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Check out podcast #19.
I found this in a directory that I was backing up. It was apparently recorded it back in April…of 2007. Just to amuse myself I didn’t listen to it but it seems to have some John Coltrane, John Zorn, and a piece on the Bazantar.
This may suck, but since I forgot all about this one it’s like I get to listen to it with complete innocence.
Check out this redefining version of the Bob Dylan anti-war classic Masters Of War. There are 2 things that differentiate this version from any other.
First, the song is stretched out a bit and given a lot of space. More importantly, the first 2 minutes of the song is not sung to the perhaps familiar Dylan melody but to the melody of the Star Spangled Banner. The seamless move from the national anthem to Dylan is sublime genius. A short little bit of the Gap Band’s “You Dropped The Bomb On Me” is played a ways into the song too as is a bit of Hendrix’s “Machine Gun”. This is 17 minutes long, which makes it a time investment, but if nothing else, listen to the first few minutes.
Second (this will probably pop your cork), this arrangement was conceived of and executed by a hip hop band. The Roots to be precise. They rock and show how inventive a band, any band, can be.
Check it out and I hope y’all get to see some fireworks blow up up and away in honor of the 4th of July.