The playlist on Heath's funeral unraveled...

[TOoP/Bruce]

I recently came across this and thought maybe people here might find it interesting:

http://www.didgeridoobreath.com/index.php?page=news&id=66

In memory of a great Australian - Heath Ledger


Hi there didge people,

Levi here from Didgeridoo Breath. On Saturday the 9th of February 2008 I had the honour of playing the didgeridoo for the opening of Heath Ledgers Memorial Service.

I rode to Penrhos College in Como on my motorbike with my didgeridoo secured to my back inside a didge bag. When I arrived there was a small group of media representatives armed with their cameras ready to take shots of anyone that looked like they had the slightest thing to do with the service. On any other day it would have been exciting to be standing in front of the media and posing for photos but this day it just didn’t feel 100% right, so I quickly strolled by through the gate then inside to prepare to play.

With my traditional dress (laplap and body paint) I made my way on to the stage which was set up with rings of Frangipanis, a variety of different sized candles placed all over the stage, a beautiful array of flowers and the sweet scent of incense.  After  a few songs were played through the speakers the time finally came for me to play.

So eyes closed and mouth to didge I began to play….the picture that came to my mind while I played was the sun going down for the very last time ever….I pictured myself as a bird flying as fast as I could to keep up with the disappearing sun…chasing it over mountains, along the rivers, forests and bush land…no matter how fast I flew my small wings soon became very tired and I could not fly any more….as I rested on a high rock the sun seemed to get further and further away until it disappeared in the distance and I was left in total darkness!!

 Myself as the bird began to cry out in fear and in loss knowing I’d never wake to sing the song for the sun again…there I sat alone and shivering for the sun had forever gone leaving the world totally dark and cold…..until my mind started to remember how the sun used to sneak its way under my eyelids and wake me up…..and all the days that I had spent in the light of the sun…flying, singing, waking all the other creatures up with my morning song…then a warmth flooded over me and joy and happiness then filled  my heart as these memories began to fill and overflow my little bird mind, I just couldn’t hold in this feeling, a smile started to stretch across my face, a giggle bubbled up then suddenly a kookaburra laugh burst out . Then right at that moment I knew no matter how cold or dark the world around became, I would always smile knowing that I once spent a day in the sun…Then my didge playing stopped.

Although I never met Heath or had the chance to know him, by the atmosphere that was set at the service, I’d imagine he was a really nice, down to earth everyday guy who was greatly loved. Personally he had to be one of my favourite actors. From the movie “Two Hands” to “The Patriot” he was just brilliant!!

I recently found out from his father Kim that Heath enjoyed playing the didgeridoo (How cool is that?)      I felt even more privileged. Sometimes we put celebrities on such a pedestal that we tend to forget that behind all the glitz, glamour and hype from the media they too are still human and enjoy the odd hobby on the side.                                                                                                                                                                   

All my love and prayers to his family. God Bless. Levi

[mvansand76]

I recently came across this and thought maybe people here might find it interesting:

http://www.didgeridoobreath.com/index.php?page=news&id=66

That's really nice, thank you for posting, Bruce... 

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7huh5Egew[/youtube]

I'm gonna fight 'em all
A nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back

And I'm talking to myself at night
Because I can't forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette
And the message coming from my eyes
Says leave it alone

Don't want to hear about it
Every single one's got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell

And if I catch it coming back my way
I'm gonna serve it to you
And that aint what you want to hear
But thats what I'll do
And the feeling coming from my bones
Says find a home

I'm going to Wichita
Far from this opera for evermore
I'm gonna work the straw
Make the sweat drip out of every pore
And I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding, and I'm bleeding
Right before the lord
All the words are gonna bleed from me
And I will sing no more
And the stains coming from my blood
Tell me go back home

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrivjzw0RlI[/youtube]

Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time
On a live wire right up off the street
You and I should meet
Junebug skipping like a stone
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
We were sure wed never see an end to it all
And I dont even care to shake these zipper blues
And we dont know
Just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Double cross the vacant and the bored
Theyre not sure just what we have in the store
Morphine city slippin dues down to see
That we dont even care as restless as we are
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
And poured cement, lamented and assured
To the lights and towns below
Faster than the speed of sound
Faster than we thought wed go, beneath the sound of hope
Justine never knew the rules,
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it
To see that we dont care to shake these zipper blues
And we dont know just where our bones will rest
To dust I guess
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
The street heats the urgency of sound
As you can see theres no one around

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

You may find the imagery of this video...interesting...




The Shins - Past and Pending[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTUDgbw-04[/youtube]

As someone sets light to the first fire of autumn
We settle down to cut ourselves apart.
Cough and twitch from the news on your face
And some foreign candle burning in your eyes

Held to the past too aware of the pending
Chill as the dawn breaks and finds us up for sale.
Enter the fog another low road descending
Away from the cold lust, you house and summertime.

Blind to the last cursed affair pistols and countless eyes
A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running
Feed till the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.

Your name on my cast and my notes on your stay
Offer me little but doting on a crime.
We've turned every stone and for all our inventions
In matters of love loss, we've no recourse at all.

Blind to the last cursed affair pistols and countless eyes
A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running
Feed till the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love.

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

Best ever.



Ben Harper - Happy Ever After In Your Eyes [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mf7zJbqi4Q[/youtube]

The morning sunrise spread her wings
While the moon hung in the sky
You held the sea in your hands
And happy ever after in your eyes
Happy ever after is in your eyes

Couldn’t leave you to go to heaven
I carry you in my smile
For the first time my true reflection I see
Happy ever after in your eyes
Happy ever after is in your eyes

Every star in the night
Promises the dawn
I will be there if you fall
‘Til heaven ‘til heaven you rest upon

All that I can give you
Is forever yours to keep
Wake up everyday with a dream
And happy ever after in your eyes
Happy ever after is in your eyes

[Ellemeno]

I love this thread, and I love the didge player's story.  Thanks for the discovery and the posting, Bruce.  Did you notice, he didn't say "and then I stopped playing my didge," but rather, "then my didge playing stopped."  He, like the didge, is the instrument.

[Fran]

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ_XwLSN45I[/youtube]

The Times They Are A Changin' -- Bob Dylan

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon
For the wheel's still in spin
And there's no tellin' who
That it's namin'.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.

[Fran]

[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0tAoO3-xQ[/youtube]

Neil Young - "Old Man"

Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.

Old man look at my life,
Twenty four
and there's so much more
Live alone in a paradise
That makes me think of two.

Love lost, such a cost,
Give me things
that don't get lost.
Like a coin that won't get tossed
Rolling home to you.

Old man take a look at my life
I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me
the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes
and you can tell that's true.

Lullabies, look in your eyes,
Run around the same old town.
Doesn't mean that much to me
To mean that much to you.

I've been first and last
Look at how the time goes past.
But I'm all alone at last.
Rolling home to you.

Old man take a look at my life
I'm a lot like you
I need someone to love me
the whole day through
Ah, one look in my eyes
and you can tell that's true.

Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.
Old man look at my life,
I'm a lot like you were.

[Fran]

The Beatles - "Here Comes the Sun"

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
It's all right