Re: [powderworks] Keeping the flame burning

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/Whitefella.

jeff...