Louis Armstrong is fucking bizarre looking

[abudabit]

Maybe it's cause I'm stoned, but this video is really tripping me out. Stare at his mouth.

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[LiL Yimmy]

I blame obama. Before Obama Armstrong was just fine, but look at him now.

[Sidekick Dave]

Actually, you guys are going to hate me for this (you already do), but THAT is a wonderful song/performance. It got me choked up. I think that the reason his mouth moves like that is because it...well...it always has been that way. It probably just took live TV in "Glorious Color" to make you see how his mouth is. He was also really old at this time and this was his swan song. Need not forget about that.


Many times older performances give me the douche chills in general Case in Point: I think that when I go back and watch old MGM films from the thirties and forties, I get more creeped out than if I were watching the Saw series. I was watching Wizard of Oz a few weeks ago on TBS and I got freaked out. It was not aimed at being scary, but it came of as the most frightening thing that I've ever seen. Maybe it was the time (1939) and maybe it was the fact that we all know what that Facist Jew Louie B. Mayer did to Judy Garland off the set. Anyways, the sound, song, script, picture, feel, just gave me the creeps. Yet, I loved the film as a kid and I even went as Tin Man.

Anyways, are you still trippitsnotrap3ifth3ydontfindh3rh3adING?

[abudabit]

I read that he got damage from playing wind instruments too hard when was young. Don't know if I believe it. But his nickname was Satchmo, which was short for Satchel Mouth.

[Newmania]

He is an ugly sum bitch, but damn is that a great performance.

[BJQueen]

the head shake got me more than the mouth. what an awesome song though.

[LiL Yimmy]

He was a musical genious in my opinion.

[VMS]

Part of it's him being weird (he grew up in a fucking whorehouse for fuck's sake!) and part of it is old school musical training.

Listen to an old Jackson 5 album from the Motown days. They don't actually sing what you think they sing. They cut the "s" out of the front and end of songs, a lot of "classically" trained singing.

You listen to some musicians today, and they fucking MURDER what could be really good songs because it's more about "feeling it, maaaaaaaan" than it is about really singing a song well.

When "you" comes out more like "jou" out of pure laziness and shitty pipes on the part of the musician, fuck their lazy asses.

Satchmo was a fucking PRO.

Besides, playing his tunes is even better than Sinatra for getting classy broads (or wannabe classy broads) into the sack. Not as obvious as Sinatra (let alone Barry White type stuff) but with all the smoothness.

[abudabit]

I imagine that's what Steve C looks like when he's attempting to speak in his perfect diction.



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He didn't create it, he's just the first American to play it.

[boardsofcanada]

I can't help but notice the similarity of his mouth to your avatar.

[kloraferm]

Odd looking but still was a musical genius anyway

[Razor Roman]

I had one teacher when I was a kid who swore TV ruined musical performance. Not even MTV, he was talking Ed Sullivan or The Metropolitan Opera on PBS.

When a performer on Broadway or in The Opera is singing properly, he/she doesn't necessarily look pretty.... so the performers got more and more worried about being caught in a freeze frame with their mouth open real wide, eyes closed, etc... and toned down the technique in service of the look.

Funny thing is though, Louis Armstrongs big puffy cheeks when he plays the trumpet, is 100% completely not correct form, you're supposed to keep your cheeks in when you're playing.

[VMS]

Funny thing is though, Louis Armstrongs big puffy cheeks when he plays the trumpet, is 100% completely not correct form, you're supposed to keep your cheeks in when you're playing.

Louis was bad, but Dizzy had even worse form in this regard.

I think it's a jazz musician thing. I figure Louis didn't get classical training WRT trumpet playing (many of the old school jazz musicians couldn't read sheet music, after all), but he might have gotten some "proper" singing training.