Topic: Other Musical Interests on YouTube

[Rivers]

Well I thought it was fairly hilarious, being into the funny side of Kung Fu movies, and the band are having a good time. Pretty freakin' bizarre though! 

[Rivers]

Aaargh, I screwed up. I was wanting to move this to the other musical interests on youtube topic since it has more in common with that thread. Help! Workin' on it...

Later, phew, I successfully moved it to the right thread.

[Gumbo]

Kung fu clogging, imagine that.

I laughed at this!
Some of the facial expressions were pretty great, too.

[Rivers]

David Lindley Y Wally Ingram performing Timbuk 3's National Holiday.
 
Lindley is playing a bouzouki or some damn thing. No visuals to speak of, just turn it up loud, Memorial Day, USA.

[lindy]

The first quote in the quote generator this morning was from Snooks Eaglin: "Drop the bomb, y'all."

Here's the source. Go ahead, try not getting out of your chair and shakin' your booty while you're listening.

[lindy]

I've been told that Brazilian audiences love to sing along with the performer -- what a great tradition!

[NotRevGDavis]

I just stumbled on this thread so I thought I would share some of my "Other Musical Interests". Here's one of my all time favorite groups live.

[Rivers]

Heard Jean Emilien from Madagascar tonight on KUT Austin World Music show and had to track something down to post here.

The man plays great understated diatonic harmonica as a lead instrument within the African music context. This clip is amped up and slightly overproduced(!) but stick with it and check out the instrumentation. Let's see we have 4 row button accordion swapping solos with a fabulous harp player, several weird instruments I don't recognize and everyone having a really good time. I hear a lot of different stuff in there, particularly what struck me as cajun sounds:



Is the guy in the background playing the world's largest cigar box guitar do you think?

[daddystovepipe]

Hannes Coetzeen, the teaspoonman.
We probably all heard him before but this is a recent and nice song.

[Johnm]

Wake up! 
All best,
Johnm

[Mr.OMuck]

Holy Shit! That's some mad stuff John! That poor drummer! Going full tilt at a million miles an hour the whole time. Could easily be spliced into a Star Trek episode with a costume change.

[Johnm]

Yup, I agree, Phil.  I saw this band a couple of times around twenty years ago, first at the Vancouver Folk Festival, where their set blew everybody's doors off.  I literally took about twenty-four hours to come down from the excitement of their set.  As is apparent, they are all ultra-virtuosos.  Unfortunately, the bass player is not hot enough in the mix in the clip--he can and does play many of the super-fast, complex melodic lines in unison and harmony with the horns and accordion--how, I can't imagine.  The drummer is a monster, too.  If you listen to the clip a couple of times and just focus on him, he's changing up all the time, with tremendous dynamics.
I would love to see this band perform with dancers some time, because, hard as it is to believe, they are playing dance music.  I would love to have seen them on "American Bandstand" sometime.
All best,
Johnm

[eric]

Ok, that's it it.  Zappa's not available, unfortunately, so those guys will have to play at my funeral.

[frankie]

no matter how strong you make the coffee, those guys take it stronger.

[daddystovepipe]

more Hannes Coetzee, great hawaiian playing
love the break at 1.50