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Just in case anyone is interested here is me turning my rant poem lyric What Show into a song. Just recorded on my cellphone as usual with video done on cellphone and laptop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T76DHwTR3Jg

CG that is brilliant Hugh Laurie he sloted into that band perfect and the New Orleans magic came through. I love the way Brits slot into  the New Orleans music scene  like this clip I will attach of Tom joining Hugh on stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMSxFcmiNGc     

Cheers Phill we get all the same garbage programmes that you do in the Uk.

TF  your right there is people pushing all these privacy laws and yet there is  a movement of attention seekers to  air everything private on TV in order to have their moment of fame.

CG thank you for having a read and your kind comments.

Bill my Brotha thank you for your spot on commments.  The kids still have some good stuff on tv. As a big kid myself I miss The Muppet Show when Jim Henson was alive. After he died it lost its way but then I  became a fan of Sponge Bob Sqaure Pants.

I remember  watching a film back in the late 90/s The Truman Show  thinking what crazy things will people do to make a tv programme. At  the time I never thought we would end up having all these  rubbish  reality shows around today. I couldn't imagine why  they would take of the way they have. The film I am talking about stars Jim Carry as Truman Burbank, adopted and raised by a corporation inside a simulated television show revolving around his life, until he discovers it and decides to escape. His life is been filmed the whole time and all the people in his life are actors.Though some elements of it seem imposible I am sure such a thing could happen in a North Korea type country. A trailer attached of the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTIzXAS7v4     

I think the reason why Summertime has been interpreted in differant ways is it is  a song that makea a performer want to dig deep when playing and singing it. Whenever I hear it sung by good singers I get a warm fuzzy feeling.

Cheers Jim I am glad you got the humour of the ad sometimes Kiwi comedy doesn’t travel well.

Bill excellent info on drum brushes thank you. You  are a good teacher. Drum beats have been part of my life growing up but not always in a way commonly used all around the world. When I was kid back in Fiji around 1960 we had to learn the meaning of differant rythmic beats on the Lali so we knew what the message been sent by the drummer was about. Today that is more a thing of the past as Fiji has caught up with the rest of the world. Modern cell phones are cheap there and are every where with radio and TV also available in most areas.. Lali is a Fijian drum of the wooden slit similar to many other drums commonly found throughout  Polynesia. It was an important part of traditional  Fijian culture used as a form of communication. to announce births, deaths and wars. A smaller form of the Lali drum (Lali ni meke) is used in music. Lali drums are still used to call the people of an area together, such as church services; the Lali is also used to entertain guests at many hotel resorts. Mostly the Lali nowdays has become more of a just an entertainment thing.The Lali drum is made out of wood and played with hands but, is most commonly played with sticks (i uaua) which are made out of softer wood so as not to damage the Lali. Historically, a larger and smaller stick were used together when playing the Lali
Attached is a Lali drummer  calling villagers to church.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FT4fkj3eW4

Fijian kids still welcome in the New Year with drumming  a long standing tradition called 'Qiri Kapa'.  Now days it is done  using things that have been thrown out to drum on. Drumming is still very much a male thing in Fiji but I guess time will change that. Attached is a short clip showing kids following the Qiri Kapa tradition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgnD2BeKHpg

Thank you Dong And Tig great to  watch a magic moment in a talented persons life.      Welcome to chordie Dong.

Jim that is an excellent song with an  excellent message .     

Happy Easter Bill and Dondra and all the chordie family.  That is very powerful Carrie Underwood  vocal and Vince Gill  guitar  I loved it..     

Cheers Jim down here in the South Pacific there are many beautiful Islands. I feel lucky to live in this land called New Zealand. Our big challenge is making sure that big multi national developers respect the people,  ecology of the land and water. I will attach  a link to an article talking about what I mean.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/money/news/si … ar-BBVNjOp

Your South Pacific Brother
Pete

Cheers Tf like you I was not a fan of Disco. Listening to that track on youtube reminded me that Phill Collins is an excellent drummer. For many years New Zealand was involved in ongoing protest over French nuclear testing here in the South Pacific from the mid-1960s. France began testing nuclear weapons in French Polynesia. Mururoa (or Moruroa) Atoll became the focal point for both the tests and opposition to them. Greenpeace vessels sailed into the test site in 1972, and the following year the New Zealand and Australian governments took France to the International Court of Justice in an attempt to ban the tests. France ignored the court’s ruling that they must cease testing.
The test site at Mururoa was dismantled following France’s last nuclear test to date, detonated on 27 January 1996,.There was alot of distrust here of the French government through the  1960’s to 1996 made worse with the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior. The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, codenamed Opération Satanique, was a bombing operation by the   action branch of the French foreign intelligence service, the Direction générale de la sécurité extérieure (DGSE)(, carried out on 10 July 1985. During the operation, two operatives sank the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, the Rainbow Warrior, at the Port Of Auckland here in New Zealand on its way to a protest against a planned French  nuclear test in  Moruroa. Fernando Pereira, a photographer, drowned on the sinking ship.
France initially denied responsibility, but two French agents were captured by New Zealand Police and charged with arson,conspiracy to commit arson, wilful damage, and murder. As the truth came out, the scandal resulted in the resignation of the French Defence Minister Charles Hemu..
The two agents pleaded guilty to  manslaughter and were sentenced to ten years in prison. They spent just over two years confined to the French island of Hao  before being freed by the French government.
Below is atttached a song of protest against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific at that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuJ8PP1Icfw

TF I love the age spread with the group all of them  play their parts perfectly. That young drummer has got a good future.

Cheers TF  I agree with Jim you gave me a good laugh.
Here  is a  Doo Wop group singing about telegrams,
  The Capris,    Morse Code Of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz_9r1APwM4