Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
February 18, 2007
We Need To Dance

Rick says:

I remember past Saturday evenings that the Barflies would at least turn off from the horrors for a reprieve, but things have been so bad for so long that it has totally affected the mood here at Moon of Alabama. I guess just like with the Iraqi’s, you think it can’t get any worse – but it does and it does, again and again.

Stop! Stop! Stop! The world, as a community, needs to dance, just a little. Pretty soon, we will forget how.

Yes Rick, you are right, very right in this and I promise to post some uplifting stuff the next weeks. There is a lot of good development in this world and I tend to lose the focus on that.

Also, I certainly need to dance again and did so today. This is one of the pieces I chose to dance to. The music is better in the studio version, but the video is quite good on its own. It’s too industrialized to become a long term favorite, but the original idea is recognizable.


What music are you dancing to?

Comments

Nice b. I’m working on a painting and at the same time (!) dancing to Sevara Nazarkhan

Posted by: beq | Feb 18 2007 20:56 utc | 1

Powerful! I had not as of yet seen this vid, which enhances the lyrics imo.
And for those whom think, these girls –the Dixie chicks– are all good now,
“Hey, they won the Grammys didn’t they,”?
Country Radio [still] Refuses To Accept Dixie Chicks: Listeners Are “Outraged”

Country radio still isn’t ready to make nice with the Dixie Chicks. With a haul of Grammys Sunday, the Texas trio topped their comeback from their 2003 Bush-bashing comment that turned them from superstars to pariahs — but Music Row isn’t welcoming them back into the country-music fold.

Looks like The Radio industry isn’t ready to back down either… They still got another war to support…
As far as what I’m dancing too…
This one always makes me smile…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 18 2007 21:45 utc | 2

“please dont despair”

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 18 2007 22:01 utc | 3

My 3-year old daughter and I danced, or at least swayed, together this morning to the gospel show from WXCR, Columbia University’s radio station. There is a web feed that seems very solid. I recommend the show not out of any sense of religious affinity, of which I no longer have any whatsoever, but simply because the music is so good. I do not know the show’s exact hours, but it seems to be on at least from 8am-10am Sunday mornings, New York time.

Posted by: mats | Feb 18 2007 22:06 utc | 4

Sone Thin Par Burmese Severa Nazarkhan?

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 18 2007 22:24 utc | 5

Sone Thin Par Burmese Ronnie Spector?

Posted by: anna missed | Feb 18 2007 22:48 utc | 6

Condilicious!

Posted by: Rowan | Feb 18 2007 22:49 utc | 7

An Urban Classic

Posted by: A | Feb 18 2007 23:46 utc | 8

@ Rowan
I almost peed my pants for that one; too funny!

Posted by: A | Feb 19 2007 0:08 utc | 9

@ Rowan
I almost peed my pants for that one; too funny!

Posted by: A | Feb 19 2007 0:09 utc | 10

For some obvious reasons… this

Posted by: CluelessJoe | Feb 19 2007 0:54 utc | 11

@ CJ – Heh. Those were the days.

Posted by: beq | Feb 19 2007 2:23 utc | 12

Here’s a fun, warm song from Kazakhstan: Giving hats

Posted by: biklett | Feb 19 2007 2:47 utc | 13

Now that’s the spirit!! I can feel it!
Ok you all -Let’s keep it going “All night long!”
And remember, its not how long you make it, it’s how you make it loooong!
“If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” -Emma Goldman

Posted by: Rick | Feb 19 2007 3:16 utc | 14

I gave up dancing and whitewater kayaking to be an activist for every available minute I have. I started in 2001, and completely stopped by fall of 2003.
but I will go back on day, at least to the dancing.

Posted by: Susan | Feb 19 2007 3:21 utc | 15

Looks like it is getting late and the bar is nearly empty, except for some intellectual there in the far east corner. Sometimes you have to just have fun all by yourself and then ’let them say what they want’
Hmmm last call…just a few more songs before Bernhard kicks me out. Getting a little tipsy here too, better watch what I say. How about this blues classic from the Queen for my congenial friend ‘jj’?
Willie Dixon (from a previous song above) died not too long ago, and his last album was reflective and definitely anti-war. Here’s an old original classic from Neil Young, who is still an outspoken anti-war activist. If only people took the words from these artists’ songs to heart. Perhaps this isn’t the most appropriate anti-war song right now, yet a commenter on youtube had this to say: “The best song about rampant consumerism, materialism, war, apathy and ignorance. The irony lies in the ‘middle america’ audience lapping it up as an anthem to the ‘free world’. sigh
OOPS time to go? I know it’s late, but when it’s late, that’s when the music gets good (well you know – warm, cozy and the songs go on forever.). How about an outstanding encore performance by Willie Dixon? …OK….OK…, I’ll go; just show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar. Please don’t ask why. Some nights I just miss the Reeperbahn.

Posted by: Rick | Feb 19 2007 6:47 utc | 16

Thanks Rick!

Posted by: Dick Durata | Feb 19 2007 7:13 utc | 17

did
someone
say
dance?

Posted by: b real | Feb 19 2007 15:59 utc | 18

dance?

Posted by: CluelessJoe | Feb 19 2007 17:08 utc | 19

breaking out the classics, eh? well, let’s keep ’em on the dancefloor. no excuses, now…
brenda
miriam

Posted by: b real | Feb 19 2007 17:25 utc | 20

Okay, you guys ready to party, ready to kick out the jams??? I bring you : Jazztube! hundreds of great jazz performances in one place!
p.s., I see b, has indeed been working on the site, as there is now a spell checker, yay!..lol

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 19 2007 17:42 utc | 21

The total fucking genius that is Errol Garner playing Just One of Those Things.
Jesus, I can barely string together the first eight bars of the chorus.
Stridetastic.

Posted by: Dismal Science | Feb 19 2007 17:48 utc | 22

you guys are awesome. i’ve been listening while working. taking a rare break from working intensely to meet a deadline (tomorrow), but wanted to say thank you and to share something i read in last spring in eye magazine (not avail online afaik).
saki mafundikwa writes about the african screenpainters of harare, zimbabwe – the highfield art club – who design and print the posters for the local harare clubs. they work in a makeshift “studio” in and fashioned from a junkyard full of old trucks and buses, completely exposed to the elements – the office and storage room are the rusty carcass of a mini bus. the highfield art club lost their indoor studio to a government’s “operation clean up” last year.
as a way of explaining why they continue to work under these condiditons, mafundikwa talks about life in zimbawe in general.

The economy mihgt have hit rock bottom with inflation at a staggering 600%; there hasn’t been a drop of fuel since June 2005 (except on the black market); the acute shortage of foreign currency has ensured that the once booming manufacturing industry has all but gone bust; an AIDS pandemic might be ravaging the nation; and the people’s morale might be at an all-time low as famine stalks the countryside due to last year’s drought. Yet for the people of my country, Zimbabwe, there is always music to ease the stress of day-to-day living. Starting on each Wednesday through the weekend, there is live music to be heard somewhere in and around the city of Harrare. Patrons can be seen swilling down gallons of lager well into the small hours of the moring, only to get up a few hours later to report for work at 8am. The ever-increasing price of beer doesn’t seem to deter them,either; music without beer in Zimbabwe would be like baseball without hot dogs in America.

music = universal antidote to despair. alcolhol too? ;>)

Posted by: conchita | Feb 19 2007 18:26 utc | 23

Reading “Investment Biker” by Jim Rogers, ooooooo, a long time ago (for the biker part), Rogers bought stock in brewerys at every stop in his two years trip around the globe. fwiw.
Thanks everyone for the tunes.

Posted by: beq | Feb 20 2007 1:19 utc | 24

since everyone appears to have stopped dancing, and is presumably sitting down, here are two solo acoustic performances from 1971 from a certain mr. bernard shakey
old man
ohio

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