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Offline banjochris

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Re: A travesty
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2010, 03:19:56 AM »
Also, I think Blues Travesty would be a hell of a name for a band.
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Offline frankie

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Re: A travesty
« Reply #16 on: August 27, 2010, 04:53:12 AM »
Quote from: banjochris on August 27, 2010, 03:19:56 AM
Also, I think Blues Travesty would be a hell of a name for a band.

too close to home!
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Offline lindy

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Re: A travesty
« Reply #17 on: August 27, 2010, 08:26:29 AM »
Quote from: Parlor Picker on August 27, 2010, 01:02:02 AM
Why is the harp player (and I ain't talking about no mouth-harp here!) always a woman? It's OK, you don't have to answer that.





Make sure you take 3 minutes to watch, there's a whole bunch of other stuff going on here besides Harpo's playing.

Lindy
« Last Edit: August 27, 2010, 10:18:32 AM by lindy »
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Offline David Kaatz

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Re: A travesty
« Reply #18 on: August 27, 2010, 08:25:53 PM »
Quote from: frankie on August 27, 2010, 04:53:12 AM
Quote from: banjochris on August 27, 2010, 03:19:56 AM
Also, I think Blues Travesty would be a hell of a name for a band.

too close to home!
Exactly!
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Offline Parlor Picker

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Re: A travesty
« Reply #19 on: August 28, 2010, 02:25:13 AM »
Yeah OK - Harpo wasn't a woman.  I must admit when I wrote the post, I did think of my friend Robin Williamson (ex-Incredible String Band) who plays a pretty mean celtic harp. Anyway, we digress...
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Offline lindy

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Re: A travesty
« Reply #20 on: August 28, 2010, 08:34:25 AM »

Harpo being a male was kind of secondary to why I posted that clip. That little segment--as with a lot of skits inside of Marx Brothers films--says tons about race relations in America in the 1930s, which is one of our favorite decades here in Weenieville. He also plays a bit of "Blue Moon" in the clip, which may be the closest he ever came to playing the blues on his harp.

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Offline doctorpep

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Re: A travesty
« Reply #21 on: August 29, 2010, 03:56:15 PM »
Don't make me post Vanilla Ice doing Buddy Moss!
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Re: A travesty
« Reply #22 on: September 01, 2010, 05:26:38 PM »
I think the Henry Thomas one is worse - instead of a photo, there's a generic black guy doing the bad lip sync.
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