Reader Glenn Tolle wrote in a comment to "Audioblogs: Nine bucks and you can post to a worldwide audience":
Speaking of audioblogging, I've been audioblogging from Uday and Qusay's old palace in Mosul, Iraq. No garden variety political rants, just fiddle and mandolin tunes recorded over a laptop in the early morning hours. A much better use of the palace than what Saddam's boys used it for.The blog states:
An unrelenting student of Celtic and Bluegrass music shares his acoustic travails, while working as a Civil Affairs trooper in Iraq. What follows is a curious alchemy of a liberal arts education, two decades of military culture, and stainless steel optimism.You have to select the July archive to hear some of the recordings:
The Star Spangled Banner (Fiddle) Play Ball! Saddam would have a fit if he knew I was playing this in one of his palaces. (Link)
Well, the times, they are achanging, as the song goes.
[© Image Glenn Tolle: "Posing with my Martin backpacker mandolin in front of a mural of a cuddly, father-figure Saddam. This cat was seriously into himself. Now he's all back of the bus, about to be sentenced by the Iraqis."; Link]
