'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy

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'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy

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I used the title and theme of this book in class the other day when talking about kata interpretation.

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DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?

Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is a hilarious collection of over 275 lines people think they've heard in pop songs from the 1960s to the 1990s. Now you can come out of that closet and proudly sing whatever you think you hear. Don't deny it! You know you've sung totally absurd lyrics in place of the real-and usually less interesting-ones. (It's nothing to ashamed of-most rock stars never took elocution classes.) Breeze through some of the world's most widely misinterpreted lyrics, including:

"The ants are my friends/They're blowin' in the wind" ("The answer my friend/Is blowing' in the wind"-Bob Dylan)

"Sweet dreams are made of cheese" ("Sweet dreams are made of this"-Eurythmics)

"The girl with colitis goes by" ("The girl with kaleidoscope eyes"-The Beatles)

Whether it's Eddie Vedder singing about "forty-five versions of a pelican" or Bruce Springsteen proclaiming "everybody's got a hungry horse," 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy is sure to make you want to get your hearing checked.
With many years of studying and practicing both martial arts and human movement, I quite often have these mini epiphanies, and realize that prevalent kata interpretations - while interesting and entertaining - quite often have nothing to do with what the original choreographer meant.

I can't finish this post without including the original song which this book was based on. Hendrix was one of my favorite musicians when I was a kid. He was an American Original.

..... Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze

- Bill
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Re: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy

Post by fivedragons »

I have heard many classical and jazz guitarists who are masters. While Hendrix did not master the idioms and techniques as these people did, he created something that can't be replicated by any of them. He had the ability to express the soul of a human being with a musical instrument.


http://youtu.be/kltfFtsQK-I - Pali Gap


http://youtu.be/ILQi4PXr4d0 - Midnight
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Re: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy

Post by fivedragons »

But maybe more to the point: http://youtu.be/YYZxWs0rqXU - if 6 was 9
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