Interesting parallels with improv here? In that kids make music every day but its rarely recorded and even more rarely released?
Oh definitely! On a similar note, I was attempting to find a book of children's artwork, but I don't think anything like it exists. It's amazing that considering the enormous influence children's artwork has had on modern art (Picasso, Klee, Dada, the primitivists, Dubuffet, etc), it's not often taken seriously. Why is that there are dozens of books available showcasing so called "outsider art," but that art by children, all of whom possess the "outsider" perspective and lack of refined technique attributed to those artists, is ignored? I've been thinking about publishing that book myself.
zhao - I found that album because someone posted a similar topic to this one on another forum, which is what inspired me to start this one.
Well... that, and the fact that on Christmas Eve my mom had a party, and my little cousins were up in my attic banging on my drums and pounding on my guitar and squeeling into the microphones and stuff. At one point it sounded like an honest to god no wave band! Needless to say, I prefered to spent most of the night in the attic watching them and playing with them than with the boring, stuffy adults downstairs.
At one point, my cousin Tommy brought his mom upstairs to show him what he was doing. She asked him "Tommy, do you want to be a rock star when you grow up?" and he says "I am a rock star right now!" and then asks her to play guitar with him while he plays drums. She tells him "i don't know how to play guitar," and he says, "I'll show you," walks over the guitar, and leaving it propped up against a couch, starts to strum the strings at random with his entire hand and hit them with his palm. "There. That's how you play it."
baboon - Oddly enough, The Shaggs TOTALLY fit my criteria. Even if they are a little bit older than the age range I was looking for, they still have that combination of not knowing the "right" way to play their instruments, and yet being confident that they can make music.
Old Skull rules! Not exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for but still great:
To add some of my own links:
http://www.discogs.com/release/1411440
http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/thuunderboy.html
) but the rapping is pretty good