g'day
all
Yesterday my
nine-year-old son came home from school, and was telling me how his music
teacher played Power and the Passion at school. They then had a worksheet
to fill in, answer some questions etc (which he complained were stupid and easy,
like "what's the main instrument playing in the solo" - he also complained that
they listened to the song in bits, and not all the way through). Anyway,
he was then asking how Rob remembers the solo for live performances. I
explained that he doesn't do it the same every time, and showed him the video
from the MCG as a pretty good example of a great Power and the Passion
solo.
They must have had a
few general Midnight Oil questions to answer as well, as he'd been on the
Internet and started giving me interesting facts about Midnight Oil ("did you
know they used to be called Farm? Peter Garrett answered an ad in the
paper and that's how he joined"). He then went on to tell me that the band once
played on the back of a truck in front of the Exxon building, so I had to get
that video out as well. I was quite surprised when he and his
seven-year-old brother watched the entire thing from start to finish - their
attention span doesn't usually go that far! I gave them the whole Exxon
Valdez story, and how the company tried to avoid taking responsibility (and
still is!).
So they went to bed
all full of praise for Midnight Oil and disgust with Exxon, and in the case of
the seven-year-old crying for all the animals that got covered in
oil.
Maybe next I'll show
them Blackfella/Whitefel la.
jeff...
