Larry Kirwan St. Patricks Day 2018
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Was very fortunate to see Black 47 founder Larry Kirwan at the Boulton Center in Bayshore last night.
I made a video of the event and posted it up at YouTube if you have any Guinness left in ya.
Larry told a great story about meeting David Bowie and Larry said Heroes is my favorite song of yours to David, and Bowie replied "Heroes could have very well been about Belfast, instead of Berlin"
{Heroes / Belfast is at the 33:05:00 mark}
{Redemption Song is at the 52:20:00 mark}
Check out the Celtic version of Heroes, music fans.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7UYsxjGuH0
Larry Kirwan Boulton Center Bayshore New York 3 17 2018
Song list, with Approximate Titles
Living in America
Boston Area
Foster in Five Points
Yankee Dollar a Day
Come Around Me
Lament for Art O Leary
Big Fella
Meeting David Bowie in Tribeca story
Heroes Belfast
Fanatic Love
Redemption Song
Charlatan
Second Coming Blues
James Connolly
Floating
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: dj_easy_wind
Great that you did this,
Great that you did this, Odysseus ! I would've loved to have been there.
My Black 47 story is that I saw them only twice. The first time was at The Wetlands Preserve, maybe in the late in the 1980s, I believe it was on a St. Patrick's Day. They encored with 'Biko' by Peter Gabriel. It was very moving.
Jump ahead to circa 2005. I saw Black 47 for the second time at Connolly's at there regular (bi-weekly?) Saturday night residency. They encored with 'Biko' again!
When I went to buy a CD from Larry Kirwan, I told him the only other time I saw Black 47, they had encored with 'Biko', and I loved it both times. Larry responded, that's odd, because we rarely play that one!"
Weird, huh?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Bluelight
Thanks -I could picture that
Thanks -I could picture that conversation with Larry
He wanted to meet everyone and talk to me; but his best bet was to let me go home edit, title, and publish the sucker. Some of the songs were pieces of music from his plays and I could tell they weren't published as individual songs yet. I am sure he would have liked to have tackled me to discuss it. But he came over to me at the edge of the stage to see my eyes, and sometimes you need a little blind faith. He has had great luck before. he's Irish.
I also had to translate Gaelic to English (Larry could understand that) and make some tittle decisions.
But what I didn't or don't want to get into with an artist at a show are the nuances, limitations, and full capabilities of YouTube.
For instance - Larry reworked David Bowie's Heroes with a new bridge (approved through the Bowie Estate) and wanted to tittle it Heroes / Belfast. I knew right away when he said that, I could not do that on YouTube (no slashes) and I was going to publish that song as Heroes Belfast, with out the slash. Then after all this work, I had to keep my fingers crossed that the copyright police at YouTube would let it fly.
Bob Marley's Redemption Song was played also with an Irish / Jamaican slave ship story bridge. Again - the luck of the Irish, to pull that off.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: dj_easy_wind
Yikes. I guess most folks don
Yikes. I guess most folks don't realize the nuances and various legal and artistic hurdles "Tapers" and videographers have to navigate and overcome...
"God Bless The Tapers!"