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Sabata
posted Wednesday, 10 January 2007
"The piano may do for lovesick girls who lace themselves to skeletons and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils. But give me the banjo, when you want genuine music, music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whiskey, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose--when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!"
Mark Twain, "Enthusiastic Eloquence," San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, June 23, 1865.
I've received a lot of emails about the movie Sabata that the banjo clip was from. I love spaghetti westerns and this one takes the cake. I'm shocked that there was a Sabata Trilogy; Sabata, Adios Sabata and Return of Sabata. By a strange coincidence the original Sabata was on the western channel of Dish Network last week and I was able to snag it with my DVD recorder.
I plan on taking it over to my father-in-laws next weekend and getting a laugh or two. I don't know which is funnier, the corny dialogue or the bad haircut on Banjo!?!
If you get a chance, watch it.
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