During the events i heard some selfmade-CD. One is from a concert movie i’ve seen on TV years ago. I did not find the whole movie but a few parts. They assembled the instruments and people during the concert, so that the stage got more and more complete. Pretty cool that…
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sence
Psycho Killer
Slippery People
I’ve just mentioned, that the second one goes on with the next part itself.
So beside the two, that i prepared (Burning Down the House, Life During Wartime) there are also others unless you stop it (not all from ‘Stop Making Sence’)
Extraordinary Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson, unfortunately his voice is already a shadow of what it was, unfortunately the years also pass for our old heroes
Now this is a music topic, but why not include a little bit of film history too? In the movie Deliverance (1972) there is a classic scene where one of the main characters, who plays the guitar, challenges a local banjo playng kid to a duel, or a showdown. The kid is obviously somewhat “mentally challenged”.
Just a short disclaimer, the guys in the scene are actors, and the music was recorded in the studio, with Weissberg (banjo) and Mandell (guitar). However, Ronny Cox (1938), the guitar player in the scene, could play guitar and is miming along pretty well. On the other hand, Billy Redden (1956) did not play the banjo, and wasn’t able to mime, So due to some clever film trickery (no AI back then), there is a local musician’s arm inside Billy’s shirt sleeve miming the playing. Now let’s get to the music.
And now for some more history, and this time it’s music history. As it happens, the man who is actually playing the banjo in this scene was born 86 years ago today. His name is Eric Weissberg (1939-2020), and he was a banjo player and multi-instrumentalst, who had a long career on the the bluegrass and folk scene in the US from around 1960 to more than a decade into the 2000’s.
In addition to being part of band projects through the years, he also released a handful of solo albums. And he played on many albums with many artists, among others Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, John Denver, Judy Collins, Chaka Khan and Talking Heads. In the later years of his career, he toured a lot with Tom Paxton, one of the big names on the Greenwich Village folk scene in the 1960’s. Eric Weissberg is yet another musician who’s most certainly paid his dues, and who deserves a mention. So to his memory, here’s one from me
Before I end another long rant from me, I got a little curious about Billy Redden. Turns out he is not “retarded” at all. He had minor roles in a handful of movies after Deliverance. However, these roles didn’t really lead to a career in the movies, and he ended up working at Walmart.
unless you stop it (not all from ‘Stop Making Sence’)
