161 - The Zoso of Zuffolo
Added 2023-05-23 17:12:17 +0000 UTCCharles and Alex debate the best instruments starting with Z and Alex goes track by track reviewing Lana Del Rey's latest album.
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The Zaqq: The Reverend Andrew Bigelow of Boston USA encountered a mendicant piper while staying in Valletta in 1827 and wrote about a busker who passed daily under his window: ‘…he has made a bagpipe of the strangest form and materials, but for all the purposes of sound, it is as good an instrument of the sort as I have ever heard. The bag is the complete skin of a large dog, exhibiting- besides the body - the appliances of head, legs and tail to boot. A bullock’s horn is fitted to the mouth and punched with the requisite number of holes for playing. The big end is outwards, and the horn closed at that part. A small pipe is inserted into one of the forepaws, and with this the performer fills the machine. He carries the thing under the left arm, belly up, and so carefully has the shape of the animal been preserved that it looks for all the world like a live dog, or a wild mountain cat, squeaking in new and strange sound. The oddity of the contrivance and the skill of the musician are sure to attract attention, and before the fellow has gone the length of a street his drone and his twang seldom fail of being stopped by the toss of a few coppers which he hastes to pick up.’’ https://www.bagpipesociety.org.uk/articles/2016/chanter/winter/maltese-zaqq/ So this is what Pete Buttigieg was doing with all those dogs.
Bobby Volcano
2023-05-27 00:21:42 +0000 UTCthat episode of Aqua Teen is legitimately one of my favorite single pieces of comedy ever, i still watch it at least once a year and laugh all the way through, and i think a big part of that is how esoteric Chickenfoot is...like they spend a chunk of the episode hyping them up for absolutely silly reasons and then they are killed and cloned in the last 2 minutes. the only other time ive ever seen Chickenfoot anywhere for any reason outside of ATHF was when i was in Vegas with an ex and i saw a billboard for a Chickenfoot concert at one of the casinos and i just burst out laughing cause i kind of assumed they were a "Velvet Revolver" scenario and only made one album but this was YEARS after the ATHF episode, i couldn't believe they were still a band
gill
2023-05-24 23:06:17 +0000 UTC
