Thank you Tina Kugler! Tina posted one of Gus & Fin's videos on her blog, I watched it, loved it, ended up watching all of their vids on youtube (repeatedly), loving each one more than the one before. These guys are simply fantastic! Just pure joyful and funkified fun-ness. (How can you possibly top a guy wearing a fez and playing "Rawhide" on a toy T.V. Pal ukulele? I'll tell you how...when they play it with such excellent musicianship and respect for the song.) It's the kind of stuff you want everyone to see and hear and love too.
And for just plain lounge-vibe-coolness here's "Get Carter," with bongos and other instrumentation. We MUST get these guys to come to the states and play at the Stump sometime.
Go to their youtube site and play all 47 vids...they're all excellent. I'm buying a ukulele because of these guys.
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ah skiffle, the precursor to the original british invasion. these guys are just like the likes of georgie fame and unit 4+2 (and 1000 other guys nobody remembers anymore.)
that's by no means a bad thing, i love that stuff
thank god for guys like wes anderson (and this duo), keeping this stuff alive
Yes indeed. I am heartened to see that someone else out there has an appreciation for skiffle, ska and the rest of that lineage. My favorite band of all time, The Who, had some skiffle roots via Townsend's Dad, My fondness for all things Who-yistic is how I first heard the term as a wee lad, and then explored and learned about it with affection way back in the day. It had a brief though joyful resurgence in the early eighties during my college days with a few good Brit bands.
"Nobodys" is a good way to put it, but those cats had a long-reaching influence. Not sure I'd put Gus and Fin in that category as musicians, although they do tip their hats to that genre and others.
Thanks Nate...always encouraging to hear your thoughts...you are indeed a well-read man with a clear fondness for cultural history that matters!
i adore these guys...pleeease contact them...now, THAT i would leave the house for...(um, you have NO idea how hard it is for me to get out of the house)
(well, perhaps you do)
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