"Trust in me". Any idea who the artist is?
Holly Cole covering the song from Jungle Book.
Wow! I just watched the clips for "Panis Et Circenses" and "Fuga No. 2" from that same link, and HOLY CRAP were Os Mutantes incredible. I kept forgetting that there were only 4-5 people playing that music. Also, I'm sure Matt Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces has obsessively watched that video many, many times.
I got a tape of Tropicalia clips at Kim's Video several years ago. I'm sure it's the same stuff. It had Os Mutantes also doing "Don Quixote" where they're out tilting at windmills on the beach and going to groovy nightclubs. It's almost like a Monkees clip. The thing about Brazilian music from that era is that most people saw it on TV before they heard it on the radio. Almost all of its documented - even the avant stuff.
Almost all of its documented - even the avant stuff.
I think that's the coolest thing about Tropicalia. It wasn't underground music, but literally Brazil's biggest stars making this insane psychedelic-pop music, and the people ate it up. Except in those videos from the TV show, where the audience just looks bored while Os Mutantes makes crazy music with just four people right in front of their eyes.
and the people ate it up
Not always - there were several near-riot incidents that were also caught on tape. They have a national song contest ever year. It's a huge deal and televised. When Caetano Veloso got up there with an electric band in '67, the crowd (many tens of thousands) tried to shout him down for perverting and destroying the Brazilian songwriting tradition. He's heard chanting (in Brazilian) "It is forbidden to forbid! / It is forbidden to forbid!" in the face of this very scary mob.
Douglas Wolk reviews the RT box: [link]
I think he's probably right. The box is far too heavily skewed towards hardcore fans. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who has fewer than 5 or 6 of his albums.
I just got kicked out of the band I was going to play SXSW with this year. Over the phone. Less than a week before the gig. After putting quite a bit of work into learning that guy's songs exactly the way he wanted me to play them. If he'd let me quit 3 weeks ago when I offered to do so, I might have a positive opinion of the guy. But he didn't and I don't.
The lesson is: if you can't make up your mind before the last minute, you're kind of an asshole.
Jesus, Corwood, that sucks.
I'm pissed now, but it will pass. What a shitty band leader, though!
This might sound like sour grapes, but my wife would confirm that I really don't care much for his songs, which are all bland power-pop (and, seriously, his lyrics dropped into the worst possible category occasionally: "I hear stories of destruction and rumors of war/ every day is crazier than the day before." Really? Are destruction and war bad for children and other living things, too?). I was mainly playing in the band as a favor to a mutual friend, and planning to quit after this weekend. Which is the salient point: I was waiting until AFTER the big gig and LONG BEFORE the next show in late April to quit, because a) I have some fucking sense of propriety and b) I wanted to play SXSW, dammit.
