calling all Rush fanatics & harmonica habitués

hieronymous · January 08, 2010, 12:06:13 PM

Some crazy harmonicas in this video - one looks like the doubleneck of harmonicas, another like an ERH (extended range harmonica) - and if you can hang in there, it appears to be the original version of one of the middle sections of Rush's "La Villa Strangiato":

Highlander · January 08, 2010, 02:20:08 PM

Harry... you have far too much spare time...

(Rush fan, big time... guilty as charged - hook, line and sinkered... definitely that middle section that Lifeson plays...)

OldManC · January 08, 2010, 10:26:35 PM

I wish I'd had YouTube back in the day when my dad used to give me crap for the 'modern' music I listened to. If that doesn't look like a coked out bunch of freaks I don't know what does!

Highlander · January 09, 2010, 10:36:02 AM

You still wouldn't have "won" that one...

I know I wouldn't have changed my dad's mind about anything I thought was "cool", no matter how "alternative"...

OldManC · January 09, 2010, 10:55:26 AM

No, I wish I had YouTube so I could have whipped out that video and said, "So this is what you're referring to when you talk about all the good music in your day? These guys are freaks!" And you can imagine what the response would have been to that.

Maybe it's good I didn't have YouTube!

Highlander · January 09, 2010, 11:10:23 AM

My dad would just have continued puffing on his pipe, and we're not talkin' wakybaky...

Highlander · January 09, 2010, 11:43:04 AM

This took some digging... The Celtic language is spoken, in various forms, in numerous European countries, with Irish and Scottish being the most closely akinned; my dad didn't speak any English until he was 7, when he went to school; this was the law in the 20's as the language was effectively banned in school... now it is part of the curriculum in the Highland's and Islands of Scotland...

Enough gibberish...

This is called "mouth music" - the sort of thing he loved to listen to; the picture show the type of home my ancestors lived in until pre WW1 or so...

This next one surprised me, mouth music with music, so to speak; a bit more accessible; she is not a "speaker" so the words are not "true" to the words - doesn't flow as smoothly as it should...

This is more like it, an Irish mostly Gaelic band called Altan...