Laurel and Hardy Meet Santana

Cidu Bill on Jul 20th 2010

Found on the Frog Blog, where there’s always something visually interesting.

Filed in Bill Bickel, Carlos Santana, Frog Blog, Laurel and Hardy, YouTube, humor | 16 responses so far

16 Responses to “Laurel and Hardy Meet Santana”

  1. Nicole Jul 20th 2010 at 07:49 am 1

    This rocks … but isn’t this a double geezer .. Laurel and Hardy AND Santana ?

  2. mitch4 Jul 20th 2010 at 08:53 am 2

    I’m fairly often tempted to submit a Frog Applause comic as a CIDU, but almost always conclude it’s meant as part of the absurd and in no need of understanding. Pictures and comments on the Frog Blog are often absurd in the other, outright amusing, way, as you suggest.

  3. Elyrest Jul 20th 2010 at 11:36 am 3

    Thanks for reminding me how much I like both Santana and Laurel & Hardy. I’m sure any song with the right beat might have been possible, but the joyful rhythm of Oye Como Va worked beautifully.

    I’ll have to check out the Frog Blog.

  4. Kamino Neko Jul 20th 2010 at 12:43 pm 4

    Nicole - Santana has had songs chart multiple times in the last decade…he might be a geezer, but he’s not a geezer reference yet.

    (And, IMO, he’ll never be a geezer reference - just arcane. Guitarists will always know him, even if he drops out of general consciousness. Other musicians, likely, too.)

  5. Soup Dragon Jul 20th 2010 at 03:38 pm 5

    Santana appeared in Guitar Hero III, that is to say, Black Magic Woman is a playable song there. So even my youngest daughter (10) knows about him.

  6. Nicole Jul 20th 2010 at 11:21 pm 6

    Elyrest @3 .. very true … if you view this song on YouTube, you will see the same clip pared with quite a few songs … here is another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJu6asFDlA&feature=related

    But Oye Como Va is way better

    Kamino Neko @4 … sure there will always be people who know about Santana .. but the general public … nah. I’ll bet that if you asked twenty random people under 20 years of age who Santana is more than half would not know.

    Soup Dragon @5 .. does Guitar Hero III give credits ?

  7. Morris Keesan Jul 20th 2010 at 11:39 pm 7

    Santana? wasn’t he the Mexican general who won the battle of the Alamo?

    (And for a really chilling rendition of “Black Magic Woman”, listen to Tuvan throat-singer Albert Kuvezin, on the album Re-Covers).

  8. mitch4 Jul 20th 2010 at 11:44 pm 8

    Mexican general? Nah, he was the Harvard philosopher who told us what happens to those who forget the events of history.

  9. Kamino Neko Jul 20th 2010 at 11:46 pm 9

    My point is arcane is different than geezer.

    Once Santana has passed out of the general public conciousness, it won’t be AGE that determines people remembering him, it’s interest in music.

    Shortpacked is an example of a comic that trades in arcane humour a lot - but nothing even vaguely geezery. This is quite the same situation.

  10. Nicole Jul 20th 2010 at 11:48 pm 10

    Let’s see a show of hands … how many people beside Morris Keesan and myself know what tuvan throat singing is ?

    I don’t know if this is who Morris is referring to … but it is Black Magic Woman” done in Tuvan throat-singing
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6DP1aFeHbs&feature=PlayList&p=7E9FDFEE13A16AD7&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=31

  11. Cidu Bill Jul 20th 2010 at 11:53 pm 11

    I think a lot of people for whom the name “Santana” means nothing are familiar with Oye Como Va.

  12. chuckers Jul 21st 2010 at 05:08 am 12

    And there are those of use who recognise the name “Santana” but can’t name a single thing he has done.

  13. Nicole Jul 21st 2010 at 07:52 am 13

    Kamino Neko @9
    “Once Santana has passed out of the general public conciousness, it won’t be AGE that determines people remembering him, it’s interest in music.”

    Of course both are true … people who have an interest in music will know who he is and his talent. Then there are people af a certain age that remember Santana from early in his career.

  14. Morris Keesan Jul 21st 2010 at 07:56 am 14

    Nicole (#10), yes, that’s Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha, and that’s the recording I was thinking of.

    And chuckers #12, if I hadn’t recently come across that Albert Kuvezin recording, and before this discussion, I would have known vaguely who Santana was, and would have probably thought “weren’t they the group that did the soundtrack music for that film about Ritchie Valens?”

  15. Lola Jul 21st 2010 at 09:26 am 15

    I first heard of the Tuvan throat singers about 20 years ago I guess. NPR was interviewing a guy who I think wrote a book called “Tuva or Bust” or something like that. IIRC he was a stamp collector as a child and someone had given him a Tuvan stamp and he wanted to visit there. It’s somewhere remote in Asia I think and he had difficulties getting there because it was communist controlled and we didn’t have very good relations with them at the time. I’ve since actually heard them several of times. Sometimes they will show up incognito in background music. I heard that the singers die early, that the vibrations cause blood vessel damage.

  16. Morris Keesan Jul 21st 2010 at 10:35 am 16

    Tuva or Bust is an interesting book. The trip to Tanu Tuva was inspired not only by their odd-shaped stamps, but also by Nobel-prize-winning physicist Richard Feynmann.
    For an alternate approach to Tuvan throat singing, see Genghis Blues, the 1999 documentary about blind American blues singer
    Paul Pena, who taught himself throat singing after hearing some on the radio, and traveled to Tuva to participate in one of their competitions; also his 2000 CD of the same name.

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