Post by mdorman

So twice in as many days I've found myself channel surfing to the video for Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance"---a song I hadn't heard in at least a decade:

Incidentally, did you know she underwrote Massive Attack's first album I didn't.

Anyway, that reminds me of one of my few regrets from college---the time I didn't go see Michael Hedges. This would have been in 1990, right after the release of Taproot---my favorite of all his albums.

There were plenty of good reasons not to see the show, like 1) I didn't really have the money for it, 2) I didn't hear about it until the day of the show, and couldn't get tickets 3) it was more than an hour away in Birmingham.

The stupid reason that I actually ended up not going was because I was too cheap to pay for parking so I could go see if there were any tickets or scalpers. Yes, I drove all the way to Birmingham, circled around within a few blocks from the arena, couldn't find a space free space, gave up and drove back to Tuscaloosa.

When Mike Nix got back the evening, he told me that, in addition to a number of other covers he was well known for doing, Michael had performed "Buffalo Stance".

Well, 20+ years later, I've heard his rendition:

It's a little heavy on the piezo quack, but otherwise pretty wonderful. For good measure, I leave you with him doing The Who's "Eminence Front":

It's good, though I don't think it's quite as good as the real thing: