As gouda drum solo as possible

January 20, 2018 7:46 PM

Han Bennink on the Cheese Kit Diptych. Part one of a three-part video documenting Bennink's performance at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in 2005. Not only is edam good drummer, a käse is made for the relevance of humor in art.

Part 2,
Part 3,
Encore

All videos are segments of a music performance without vocals.

posted by ardgedee (14 comments total)

A previous post of this performance had only photos without video. This post fulfills a request made in 2007 by hototogisu.
posted by ardgedee at 7:48 PM on January 20, 2018

Bennink has long been a favorite of mine. Many thanks for the post.
posted by metagnathous at 7:50 PM on January 20, 2018 [1 favorite]

That was great thank you!
posted by saucysault at 8:09 PM on January 20, 2018

Happy – and surprised, I guess – to see that Bennink still is going strong (cheesy or not) in this century. I know him as the drummer 54 years ago on Eric Dolphy’s classic (also misnamed) Last Date. [The album. The documentary.]
posted by LeLiLo at 11:16 PM on January 20, 2018

That's not how you pronounce Gouda.

(I'll show myself out)
posted by humboldt32 at 12:21 AM on January 21, 2018

And that's not how you spell Kees

Sorry, I'm a little drunk and this OP is making my head explode.

;-)
posted by humboldt32 at 12:23 AM on January 21, 2018

I apologize for the humboldt fog.
posted by ardgedee at 2:13 AM on January 21, 2018

Drumkits made of cheese.
That sounds so Muppet, I'm honestly surprised Henson & crew never thought of it.

"No, Animal! Beat drums! BEAT drums!
posted by cheshyre at 6:11 AM on January 21, 2018

humboldt fog.

Well played. Redemption for the questionable puns, but certainly not for the German.

;-)
posted by humboldt32 at 7:58 AM on January 21, 2018

Favorited as soon as I saw the name Han Bennink. Off to explore the links now, but first let me recommend Misha Mengelberg's Change of Season (Music of Herbie Nichols) (AllMusic, Amazon, YouTube): one of the greatest not-as-famous-as-he-should-be composers in jazz history, with Steve Lacy on soprano sax, George Lewis on trombone, Misha Mengelberg on piano, and Bennink on the drums—does life get better than that?
posted by languagehat at 8:11 AM on January 21, 2018

> but certainly not for the German.

Well if it was German, it'd be capitalized. So I'd say it's kind of a Gruyerea.
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 8:36 AM on January 21, 2018 [1 favorite]

Please return the bikes at your earliest convenience.
posted by humboldt32 at 9:12 AM on January 21, 2018 [1 favorite]

I invoke Gorwydd Caerphilly's law :p
posted by kleinsteradikaleminderheit at 10:45 AM on January 21, 2018 [1 favorite]

Is this one of those non-edible uses of cheese that I keep hearing about?
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 6:16 AM on January 22, 2018