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Southerly: DVD Review: Learn to Play the Volkszither in the Style of the Waffen SS

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  • Jonty,

    I think you need ECT before you can learn the bagpipes anyway.

    Katikati • Since Mar 2007 • 102 posts Report

  • Don Christie,

    First of all, welcome back from whatever hiatus has been keeping you from PA this time. Trust all is well.

    Ukelele's have featured prominently in Wellington over the last few days, they demonstrate this song in honour of John Peel, ex-DJ.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report

  • Colin Granger,

    WTF?

    Ireland • Since Mar 2008 • 2 posts Report

  • David Haywood,

    Jonty wrote:

    I think you need EST before you can learn the bagpipes anyway.

    I think you need EST and a lobotomy...

    Don Christie wrote:

    ... welcome back from whatever hiatus has been keeping you from PA this time...

    Cheers, Don. Two not-quite-finished-as-yet blogs on the story behind my hiatus are coming up soon.

    Ukeleles have featured prominently in Wellington over the last few days, they demonstrate this song in honour of John Peel, ex-DJ.

    Ah, what a splendid version of 'Teenage Kicks"!

    By the way, I should have mentioned that this blog is dedicated to Gemma Gracewood from The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra, who has kindly been helping me with my questions about the physics behind ukulele intonation.

    Colin Granger wrote:

    WTF?

    Dude, haven't you ever been lying in bed thinking how over-rated Riefenstahl's 'Triumph of the Will' is -- really a very distasteful propaganda flick -- and then started thinking, hey, wouldn't it be cool if someone watched this movie under the impression that it was a guide to learning how to play the volkszither?

    Dunsandel • Since Nov 2006 • 1156 posts Report

  • Colin Granger,

    No

    Ireland • Since Mar 2008 • 2 posts Report

  • Emma Hart,

    WTF?

    Dude, haven't you ever been lying in bed thinking how over-rated Riefenstahl's 'Triumph of the Will' is -- really a very distasteful propaganda flick -- and then started thinking, hey, wouldn't it be cool if someone watched this movie under the impression that it was a guide to learning how to play the volkszither?

    No

    Dude, you got some guy, all the way from Ireland, to make his first post on System, just to say 'WTF' at you. Your entire career has been working towards this point.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report

  • David Haywood,

    Emma:

    Hadn't quite looked at it this way before, but maybe you're onto something.

    Dunsandel • Since Nov 2006 • 1156 posts Report

  • FletcherB,

    I completely sympathize with Colin's "WTF"...

    And that is why I loved the post... Thanks for warping my brain....

    West Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 893 posts Report

  • andrew llewellyn,

    Dude, haven't you ever been lying in bed thinking how over-rated Riefenstahl's 'Triumph of the Will' is -- really a very distasteful propaganda flick -- and then started thinking, hey, wouldn't it be cool if someone watched this movie under the impression that it was a guide to learning how to play the volkszither?

    Not quite, although if I'd known what a volkszither was you'd be on the money.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Don Christie,

    Two not-quite-finished-as-yet blogs on the story behind my hiatus are coming up soon.

    Oh, every time I see that GDP is on its way up I shudder at the thought of the input to this from the Haywood clan and BBQ associates. I suppose we should also be grateful...

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report

  • Jeremy Andrew,

    I've heard that a definition of a Gentleman is one who knows how to play the bagpipes...

    and doesn't.

    Hamiltron - City of the F… • Since Nov 2006 • 900 posts Report

  • Charles Mabbett,

    Magnificently demented post, David. I've always felt that the Slovenian group Laibach would make brilliant soundtrack music for Reifenstahl's Nazi era films. And the beauty of it would be that Laibach were so deliciously tongue in cheek. Remember "Live is Life"?

    Since Nov 2006 • 236 posts Report

  • Charles Mabbett,

    Here's the Laibach video of Live is Life. Deliciously pompous and overwrought but funny.

    Since Nov 2006 • 236 posts Report

  • Charles Mabbett,

    Takes your breath away...

    My favourite Slovenian electro-industrial rockers.

    Since Nov 2006 • 236 posts Report

  • David Haywood,

    I'm glad to see that my comedy connects with a couple of people, at least.

    Charles Mabbett wrote:

    My favourite Slovenian electro-industrial rockers...

    Wow, I had not seen the video to 'Live is Life' before -- completely outstanding, and brilliantly funny! By the way, in case Southerly readers haven't heard the original song (sort of a sing-along Bob Marley rip-off by German band 'Opus') then I can direct them here:

    I once met a Greek woman who told me that she wished Greece would invade Slovenia, because "Slovenia isn't a proper country". She also said that the Greeks would never get around to it because "there is too much democracy in Greece". Later on she told me that it was illegal to use the word 'Britain' -- you had to say 'United Kingdom'.

    Dunsandel • Since Nov 2006 • 1156 posts Report

  • Charles Mabbett,

    Wonderful stuff. I hadn't seen the completely cheesy Opus video before.

    I tell you what. If Greece invaded Slovenia, Laibach would fight to the last drop of blood. Those guys are hard - all that tramping around the Alps in moustaches, tweed jackets and knee high leather boots.

    Since Nov 2006 • 236 posts Report

  • Charles Mabbett,

    And trumpets. I forgot trumpets.

    And those hats with felt bits on the back. VEry chic.

    Since Nov 2006 • 236 posts Report

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