http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:24:44 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/24/124428.php#comment-741569 Hi folks, The music segments are all too brief in this film, and music outtakes would have been a great extra for the DVD. David Grisman did the music and you should know who he is. He also scored Capone, Big Bad Mama and Ron Howard's 1976 film Eat My Dust. But King of the Gypsies was his best. Apart from all that, he's one of the great mandolinists and best overall musicians of our day. That mandolin in the Gratfeul Dead's "Ripple" and "Friend of the Devil"? That's David. His David Grisman Quintet helped launch the careers of Tony Rice, Mark O'Connor and Mike Marshall, among many others. And his "new acoustic music" inspired a movement that includes Yonder Mountain String Band, Nickel Creek and Alison Krauss. David's also featured with his lifelong pickin' pal Jerry Garcia in the documentary Grateful Dawg, directed by David's daughter Gillian. In addition, the older gentleman playing the violin in the gypsy camp is Stephane Grappelli, the great French jazzman and longtime partner of legendary gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. For acoustic music fans, the all-too-brief musical segments are reason enough to drop the 10 bucks or so that this DVD will run you. 741569@blogcritics.org Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:24:44 EDT