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When Cultures Collide…

April 01st, 2008 | Category: Audio/Video

I have seen strange. I have lived through weird. I have suffered the bizarre. Sometimes it feels like I’ve seen it all and there is nothing left that will surprise me. Then something comes along that defies all that I know and think and feel. There are things that perhaps we are just not supposed to understand…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lNFRLrP014

I first saw this over at Papa Meloney’s place and adapted his description and comment about it:

Consider the Finnish rock band called The Leningrad Cowboys, who appeared in concert in Russia. With the screaming approval of Russian teen-agers, they had the Red Army Choir to join them on stage for a performance of Sweet Home Alabama. In English. You couldn’t make this up… We’re talking seriously off the wall here. Better have that Stoli ready when you watch it.

Yes, I’m OK. You’re OK. The rest of the world? I’m not so sure some days…

6 Comments so far

  1. “I have seen strange. I have lived through weird. I have suffered the bizarre…” : clusterflock April 1st, 2008 11:39 am

    [...] It’s just plain odd. [...]

  2. Bonnie April 1st, 2008 3:03 pm

    Is that what happens when you hire a Russian promoter?

  3. joared April 1st, 2008 4:43 pm

    I thought I’d never see this again — anywhere. Sometime earlier this year I was walking through a room where the TV was tuned to one of several So. Cal. PBS stations. I not only couldn’t believe what I was seeing, I couldn’t figure out what I was seeing. I stood gazing at the screen in total shock and now I’ve relapsed.

  4. Joy April 2nd, 2008 8:36 am

    You are now entering the Twilight Zone. Doo, doo, doo, doo. There’s something you won’t see every day. I love the little personal ‘twist’ they put on the ending. Thanks Winston. I can’t imagine I’d run into that on my travels through the blogosphere.

  5. Elsie April 2nd, 2008 10:29 am

    Thanks a lot, Winston! My brain’s been infected by the worst of earworms. Skynrd will never seem the same.

  6. gerry rosser April 3rd, 2008 7:36 am

    No Stoli, watched this with morning coffee. Thought I was gonna shit my pants! The original of this song never did anything for me, but in the future, when I’m abused by it somewhere (you know, like on the elevator or in the grocery store), I’ll think of this version and have a moment of joy. Good on ya for sharing this.

    Remember the old quote “May you live in interesting times?” Well, we obviously do.