Saw Bob Geldorf on a recorded show of Craig Kilborn where they had a discussion and on David Letterman where he played a song from his latest album. His hair on Letterman looked blond and was not a good choice, but on Kilborn his hair appeared to be grey/platinum and looked terrific. While his music is not my thing, I liked hearing him talk as he was involved with the punk movement and transitioned to involvement in making the world a better place for people who have less power. He and Craig discussed the lack of a movement to voice anger with the current state of affairs - as punk had spoken up when the airwaves were held by the likes of the Bee Gees, Olivia Newton John, and Tony Orlando.
This catharsis in music follows cycles - In the 60s it was Bobby Vinton and Frank Sinatra replaced by Rock & Roll; In the 80s, corporate backed hair bands caused the backlash of Seattle grunge rock found in Nirvana. Independent music as alternative to money driven corporate machine music.
I looked up a twitter account for Bob Geldorf and found "Bob Geld" as his supposed official site. Although he has no tweets, he follows Zoe Keating who is a cellist I was unaware of. Zoe has a good website etc for promotion of her solo cello work and youtube has a video where she played at the club "La Boule Noire" in Paris. Her music is a bit too repetitive but is in the vein of new classical music.
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