Weekend Song – Eta Carinae
May 24, 2008
You know, a lot of people say to me:
“Congratulations on one year of the Weekend Song. I am a big music fan myself, and I enjoy a range of musical styles. Like you, I like lively feelgood tunes, digital delay on jangly guitars and weird eastern harmonies like the The Police’s Andy Summers plays, intricate high hat rhythms over electric snares and fast driving reggae bass lines, rap music, soft female vocals like her out of the Cardigans or the other one from the Sundays and I also think Portuguese is a beautiful language to sing in. I don’t suppose you know of a song that does all this? Oh, and lazer beam noises.”
Please.
Listen: Loa Do Mar
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8 comments
You scare me.
I need some instrument advice, Cliff. Bouzouki, or Octave mandolin? ( you refer to them in them in the UK as ‘octave mandola’ )
I just bought a mandolin ( Alvarez F3ANT) and a baritone guitar ( Alvarez YB1 ). Going for a trifecta, then possibly a quintella, adding a mandola and a mandocello. Am I insane?
I’d go for an Irish bouzouki. I love baritone guitars. Get yourself two trumpet players and form a mariachi band.
Or just a flying v uke. http://www.musicroom.com/imagezoom.aspx?product_id=412704
I suppose I could make a short-scale Irish Bouzouki. I’d think around 25 inch scale would work fine. Want one?
( I’ve already made a couple flying-v ukes, and les paul, explorer, and violin-shaped too )
I haven’t a clue what you two boys are talking about. A year of weekends, Cliff – you should do a compilation album. “Cliff Jones’ Weekend Songs”, or “Songs for the weekend, from Cliff Jones”, or “Cliff ‘Weekend Songs’ Jones”.
Or “The Many Weekends Of Cliff Jones – In Song”
or “Now Those Are What I Call Weekend Songs 1″
or “The Greatest Weekend Songs In The World Ever”
And Ed- thanks, but I’ve got instruments out the bouzouki at the moment, so I don’t have the time or space to play them. If you can make time or space then I’m keen.
“Cliff Jones’ Tribal Weekend Shakedown”. Make it. Make it now.
Leave a comment. Play nice. I will turn this blog around.