skip Heller <velaires@earthlink.net> wrote:
I just got done reading this, Caetano Veloso's autobio/history of troplicalia/overview of Brazillian culture and politics, and was wondering if anyone else has read it.
Personally, I love his records dearly, but the book doesn't make me much like him personally. He comes off as something of a coffeehouse intellectual chowderhead in spots, a dilletante in others, and -- at his best -- somebody who really loves the music of his country.
Hey Skip, I haven't gotten round to reading the book yet, & probably won't for at least another week or two, but from what I've seen in interviews, etc, it's hard for me not to expect that Veloso isn't coming from a fairly "intellectual" position. But that may be less of a negative option for me than for you. &, since you & Jon Mooneyham, seem to be familiar with the live DVDs, do you all (or any one else) know what the source for the footage they used a couple of weeks ago for a story on the JimLehrer News Hour on PBS? Bests, Herb -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com
on 1/6/03 10:59 AM, Herb Levy at herb@eskimo.com wrote:
Hey Skip,
I haven't gotten round to reading the book yet, & probably won't for at least another week or two, but from what I've seen in interviews, etc, it's hard for me not to expect that Veloso isn't coming from a fairly "intellectual" position.
But that may be less of a negative option for me than for you.
It's not that he comes from an intellectual position. More that he wears it on his sleeve and uses it as a means to kind of slough off people like Elvis Presley as being somehow too rustic to be considered by the intellgentia. Also, he has a way of overstating the importance of everything.
&, since you & Jon Mooneyham, seem to be familiar with the live DVDs, do you all (or any one else) know what the source for the footage they used a couple of weeks ago for a story on the JimLehrer News Hour on PBS?
Bests,
Herb
No, but if you tell me what the band was (what instruemnts) and what tune they played, I can probably tell you.
At 3:41 PM -0800 1/6/03, skip Heller wrote:
on 1/6/03 10:59 AM, Herb Levy at herb@eskimo.com wrote:
&, since you & Jon Mooneyham, seem to be familiar with the live DVDs, do you all (or any one else) know what the source for the footage they used a couple of weeks ago for a story on the JimLehrer News Hour on PBS?
Bests,
Herb
No, but if you tell me what the band was (what instruemnts) and what tune they played, I can probably tell you.
Thanks for the offer, unfortunately, I saw less than 30 secs walking through a room at someone else's house. I'm not even sure what song it was, though it was fairly recent. In what I saw there was a string of about three percussionists at the back of the stage all with sound baffles around each of them. & I didn't see any of the suspended mobiles that seem to be stage props in the cover art for Prenda Minha. Sorry if that's not enough information. This takes me back to my days working in record stores when customers wouldn't have enough information to find what they were looking for. "There was a love song with drums and guitars and the album cover was either light yellow or there was a picture of a house on it or something." Bests, Herb -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com
on 1/7/03 6:01 AM, Herb Levy at herb@eskimo.com wrote:
In what I saw there was a string of about three percussionists at the back of the stage all with sound baffles around each of them. & I didn't see any of the suspended mobiles that seem to be stage props in the cover art for Prenda Minha.
That's new footage then. I have the other recent stuff. sh
on 1/7/03 6:01 AM, Herb Levy at herb@eskimo.com wrote:
In what I saw there was a string of about three percussionists at the back of the stage all with sound baffles around each of them. & I didn't see any of the suspended mobiles that seem to be stage props in the cover art for Prenda Minha.
That's new footage then. I have the other recent stuff.
sh
It didn't look like earlier stuff I'd seen (though lots of things don't show up around here), so maybe there's a video of the new Live in Bahia CDs in the works. Apparently the PBS interview was good, I'm sorry I missed it. They talked about the current politics and economics of Brazil as well as music and the book. Bests, Herb -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb@eskimo.com
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