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I have a hunch that if these protestors ever came to power they'd soon have their firing squads in place to "liquidate the enemies of the people." Happens every time. The Greek people shouldn't have to answer to any international bodies. Let them go their own way. No bail out!

Obnoxious little bugger.

Horrible; no other word for it.

Bass player looked like he was one something!

@OverlordShamala Me neither. Besides, Greek pizza doesn't come close to Italian pizza.

Do you ever smile?

Beautiful tune, beautiful trumpet solo (I'm a trumpet player myself). but yeah, the accoustics weren't great.

Brilliant playing all around. I just played this at a session last night myself (trumpet player here). What a great blues!

Yak, yak, shut up and sing!

Beautiful tune; really nice blues line and changes. But it didn't need two harp players. Was that Jim Conway on harp? He should have just laid out and let Christelle take it all, fills and the solo. If you're gonna let someone sit in like this, then get out of the way and let them play. So.....

They were pretty cute; better looking than most American prostitutes on the street.

Beautiful rendition! Great solos all around, but I really loved the piano; she's got the idiom down perfectly.

Now I've finally learned what a "dogfight" is. Thank you!

What's corny here is the arrangement. Listen to what Bing is doing with the rhythm and his melodic variations - Lennon, for all his genius,couldn't touch it. This would have been better with a simple rhythm section behind Bing. The 'pum, pum, pum,' is a bad choice, I'll admit.

What these people need is a good old New Orleans funeral parade, you know, a bit of "Oh, Didn't He Ramble?" It'll cheer them right up.

This is making me sweat, so I'll take the red bikini to wipe my face with.

Propaganda is never harmless. Musically, it's a piece of insipid crap.

Nice improvisation, but I think the harp you were playing here was blown, because the intonation wasn't good. Honestly, I think you were playing on an out of tune harp - or, the backup track was not in tune with you harp - one or the other. I think it was that, not your technique. Best wishes...

Wow! Beautiful improvised lines.

Wonder if she tips her hairdresser.

Spoken like a true Christian.

@RobertBienenfeld Oh, fer Chrissakes, let the rhetoric go for once. It's Christmas (yeah, I know: a capitalist plot, right?). Stop being a pain in the ass all the time. Smile, will ya?

Ha, ha, ha! Pretty amusing. I don't think they're all faking, but there's an element of group / mob hysteria here. Someone starts acting out, or is a very good actor, and the whole thing just snowballs. But like everything else in that God-forsaken country this was choreographed.

I've seen and enjoyed a lot of your You tube videos, so just for the hell of it, here's my own modest effort. You Tube wouldn't let me paste the link, so if you type in 'harmony bratt summertime' I'm in at 3:10 on the vid. Okay, I'll leave you alone now!

I'm starting to think the whole thing is scripted; especially when he pronounced the country 'hungry.' And the little kid smirking away probably doesn't know as much as he thinks he does. But really, I think they're all working off a script.

Thanks for your advice; I will work on it. I am mainly a trumpet player, coming back to the harp after many years (I played in a blues band a long time ago, but wasn't very good). It was unfair to mention Howard Levy, who is also a pianist with a full mastery of the bebop idiom (I'm mostly a ja...

Composer of the piece sounds like it might be the late Astor Piazolla. The more I hear it, the more it sounds like something he wrote.

The mainline Protestant churches have "out" gays in the clergy now. I don't know any other religion that's doing that. Maybe Reformed Judaism, but that's it.

People around the world keep lining up to get an American visa. I guess they all just want to get poorer.

@pineapplepenumbra I lived some years ago. Beautiful city! But of course it has all the big city problems you'd find anywhere else. Are you in London?