Funny you should ask. Even though I am from the generation, 60 years old. I have never really been an Allman Brothers guy but my wife brought me home a book on Duane Allman and the famous Filmore East concert. Reading it made me download the album from iTunes. I have been addicted to it. It is amazing just how great they were at that time.
Like I posted in a previous thread, I got blisters on my fingers the other night trying to learn Whipping Post.
Plus I have been listening to a lot of Elmore James stuff.
If anyone is interested the book is called Play All Night! - Duane Allman & the Journey to the Filmore East. Here is a Amazon link - https://amzn.to/3tBBU2Z
If the link is not allowed let me know and I will remove it and just leave the name of the book. I am new here, so don’t want to get in any trouble.
I watched it a second time, and now I get it. It’s a song of hope after devastation. In Hiroshima, there is a single tree that survived the bomb, the Hibakujumoku, and stood alone amidst the devastation.
After the bomb, the area was plagued with black rain for quite some time, called the endless rain. So the rain, the umbrellas, the tree, Su - she always has a ponytail on stage. Also, Su’s hometown is Hiroshima, and some of her grandparents are Hibakusha - atomic bomb survivors.
She said many years ago she was sad as a teenager new to Tokyo, when no one remembered the bomb on it’s date. She said she would always keep it in her heart and remind others.
I just geek out about this video. It’s from an amazing, pivotal scene several hundred pages in to Infinite Jest. I mean, who does that? Such an obscure reference, lovingly recreated. No one even makes it that far into the book anyway
Infinite Jest is like my literary Moby Dick. I’ve started in to it several times, and love it, but never made it all the way through. And it’s not a book you can pick up again after a few months.
Beni Ninagawa of the Wagakki Band released a song.
She has a national reputation as a Shamisan player, and story I heard is she walked into a Wagakki rehearsal and informed them she was now a member. They didn’t say no.
