Ataturk Band has decided to cut the crap, buy some proper clothes and focus on the only form of music that really matters, that is Epic Viking Metal.
Here's a rough translation of that intro speech: "O Ragnar, you died too young! Only one time in his life your father let go of his sword - to push you on a bark boat into the void of Valhalla. You departed too young, Ragnar..."
(I employ a kind of drone style of playing here, as I tongue block most of the song playing the 1 hole all the time and the melody at the same time.)
Yes! f-ing EPIC!!!!! Especially the dude in his tighty whities f-ing ROCKING OUT in the front row! Now that is some serious harmonica RoCK!!!! ---------- == I S A A C ==
RAWK! I felt like I should be swing a beer stein back and forth and joining in a chorus of 'wo ho ho ho ho ho ho' or something. Time to move to Norway, fellas! ;-)
Oh, the guys from Loverboy called-they want their pants back.
EDIT: I had to go back and watch for the guy up front in his Fruit of the Looms. That alone was worth the price of admission. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!? ---------- Todd L. Greene
I have to say I hate the stomp drum in general. Whenever I hear it with harmonica I find it distracting. BUT, in this case it was PERFECT. It was my favorite part of it. I am actually considering getting one now. They totally rocked this. I need more of this!
I concur. The stomp drum was way ballsy. Absolutely critical to the perfection that was this video. I am smiling even just thinking about it.
Brilliant.
I thought I was clever doing an AC/DC cover with an acoustic guitar player and looper, but this rocks 100x harder. ---------- Mike Quicksilver Custom Harmonicas
"why is the guy in the audience taking his cloths off? "
Well, it's hard to throw your undies at the band unless you take them off...I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
That, or those pleather pants were heating the whole place up.
Every guy musician's dream is to play music that makes the girls in the audience wanna get nekkid...but something has gone terribly wrong here. ---------- Todd L. Greene
I'm sincerely happy that you enjoyed the material. To be honest I hesitated a bit about sharing this, the reed getting stuck in 3:10 and all (Jesus, have you tried playing 6 minutes with drone technique? The amount of saliva!) It might not be for everybody, but it sure was for everybody in the room that night. I've never accompanied such dancing with a folk duo.
Anyway, the good news is that this is not just one song we came up with. 2/3 of the set was actually something similar to this. Next month we're going to the studio to record our 2nd album. Consider this a preview of how it's going to sound.
This gig was a pivotal moment for me. I realized that a "toy" like harmonica can actually make people lose themselves. It was a wild night, something I'll never forget.
I actually have the whole footage from that night. Maybe I can share something else for you when I have the time.
The man in his undies was actually covered in gold paint. His undies present the Finnish flag. He's also waving one.
The red pants we're wearing are actually from a ladies clothing store. But I think we would still make Manowar look like sissy girls.
