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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRxW3zj4mcg" title="Iwebender · Uploaded on Jun 5, 2011 · This is the complete show from the Catalyst in Santa Cruz in March 1987, featuring Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - as filmed by Les Blank and shown here in the UK on Channel 4's The Late Shift. The film, as far as I know, was never officially released on DVD... [Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals; Jim Keltner - drums; Van Dyke Parks - keyboards; Jorge Calderon - bass; Flaco Jimenez - accordion; Miguel Cruiz - percussion; Steve Douglas - sax; George Bohannon - trombone; Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Terry Evans, baritone; Arnold McCuller, tenor; Willie Green Jr, bass] 01 Let's Have A Ball 02 Jesus On The Mainline 03 How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? 04 Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb 05 Down In Mississippi 06 Maria Elena 07 Just A Little Bit 08 The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor) 09 Crazy About An Automobile 10 Chain Gang 11 Down In Hollywood 12 Good Night Irene ">Ry Cooder and the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces - Let's Have A Ball</a>, a film by <a href="http://www.lesblank.com/main.html" title="Les Blank is a prize-winning independent filmmaker, best known for a series of poetic films that led Time Magazine critic Jay Cocks to write, ''I can't believe that anyone interested in movies or America...could watch Blank's work without feeling they'd been granted a casual, soft-spoken revelation.'' John Rockwell, writing in The New York Times, adds, ''Blank is a documentarian of folk cultures who transforms anthropology into art.'' And Vincent Canby, also in The Times, declared that Blank ''is a master of movies about the American idiom... one of our most original filmmakers.''">Les Blanks</a><br>
This is the complete show from the Catalyst in Santa Cruz in March 1987. <small>Via <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/Iwebender?feature=watch" title="120 videos · This channel is primarily dedicated to the music of Ry Cooder - and other stuff... · For more visit www.rycooderstuff.co.uk">The Iwebender Channel</a></small><br><br>
Love that <em>Maria Elena</em>.... <br /><br /><em>Let's Have A Ball
Jesus On The Mainline
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?
Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb
Down In Mississippi
Maria Elena
Just A Little Bit
The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
Crazy About An Automobile
Chain Gang
Down In Hollywood
Good Night Irene</em>
Ry Cooder - guitar, vocals;
Jim Keltner - drums;
Van Dyke Parks - keyboards;
Jorge Calderon - bass;
Flaco Jimenez - accordion;
Miguel Cruiz - percussion;
Steve Douglas - sax;
George Bohannon - trombone;
Singers: Bobby King, tenor; Terry Evans, baritone; Arnold McCuller, tenor; Willie Green Jr, basspost:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705Sun, 09 Dec 2012 18:42:58 -0800y2karlAmericanaBluesCountryDocumentaryFilmFolkGuitarHawiianJazzMusicSlackKeyBy: Vibrissae
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y2kari: Thank you! What pleasure!comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724265Sun, 09 Dec 2012 19:25:03 -0800VibrissaeBy: madamjujujive
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Oh yay, I will have fun with this tomorrow. I foresee a late delivery on Monday morning client project #1. Thanks, y2karl!comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724383Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:35:17 -0800madamjujujiveBy: anewnadir
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What an amazing documentary that I didn't even know existed.
Van Dyke Parks spoke at my high school graduation ceremony. I wish I had known about this film back then, maybe I would have paid more attention to what he said. In any event I do remember one piece of advice he gave. A lot of people in my graduating class were wearing sunglasses (the ceremony was in the late afternoon and the platform where we all stood faced the sun).
Before VDP began speaking, the sun set behind one of the school buildings. The first thing he said was that a valuable life lesson was to never wear your sunglasses when it's no longer necessary.
If the measure of a successful graduation speech is to give the students something to remember for the rest of their lives, I can safely say that Van Dyke Parks gave the most successful graduation speech of all time, and I was there to hear it.comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724391Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:46:29 -0800anewnadirBy: anewnadir
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Of course, I came to regret not following the inverse of VDP's proposition (wearing sunglasses is advisable when the sun is out) when I stumbled, predictably hung over, to my college graduation four years later without sunscreen or sunglasses.
That ceremony involved a speech from the president of Doctors Without Borders concerning a hands-on experience with Ebola-infested placenta, which of course I will never forget but which I do not deem to be a "successful" speech.comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724397Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:51:39 -0800anewnadirBy: y2karl
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<em>Van Dyke Parks spoke at my high school graduation ceremony. I wish I had known about this film back then...</em>
Oh, my, Van Dyke Parks is famous for things above and beyond any connection to Ry Cooder. He is a legend:
See, for example, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/15/van-dyke-parks-return-musical-maverick/print">Van Dyke Parks: return of a musical maverick</a> or <a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/underscore/8786-nilsson-newman-and-some-other-la-weirdos/"> L.A. Weirdos</a> for details...comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724446Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:28:56 -0800y2karlBy: mannequito
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Fantastic, thank you. Perfect for a Sunday night.comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724460Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:08:46 -0800mannequitoBy: C.A.S.
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Ry Cooder is the man.
I was obsessed with trying to play the album version of "Maria Elena" note-for-note for years.
I think I finally cracked it once I realised it was a dropped D standard tuning.
Those singers are awesome, thanks for the post.
I wonder why Ry never wanted this released, which is something I thought that I once read.comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724492Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:02:29 -0800C.A.S.By: C.A.S.
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Lets throw a nice version of Dark End Of The Street in the mix, mostly the same band. Old Grey Whistle Test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgD6E0s4mIY
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgD6E0s4mIY"></a>
Nicecomment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724494Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:09:58 -0800C.A.S.By: pete_22
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A year before this was posted on Youtube, I spent $35 ordering a bootleg copy from some guy in Argentina. Oh well...
I'm also curious why RC didn't want it released, which is still the official line on <a href="http://www.lesblank.com/main.html">Blank's website</a>.
By the way, <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-and-let-live%21-mw0000652347/credits">this</a> is a great album from around the same time, featuring many of the same performers.comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4724774Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:31:19 -0800pete_22By: y2karl
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Well, now I see I was drawing a blank when I added an 's' to Mr. Blank's name.comment:www.metafilter.com,2012:site.122705-4725232Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:08:11 -0800y2karl
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