

Respects,

AW1 Tim,
Johno was another music major, poor bastard. He finally saw the light and studied history, which has brought him all that he has today.

On Bohemian coffee shops: I believe the Small Business Administration issues everyone opening a coffee shop a copy of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue".

On rap: I have only a passing familiarity with that world, and don't know anything current. But GZA's "Liquid Swords" will change your life. And not only for the Lee Van Cleef voice bits.

On big band: Small doses, but I dig it.

On "the blues": I dig it, but the more I listen and the older I get, the older I want my tracks to be- the scratchier and more oldey-timey the better nowadays. I'm coming to a point where John Lee Hooker is (sigh, alas, *was*) the new breed.

On "country goth": No thanks.

On Black Sabbath: fyi Sabbath is touring with RJ Dio. They have dates in CT soon.

On viking metal: No you didn't mention it, but Amon Amarth has a sick, sick drummer. I was lobbying for one of their songs to be the Ministry theme song:

http://www.amonamarth.com/

GL,

IIRC, Type-O Negative is also Icelandic/Viking. I very much like their stuff. The lead singer's low vocals remind me very much of Sister's of Mercy's lead singer.

Funny you should mention history. I ended up scrapping my music major after everal heated discussions with the head of the Jazz department. I switched over to History with a Classical Studies minor. Heh...

I actually feel I became a better musician after I released myself from the straightjacket that the music teachers put me into. Although a drummer by trade, I also play keyboards, saxophone and flute. FWIW, I paid for almost all my college expenses by playing in piano bars and restraunts, etc. Sort of a musical prostitution, but it paid the bills.

Respects,