the accordion - classic or dud?

Young people turn me on!

Well, I guess you don't like Farmers Market much, but his appearances on "Hitskolen" are a lot of fun.

They were funny, but Wolfgang Plagge's comments made considerably more sense. :)

just in case people are curious about Korpiklaani:

happy little boozer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JFBYIT4fvcY

beer beer:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=XOKbhQbvpPA

hunting song:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FrGwGyrfmCI

wooden pints:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IGIc4jJQn1k

i like korpiklaani more for the oi! + pogues kinda insanity than the metal elements. though i think they are good at the more metallic stuff too. might also appeal to andrew wk fans! there must be some of those left.

http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2003/10/13/arts/13MARC.650.jpg

[by christian marclay]

Here's a video of Farmers Market performing their silly medley "Tails of the unexpected".
Perhaps not the best example of Carstensen's accordion skills, but it's a laugh.

This is the day, by The The

accordion with cimbalom is a killer combination

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQwYq4oKIDQ&feature=related

this shows off lincan playing the cimbalom rather more than mexicanu on the accordion, theres plenty more marian mexicanu on youtube with other cimbalom players too

Someone from the Library of Congress just sent me a pdf for a Thursday July 12 noon to 1 pm free event some of you might be interested in, if you can make it to the Library of Congress in Washington DC at that time.

The event is called "Squeeze This: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America." That is also the name of the new book by NYC based Marion Jacobson, an ethnomusicologist, accordionist, author and educator, who will be doing the presentation and signing books. The talk takes place at the Library of Congress Madison Building's Pickford Theatre on the third floor, 101 Independence Avenue SE. For further information, call 202-707-1743

http://www.theindependent.com/news/local/update-accordion-causes-school-evacuation/article_cee9b86c-c53e-11e5-87fd-d717b29f3217.html?mode=jqm

A suspicious package that resulted in the evacuation of approximately 900 students and staff members from Walnut Middle School Wednesday afternoon turned out to be an accordion inside a box.

Capt. Robert Falldorf of the Grand Island Police Department said a staff member spotted the box in the band room, but could not recall seeing it there before. The staff member did not think the box looked like it held any kind of band instrument.

http://youtu.be/8Gr7JCKyZc4?t=55s

see now that video led me to this and wowee zowee what a performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG4-1I4QgvI

dig that funky drummer and those extended organ breaks...

https://youtu.be/C3daPnPl1HM

https://youtu.be/GSutIu8tc9w

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3daPnPl1HM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSutIu8tc9w

Looks like the same accordionist, too, scott. A lot of of Egyptian music from that era had kind of trippy instrumental passages of this sort.

If I wanted to learn to play an accordion, should I learn to play piano first, or can I jump straight into learning the ol' squeeze box?