Bara Jonson at Miles Island

Last night I went to the venue Miles Island owned by Balder Miles to listen to Bara Jonson. He is from Malmö, Sweden. Since they built the Oresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden it takes just half an hour to come from Copenhagen to Malmö. But at the moment Bara lives in San Louis Missisippi, so I can’t go and listen to him in first life. That doesn’t matter, because I can listen to him in second life. In fact he has a song about that called ”Far and away”, and he sang it yesterday. I was delighted when he sang two danish songs by the danish group Gasolin. The band doesn't exist any more, but they made an enormous amount of hits in Denmark in the 70s. Bara’s danish is good, although it sounds a little funny to a danish person – very charming. He really is multilingually talented. He can even sing in german, which he proved by singing the german song from the Eurovision Song Contest of 1979: Dschingis Khan. ”Behind blue eyes” – a giant hit for Limp Bizkit, but orginally sung by The Who he sang brilliantly. He sang Mmmmmmm – one of the best Crash Test Dummies songs ever in my opinion, and he did a pretty good job at it. The song suits Bara’s voice I think. I can see that I am writing a lot about the covers, but that is really not because I don’t like his original material. Apart from ”Far and away” he sang his latest ”With or without wings”. He sang ”I know you” about his newborn son, and he sang ”Happy when I leave you”. He has a very good voice, and his skilful strumming accompanies it with a steady beat. Go check him out if you haven’t already done so.

FunkyFreddy Republic

If I can stay up late I go to Haven’s Paradise at 2 pm (11 pm in Denmark) on Tuesdays and listen to FunkyFreddy. He is so cool. His voice reminds me of Neil Young. He has the coolest arrangements with his loop station and maybe some more machinery? - I am not sure. Among other things he can play the music backwards, so it sounds psychedelic, but that is the least of his qualities. He must be one of the best singers and entertainers in Second Life. He sang two covers. Dylan’s: ”Knocking on heavens door” and Buffalo Springfield’s: ”Somethings happening here”, and he totally owned them. My friend Fyrm Fouroux does the same with covers. Makes them his own, and that is really the only way you should use covers I think.
As far as I could tell the rest of his songs were his own material. He is a very wide ranging artist with some really original songs. Some of the songs were accompanied by a slide guitar. He called it his black guitar I think. From his very entertaining talk between songs it is obvious that he has at least two dogs. He sang: ” I think that dog would be better off dead”. Hmm- hard stuff for a dog lover to listen to. Even harder it must be for christian people to listen to his naughty religious jokes about nuns. I don’t mind though, and I loved his ”Christian cowboy” song and the one about the plastic Jesus on the dashboard of his car.