would not should good

AT SOME POINT LAST YEAR, I listened to a Baby Elephant’s song featuring David Byrne, “How Does the Brain Wave?. Through that song I discovered there was a documentary about Bernie Worrell, one of the members of Baby Elephant and former member of Parliament-Funkadelic and the Talking Heads. I put the movie on my Netflix list and kind of forgot about it.

We got the Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth DVD from Netflix this week and Patty and I watched it last night. The documentary provides a lot of face time for the friends of Bernie, Bootsie Collins, George Clinton, David Byrne among others, as well as his music, but not much of Bernie himself. You do get to see and understand how Bernie is the master of synthesizer and keyboard, as he plays the keyboard like a man possessed at times, slapping and hammering the keys like a drummer or delicately tinkling out a tune. In the bonus section, the film crew spent some time filming Bernie in the studio for his improvisational album, Improvisczario, where you get to see him orchestrating a group of messages to make some fun and funky music. All in all, the movie made me want to go buy some more of his music and listen to old Talking Heads albums.