What's up Brooklyn Vegan hipster shitheads?! None of you care to comment on something other than your flavor of the hour indie-crap-rock-oops-I-can't-tune-my-guitar band?! Shocking...

ps- Wash your hair, you stink.

yo ma ma

Hey it's late man, I can't hate 24 hours a day.

That said, Itzhak Perlman has fat fingers and Yo Yo Ma is the most overrated cellist since Bernhard Romberg. Grow a pair and play in the cold, pussies!

Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo Ma

yeeesh--- makes you wonder about the next for years dont it?

yo ma yo!

oooh ma-ma!

i see that all of the 'intelligent' people are up late. ;P

izhak perlamn is so awesome

anyone ever heard izhak perlman's son's crappy band something for rockets. This post reminded me of them and I checked their website and they haven't updated since 2005

hmmm.

That said, you gotta DEAL with the weather bitch. No prerecordings, if it's too cold don't play

what is the point?

the blonde redhead of classical music.

my mom was so excited yitzark pearlman played.

i'm sort of shocked at the ignorance of this post, but perhaps i am reading it the wrong way. anybody who has played an instrument- strings, brass, woodwind, even percussion- would be totally understanding in this situation. "grow a pair" and play it live despite the inherent dissonance promised? for the most important inauguration of our time? some people never fail to disappoint

Dan Deacon would have played no matter how cold it was. He's even played wet--remember when he rocked it in Nietzsche's Bathtub, mutherfukkers?

"i'm sort of shocked at the ignorance of this post, but perhaps i am reading it the wrong way. anybody who has played an instrument- strings, brass, woodwind, even percussion- would be totally understanding in this situation. "grow a pair" and play it live despite the inherent dissonance promised? for the most important inauguration of our time? some people never fail to disappoint"

I would like to apologize for this post. obviously this guy knows nothing of this site or the posts you will find on it. Such "holier than thou" attitude is greatly permitted here, but also mindless posts are also welcomed.

you don't even think anything of it when you see it. but then you hear it was prerecorded and you can completely tell. song is still awesome.

They should go on SNL!

@ 2:34:

I'm a musician, and I think there are more people who would give a shit if they were told it was recorded than there are who would have noticed that it had been out of tune. This was a bullshit excuse just so they didn't have to have numb freezy fingers and fuck up. Anything would have been better than Elisabeth Alexander's broken-up, awkwardly delivered speech she called a poem.

seems like they could have put them in a heated area

Ma, yo! YO!

i understand the reason for not being able to play that day, but then why do it at all? the new administration is already deceiving the public, on day 1.

also, the performance kind of didn't fit in anyway. Obama was acting like he was enjoying it, but it was obvious that he didn't give a shit.

if sigur ros could do it in iceland, i think yo yo should have given it a shot. who cares if it was a bit out of tune.

"yeeesh--- makes you wonder about the next for years dont it?"

no, it doesn't

"the new administration is already deceiving the public, on day 1."

come on, puhleeez...

So it was kind of like an Animal Collective concert.

@ 2:41. If Yo Yo Ma tried to pull that shit at Nietzsche's Bathtub, he would get his ass kicked.

laptops never go out of tune. they should have got gt, dd, m83, the field, and kraftwerk. and i know the latter three are not americans.

When the Flaming Lips do it, the hipsters love it. Some classical quartet does it, they get hated on. Sheep on!

yea i agree w/the person who said it's unfortunate they couldnt come up w/ some kind of heated space for them. im no hater, just think it wouldve been even more moving & awesome had it actually been live.

So what the hell was the point of that carbon-fiber cello then?

yo yo ma: i'd hit it

agreed. there's a lot of bars with those big kerosene radiant heat stalks so you can smoke ciggies outside in the winter, and jesus those things are powerful. i would think a couple of those could afford a level of comfortability sufficient enough to play an instrument.

if you wanna know about dudes wrecking shop in the DC winter, check out this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqkFPNR8iF8

also, the performance kind of didn't fit in anyway. Obama was acting like he was enjoying it, but it was obvious that he didn't give a shit.

yeah that occurred to me too. he might've even been uncomfortable having to keep turning his head to watch

Boutros Boutros-Ghali!