Melissa,
Yes, somewhere in there is a hurdy gurdy. The thing that everyone says is
so cool about Arcade Fire and the hurdy gurdy is that, and here's the big
build up, someone plays one on stage!!!!!!
Yep that's it, no Bouffard hiding in the music, no Chabenat creating
melodies in the midst of it all. The thing that makes everyone so surprised is
that someone plays hurdy gurdy on stage in a rock band. Oh....did I happen to
mention that it is for a popular current band and that they play in North
America. They also did an award show with Bowie so they have the buzz going
for
them right now.
As a side note, I find some of their music very good and others, for a
lack of a better word, mushy. The thing that makes the audience so amazed at
their shows is that they jump from one instrument to the next in a kind of
Chinese-fire-drill way (no offence to anyone here, I just can't find a better
description) and the unknowing public loves this. Reports from regular
musicians are that they don't really play all the instruments but rather sort
of
strum or pound out a basic rhythm. Some of them are very good on certain
instruments but they are not good on all of them, and that is what gives it
that
mushy sound that I am talking about. Reports also say (I have never seen them
except on videos) that they are good on stage dynamically and they provide the
audience with value for dollar as far as entertainment, which is what most
people want anyway.
So now you know, and knowing is.........good.
Scott
************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
