Andrew Marr and Hugh Laurie need to get a room.
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GrumpyGregry
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ComedyPilot
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You mean House?
Who's the other one - no tv here
away to google ...
Who's the other one - no tv here
away to google ...
Beebo
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I watched a documentary about him and his band, he is very honest that his fame and fortune has given him the chance to do something that others who are far more talented than him could never do.
But he has a deep rooted love of the Blue going back to before he was famous, (he insisted that the intro music to A bit of Fry and Laurie was Mardie Gras in New Orleans, by Prof Longhair, his favourite Blues singer).
He's an accomplished pianist, I agree that his singing style is a bit odd for a white guy, but you can't sing the blues sounding like some posh kid from the Footlights.
But he has a deep rooted love of the Blue going back to before he was famous, (he insisted that the intro music to A bit of Fry and Laurie was Mardie Gras in New Orleans, by Prof Longhair, his favourite Blues singer).
He's an accomplished pianist, I agree that his singing style is a bit odd for a white guy, but you can't sing the blues sounding like some posh kid from the Footlights.
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asterix
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Maybe you need to get out more?
GrumpyGregry
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I've seen him live. If you can't sing The Blues authentically, in your own voice, then don't sing at all.
I've had a deep rooted love of The Blues going back to before he was famous. My take? If he wasn't Hugh Laurie from House the only way he'd get a gig as a Blues (or Jazz) performer would be to bribe the venue. He has nothing to say, he adds nothing to the canon. His performances are pastiche. Shocking case of vanity publishing on his part and cashing in on his TV fame by his label which actually discredits and devalues the very music he claims to love. It's up there with multi-millionaire John Lennon warbling "Imagine there's no money" whilst seated at a white Steinway in a white painted mansion containing a refrigerator for his fur coats. Poor little tortured old Etonian Cambridge Blue sleb white boy.
Laurie is an immensely talented actor and comedian. He was once a world class athlete. He seems to have confused having the blues, something he's very open about, with being able to perform The Blues. Only in Hollywood would he be considered an accomplished blues or jazz musician.
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Archie_tect
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[QUOTE 2681683, member: 45"]Steve Martin, on the other hand,...[/quote]
...really is up himself.
...really is up himself.
threebikesmcginty
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[QUOTE 2681736, member: 45"]...is a great banjoer...[/quote]
Here is is proving it, keeping up with some awsomeness too; Scruggs, Gill, Stuart, Lee, etc. all first class players...
Here is is proving it, keeping up with some awsomeness too; Scruggs, Gill, Stuart, Lee, etc. all first class players...
jeez, very nearly like Jazz with guitars with the important distinction that they were all playing the same tune, phew.
threebikesmcginty
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And there is actually a tune. Saw a poster the other day for a Music and Jazz festival, proof as if proof were needed.
GrumpyGregry
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Bluegrass. Mountain Music. The original white persons' blues.
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