Cuba Goes Crazy for Ex-Yes Star Wakeman

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Who knew?

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-mus-cuba-rick-wakeman,0,4085570.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines

― my friend flicka (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

It was either that or the Manic Street Preachers again.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rwcc.com/notice_01.asp#10

― my friend flicka (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

I think that every town pavillion should be renamed Anti-imperialist Plaza.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

This is the best rock music that has ever been played on this island." Hell, make that on this earth.

― sister bluebird, Tuesday, 26 April 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Did he play "I'm So Straight I'm a Weirdo"? "Do You Believe in Fairies"?

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

and he's a TORY, to boot!!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Dear Cuba,

How many Rick Wakeman solo albums have you heard, anyway?

― Joe (Joe), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

no ice capades! but he did have SOME of the props that have made him so well-known and loved:

Wakeman wore a sequined red, white and gold cape as he played center-stage, while the NERE's lead singer sported a traditional tropical shirt known as a guayabera.

He traded the cape for a glittery purple jacket and a wizard's hat when he went down to play in the crowd, grabbing a Cuban girl to come onstage and hold his portable keyboard as he continued to play, without missing a beat.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Ex-YES? Whaaa? When did this happen (again)?

Wakeman roolz.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 26 April 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

wizard's hat! YES!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

(no pun intended)

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

In a country with such strict freedom of speech laws a song like Anarchy in the UK never freed them from 70's prog-rock.

Communism and prog-rock, enslaving humanity 18:37 seconds at a time with its ambitious concepts.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

*their

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

u can love da pistols AND yes.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 03:57 (twenty years ago)

If only the poor people of Cuba knew that. :(

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

Fidel and Rick both wear capes.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

This doesn't really surprise me. I think Cuba has a strong muso streak. I don't hear much prog. in timba, but I do hear lots of jazz and fusion. There seems to be lots of emphasis on and appreciation of virtuosity, maybe partly due to the quality of music education there.

― RS, Wednesday, 27 April 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

Don't they also mostly drive 40 year old cars?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

God, I keep reading this thread title and thinking of Cuba Gooding drawing hearts on a Tiger Beat magazine.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 15:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.duendelatino.com/imagenes/productos/Sonando%20a%20Cuba.jpg

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I thought he used to support Tory.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

if he's tory, he probably REALLY supports MONEY. and as long as he gets paid, he prob. doesn't care WHERE the $$ comes from (and he's probably insisted that he gets paid in american $$ or british pounds, and not the toilet paper that passes for currency in cuba).

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Next up? Audioslave.

Somewhere, a bemused Zack de la Rocha sits with very mixed feelings.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 6 May 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

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