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I've got this recently
in my mail:
Aaron Calhoun
and the Dynamic Duo at the Champs Bar, Wanchai
"At the live Hong
Kong shows expect to hear unreleased songs ranging from bossa nova
to others reminiscent of the early Fab Four. Don't try to pigeon
hole this guy's music - not only will you hurt yourself, but you'd
have an easier time finishing up Einstein's work on a unified field
theory. Leave it at this: Songs that are built to last. Catchy melodies,
thoughtful arrangements and great vocals. "
The music I normally
listen to, is generally described by the people around me in the
range of crazy mayhem to the utterly unlistenable.
So excuse me that when I hear :"Bossa Nova, catchy melodies,
thoughtful arrangements" I am not jumping up and down the aisle
with excitement and anticipation. It's more likely that I get that
strange twitchy feeling in my left shoulder.
But that PR clip came
from my friend Chris. And Chris is somebody who doesn't take shit
from nobody. She has enough style to nonchalantly scrape a dead
frog off the pavement to include into her fusion dinner and she
knows what great music sounds like. That's good enough credentials
for me anytime, and so I went.
Thanks to a well known international brewery's generosity we were
able to get loaded on free beer.
That in itself was kind of tempting. Free booze is a major factor
in my style.
I met Aaron Calhoun and Zachary Sempers and they seemed like a couple
of really nice guys.
Generously, I let them do the first couple of songs to warm up before
I got up to totally distract them by shooting them the shy way,
Stick Insect Hunter way.
Once those guys started playing, it didn't sound bad at all. Call
me sentimental or whatever but I actually really liked it and it
grows on you.
They couldn't start the second set because one of the guys apparently
wandered off to Wanchai to get involved with some of the local entertainment.
It was late and I too had parties to attend and places to go.
At this point I had to cut the niceties short and go to the bathroom
to shoot the man's urinal. After all it is a sports bar and I wasn't
there to have fun.
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here to view the video clipping - press.avi ( 2.9mb )
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