"'I found a really sick ukulele in a novelty shop with a metal top,' she says, in her almost comically caustic Bronx-Sicilian drawl. 'I tuned it to a chord and played it with a knife like the old guys did. I'm not fantastic – but I'm not fantastic at anything, except singing. And I don't really give a damn. I just love doing it. It's like the trombone. I make the dog jump when I play that.'"Played it with a knife? Link
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What an incredibly ditsy statement to make.
ReplyDeleteExcept she's half Sicilian and not from the Bronx. She's born and raised in Queens.
ReplyDeleteyes, "played it with a knife." as in using a pocket knife as a slide.
ReplyDeleteplaying a short-scaled, nylon-stringed instrument with a slide strikes me as pretty ditsy, but what do I know?
Did they use medal strings when the slide was first started? It was in Hawaii were the medal slide started (at least that's what they say in Hawaii)and i think they used gut back then...
ReplyDeletePlayed it with a slide. Go down the archive- she was probably inspired by Martin Mull. Ukester Brown
ReplyDeletehttp://ukulelian.blogspot.com/2010/08/martin-mulls-slide-ukulele-blues.html Ukester Brown
ReplyDeleteI'm confused, Gary. Ditsy is bad?
ReplyDeleteWhen did this happen? I love ditsy.
Cyndi with her knife slide playing with Victoria Jackson would be a night of uking for the ages.
And every now and again, the truly ditsy bless us with such wisdom as -
"When someone's boobs are in your face..."
Well, to finish the thought you'll just have to watch -
Bimbos in Bikinis by Victoria Jackson
Jeff thought it was a great line...
Aaron Keim plays an excellent slide uke. Check out his YouTube performance of "Take Me Back to Tulsa."
ReplyDeleteBut I'm wondering. How can Cyndi not be sure the dog is jumping because it has fleas?