Shalom Hanoch


Shalom Hanoch is still rocking. He’s been on the Israeli music scene since the early 1970s and still produces new material and plays concerts. In early 2011 he did a four station retrospective of his career. I caught the first station which focused on his first few albums and his collaboration with Arik Einstein. It seemed like he hadn’t played some of the songs in a long time, but that didn’t stop him from trying.
In this clip, the audience tries to help him remember one of his songs. Shalom gets it, and his kick-ass guitarist, Ronny Peterson can only watch with an amused smile.

 

Girafot


Gilad Kahana is a crazy person.  He’s got a lot to say.  In a single concert, he announced his candidacy to become the head of the Labor Party (“This country needs a drunkard Prime Minister!”), reaffirmed the right of the audience to express itself during the performance, and offered to expose himself.

Here’s a video of the latter: