OT: Still more about music

[wire chief]

Now granted some of you may be psychically exhausted by last month's several music threads,
but just in case you're not, here's another twist.

Here I present some videos which I think have a (near) uniqueness in instrumentation/style.

First up is a 60's blues band that made the pop charts with a heavy emphasis on harmonica.

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...UTF-8&p=on the road again canned heat youtube

Next one more familiar to you, cause it scored higher on the charts.

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...ei=UTF-8&p=norman greenbaum spirit in the sky

Not a hit and makes me think of bed springs.

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&p=kate bush red shoes video

Finally, a lady with a consistently recognizable style.

http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...tube&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-746-1

Perhaps you'd like to offer your own "uniqueness" songs, or show us that my selections are not particularly
unparalleled.

 

[meyers7]

Well putting bagpipes with 3 chord rock-n-roll.....is unique. Bon, Angus and Malcom.

 

[meyers7]

First up is a 60's blues band that made the pop charts with a heavy emphasis on harmonica.

A whole song about a harmonica. From one of the best, John Popper.

 

[wire chief]

A whole song about a harmonica. From one of the best, John Popper.

The precarious misadventures thereof--fun stuff

 

[msf22b]

OT:
The real music news for today is that James Levine returned virtually from the dead and conducted the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall after a year and a half's absence and scant hope that he would ever return.
My sources in the orchestra say that he was as brilliant as ever.

 

[RadyLady]

OT:
The real music news for today is that James Levine returned virtually from the dead and conducted the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall after a year and a half's absence and scant hope that he would ever return.
My sources in the orchestra say that he was as brilliant as ever.

he was at that...the 'devine' Levine

 

[meyers7]

Another unique band. One of my favorites (and Mrs. meyers7's too, wire ) . Not too often you see/hear someone use a wah-wah peddle with a fiddle. (They also have highland bagpipes, uilleann pipes, trumpet, whistle, mandolin, all mixed together - in other songs).

Anyway this one is about the death of the great Canadian fiddle player Johnny Mooring.

 

[meyers7]

Not unique instruments, but a unique group and unique take on Von Suppe's Light Calvary Overture.