Monday, January 05, 2009

God gives me people for the holidays!

Cool people are everywhere, I meet a lot of them at work. A local guitarist had heard that i played in various bands and suggested a visit to You-Tube for Johnny Winters "Keys to the Highway" (which was good). I countered that the only thing i had to offer was a theological website that provided a Catholic/Orthodox/Augustinian refutation of modern american fundamentalist protestant anti-evolutionary claptrap, to which he counter offered this: Chris Smither origin of species

Great stuff!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heard that you like cool music...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U



Bill

CET said...

Bill,
you are certainley an impact player!

years down the road from listening to 'Hamberger Concerto" I had thought Focus to be Jan Ackerman and some ad on musicians, but as the video illustrates, these guys hold their own.

Ackerman has blistering speed along with a harmonic sense that seems part Hacket part Fripp, not all 'technobation" i.e. Ingve Malmstein.

The keyboard player was quite a showman, putting focus in the category of idiosyncratic, flute flaunting frontmen, along with Genesis and Jethro Tull.

Thanx
twas coool indeed!

PS wiki does a half decent job on Jan Ackerman for those who wish to study further