http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck
.. and the audience ain't bad, either.
Very cool, mang - was not aware of the Dude, thanks for the intro 8)
Heh, which one? Bach, Gounod (sp?) or McFerrin?
Bobby McFerrin is a ludicrously talented singer. He showed up on the pop-culture radar back in '88 with "Don't Worry, Be Happy," a somewhat silly, upbeat funny little ditty that was entirely a capella. Well, some of it's body-percussion kind of stuff, and he does this neat thing where he slaps his upper chest while singing and it gives a bit of a popping percussive effect. I'm not sure if that stuff makes it not "real" a capella or not, but, whatever.
Also, he is CLEARLY one right-on dude:
The song was used in George H. W. Bush's 1988 U.S. presidential election as Bush's 1988 official presidential campaign song, without Bobby McFerrin's permission or endorsement. In reaction, Bobby McFerrin publicly protested that particular use of his song, including stating that he was going to vote against Bush, and completely dropped the song from his own performance repertoire, to make the point even clearer.
So Sayeth The Mighty and All-Knowing Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Worry,_Be_Happy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Worry,_Be_Happy)
"Heh, which one? Bach, Gounod (sp?) or McFerrin?"
Er, yeah - that would be McFerrin -
Yeah, no, I know, or at least assumed as much; I was just joking, bro. Stupid internet fucking up sarcasm and jocular tone and stuff.
I'm glad I was able to introduce you to something new! Too fuckin' cool. Seriously, that makes me smile.
I don't know anything about that Gounod character either, but, Bach.. Bach...
Bach, I know.
I think I'm going to go work on his first Suite for Solo Banjo * (I have the first movement pretty much down. Time to get crackin' on the second.)
* or Cello, if you really want to be snooty about things ;)
Ah, sorry Dude - my sarcasm detector has been on the fritz for at least 24 hours - yeah, great singer (I am familiar with the "Don't Worry - " song). Enjoy the rest of the weekend, happy DOTD. 8)
Also dudes, if at all possible, you should go out of your way to track down an incredible documentary Bobby McFerrin very recently hosted and participated in for PBS called "The Music Instinct." I don't advise breaking any state or federal laws, but a web search will yield many torrents of the film with relative ease.
This is an incredible documentary touching on every aspect of music from the scientific and mechanical to the cultural and metaphysical. I did a J the night it came on so I don't remember a lot of it, but trust me, it will blow your mind.
The works, mang.........................
http://btjunkie.org/search?q=McFerrin
Really ties the dude together.
Bobby Mc Ferrin is amazing, especially for the fact that anyone who knows about him always quotes the "Don't worry be happy thing" which I believe really annoys him because it was twenty years ago and since then he has mostly conducted orchestras (used to see him on Classic FM very frequently), he also leads Choirs as well.
What amazes me the most is the way he interacts with audiences, and what he gets them to do (as seen in this clip).
Also for instance the Pentatonic Scale (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk).
Actually I take your wiki quote and raise you one, Bobby McFerrin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_McFerrin).
"In addition to his vocal performing career, in 1994, Mr. McFerrin was appointed as creative chair of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. He makes regular tours as a guest conductor for symphony orchestras throughout the United States and Canada, including the San Francisco Symphony (on his 40th birthday), the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the London Philharmonic and many others."
;D
Oh, I know, Meek... I was just trotting out the more familiar thing about him... If you had never heard of, I dunno, Jerry Garcia, which makes more sense to be the first reference tossed out: Mexican-American banjo picker missing half of a finger, or Grateful Dead frontman? ;)
But, yeah, I may have sold McFerrin a little short there; my bad.
'Ere, I've another fun bit of musical differentness for y'all, but it's different enough from how different this dude is, that I should put it in a different thread.
No probs Banjo. I just am amazed at ever thing the guy does and the more I find the more amazed I am.
Like the Flash Mobs, there are "plants" in the audience to get things started.
QuoteLike the Flash Mobs, there are "plants" in the audience to get things started.
I'm fairly sure that was a very select audience...ie very knowledgeable about arias and ave marias and other musical shit dude...no harm there no foul either. ;)
Thanks for this Banjo Dude...I'd never heard of two out of the three...Bach I'm aware of...but must do better.
As an aside to that my favourite composer of them all was Mozart for many years.......then I discovered Haydn....... Mozart light as I like to say.
Peace dude.
Quote from: cckeiser on March 07, 2011, 01:16:01 PM
Like the Flash Mobs, there are "plants" in the audience to get things started.
Nice to see the paranoid old cantankerous git coming out there "It's all a fix I say, all a fix! I blame the government"
Did someone say flash mob:
http://www.break.com/index/funny-hammer-pants-flash-mob.html
"No matter how paranoid you are...you are not paranoid enough!"
Have no idea you said that, and to lazy to look it up! ;D
Quote from: meekon5 on March 08, 2011, 01:03:07 PM
Did someone say flash mob:
http://www.break.com/index/funny-hammer-pants-flash-mob.html
Go on! Tell me that was NOT rehearsed! ;D
wow. :D
that's amazing.
Somewhere, there's a very, very happy seller of gold lame Hammer pants :D (not "lame," "la-may" I gave up on my ability to write accented letters on here th' other day when I couldn't make the Irish "slainte" come out right :-\)
CC, it's a flash mob. Of COURSE it's rehearsed. The whole point is the _appearance_ of a spontaneous outpouring of "Stop! Hammer Time!" which you're never going to get without rehearsal. Lots and lots of rehearsal. What I want to know is, WHERE did these guys find a space to rehearse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k
... Must've had a football pitch (that's what you guys call a soccer field, right? :P) to have enough room to do the blocking. Regardless of that, I like to think the inspiration was the Grand Central Station scene in "The Fisher King," by expat American and director extrordinaire, Terry Gilliam.
.. I still think he should have gotten the bid to do "Watchmen." The movie version really didn't have to suck. O, well.
Quote from: Banjo Dude on March 08, 2011, 02:25:55 PM
Somewhere, there's a very, very happy seller of gold lame Hammer pants :D (not "lame," "la-may" I gave up on my ability to write accented letters on here th' other day when I couldn't make the Irish "slainte" come out right :-\)
CC, it's a flash mob. Of COURSE it's rehearsed. The whole point is the _appearance_ of a spontaneous outpouring of "Stop! Hammer Time!" which you're never going to get without rehearsal. Lots and lots of rehearsal. What I want to know is, WHERE did these guys find a space to rehearse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI9k
... Must've had a football pitch (that's what you guys call a soccer field, right? :P) to have enough room to do the blocking. Regardless of that, I like to think the inspiration was the Grand Central Station scene in "The Fisher King," by expat American and director extrordinaire, Terry Gilliam.
.. I still think he should have gotten the bid to do "Watchmen." The movie version really didn't have to suck. O, well.
Yeah, I'm such a noob! Just watched a video on organizing a flash mob in Vegas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=829emSR7IMM
Duh! Performance Art! ;D
Quote from: Banjo Dude on March 08, 2011, 02:25:55 PM
Regardless of that, I like to think the inspiration was the Grand Central Station scene in "The Fisher King," by expat American and director extrordinaire, Terry Gilliam.
.. I still think he should have gotten the bid to do "Watchmen." The movie version really didn't have to suck. O, well.
I love that scene where all the commuters turn into ballroom dancers then turn back without anyone blinking an eye.
The only problem with Gilliam is he doesn't understand basic budgeting.
His part of "The Meaning of Life" (the pirate takeover office bit) cost as much as all the rest of the film put together. Also see the documentary "The problem With Hamsters" from the making of Twelve Monkeys.
The problems he caused himself with the Munchhausen film (whole regiment of the Russian army dressed as Turks as extras etc).
I really adore his films, but undertand how he doesn't help himself at times.