Grandmaster Flight Attendant

[uwe]

Terry, don't spoil it about how you don't like rap!

[gweimer]

I've never been a fan of rap, but when it's used in the right context it can be pretty cool.  That clip was great.

Here's some REAL old school rap...

[gweimer]

I never thought I'd ever like a Snoop Dogg song, but this one is a hoot.

[uwe]

And that is no one less than Glenn Hughes singing the chorus (and Pat Travers playing guitar), hell they had to make a living for all that coke they snorted!

[Dave W]

Just what I want, being forced to listen to rap in order to take a flight. 

[uwe]

A humbling grumbling.

We don't like rap here in New Braunfels
So you better zip-it-up or else!

[Dave W]

I only object to being forced to listen to it.

Could be worse. He could be doing Manowar. In costume.

[Highlander]

Don't do rap
just sounds so crap
but I won't fall into that trap
and write some stuff which'll earn me a slap
so please don't clap
while I take my nap
after an extra large bap
filled with cheese and pickle, some lettuce, a couple of slices of tomatoe and cucumber, a gerkin on the side, rounded off with a nice cup of Redbush tea...

[Freuds_Cat]

Glenn Hughes played here last week with locals guitarist Rob Pippan and Drummer John Zak as his backing band. I couldn't go but was told that it was good fun gig.

Way gone are the days when those 2 guys used play in bands that supported the band I was in LOL. Great guys and excellent musicians.

[Pilgrim]

To me, the highest use of Rap is stuff like the Dragnet piece - lampooning the genre. Not my cup of tea.

Does anyone here remember Lord Buckley, the ultimate hipster progenitor of rap?...the beat jazz verbalist/comic who was there in the 40's and 50's, before them all? I actually have one of his LPs (Lord Buckley - Blowing His Mind and Yours, Too) that includes his famous routine "The Naz" (about Jesus..."da Naz").  You ain't heard nobody riff live 'till you've heard Lord buckley.

The Naz lyrics:  http://www.airbrushmuseum.com/wig_bubbles_naz.htm

I remember on the album I have, the first time I heard the intro (the hip intro from Shakespeare's soliloquy by Marc Antony) "Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies, knock me your lobes...."  I wondered what in the world I was hearing.  It was all downhill after Lord Buckley...except for the voice-overs that Garrison Keillor does now with an upright bass keeping tempo on Prairie Home Companion.

More about Lord Buckley: http://www.lordbuckley.com/

Lord Buckley on TV, 1949:

[Dave W]

I remember Lord Buckley. Bizarre guy.

[Pilgrim]

Yeah, listening to one of his riffs almost requires a "beat" translator!