It’s Friday once again. Huzzah!
This promises to be an exceptionally musical weekend for She Who Must Be Obeyed and me. This evening, we’ll head off to the Ferst Center on the Georgia Tech campus to hear Béla Fleck and Chick Corea. Now, that’s a combination to reckon with.
I discovered Chick Corea via his (still exceptional) Inner Space album, which was already four years old when I first heard it in 1970. The disc features an all-star ensemble, including Joe Farrell (sax), Woody Shaw (trumpet), Steve Swallow and Ron Carter (bass), Joe Chambers and Grady Tate (drums), and, above all, Hubert Laws (flute). Corea himself later became a force in the jazz fusion movement with his band Return to Forever, which featured bassist Stanley Clarke. Remarkable stuff.
As for Béla Fleck, about eleven years ago I was browsing through the racks at a Blockbuster Music store in Houston when I heard his strangely appealing folky-jazzy banjo picking for the first time. I couldn’t resist buying a couple of his CD’s right then and there.
It’ll be interesting to hear what the two of them come up with together.
Saturday evening, the madness continues when we see Spamalot at the fabulous Fox Theatre. This show, beyond its being a comedy and musical celebration of Monty Python (and the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail in particular), resonates with me because that is the very movie SWMBO and I saw on our first evening together over 31 years ago. I’ll be sure to bring some coconuts for the sound effects.
But enough of this prattle. It’s time for this week’s Musical Miscellany from the wonderful white iPod d’Elisson:
This promises to be an exceptionally musical weekend for She Who Must Be Obeyed and me. This evening, we’ll head off to the Ferst Center on the Georgia Tech campus to hear Béla Fleck and Chick Corea. Now, that’s a combination to reckon with.
I discovered Chick Corea via his (still exceptional) Inner Space album, which was already four years old when I first heard it in 1970. The disc features an all-star ensemble, including Joe Farrell (sax), Woody Shaw (trumpet), Steve Swallow and Ron Carter (bass), Joe Chambers and Grady Tate (drums), and, above all, Hubert Laws (flute). Corea himself later became a force in the jazz fusion movement with his band Return to Forever, which featured bassist Stanley Clarke. Remarkable stuff.
As for Béla Fleck, about eleven years ago I was browsing through the racks at a Blockbuster Music store in Houston when I heard his strangely appealing folky-jazzy banjo picking for the first time. I couldn’t resist buying a couple of his CD’s right then and there.
It’ll be interesting to hear what the two of them come up with together.
Saturday evening, the madness continues when we see Spamalot at the fabulous Fox Theatre. This show, beyond its being a comedy and musical celebration of Monty Python (and the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail in particular), resonates with me because that is the very movie SWMBO and I saw on our first evening together over 31 years ago. I’ll be sure to bring some coconuts for the sound effects.
But enough of this prattle. It’s time for this week’s Musical Miscellany from the wonderful white iPod d’Elisson:
- Illegal Smile (Live) - John Prine
When I woke up this morning, things were lookin’ bad
Seem like total silence was the only friend I had
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down...and won
And it was twelve o’clock before I realized
That I was havin’...no fun
Chorus:
But fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don’t cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won’t you please tell the man I didn’t kill anyone
No, I’m just tryin’ to have me some fun
Last time I checked my bankroll,
It was gettin’ thin
Sometimes it seems like the bottom
Is the only place I’ve been
I chased a rainbow down a one-way street...dead end
And all my friends turned out to be insurance salesmen
Repeat Chorus:
Well, I sat down in my closet with all my overalls
Tryin’ to get away
From all the ears inside my walls
I dreamed the police heard
Everything I thought...what then?
Well I went to court
And the judge’s name was Hoffman
Ah, but fortunately I have the key to escape reality
And you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don’t cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won’t you please tell the man I didn’t kill anyone
No, I’m just tryin’ to have me some fun
Well done
Son of a gun
Hot dog bun
Attila the Hun
My sister-in-law is an Irish nun - He Is Not Dead Yet (Playoff) - Spamalot - Original Cast Album
- Improvisation No. 2 - Django Reinhardt
- Too Much Exposition - Urinetown - Original Cast Album
- Friday On My Mind - Easybeats
- Underture (Entr’acte) - Tommy - Original Broadway Cast
- Longer Boats (live, w/extra verse) - Cat Stevens
- Swift As The Wind - The Incredible String Band
- Weigh - Phish
- Hinokh Yafo - The Klezmatics
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