MLT Club Member David Herrick
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The Electric Company also got in on the act:
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Holy cow, I completely forgot about Sesame Street, which provided the first example of pretty much everything interesting that I know about. This primordial memory was my introduction to steel drum music:
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For a long time all I knew about ska was contained in this brief Police Squad scene, featuring Dick Clark from American Bandstand:
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Ah, calypso music! We played a calypso song in my first band concert in middle school. It was my first exposure to the genre and I loved it, although I don’t think the song was of Jamaican origin. I was especially intrigued by the weird chord that it ended on, which I now know was a Csus4.
This is the only band version of the song that I could find on YouTube. It’s from 2019, so apparently kids are still getting to groove to it:
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Regrettably my experience with Jamaican music is only second-hand, but here’s what I’ve got stored back in the cobwebby corners of my mental library:
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I agree, Jung. The numbers have held up much better than I predicted. Must be the ridiculously adorable thumbnail for the video: it just keeps drawing you back in!
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Over the past week, the Neve video has averaged V = 191 and C = 2.33.
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Juergen, I’ve never been out of the U.S., but if I had a chance to visit South America, places like Machu Picchu would be high on my list. I’d love to learn more about what was going on in my hemisphere in pre-colonial days. And I probably wouldn’t even notice the glasses of wine that apparently would be constantly handed to me.
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Hey, Juergen. I misplaced that Wisconsin album a long time ago, but by pure chance I found it a couple of days ago while I was looking for something else. (My memory is a bit hazy: it’s a cassette, not a CD, and it’s Chiquitita, not Fernando.) The group has a number of performances on YouTube, but I can’t find anything from that particular album. Here’s their most viewed video:
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Here’s an arrangement of Norwegian Wood that intrigues me. It’s by Harmony Grass, who were the British answer to the Beach Boys. I couldn’t find it in isolation, so I cued up the show to that performance:
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Wow, I had no idea that steel drums were manufactured with the same technical precision that is applied to standard band instruments. I’m sure the Trinidad natives of decades past just heated and hammered by trial and error until they got it right, and built up some practical wisdom about the process. It would be interesting to hear that version of the story as well.
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Wow, Juergen, you got all the details right! Police Squad was a brilliant comedic TV series from 1982, written by the Airplane movie guys, that was cancelled after six weeks. Just too smart for the average couch potato. But the premise was indeed revived six years later with the first of the Naked Gun movies.
Oh, and I played clarinet in the school band.
