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HOORRAH! May this be the first of many sold out concerts for the Jerusalem Quartet.

Beep the Jihad Jocks of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign!

And Sir Paul McCartney is going to play in Israel!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7584179.stm

He can stay there as far as I’m concerned.

Now, now Mike, is that any way to speak about someone who has been awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire)?
(dry comment)

You can download some very nice mp3s of The Jerusalem Quartet’s repertoire here .

Just think he’s been really crap for the last ten years or so. The Stones still have it but for some reason McCartney just doesn’t anymore.

Now then, though McCartney is shite, he’s playing in Israel, which is no bad thing.

Does it surprise anyone that Russia is using the same tactics as Milosovic in Kosovo?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4621592.ece

Plenty of stuff on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5cnAGKl4Fo

Not bad for a bunch of Heebs. :D

Just think he’s been really crap for the last ten years or so. The Stones still have it but for some reason McCartney just doesn’t anymore.

Age, innit? You can’t expect him to churn out stuff like Abbey Road all his life, the poor chap will get a hernia. The Stones carry on because Keith Richards will never die.

As far as I’m aware there has not been a single successful attempt to have an invitation to Israeli artists withdrawn.

Great to see the puffed-up anti-Jew cabals - so good at camaflouging themselves in union circles to make themselves look big - defeated here simply by lots and lots of people choosing to fill concert seats.

it seems people like to listen to good music rather than to bad arguments

Just think he’s been really crap for the last ten years or so.

But the 1970-1998 period was magnificent?

Are people on the left aware of the odious past involving boycotts and Jews? It has a historical past akin to book and cross burnings.

Maybe the idea of letting artists and scholars perform their jobs without litmus tests is too primitive. The people who complain about “black listing and muzzling” are the first to do it to those who disagree.

Free speech for me and none for thee is tyranny.

The Stones carry on because they are the same crap they have always been, so nobody notices.

Bearskin, people on what is laughingly known as the ‘left’ are mostly devoid of critical faculties, seeing as how they still believe in all that nonsense and are motivated by hate and envy, therefore you can’t expect them to think rationally about Jews and boycotts: hate and envy are classic motivations for antisemitism.

Currently sick as a dog. In my flit I lost the tickets I’d bought. Oh, well.

I wonder if they’ll have the balls to stand outside and leaflet?

Good news about the JQ. Only sorry I missed them when they played at the North Finchley Art Depot.

“Are people on the left aware of the odious past involving boycotts and Jews? It has a historical past akin to book and cross burnings. ”

They are, but they seem to think it is poor taste to mention it, or that it is irrelevant because in the past. However, they rarely feel the same way abwhen the subject is another racial or ethnic group. Any other.

One of the PSCers had the balls to run across the pitch at ibrox during a uefa cup match waving a palestinian flag and tangle himself info the net. I’d not be suprised if they’ve got some shenanigans planned for the middle of the programme.

The Stones carry on because they are the same crap they have always been, so nobody notices.

Keith Richards once admitted, during a drunken interview, that he’d really only written 4 songs in his entire life. His ability to work and rework those same 4 riffs over and over again has enabled him to enjoy a career spanning more than 4 decades.

4 riffs, 4 decades!

And this is a thread about quartets.

“Start Me Up”, “Brown Sugar” and “Honky-Tonk women”, representing the signature hits of three different decades, are all the same song, it’s just the pace and the tempo that change, giving the impression all three tunes are original.

It’s sleazy, but it’s also very clever.

Keith Richards; a man of few words and few notes!

Btw live and let die was a choon, can’t think of anything else Macca’s done without Lennon that’s worth listening to tho.

The Festival security had better make sure none of those palestine campaigners gets in to heckle the show.

Thank god nowadays they can be spotted by their little crescent-shaped red swastikas.

When they do get in, the Quartet should string them up.

“Jet” isn’t a bad tune. I just bought “Band on the run” on a CD I found in the charity shop. I remember a friend had it when I was young and I wasn’t greatly impressed then and am not really now. By contrast Macca’s recent “Chaos and creation in the backyard” album was hardly off my MP3 player for weeks.

I’d take the Stones over the Beatles anytime. Anyone who thinks “Gimme Shelter” and “Wild horses” are the same tune is an eejit.

I don’t think I can be bothered with string quartets but my old boss up in brent used to play some very stirring Jewish choral music. Sounded very eastern European but I never got round to asking him for a tape.

Anyone who thinks “Gimme Shelter” and “Wild horses” are the same tune is an eejit.</i

8,000 records, but only 6 tunes!

Wrong again JP (I was in bands for years)

Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen” and The Beach Boy’s “Surfin’ U.S.A.”, for instance, are the same tune.

So are Pink Floyd’s “Intersteller overdrive” and the theme tune to Steptoe and son (so what?)

Next you are going to tell us that there are only seven main plots in all of literature so why read Chekov, Shakespeare or Melville? They are all the same!

John P.

They say there are only a dozen or so basic plots to works of fiction, and a former musician turned psychologist, Daniel Levitan, has just published a book entitled, “The World in Six Songs” to explain why people who are dealing with grief find such comfort in sad songs.

So if Keef has only written a number of variations on a few riffs, it’s hardly surprising.

Wrong again JP (I was in bands for years)

When I say “play music”, Graham I mean things like Nocturnes or Études, not Joey Ramone tunes.

They say there are only a dozen or so basic plots to works of fiction,

I’ve heard the same thing, except the figure cited was 20 or so.

Its astounding that so much variety that can emerge from so few basic building blocks.

So you go and bash out a nocturne in between your rants here eh JP? Thats interesting.

But I am afraid I have always preferred the energy of low culture “folk” music to the stifling decadence of all that highbrow rubbish.

Give me a fiddler and a beer anytime!

I have heard someone claim that Haydn wrote the same string quartet dozens of times. Well, not for my money, he didn’t. One day I hope to have them all. As it is, once I have one playing I can replay it all day.

Mike: The reason the Stones are still turning out good music is that some years ago, they sold their souls to the Devil in return for always being able to produce hit songs! Check out Mick and the rest of them next time they perform, see if they are casting any shadows!

Graham: “Give me a fiddler and beer anytime.”
I’ll drink to that!

HOORRAH! May this be the first of many sold out concerts for the Jerusalem Quartet.

From what I’ve been reading they are highly successful, and regarded as one of the best young string quartets out there. Perhaps all their concerts are sold out?

The concert was disgracefully interrupted by thugs from the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign.

http://www.edinburghguide.com/festival/2008/edinburghinternationalfestival/jerusalemquartet

devorgilla
29 August 2008, 9:51 pm

The concert was disgracefully interrupted by thugs from the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign.

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Merde: I’ll quote my own comment [why not?] on 28 August 2008, 4:58 pm:

“The Festival security had better make sure none of those palestine campaigners gets in to heckle the show.”

Evidently, they didn’t.

They should string them up.

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/entertainment/AntiIsrael-protest-is-countered-by.4442409.jp

Apparently ‘Mick Napier, 61, a university lecturer,’ was one of the middle aged men who heckled the performance.

So, they choose to interpret a programme which includes one composer who sought national- self-detrmination as against the power of “Empire” and another composer whose opposition to Wagner is legendry.

But, I guess the irony is lost on Mick Napier and his brave, brave band.

I wonder what Said would have said about this all…………Oh, but he was Palestinian and not Scots, so, I guess it doesn’t count.

Ringleader Napier is presumably quite well known and recognised, Perhaps even if he alone had been excluded from the concert his more obscure hangers on would have bottled it.