who's next....

a real potpourri today.
bits and pieces so to speak.
Last night was a great night for music with Maori TV showing a docco on Gabby Pahinui with his survivors and friends putting on a neato little mini concert in the back yard with traditional slack key guitar playing and the full range of "Hawaiian" instrumentation, viz, steel guitar, and a fabulous ukulele player and a dude playing a double bass on the horizontal.
Music to die for.
yes indeedy.

and just for the record.
Even though they sort of felll out after Chicken Skin Music it was Ry Cooder who lifted Gabby's profile to Hawaiian Superstar.
I always thought that Ry was short for Barry but no his real name is Ryland cooder.
hehehehe. 

Not impressed with the meedja today going hammer and tongs at Jessie Ryder.
sure he is truculent and petulant but he is a troubled soul and trying to pretend that he fits within the parameters of bourgeois behaviour shows a total lack of understanding for a person who needs help and not ritual assassination in the press because he aint like you.
shame on you jerks.

anyway I went to town yesterday and scored the April edition of the ozzie Rollingstone which was the country music edition.
It really is a business now.
All the juice gone in corporate onslaught where just about everything comes out the same.
Its worse than the Billy Sherill countrypolitan era.
They dont wear Stetsons anymore!
However I did agree with  their list of the the top 25 country ditties of all time.
One could quibble but no list is ever going to do justice to all the old dogs and children and watermelon wine.
But, and here it comes Take this Job and Shove it should be coupled with the greatest drinking song of all time, "Barstool Mountain". hehehehehehehehe.

and Crystal Gayle.
Well she is just Crystal. Somewhat in the shadow of her older sister Loretta Lynn but still with a slew of hits of her own.
Try Wrong Road Again and River Road  for the absolute best in country storytelling.

Good editorial page in the Dompost day and the cartoon is right on the money.
Two deniers strutting their stuff.
Hey only our own truths count people.
A bit like the MAD (mutually assured destruction) doctrine from the 50's only now its mutually assured drongos.
howzat?