Klarinet Archive - Posting 000528.txt from 2004/09

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:35:26 -0400

"Patricia A. Smith" wrote:

> There are a LOT worse things to listen to on banjo! Such as Dueling
> Banjos: the Theme from Deliverance. I am SOOOOO sick of that...I hope
> to not hear it again in this lifetime. Or even the next one...
>
> Patricia Smith

Whatsamatta, Patricia, you don't wanna hear a bunch of guys behind Flatt or Scruggs (which one it was) yelling "Yee-ha" and "Squeal lahk a pig, boy"? What are you, unAmerican?:-) Moronicism is where it's at.

I still need to buy the CD when my conscience starts to bother me about the origin of some of my Fleck classical tracks. First time I EVER heard classical played on a banjo was Fleck playing Paganini's "Moto Perpetuo," a fiendish exercise on any instrument. It was breathtaking. I've also heard it played since on a chromatic (slide) harmonica.
That's probably even more difficult.

Fleck is also a wonderful accompanist. I prize a cover he did with Bruce Hornsby of "Tangled Up In Blue"; at the risk of heresy, it may be better than Dylan's author's version. Except that the live version I heard made it sound like everyone in the audience was drunk, stoned, or engaged in sexual activity. At live concerts? Who knows?

Ken
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