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March 01, 2009

The Inauguration String Quartet Revealed (video)

YouTube: [link]

Posted by on March 01, 2009 at 06:54 PM in Current Affairs, Government, Lukas' Posts, Music, Video Clips |

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Michael Munro

PRICELESS.

Posted by: Michael Munro | March 02, 2009 at 01:41 AM

boil

Care to elaborate?

Posted by: boil | March 02, 2009 at 01:51 AM

Michael Munro

They dubbed over the original audio. There's a whole meme in this vein, apparently. Go to YouTube and look up StSanders.

Seriously, I haven't laughed this hard at anything in a while.

Posted by: Michael Munro | March 02, 2009 at 04:31 AM

John L

Me too.

Posted by: John L | March 02, 2009 at 11:30 AM

boil

Interesting. So what you see in the video is them vamping? Are they even trying to match the music?

Posted by: boil | March 03, 2009 at 12:30 AM

Jonathan Steinke

A) Boil's handle is apropos. B) This vid is side-splitting!

Posted by: Jonathan Steinke | March 03, 2009 at 10:34 AM

Chayne

I remember hearing on CSPAN that they had to play the recording, because of the temperature. It was too cold to keep any of the string instruments in tune.

Posted by: Chayne | March 03, 2009 at 08:30 PM

mike flugennock

Y'know, when I watched a bit of this, I did notice they seemed a bit too animated, a bit too detached from their "charts". So, they mimed to a recording, "because it was too cold to keep the instruments in tune"?

Yeah, at least that's the excuse they gave. And a weak one, at that... a poor craftsman blaming his tools.

I mean, it's one thing if it's some dime-a-dozen Merseybeat band on an old American Bandstand show, or Ashlee Simpson on SNL, but a chamber quartet with Itzhak Perlman and Yo-Yo Ma? Jeezus, American "Culture" really is dead.

Garcia's voice may have sounded kinda' beat on some of those many nights I remember, but at least the Grateful Dead never faked it.

Posted by: mike flugennock | March 05, 2009 at 09:28 PM

Michael Munro

It was courteous of the crowd to repeat the same noises in a perfect loop.

Posted by: Michael Munro | March 05, 2009 at 09:44 PM

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