Why the West Fear Islam

Well, the purpose of this short video is not to provide empyrically correct datapoints... Rather, this is the reasoning exercise this kid's brain used to wake him up. Not even 5 years ago, a video like this would have been taken down from youtube. So I see it as progress of a kind :)

As for your music ability, brasil should be the LAST place you'd want to go as a musician. If you are not playing music at the Hermeto Pascoal level, you are going to get your ass stomped in by kid players. I'm a damn good drummer. Progressive. and im playing all the instruments you hear at the begining of the hermetic crucible openings. Theres a bunch of different versions of the opening song. lol. If you're a jazz player and you are good at playing American music its hard saying where would be a good place to go.

@Eggy Noggy: good point. same with Cuba

though I can play sax like that. I'm bebop trained and play Clifford Brown & Bird tunes from memory

@TripeSwing: YUP. Ive been to cuba as well. Insane musicians there. I saw Gonzalo Rubalcaba there. Playing his ass off.

@Eggy Noggy: yeah, Gonzalo is great. I met Chucho Valdes once in SF. His hand came up to the middle of my arm almost when shaking hands

@TripeSwing: Thats soo awesome!

@Eggy Noggy: I assume you know Jobim's music? I play a bunch of his stuff on flute

@TripeSwing: I know of his music to be sure. Especially his 'Standards'. Do you have videos of you playing music?

@TripeSwing: Oh yeah, Im all OVER bebop. No bullshit there. :)

@Eggy Noggy: I'm kinda behind the curve on tech, so vids of me are from people posting to FB, which I don't have an account on. I left a band called Fatwood recently after 5 years. You can hear some of my work at Fatwoodmusic.com. I'm playing tenor, soprano, baritone saxes and flute & alto sax on everything. Flute & alto only on a few songs because I just had my flute overhauled & just bought an alto recently. I think I'm best on soprano. I wrote all my parts. As for Jobim. check his album Antonio Brasileiro for some great work. I could list more, but that one's enough for some 'non standard' stuff

@Eggy Noggy: Max Roach is perhaps my all time favorite drummer. I saw Buddy Rich once, & Billy Cobham a few times. Tony Williams once

@TripeSwing: it looks like Fatwood has truncated the songs to samples. They had full versions on when I left.

@TripeSwing: Tony Williams is my goat. What an inspiration. I met Cobham back home in Switzerland as he lives there now. Hes without question a BEAST drummer and he also did drum core as did i. Art Blakey also a beast.

And THAT is why Im posting all of these short vids lately. Its time for change.

Kid makes a point. Can't call B.S. on any of that.

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