When I was a kid my dad would say “Robert Plont” and when I asked him why it wasn’t “Plant” he said that was how the Brits pronounced it. When I did my pronunciation check before recording the script, sure enough, every video I found of a British telecaster called him “plont.” I’ve gotten soooo many comments about it, I feel like I should probably pin a comment or something. But then again, all that engagement ain’t bad for the algorithm 🤔
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@@Bandsplaining really?... it's not "Plont" as you say, it's pronounced like "Plarnt"... true English pronounces "can't" the same... just because Americans are so recalcitrant towards anything English they needed to make the English language their own and call it American English... what a joke... it's the same stupidity when pronouncing "soddering" instead of the true word "soldering"... or "carmelized" instead of "caramelised"... it's an American thing eh? how shallow.
I went in 2005 and thankfully Bono wasn't there. Without doubt the most amazing festival site I've ever been to, the dunes of the Sahara stretching off into the horizon made an unbeatable backdrop. If it starts up again I'll be there for sure
Bono (or Bozo as he's been known in musos circles since the 80s) would be enough for most not to want to go. Can stand the wanker since he first showed up in the 80s
I agree I love watching these styles of music videos and documentaries and discovering new music and genres, and the history what other music documentary channels do u watch I crave this wonderful content
This channel is so good. So much obscure and unique content at such a quality you couldn’t find anywhere else. Hope you cultivate a bigger audience you deserve.
It's seriously so cool. I'm not a music person per se but I'm subbed to like ten music history channels, and not a ONE of them has covered anything my man here covers. So. Effing. Cool.
Agreed. I’m a fifty something 1990’s UK recording studio owner who greatly appreciates the content here. It’s well considered and produced, like proper mini-docs.
This is the craziest thing I've ever heard regarding the Music Festival Industry. Terrorists, kidnappings, government coups! Parts of this video had me almost in tears, clearly music means a lot to a lot of people. Crazy to think al-Qaida outlawed music, could you imagine such a world?!? Also, some of those bands slapp like Songhoy blues sound great! The kind of band you'd see down the local music venue Saturday night and have a great time.
I have been following these bands for many years and yet didn't know of the political turbulence that gave rise to Tinarawen and the adversarial relationship between Tauregs and the rest of "mainstream" Mali. Thanks for this history lesson! Most of this happened after the time I was an avid listener of Tinarawen and other Taureg musicians like Farka Toure. This gives a new perspective on the music and its source inspirations.
Tauregs ruled the desert 300 years ago and would cut a deal to escort, then MURDER everyone just over the horizon from camp. That behaviour in NOT forgotten easily, even hundreds of years later.
I went in 2008 and it was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had. I had tickets to the see Tinariwen here in NYC, but it was cancelled due to visa issues. So disappointed to not see them again and that these talented musicians were not allowed visas.
@@erikm8372 They have been to the US (except the guy with the big hair), so it can't be a general problem, there's a KEXP performance from a few years ago.
Yeah. Sick of their arrogance, ignorance, preaching & sense of entitlement. So bloody certain in their self-righteousness. Force feeding their BS on other's
instant subscribe. the album 'festival in the desert' 2003 somehow ended up in my hands and i listened to it until i scratched the surface to pieces. just one of the most enchanting experiences ever as a musician to listen to the fusion on that record and imagine myself under the stars. thank you for sharing the story of the festival with us.
Man I started with Tinariwen and kept following many songs from musicians all over africa I remember also listening to Bambino (I think from Niger) when those people touch electric guitars it's just magic
When it was still happening I saw announcements for the festival. Travellers were warned to take at least 2 days by landrover from Dakar, itself far from a direct flight from your home town. But Tinariwen made it to Austin TX! Great show, with people dancing in the aisles.
This is heart breaking I hope a festival for peace can happen once again. Thank you for bringing this story to light I didn’t know about this. I’m actually about to buy tickets to see Tinariwen bc of this video 🔥
I completely forgot about this festival. I first heard about it when Damon Albarn did that side-project with Mali musicians. This video is well put together! I appreciate the extensive research and work put in to produce it. 👍
Okay, so if you'll forgive a comment this late, but: The issue isn't whether "Northern Mali" can return to "normalcy", it's that the nomadic peoples, like the Tuareg, are not confined to "national borders". They're nomadic, and there needs to be a legal recognition of that, and given access to their ancestral lands. Like, I'm not sure if there's a legal precedent for that, but there needs to be. Because until then, any festival will only be short lived, before the next rebellion.
Those that live as nomads move around and live life as they please. Governments prefer you to settle down so they can steal aka tax you and give you nothing in return. In America you get potholes and violence in all major cities. I needed to see this video and hear the unique sound. Bono loves being the center of attention. I respect the fact he went out there where nomads roam the land. I am sorry for my country's part in funding these groups they deny having anything to do with. We live in unprecedented times in the year 2022 or whatever year it really is. Best of luck to all people of the world. The good outnumbers the bad but the media fuels the negative.
@@jukee67 nothing in return? Okay, you try raising a family while wandering the desert. It’s not as simple and romantic as you think it is. There’s a reason that people prefer to settle down and have a home. If being a nomad is so great, then do it. Leave your house and start wandering around. It sounds nice to you because you’re lazy and you’d rather smoke weed and sleep outside than work a job and pay taxes, but actually being a nomad would be an extremely rough life compared to the life you’re used to and you’d quickly be in over your head. I highly doubt you have the skills needed to survive and thrive homeless in the desert
@@jukee67 So taxes offer nothing in return? They don't collect your garbage weekly? They don't provide emergency services? No city hall where you can confront city council members with your grievances? IMO just having the privilege to flush my poop, makes taxes worth it. ... As for the media fueling the negative.... The media fuels relevant discussion. It's the media sponsors who control what their employees can and cannot talk about. So If your going to get mad about fake news biased and unchallenged reports then the best option would be to support raising taxes to fund local news outlets. That way they don't have to rely on sponsors....
When do nomadic people have ancestral land? Before you attack poor Mali first return ancestral land back to the indigenous Australians and Native Americans.
@@sulaak You know what happens then, right? They form weak governments and get taken over by foreign countries. You understand that what I'm saying is objectively what will happen, right?
I've been following the contemporary wave of music coming out of the Sahara for several years, yet it never ceases to amaze me how clearly you can hear the roots of the blues coming out of their music, as clearly as if you were listening to any of the original black American blues artists.
"Went into battle with a stratocaster on one shoulder and an AK-47 on the other, preceded to get shot 17 times... and survived" Regardless of whether this was actually true, I was thinking about buying a Gibson, but now I'm definitely gonna stick to playing Fenders. In fact maybe they should make them standard issue for US troops.
honestly a les paul isn't the best guitar to carry to battle, except maybe to use as armour. a strat might be better; though probably the best to carry around image wise and weight wise is an sg, it being 6 pounds and looks like a battle axe and all
I had never heard of the Festival au Désert (Festival in the Desert) until now. It's a shame that extremism caused the festival to be in "exile". I hope that it can come back someday! ☹️
Please more videos like this I love this kind of stuff man just started going to music festival and as a 20 year old I can say it the best time of my life and I love see how people are documented this lifestyle the whole world needs to know
Amazing content! I knew very little of rock and blues within Africa, and now Bombino and Witch are on my phone alongside Bob Marley and Red Hot Chili Peppers!
A couple of young aspiring artists and event organizeres in Algeria and setting up for a music Festival like this one and i am one of them..... Leopanthera.
I didn't do any more research besides seeing them pop up in the one doc, but to point you in the right direction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfire_(American_band)
Worth the wait , as always BANDSPLAINING - Quality over quantity These musicians, these artists inspire me to approach my finger work in new obscure ways ... it’s very unconventional & not as easy as it may seem
I think the ever underrated south american rock scene would be a nice topic for this channel to tackle. Brazil argentina and chile have a rich and fascinating musical history
Thank you for explaining what happened. As a Ghanaian I always wanted to attend and had not heard anything about it for years I thought they needed it when Ali Farka Toure (RIP) passed away. So America and it’s meddling fake insurgency needed this great art. For shame!
No idea there was a music seen like that over there, sounds psychedelic touched with folk and native American almost, I'm digging this documentary, very intriguing.
Got halfway through this video and already sad that this isn't still going on. Even more sad that some of these songs never made it to America. Now I have to look all this up and download some of the songs.
Really interesting story! I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you for putting in the effort to tell it in such an engaging, balanced and informative way.
I just came across this, well done! I’m a big fan of the Toraigh music from Mali. Such great music❣️When they have done shows in Ithaca & Trumansburg I met many and got to experience them live, Wonderful😊💕
Thank you so much for introducing me to so many amazing new bands! I'm now left hoping, that maybe one day, Tinariwen comes to play a gig in Cape Town, South Africa!
Thanks for a great video! The clip at 16:30 showed me where to catch TINARIWEN in my home town. 😁🎸! Keep this content coming, fave new subscription. ▶️👍
I've followed the fest and most of those musicians for quite some years. I was actually planning on going to the fest when sh*t hit the fan... I truly hope that someday the Festival au Desert returns ❤
I don't understand, why hasn't Bono cured COVID or rushed to America to solve race relations? The clip shows the guy next to him with a WTF kind of look. Obnoxious twit. Why wasn't he at Obama's wedding? It's good we don't hear to much of his yapping over here anymore.
Bono has done a lot during his years to fight poverty and inequality. No matter what you think of his persona or music calling him a "horrid little man" is way out of line.
So happy I found this channel. I look forward to all your videos, I love how home made and authentic they feel rather than the click-baity overdone and annoying videos that clog up this platform.
Thanks for making me aware of the festival, as well as history of Mali and its music. Amazing and sad at the same time. Fanatism destroys everything on its way :-/
I went To the désert in marocco. Merzouga is a little village berween the dunes of Sahara. 3 or 4 days of free concert of music of the désert...not bad at all...in month of april i remember
given the fact that the tuareg come from a background of slave hunters and slave merchants, it's great to see that music is the univrsal language to bring peace and tolerance.
This was an excellent piece, really well done and informative. Also, this also kind of spotlighted something I started to see in the last five years that over the last 25-30 years so many of the worlds great guitarist are coming out of north and west Africa.
As an irish person I would like to apologise to the Mali 🇲🇱 people for inflicting bono on them ,I think the UN should investigate this human rights abuse because fuck knows irish people are fair sick of him
I would dearly love to attend this festival, should it return. Meanwhile, there are opportunities to see central African and Saharan musicians in various countries, and they are usually wonderful.
Fur trappers in America circa (1700s) came together once a year to do the same thing. Cultures are different but in watching this I can imagine festivals of the 1700s were much the same thing; a coming together of a fraternal trade group party together. What I like is how the guitar got a second life from the death of rock and roll with this festival. But Bono is ridiculous.
You should do a video on music censorship throughout history. Censorship is still a huge issue even to this day, such as the spanish rapper who is facing 3 years in prison for breaking the lese-majeste law. There are also times we’re censorship had led to some very weird and crazy repercussions, such as the Spanish riots and the mathuen vs ambrosio lawsuits where the “threatening” song somehow was protected by the first amendment, which I think are really good examples to use for a video like this. Just an idea I had in mind for you.
I love how we smear a dude who works his ass off to help the poor because well, everyone else does! I love the non-pompous, millionaire musicians who don't try to make things better and instead focus on what they should buy next. Those are the good ones.
Excellent explanation of what happened. So much ignorance in zealots- their own culture and history is within the music. No one was born with a gun, but we were all born singing a beautiful, crying tune.
I don’t care if it’s true or not, the story of some beduin rebel going to war with a guitar and and AK-47 and getting peppered with more lead than a target a shooting range and surviving will never not be balls to the walls awesome
I'm 50 and my husband 54 we are both retired with over $3 million in net worth and no dept's. Currently living smart and frugal with our money.serving and investing life style in the stock market made it possible for us this early even till now we earn weekly. Thanks to fire movement.
@Sarah Lucas Fire means Financial Independence Retire Early. It's been a movement teaching people financial independence and how to retire debt free through solid investment and frugal lifestyle.
By the way, the border disputes of Mali didn't start after independence, as your program implies. The border disputes go back a long time before that and is due to the French and western imperialists that carved up the country with straight line borders to suit themselves. Other than the imperialist airbrushing it was quite interesting.
Interesting video It Connected a lot of things I remember seeing younger but never understood clearly (how what why when) Very nicely done video 👌👍🏼 Thanks ✌🏼
I saw Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba in Lawrence, KS, on Bela Fleck's tour for Throw Down Your Heart: Africa Sessions. It was one of the most mind-blowing performances I've been to.
Sick doc but why do you keep saying Robert Plont 😂
When I was a kid my dad would say “Robert Plont” and when I asked him why it wasn’t “Plant” he said that was how the Brits pronounced it. When I did my pronunciation check before recording the script, sure enough, every video I found of a British telecaster called him “plont.” I’ve gotten soooo many comments about it, I feel like I should probably pin a comment or something. But then again, all that engagement ain’t bad for the algorithm 🤔
And in case you’re wondering, here’s what I mean:
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@@Bandsplaining HA! Judges will accept your response - and again. Great content. I didn’t know about his festival at all.
@@Bandsplaining really?... it's not "Plont" as you say, it's pronounced like "Plarnt"... true English pronounces "can't" the same... just because Americans are so recalcitrant towards anything English they needed to make the English language their own and call it American English... what a joke... it's the same stupidity when pronouncing "soddering" instead of the true word "soldering"... or "carmelized" instead of "caramelised"... it's an American thing eh? how shallow.
It is actually pronounced Plant, as in 'marble'.
I went in 2005 and thankfully Bono wasn't there. Without doubt the most amazing festival site I've ever been to, the dunes of the Sahara stretching off into the horizon made an unbeatable backdrop. If it starts up again I'll be there for sure
🤣 - I was thinking Bono looked awkward & “the thing that just doesn’t belong here”
Bono (or Bozo as he's been known in musos circles since the 80s) would be enough for most not to want to go. Can stand the wanker since he first showed up in the 80s
@@Antipodean33 sounds like a popularity problem. The dude has done a ridiculous amount of good things but isn't 'cool" so yeah, people don't like him.
@@Antipodean33 You...CAN stand him?
Let's go!
The idea of nomads meeting here to enjoy the concert and hang out is pretty badass
Bandsplaining is the best music documentary channel on CZcams, bar none.
I agree I love watching these styles of music videos and documentaries and discovering new music and genres, and the history what other music documentary channels do u watch I crave this wonderful content
This channel is so good. So much obscure and unique content at such a quality you couldn’t find anywhere else. Hope you cultivate a bigger audience you deserve.
I wish we could invest in CZcamsrs cause this guy is the next vice
It's seriously so cool. I'm not a music person per se but I'm subbed to like ten music history channels, and not a ONE of them has covered anything my man here covers. So. Effing. Cool.
Agreed. I’m a fifty something 1990’s UK recording studio owner who greatly appreciates the content here. It’s well considered and produced, like proper mini-docs.
It’s “had broken”. Not “had broke”. Also “sung” not “sang”. Don’t dumb-down English. It’s already dying a slow death in America.
One of my best vacations was traveling through Morocco and to the Sahara desert in a 4x4 with a berber driver playing Tinariwen for days...
Any ideology that outlaws music must be defeated.
Instruments are haram
Sho nuff
@@nickyblue4866 hahahaha 😂😂😂 bacon 🥓 is yummy 🤤
It doesn’t outlaw music, it just outlaws music that doesn’t praise God, or Allah, or whatever you call it.
@@nickyblue4866o them human decency is haram
Finally, a video that do some justice to the Festival au Desert. What a quality content for the World Music enthusiasts.
Thanks for this!
This is the craziest thing I've ever heard regarding the Music Festival Industry.
Terrorists, kidnappings, government coups! Parts of this video had me almost in tears, clearly music means a lot to a lot of people. Crazy to think al-Qaida outlawed music, could you imagine such a world?!? Also, some of those bands slapp like Songhoy blues sound great! The kind of band you'd see down the local music venue Saturday night and have a great time.
I have been following these bands for many years and yet didn't know of the political turbulence that gave rise to Tinarawen and the adversarial relationship between Tauregs and the rest of "mainstream" Mali. Thanks for this history lesson! Most of this happened after the time I was an avid listener of Tinarawen and other Taureg musicians like Farka Toure. This gives a new perspective on the music and its source inspirations.
Tauregs ruled the desert 300 years ago and would cut a deal to escort, then MURDER everyone just over the horizon from camp. That behaviour in NOT forgotten easily, even hundreds of years later.
I went in 2008 and it was one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had. I had tickets to the see Tinariwen here in NYC, but it was cancelled due to visa issues. So disappointed to not see them again and that these talented musicians were not allowed visas.
Were they “not allowed” visas, or were there just some issues like you said initially?
@@erikm8372
They have been to the US (except the guy with the big hair), so it can't be a general problem, there's a KEXP performance from a few years ago.
The religious zealots always have to spoil the fun. Thank you for documenting all this. So sad we have lost this festival.
The religious often find that the fun zealots ruin the religion.
Amrica was the one that started the wars with Saddam, Kaddhafi ....
and it keeps going on and on and on💣💣💣💥
Yeah. Sick of their arrogance, ignorance, preaching & sense of entitlement. So bloody certain in their self-righteousness. Force feeding their BS on other's
instant subscribe.
the album 'festival in the desert' 2003 somehow ended up in my hands and i listened to it until i scratched the surface to pieces.
just one of the most enchanting experiences ever as a musician to listen to the fusion on that record and imagine myself under the stars.
thank you for sharing the story of the festival with us.
I scored that from someone on the DeadNetCentral site myself. Fantastic music!
I feel like my eyes are now open to a whole new world Malian music. I can’t wait to study the bands you mentioned
Man I started with Tinariwen and kept following many songs from musicians all over africa I remember also listening to Bambino (I think from Niger) when those people touch electric guitars it's just magic
When it was still happening I saw announcements for the festival. Travellers were warned to take at least 2 days by landrover from Dakar, itself far from a direct flight from your home town. But Tinariwen made it to Austin TX! Great show, with people dancing in the aisles.
The same reason why the Dakar rally moved out of Africa.
This is heart breaking I hope a festival for peace can happen once again. Thank you for bringing this story to light I didn’t know about this. I’m actually about to buy tickets to see Tinariwen bc of this video 🔥
I completely forgot about this festival. I first heard about it when Damon Albarn did that side-project with Mali musicians. This video is well put together! I appreciate the extensive research and work put in to produce it. 👍
Really hope this revives one day soon! What a gem of a festival experience that must have been!
Okay, so if you'll forgive a comment this late, but:
The issue isn't whether "Northern Mali" can return to "normalcy", it's that the nomadic peoples, like the Tuareg, are not confined to "national borders". They're nomadic, and there needs to be a legal recognition of that, and given access to their ancestral lands.
Like, I'm not sure if there's a legal precedent for that, but there needs to be. Because until then, any festival will only be short lived, before the next rebellion.
Those that live as nomads move around and live life as they please. Governments prefer you to settle down so they can steal aka tax you and give you nothing in return. In America you get potholes and violence in all major cities. I needed to see this video and hear the unique sound. Bono loves being the center of attention. I respect the fact he went out there where nomads roam the land. I am sorry for my country's part in funding these groups they deny having anything to do with. We live in unprecedented times in the year 2022 or whatever year it really is. Best of luck to all people of the world. The good outnumbers the bad but the media fuels the negative.
@@jukee67 nothing in return? Okay, you try raising a family while wandering the desert. It’s not as simple and romantic as you think it is. There’s a reason that people prefer to settle down and have a home.
If being a nomad is so great, then do it. Leave your house and start wandering around. It sounds nice to you because you’re lazy and you’d rather smoke weed and sleep outside than work a job and pay taxes, but actually being a nomad would be an extremely rough life compared to the life you’re used to and you’d quickly be in over your head. I highly doubt you have the skills needed to survive and thrive homeless in the desert
@@jukee67 So taxes offer nothing in return?
They don't collect your garbage weekly?
They don't provide emergency services?
No city hall where you can confront city council members with your grievances?
IMO just having the privilege to flush my poop, makes taxes worth it.
...
As for the media fueling the negative....
The media fuels relevant discussion.
It's the media sponsors who control what their employees can and cannot talk about.
So If your going to get mad about fake news biased and unchallenged reports then the best option would be to support raising taxes to fund local news outlets. That way they don't have to rely on sponsors....
When do nomadic people have ancestral land? Before you attack poor Mali first return ancestral land back to the indigenous Australians and Native Americans.
@@sulaak You know what happens then, right? They form weak governments and get taken over by foreign countries. You understand that what I'm saying is objectively what will happen, right?
I've been following the contemporary wave of music coming out of the Sahara for several years, yet it never ceases to amaze me how clearly you can hear the roots of the blues coming out of their music, as clearly as if you were listening to any of the original black American blues artists.
Genetics
"Went into battle with a stratocaster on one shoulder and an AK-47 on the other, preceded to get shot 17 times... and survived"
Regardless of whether this was actually true, I was thinking about buying a Gibson, but now I'm definitely gonna stick to playing Fenders. In fact maybe they should make them standard issue for US troops.
honestly a les paul isn't the best guitar to carry to battle, except maybe to use as armour. a strat might be better; though probably the best to carry around image wise and weight wise is an sg, it being 6 pounds and looks like a battle axe and all
Based
This is by far the best music channel around. Thank you for this in depth content that does justice to cultures around the world
I had never heard of the Festival au Désert (Festival in the Desert) until now. It's a shame that extremism caused the festival to be in "exile". I hope that it can come back someday! ☹️
Please more videos like this I love this kind of stuff man just started going to music festival and as a 20 year old I can say it the best time of my life and I love see how people are documented this lifestyle the whole world needs to know
Amazing content! I knew very little of rock and blues within Africa, and now Bombino and Witch are on my phone alongside Bob Marley and Red Hot Chili Peppers!
A couple of young aspiring artists and event organizeres in Algeria and setting up for a music Festival like this one and i am one of them.....
Leopanthera.
I want to be there!
i saw tinariwen two times in my hometown. but seeing them in this scenery would be amazing
This is so cool but now I want to know more about this Native American punk band!
I didn't do any more research besides seeing them pop up in the one doc, but to point you in the right direction: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfire_(American_band)
@@Bandsplaining excellent thank you!
Worth the wait , as always
BANDSPLAINING - Quality over quantity
These musicians, these artists inspire me to approach my finger work in new obscure ways ... it’s very unconventional & not as easy as it may seem
Ooof! Like, I knew that Tinariwen were cool, but I didn't know they were *this* cool!
I think the ever underrated south american rock scene would be a nice topic for this channel to tackle. Brazil argentina and chile have a rich and fascinating musical history
Robert Plants voice just always sounds SO good
thank you for this amazing insight into something I didn’t know existed!
Thank you for explaining what happened. As a Ghanaian I always wanted to attend and had not heard anything about it for years I thought they needed it when Ali Farka Toure (RIP) passed away.
So America and it’s meddling fake insurgency needed this great art.
For shame!
Totally agree, USA have screwed so many countries over in their ascension.
No idea there was a music seen like that over there, sounds psychedelic touched with folk and native American almost, I'm digging this documentary, very intriguing.
After 2 complete shite days, seeing this video made me smile for new music, thanks man and keep up the great work
Got halfway through this video and already sad that this isn't still going on. Even more sad that some of these songs never made it to America. Now I have to look all this up and download some of the songs.
Khruangbin made a really good artist with a Mali artist. It’s on Spotify
This channel deserves more love
An amazingly well researched, written, and engaging video. Thank you.
My all time *favorite* singer will *ALWAYS* be Robert Plonnt.
The music on here was fantastic.
Really interesting story! I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you for putting in the effort to tell it in such an engaging, balanced and informative way.
I just came across this, well done!
I’m a big fan of the Toraigh music from Mali. Such great music❣️When they have done shows in Ithaca & Trumansburg I met many and got to experience them live, Wonderful😊💕
Thank you so much for introducing me to so many amazing new bands! I'm now left hoping, that maybe one day, Tinariwen comes to play a gig in Cape Town, South Africa!
Thanks for a great video! The clip at 16:30 showed me where to catch TINARIWEN in my home town. 😁🎸!
Keep this content coming, fave new subscription. ▶️👍
I've followed the fest and most of those musicians for quite some years. I was actually planning on going to the fest when sh*t hit the fan... I truly hope that someday the Festival au Desert returns ❤
"And of course Bono."
Yep. Bono had to be there. Horrid little man.
As always top content. Thanks for sharing.
I don't understand, why hasn't Bono cured COVID or rushed to America to solve race relations? The clip shows the guy next to him with a WTF kind of look. Obnoxious twit. Why wasn't he at Obama's wedding? It's good we don't hear to much of his yapping over here anymore.
And gold is the reason for the wars we wage
Though I want to be with you, be with you
Night and day
Nothing changes
On New Year's Day
Everyone who doesn’t love him hates him. Tell me… what’s so “horrid” about Bono, my dude?
Bono has done a lot during his years to fight poverty and inequality. No matter what you think of his persona or music calling him a "horrid little man" is way out of line.
@@joeltarnabene5026 He's a pretentious jagoff. That work for you??
Learnt a lot bout the Zambian and Malian Rock scene thanks to you. Love knowing bout my continent
Stratocaster on one hand and an AK on another is just fucking chad of a musician
So happy I found this channel. I look forward to all your videos, I love how home made and authentic they feel rather than the click-baity overdone and annoying videos that clog up this platform.
Thanks for making me aware of the festival, as well as history of Mali and its music. Amazing and sad at the same time. Fanatism destroys everything on its way :-/
Thanks so much for adding the names and titles and introducing these artists to me. This was super interesting!
So sad , such amazing cultural gathering being killed by politics and religion…
I miss Tinariwen can’t wait for their return to US
I went To the désert in marocco. Merzouga is a little village berween the dunes of Sahara. 3 or 4 days of free concert of music of the désert...not bad at all...in month of april i remember
One of the best Channels on CZcams
Only recently discovered this channel, and through it so much great music. You deserve so many more subs/views!
Dude your channel is amazing, you are amazing and I love your content, you are an inspiration
That’s beautiful chaotic, like everything in Africa
I never knew about this ,wow....very,very interesting job...
given the fact that the tuareg come from a background of slave hunters and slave merchants, it's great to see that music is the univrsal language to bring peace and tolerance.
Now there is an unpopular fact.
Bono is such a world class tool bag.
Fascinating video, and very clearly explained.
Fun fact.... The Dakar Rally used to follow this route. Al Qaeda also forced the rally to shut down in 2012.
I’ve wanted to go my whole adult life. I’ve seen Tinariwen live in LA a couple times…maybe one day I’ll see them in the desert❤️🔥
This was an excellent piece, really well done and informative. Also, this also kind of spotlighted something I started to see in the last five years that over the last 25-30 years so many of the worlds great guitarist are coming out of north and west Africa.
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Anyone who doesn't know Malean music: check it out. It is FANTASTIC.
As an irish person I would like to apologise to the Mali 🇲🇱 people for inflicting bono on them ,I think the UN should investigate this human rights abuse because fuck knows irish people are fair sick of him
"Robert PlOnt" he says. NEATO
I would dearly love to attend this festival, should it return. Meanwhile, there are opportunities to see central African and Saharan musicians in various countries, and they are usually wonderful.
Fur trappers in America circa (1700s) came together once a year to do the same thing. Cultures are different but in watching this I can imagine festivals of the 1700s were much the same thing; a coming together of a fraternal trade group party together. What I like is how the guitar got a second life from the death of rock and roll with this festival. But Bono is ridiculous.
Thanks for this video. It was a very interesting story. :) You are appreciated.
Thanks for this excellent documentary. This is a good place to know more about music.
I had no idea about this, what an awesome video. Thank you!
Excellent documentary, very well done, and so enlightening and enjoyable...thank you and wonderful wor....bravo 👏
You should do a video on music censorship throughout history. Censorship is still a huge issue even to this day, such as the spanish rapper who is facing 3 years in prison for breaking the lese-majeste law. There are also times we’re censorship had led to some very weird and crazy repercussions, such as the Spanish riots and the mathuen vs ambrosio lawsuits where the “threatening” song somehow was protected by the first amendment, which I think are really good examples to use for a video like this. Just an idea I had in mind for you.
Bono is so full of him self. You could smell him from Mali to USA.
Yep, wish he would just stay home and not try to take credit for the festival from the people of Mali.
I love how we smear a dude who works his ass off to help the poor because well, everyone else does! I love the non-pompous, millionaire musicians who don't try to make things better and instead focus on what they should buy next. Those are the good ones.
This was informative, and a great source of new music. Thank you!
Would’ve never know about this. Thank you, this channel is awesome!!!
Excellent explanation of what happened. So much ignorance in zealots- their own
culture and history is within the music. No one was born with a gun, but we were
all born singing a beautiful, crying tune.
Found this channel today and watched every video. Fantastic content!
Have no idea how I stumbled on your channel. Glad I did.
Festival in the desert... wow, it's like "Mad Max" but if the only survivors were peace loving musicians! ☮🕊💌🤟
I don’t care if it’s true or not, the story of some beduin rebel going to war with a guitar and and AK-47 and getting peppered with more lead than a target a shooting range and surviving will never not be balls to the walls awesome
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Another great video, love ya work!
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By the way, the border disputes of Mali didn't start after independence, as your program implies.
The border disputes go back a long time before that and is due to the French and western imperialists that carved up the country with straight line borders to suit themselves.
Other than the imperialist airbrushing it was quite interesting.
no cause they was to dumb to draw the lines
But before independence all those countries were french colonies, why would France have border disputes with itself?
Thanks so much for posting.
Bono being there is why the word tragic should be used. I'm sure it was fine without him.
Interesting video
It Connected a lot of things I remember seeing younger but never understood clearly (how what why when)
Very nicely done video 👌👍🏼
Thanks ✌🏼
Sad. hopefully it become safe enough to have again. I'd love to go
I need this festival to be revived omg
Well, that escalated quickly
Everyone should check out Bombino, a Tuareg musician. He's amazing.
I saw Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba in Lawrence, KS, on Bela Fleck's tour for Throw Down Your Heart: Africa Sessions. It was one of the most mind-blowing performances I've been to.
This channel is underated
Independent homeland for the Tuareg - Azawad!!!
Tinariwen is the most badass band ever.