The
ordinary audience fills a Guingamp square
Coffee shop straight
ahead ! A large board in the window announces the small event
It
vibrates perceptibly with the soundcheck of the ordinary musicians
Here
at Warok Coffee, Ordinary People play Neil Young
Waiting for
10:00 PM, Skolvan* sweats from ashlars
Impassive, one pale Dan
Ar braz** is posted as a friend close to counter
Where stand
Franz and Thierry who gives us the stage !
Installations and
connections continue on Sugar Mountain
Any a fresh air doesn’t
leave the suspended blue guitar to a beam
Sunny takes us off
towards the wonderfull Neil’s world
But if the trees don’t lie
down again this summer
The Earth, arches her back
The
heart colored leaves already roll on the ground
Can you still
run in their dance ? Since as you know . . .
Yes,
all of you have recognized the excellent performance of Sunny
On
Comes A Time, Heart Of Gold, Ohio
After the catch for the strollers,
JPL takes over
He borrows a very melancholic repertoire
We
don’t know you like that JPL !
Happiness is not better elsewhere
even far from at home
The old ways, sometimes heavy to carry,
must be maintened
The play of the ambulances is to get stuck
on them at brisk pace
Beautiful performance for his first show
!
Difficult to be accustomed to the mike, it’s always in front
of your nose !
And don’t forget that Neil use notes for help
on stage
Sylver& flashes the audience a glance . With the
sound of her fender
Stratocaster, she unrolls in her head her
soft movie
She declares her love with talent to anyone who wants
to listen it
She will be able to soften the most rebellious mind
to the feelings
Little MoMo : it’s this one what I want Dad,
it’s that one !
He doesn’t speak about the girl (ô despair) but
about the guitar
Sylver& doesn’t want to part with it because
it’s matched with her shirt
And to throw it in crowd, like Kurt
Cobain, doesn’t attempt her
The suicide is not on her way
An
Englishman with the wide open eyes approaches Phil
- How
do you do ? I’m glad to meet you. I love CSNY.
- Hem ! Yes, thank
you. But perhaps I’m Crosby, perhaps not.
Hey Crosby ! Difficult
to be incognito, even in France !
Besides it’s you who must play
with the almost twelve strings
Because one just broke when Sunny
tuned it
Aiveri morningue got seunn tou shaïne - Aiveri dai
Believe
me, Crosby, you will remain in our head
Although you prefer to
remain in the one of your wife
That one who is Pocahontas in
your ordinary trapper life
‘‘ What a scrape ! All of you noticed
it like me ?
Crosby has improved very much ! ’’ Declares Sunny
with admiration
Sylver& still lives in the fabulous Crazy
Horse of 2001
Neil has very much improved his guitar play since
1993
Sunny has the difficulty of choosing among the Neil’s hits
A
single needle slips you into an abyss of darkness
Whereas only
one glance gives a beautiful day
I heard the whip and of the
complaints leaving from the guitar
And the years go by, are we
so different from our ancestors ?
Midnight, Sunny gives to a
small young girl before her bye-byes
Rockin’ In The Free World,
then to me Powderfinger
With the help of a guitar plectrum crumbled
in crumbs
He’s delighted to play a last song with Walk On With
Whisky
Sunny tries in vain to get from the coffee shop owners
The
amplifier which is still in the jumble of the attic
No electricity
for the come back of our four accomplices
Close to the hearth,
acoustic music goes hand in hand
Crosby plays marvelously on
Helpless
His blues harp is without whisky but what about him
?
The flashs sputter and the chords are minimal
For Cortez
The Killer and Like A Hurricane
And My My Hey Hey ? OK
for the rock'n'roll emblem par excellence
But it is the last
one Sunny declaims
Young people come in and discover the music
Being
keen on, they ask : ‘‘one more’’
Yotha, greedy, requests : ‘‘all
others’’
Surprisingly the young audience sings with us Heart
Of Gold
Crosby announces that he considered playing Four Strongs
Winds
And that he would like to play it now
The three others
play along hoping for some freshness
Does nobody claim Winterlong
? Some chords are done
But the audience has other preferences
like Don’t Be Denied
Complication ! The muscles are hot and the
head is tired
The voice is well overheated to climb high on this
song
But its tempo requires a high concentration
Cheers !
Our quartet turn out well the performance
Of this biography which
is on the Time Fades Away vinyl
Greetings to all of you and see
you at the next meeting
And if all this seemed to you too long
And
if you are musician you will easily find a melody
For that small
summary of the evening there
W hisky ! The harmonica sings better
with the whisk Y
A stounded Sunny discovers
this recipe in this bistr O
R adiant and
nervous JPL is on stage it’s not deja
v U
O bscure softness whispers Sylver& without aggressio
N
Kévin dreams about Fender and his sigh
is very lon G
C rosby with only eleven
strings sings Amber Jea N
A nyway he gives
sunlight to his guitar play doesn’t h E
F ormidable Sunny
dazzles us with his infinite
hif I
E xcited the quartet plays with symbiosis then farewel
L
Denis Between The Rusty Words (August 20, 2003)
(*) Traditional Britain band.
(**) Only
french guitarist knowing to use an electric guitar.
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Thanks to Philippe Tenaud
for
the translation help.
© IDDN 2005
