So you may or may not be surprised that one of my musical loves is old school blues.
I went to watch this man play last night....





If you live in South Africa or New Orleans you may have heard of him. His name is Dan Patlansky, and he is a prodigy!
I've never seen someone this young who is this good. I guess that fact that he has been practicing 8 hours every day since he was a teenager help I reckon the only reason he isn't world famous is cause he loves blues so much that he won't sell out and do commercial stuff.
Oh yes and another interesting thing about him is I went to college with him
Used to watch him play when he was 18 and even then he was fucking amazing. I didn't think it was possible for him to get better but I was very much proved wrong when I saw him recently.
Seriously peeps, if he ever happens to be in your neighbourhood, GO AND SEE HIM! Its really something you shouldn't miss. He has some of the fastest fingers ever, and of course as any great blues muso should, he pulls the best faces while playing
He is mind blowing!
If you wanna see when and where he is gigging you can check him out here
Oh yes and he is playing at Oppikoppi this year, along with Chevelle. This really makes me want to go....
Random pics from last night, I was on the balcony.
Of course all the usual suspects were there, I'm sure you can spot them by now lol.
But we decided to introduce my 14 year old niece and her best friend to some real music, as is necessary at such a young and impressionable age hehe. They got all gushy and when we got them drumsticks from the show I think we made their year haha.













In other news I want one of these

My very own companion cube lol. Needs to get me one.

And one of these...

Who knew they made Labyrinth worm plushies
He was my favourite character in that movie

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