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Bitter Funeral Beer Band - Frankfurt 1982


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3 hours ago, JSngry said:

Ok, I have to ask:

Bitter Funeral Beer Band

what are the adjectives, and what re they modifying?

Jim, am I allowed to reply seriously?

The "bitter funeral beer" is brewed as part of the funerary rites of the Ghanaian Ewe people. The funeral music that Bengt Berger heard (and learned) in Ghana was the basis of his "Bitter Funeral Beer Suite" released on ECM. The band took its name from this recording.

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so the funeral was bitter thus the band drank beer

or the bitter beer led to the band being funeralised

or maybe the bitter band had a beer at the funeral

possibly also the funeral was bitter about having to settle for what beer the band left behins (none, possibly?)

not quite sure, but the ECM album is indeed wonderful

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1 hour ago, king ubu said:

so the funeral was bitter thus the band drank beer

or the bitter beer led to the band being funeralised

or maybe the bitter band had a beer at the funeral

possibly also the funeral was bitter about having to settle for what beer the band left behins (none, possibly?)

not quite sure, but the ECM album is indeed wonderful

:D:tup

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3 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said:

36 years later? ;) Anybody's day has only 24 hours and conflicts of dates (or other reasons of non-availability) aren't a rare occurrence in anybody's life. ;)

Yes - would have been a once in a lifetime opprortunity for me to see Don Cherry. Maybe I couldn't afford the fesival ticket at the time. I liked the ECM CD very much when it was issued - enough to be tempted by that performance.

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