The Bad Plus- Tom Sawyer (Rush)

I hope most of you know Rush.
This Canadian trio most well known for there albums "2112" and "Moving Pictures" were one of Americas most acknowledged proggers and directly influenced Prog Metal band, for example
Dream Theatre.

The Bad Plus are basically a jazz band, but there style is rockish and very unique. They were established at 2000 and already released 7 CDS (including two LIVE ones).

BP are well known to preform and record jazzy covers to rock songs such as "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Iron Man" or "Tom Sawyer".

Etgar Keret

Etgar Keret is one of Israels most well known writers. He wrote four books in hebrew (Tubes, Missing Kissenger, Knellers Happy Campers and Anihu), two comic books (Were not here to enjoy ourselves and The Alleys Of Fury).

In 2004 a comic book came out, based on the story "Knelers Happy Campers" and drawn by Asaf Hanuka called "Kamikaze Pizza".

In english, two collections including Etgars storrys came out: "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be god" (2004) and "The Nimrod" (2006).

Wristcutters: A Love Story is a 2007 film written and directed by Goran Ducick.The Film is based on the story "Knellers Happy Campers".

Skidmore Dynamics- Dancin' Fool (Zappa)

There is no better way to start than showing something that relates to my favorite musician, Frank Zappa. This man changed the world of music completely, writing complicated compositions and witty lyrics.

The song I'm going to refers to is Dancin' Fool from the album "shiek yerbouti", one of Zappa's most famous albums that also includes the song "Bobby Brown" which was one of his greatest hits.

While looking on Youtube for the version of the song from the "Does Humor Belong In Music" DVD, I found this video:



Enjoy.