{"id":9102,"date":"2023-05-01T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T10:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9102"},"modified":"2023-05-01T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T10:56:24","slug":"music-fearless-flyers-live-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9102","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Fearless Flyers, Live in Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3iIW9_rkJww?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/stars_10_five.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9101\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/stars_10_five.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/stars_10_five-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow! Brilliant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With guest spots from Louis Cole and Candy Dulfer, and covers by The Dan and Stevie Wonder (Reeling In Years and Signed, Sealed, Delivered), this is a fabulous film of the Fearless Flyers in all their awesomely funky finery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At just shy of an hour and a half, that\u2019s quite a set. Esp\u2019 considering it\u2019s almost all instrumental &#8211; only Louis Cole\u2019s viral original Bank Account having vocals &#8211; and the short form of most FF tunes as previously released via YouTube. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s such a wonderful distillation of music as pure joy. And it\u2019s quite surprising and refreshing to realise that, despite the almost laser sharp focus on stripped down instrumental funkiness, it\u2019s actually musically quite diverse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From classic blooz to elements of heavy rock, psychedelia, and even garage psych (Running Man), the genre-splicing keeps the whole set fresh, despite almost no vocals, and the groove taking precedence over showboating or solos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, all concerned are fabulous musicians. And each gets a turn or three in the spotlight. Unlike on quite a few of the FF YouTube tracks, there are no horns at all, except when Candy Dulfer guests, playing alto on Hero Town. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cory Wong is the current undisputed King of \u2018chicken scratch\u2019. Mark Lettieri shines on baritone guitar, and brings both the rawk and some virtuoso fire. Joe Dart, well, we all know about the love he earns for his low register mastery (and Olympic neck-work!). And Nate Smith shows just how goddam fierce and funky a drummer can be with just kick, snare, and sock-cymbal (and some incredible hand percussion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Louis Cole and Smith get solo drum spots. It\u2019s really interesting &#8211; perhaps especially to a fellow drummer like me &#8211; to hear how much musical <em>character<\/em> each displays. Playing around with some similar ideas, on similar set ups, yet sounding so individual. Wonderful!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have these guys (n\u2019 gal[s]) been to these Benighted Isles? If so, how did I miss it? And if not\u2026 please come and shower us in funky goodness. Lord knows the UK needs some mojo right now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Brilliant. With guest spots from Louis Cole and Candy Dulfer, and covers by The Dan and Stevie Wonder (Reeling In Years and Signed, Sealed, Delivered), this is a fabulous film of the Fearless Flyers in all their awesomely funky finery. At just shy of an hour and a half, that\u2019s quite a set. Esp\u2019 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Fearless Flyers, Live in Amsterdam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2mO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9103,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9102\/revisions\/9103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}