Yep!! He plays the s**t out of one of the all time best known classical music tunes of them all, the William Tell Overture AKA The Theme From The Lone Ranger. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Classical composer Rossini composed the symphony containing the William Tell Overture.
Classical musicians were opining on the fact that, no matter where it's played today, the audience has no choice but to think "Lone Ranger", pushing the credit and original title aside.
Same thing happened to me, in a sense, after I saw the movie Reservoir Dogs. Now, every time the song "Stuck in the Middle With You" plays on the oldies station, I never remember the era from which I first heard that song. Rather, my memory wraps around cutting off an ear. ---------- The Iceman
LOL! Ice, I used to have the same thing run through my head when I heard Stealer's Wheel on the radio. But as it happens, on the day my son was born, that was the first song that sang to him in my wife's hospital room. Not sure why I picked that particular song at the time, but now I always think of that day when I hear Stuck in the Middle. Funny how musical mental associations can be changed like that...
Many works written around the time of the William Tell Overture make use of "false" endings for dramatic effect. Rossini used it a lot (look up and listen to Rossini's "Italian in Algiers" for another good example) Buddy both executes this well, and makes fun of it at the same time, showing his skill as both a musician and an entertainer.
