Headline Question
did
you know that
Bobby D
and
Om K
started using electric guitars
at
more or less the same moment?
Did we know anything
about
the role of Nasser
in this?
When the below picture appeared in the press in 1966
I
suggested to Grandma
that
she add it to her family album.
There was a Scopitone in a poor Arab Café in the
Rue du Roi de Sicile,
still active in the early '80s
with a Scopitone filled with films showing
a
history of Egyptian Popular Music from Om until that moment, from belly dancing to an Oud, but entre femmes, to gyrating rock boys, a vivid
image of technology, style, colonial effects and their adapting to local taste and desire.
the painter Jeffery Steele and I passed hours riveted before it, when we should have been tripping drearily around the Pompidou with our students.
Wonderful coffee and tea as well.
Ah well......
