https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyPoLKy11hM
We originally called our rock band The Village Idiots, mostly because the two senior members were, in fact, idiots of the village. The two younger members of the band, Julian and Shane, are hoping to become full-fledged idiots but they're not there yet. They'll have to devolve considerably to attain that misnomer. They are simply too musical.
We used to have a catch phrase for The Village Idiots and that catch phrase was 'we're entertainers, not musicians'. For me that always felt like the truth, though I always considered Julian and Shane to actually be musicians, not entertainers. Something happened on Saturday night at the coffee house in Gagetown. For the first time in Julian's life, I believe, he was a musician and an entertainer. Ditto for Shane, to the best of my knowledge. The results, of being both musicians and entertainers, were palpable judging by the screams from the audience.
Julian and Shane performed four songs at the Gagetown coffee house on Saturday night. In today's blog we'll take a look at Pinball Wizard, a song originally written and performed by The Who. I'll take credit for the miserable quality of the video (mental note: buy a proper video camera). The credit for the excellent performance goes 100% to Julian 'Townsend' Varty and Shane 'Daltry' Armstrong. Julian described the evening as "the most fun I've ever had in my life". That pretty much sums up life as a musician and an entertainer.
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