Kludge: Live in Dallas, part 5

Tune 5, "What I Like About U(nix)" -- Don't have the lyrics sheet to this one but it is pretty clear on the recording. The dance-band standard by the Romantics would be a Kludge staple -- remember using it more than once to open a show (because we did this fun thing with the opening clapping). Here it's sort of an up-tempo encore to Lotus, which had just quite literally brought the house down.

This recording also nicely exposes the incredible talent of our musical director and lead guitarist, Ralph Azzara. Though this song may sound like an easy one to play, Ralph's incredible ear and dedication to playing the songs EXACTLY as they were recorded makes it hard to believe that this is being performed by a group of tech publishing editors, in their first time on stage together.

Great little bits from this live track: Ralf giving props to Jason's solo (I was so drained from Lotus I basically did this one on fumes... which you can tell when I completely just miss an entire line or two of the third verse). Somewhere in there you can also hear Mike Azzara (think Mike held the recorder if I remember) tell someone he has to get backstage... to slap some high-fives with KLUDGE...

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And, in case you want to listen to the whole performance straight through here is a larger clip with all tunes together. Again, thanks to Danimal Richman for the audio work. Hope to get some direct-from-Dan blog posts up here soon.

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