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Your favorite accordion players?
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Gogol Bordello has an accordion player that is crucial to their sound. It's not an exciting or sexy instrument to play live, but I think it can work great with certain types of music.
EDIT: What's your favorite accordion for metal? (I'm not proud about that, but someone had to ask.)
EDIT: What's your favorite accordion for metal? (I'm not proud about that, but someone had to ask.)
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“Weird Al” Yankovic.
This is based on my vast, expansive knowledge of two, count them, two accordion players, Weird Al and Lawrence Welk. And I’ve never heard Lawrence Welk play.
My knowledge, or better put, ignorance, likely mirrors 95% of the American public.
This is based on my vast, expansive knowledge of two, count them, two accordion players, Weird Al and Lawrence Welk. And I’ve never heard Lawrence Welk play.
My knowledge, or better put, ignorance, likely mirrors 95% of the American public.
What happened when someone broke into the accordion players car??!!
They left another accordion.
They left another accordion.
This is all pretty thin . . . . . here's the real thing, albeit Cajun squeezebox, with Jo-El Sonnier in an old clip from Sanborn's 'NIGHT MUSIC' NBC Series: I love to see him play this 95mph fastball version of Richard Thompson's 'Tear-Stained Letter' with a stage full of NYC session stalwarts (and Richard himself) hangin' on for dear life ! Turn this up LOUD ! !
It will be one of the regrets of my life that I never lived somewhere between the Texas line and Baton Rouge along Interstate 10 in Acadiana. Wonderful people, great food, and they love music and musicians. If you EVER get a chance to gig down there or spend time there, GO !
It will be one of the regrets of my life that I never lived somewhere between the Texas line and Baton Rouge along Interstate 10 in Acadiana. Wonderful people, great food, and they love music and musicians. If you EVER get a chance to gig down there or spend time there, GO !
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I subbed in Cajun & Zydeco bands. I played with some of those cajun badboys when they came to Houston. Its just 1 & 5 but you had to have that radar going to anticipate those chord changes. Zydeco is entirely different . I think zydeco is french for "the bass player goes crazy". Always had blisters after those gigs.
I used to try and catch the Lawrence Welk show reruns when it came on public television. Horrid arrangements, stupid song and dance routines, BUT GREAT MUSICIANSHIP! Great players. Especially the older shows broadcast live from NYC.
I would kill for one of those fluorescent canary yellow leisure suits.
I would kill for one of those fluorescent canary yellow leisure suits.
This group, plus I always wondered what happened to Dennis DeYoung
The late Steve Jordan aka Esteban Jordan or “El Parche”. He was active in south Texas and known as the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion.
Flaco Jimenez
Clifton Chenier
Flaco Jimenez
Clifton Chenier
Astor Piazzolla. I believe he is the king at Argentine tango no?
Flaco from the Texas tornadoes. “Squeeze it flaccito!”
Flaco from the Texas tornadoes. “Squeeze it flaccito!”
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