Astrud Gilberto - Berimbau
That one cracked me up. What are they playing, flutophones? I guess they call them recorders. I think that with these guys too, I think the lead singer was the inspiration for pulp fiction. Someone threw a vial of a powder onstage, he thought it was something else but it turned out to be another word I can’t use so I hope you’ve seen pulp fiction and he died. What a talent, it’s a crazy accurate live performance until the impromptu flutophone I mean recorder jam session.
I was going through the videos trying to pick the right one, I may have posted the wrong one. There is an extended flutophone + drum jam at the end of the one I thought I posted. I figured you were a dead head, this is my album/jam from them.
“Did you know that they hated playing indoors? It’s was because the echo would play hell on their Drum Solos.”
On the Canned Heat song, those are flutes. And the Gilberto Gil track was recorded with Banda de Pífanos de Caruaru who play fifes. Neither one was recorders.
I saw them once, outdoors. My pipe went far and wide during that drum solo but some made it back to me!
“I have seen them many times. I have even had the honor to meet both Jerry Garcia, AND Bob Weir.”
I only saw them the one time. Alpine Valley 1989
“That is a good site. They sounded great there.”
It was amazing! Later that year saw the stones too, then Stevie Ray Vaughn died, ugh
“Another pair I have met. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.”
/grin
“Would you like to see a list, of all the Musicians I have met?”
I’ve only met musicians from my local scene