Accordion cool ?
 

This player makes the accordion pretty cool. Lawrence Welk would be proud.

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Full send Bandoneon: :)
https://youtube.com/shorts/yIyl14_K_Ec?si=CiiwdxzAxCAA5hby

"A gentleman is somebody who can play the accordion but doesnt" tom waits

TW was awesome. Could drink a beer, smoke a cigarette and play piano at the same time.

Accordion came up not too long ago and someone posted "Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)" by Dwight Yoakam. Kinda blew me away (too bad the girl in the song suffered the same fate). I haven't heard an accordion sound more appropriate. Dwight credits Flaco Jiminez here. Banjos get made fun of as well, but in the right song, they're awesome. I'm not sure if I'll ever hear a good bagpipe song, though. Their best use might be limited to funerals...

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Yeah, I could watch, I mean listen to that all day.

Thank you for sharing the Sound Track summing up my Life.

I've seen Flaco in concert and he's the "go to" squeezebox guy for lots of musicians. Mavericks, Dwight (also on Streets Of Bakersfield), Texas Tornados, and lots of stuff with Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers.

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Nobody's posted this one yet?

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It's Five O'clock somewhere.
Take Five that is

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And now to break into discussion groups and compare and contrast.

I'm more a bandoneon Astor Piazzolla type guy, but the accordion really gives me some cool indoor 1970's shopping mall muzak vibes! :)

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What is the difference between an accordian and an onion??

No one cries when you chop up an accordian.

Old joke
gary

Saw this vid when it came out 8 years ago and never forgot it

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As for Tom Waits meme, I believe that is fake. Tom Waits is almost #1 for me and there is accordion all over his best albums

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https://richardvonbusack.medium.com/its-time-to-end-the-tom-waits-meme-now-2797ce953b2d

How about that the internet is a weird place, such a bizarre thing to miss represent, and further proof not to trust anything.

It does sound like something waits would say in jest in an interview or something, seemed believable

yea does sound like something he would say - if I ever run into him, I will ask him :-)

Lots of good accordion music out there - Paul Simon, Pogues etc...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1724943319.jpg

...someone had to do it.

Loved the meme, loved the picture and if anything he said it tongue in cheek. Tom will use anything at hand to make music - even a swordfishtrombone - and I love him for that.

(And Steve, Squeezebox by the Who isn't a song about an accordion....just sayin'. :))

LOL

Years ago, my dad went through a Tom Waits phase. I don't think I ever heard any. But many years later, I somehow stumbled across some Tom Waits, and fell in love with his music. It's not for everyone, but I enjoy it.