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Album:2008:05-05 Europe Teaching Gig:05-10 Cambridge Blues Workshop
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Gerald organized the weekend for us.
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Ursi and I check out Cambridge
[photo Gerald]
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A very serious Ursi
considers going to school [photo Gerald]
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We sneak into one of the colleges,
posing as church-goers. [photo Gerald]
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And discover freakis..tly manucured lawns.
Nobody is allowed on the grass. Nobody. [photo Gerald]
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And find out that it'd be easy
to sneak in the back, where people are renting these pushing-boat-thingies. Evidently this is a substitute for fun in Cambridge. [photo Gerald]
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After Saturday classes,
we have a dance in a church. I was still pretty jet-lagged and was almost unconscious for the first part.
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Ursi DJs some swing.
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I had a very entertaining dance
with Miriam. [photo Alex Beckett]
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Well, I thought it was interesting.
[photo Alex Beckett]
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Miriam required some convincing.
[photo Alex Beckett]
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..But she finally came around.
[photo Alex Beckett]
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Then we switch rooms..
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..and play some blues.
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My first official blues DJ'ing gig.
Not something I normally do, but they don't have lots of blues in Europe yet.
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Dave Zilkha, my London host
from back in 2002 drove up to the workshop (and DJ'd) much to my surprise.
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Back in class on Sunday
[photo Gerald]
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El Toro!
[photo Gerald]
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Talking about balance
[photo Gerald]
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And how not to hold your core
[photo Gerald]
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Evidently Ursi is sa..mething interesting.
[photo Gerald]
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The class practices
[photo Gerald]
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We get ready to demo St James
[Video, 12.4M]
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St James Demo
[Video, 11.3M]
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Summertime
[Video, 22.9M]
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We pose for a photo
that we can use for the Budapest Blues Workshop (as per Marcell's request)
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(And gets edited into this)
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And then head off to a pub.
We're in the UK, after all. [photo Gerald]
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Where I got to talk to a fellow geek/ENTP.
[photo Gerald]
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We head to another pub
where a very loungy one-man band is playing all sorts of music on the piano. [photo Gerald]
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We demonstrate our new move,
the Superman [photo Gerald]
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And attempt to pose again for Marcell.
[photo Gerald]
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But have trouble finding
the "blues paradigm" - if you will. [photo Gerald]
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But then this one works.
[photo Gerald]
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(And gets edited into this)
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Our happy hosts.
[photo Gerald]
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I demonstrate the super-shimmy
[Video, 8.5M]
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Video gets shot by mistake
and captures a geniune Dave moment. [Video, 14.9M]
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Ursi dances with Gerald
[photo Gerald]
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Gerald dances with Ursi
[Video, 112.5M]
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Great Balls Of Fire
(totally fun dance) [Video, 60.3M]
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Benny and the Jets
(@42s featuring the DaveUrsi head lead which we seem to be experts at) [Video, 50M]
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Ursi/Gerald
[photo Gerald]
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Ursi/Gerald
[photo Gerald]
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