Naudo – Staying Alive
An evening pause: How about a more modern instrument today?
Hat tip Cotour.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Andrey Vinogradov – A dark medieval ballad played on a hurdy-gurdy
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who calls this “Music to accompany the plague.” Seems appropriate considering the events of the last year.
More on the history and design of the hurdy-gurdy here.
The beauty of controlled explosions
An evening pause: All planned and carefully engineered.
Hat tip Cotour.
Maxi Borgaro – Unchained Melody
An evening pause: Nice cover, sung by someone who’s first language is not English.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Removing a bee swarm
An evening pause: We’ve had two bee swarms at my house in Tucson in the past decade. With the first we made the terrible mistake of taking the advice of an exterminator who destroyed it. The second time we knew better and simply waited 24 hours for them to move on.
The bee remover here removes them, but wisely without harming them. And he does it in a manner that will both surprise you and make you cringe.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.
A Millennial Job Interview
An evening pause: The future, or maybe sadly, already the present.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
U2 – Mysterious Ways
An evening pause: Stay with it for what is made to appear as an impromptu addition of an audience member dancing. She steals the show.
It might be improvised, but if it was, it happened repeatedly, at different places, sometimes with a girl that looks identical to this one. I suspect they pre-planned it each time, but no matter, it works quite well this time, for sure.
Hat tip Cotour.
The Miracles – Love Machine
A evening pause: Fun stuff, but the dance choreography does make me think I’m watching an exercise video.
Hat tip Cotour.
Jerome Robbins – Mistake Waltz
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs – Wooly Bully
An evening pause: Performed live in 2000.
Hat tip Tom Biggar.
Training WWII gunners to hit moving planes from a moving plane
An evening pause: While figuring out why this works is really complicated, the simplicity of the technique and engineering is superb, and illustrates again why the U.S. did so well against Germany.
And yes, that is the voice of Mel Blanc.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Sean Rowe – To Leave Something Behind
An evening pause: This guy might not be the greatest guitar player or singer, but stay with it, the song and words I think make up for any lack in playing.
Hat tip Mike Nelson.