Subject: RE: [powderworks] Keeping the flame burning |
From: "Jeremy" <bauerje@msn.com> |
Date: 21/03/2009, 2:22 am |
To: "'Jeff and Jane Scott'" <jscott@iinet.net.au>, <powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au> |
Jeff…what a great story! My favorite thing
is to hear my fianc�e’s 13-year old start singing random Oils lyrics from the
back seat while we’re driving somewhere. I’ll be playing the Oils on my pod,
then hear singing along in the back seat…especially when the Dead Heart comes
on. He is also an aspiring drummer and I’ve played for 24+ years, so it is
great to show him footage of Rob rocking like no other AND singing while doing
it…pretty amazing… Every night when I have him practicing drums, I practice
Oils tunes on guitar…or banjo…yep, the Oils on banjo…ah good stuff J
Jeremy
From:
powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au [mailto:powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au] On Behalf Of Jeff and Jane Scott
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009
11:55 PM
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au
Subject: [powderworks] Keeping the
flame burning
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
jeff...