In your opinion, who is the better entertainer...? I love Penner, his old show on CBC where he crawlled throught he log,,,ah, pure genius
oh no sir! penner was WAY better.... i don't know how to justify it, but he was.. lol... raffi attracts more old people than little kids.
I have a penner live album on cassette, he does "ghost rifers"...and one of his band mates is wailing on a banjpo.... me and my freind s are goinhg to go see him in concert in march...
Fred Penner was great! I loved his mail-bird thing on the show! I've got some of his records and my sister met him when she was a wee little tot!
I got really excited cause he is coming to Sherwood Park's Festival Place in March, so I downloaded a few songs today...Man i love this guy...I wish in "The CAt Came Back" and "SAndwiches" the kids weren't there though...An i wish i got "Car CAr" by him...
I'm searching for his songs right now. I don't see any songs, though... oh well. I'm going to start a thread on music.
I'll probably run into his music eventually... I do that a lot, I just run into good music. That's kind of like what happened to me with Neil Young and all. I like his newest album/movie Greendale because it has a nice plot and to it and all. They're just songs about life and what means more to him... I mean, the first Neil Young song I ever heard was Falling From Above, track one off of Greendale. I happened to just have the idiot box on and I stopped on channel 103, I believe, on DirecTV... which is the freeview channel... I was listening to my parents argue in the kitchen and I heard the song and I was in tears... now here I am listening to it as I type this. It's so beautiful in its own... a C chord that slides up two frets to a Csus(?).. (I can't remember the name of the chord, but whatever), a D, and a G... there isn't much to the guitar, you know, but I think that doesn't matter much. You can't exactly understand until you hear the song... His message means more to me... as the able is geared towards family, life, mother Earth, and basically just things I value... he has a really good perspective on it but he was very abstract on getting it across by making it into a musical novel, a musical (with him playing the music live at the concerts while the actors do their thing), and a movie... I really wish I could find the trailer to the movie. I remember seeing it on his site and there were gulls calling at the beginning I believe.... a nice touch... then he starts his song Bandit... which he played on Hank William's Martin D-28, I believe... which was kind of a tribute to people who value musical history. I think Hank Williams was to Country kind of like what Woody Guthrie was to folk music. then you got people like Bob Dylan and Neil who modernized it.... I think Neil is more folk-rock, though. He's on a different end of the spectrum than Bob. Their messages are both quite simple... but he likes his own type of abstract the way Bob does... totally different people. Neil said that he was Bob's "B student"... lol, that says a lot to me though, because I don't think Neil respects too many people..
I've heard of Penner, but never heard anything he's done or seen any performance. But I do know that I was obsessed with Raffi, and he's awesome...
Oh! So THAT'S the guy who I used to watch on TV as a kid who crawled through the log! Man, nobody remembers that show! Haha, I loved it!
