Between Band Music

I went to see The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion recently, or is it just the Blues Explosion these days? I forget.

Now this isn't a review of gig ( average - I wasn't in the mood for their greatest hits, one verse once chorus, move straight onto the next 'song' set and left before they finished), no ... this is just some musing.

In the gap (close to an hour - too long) between the support band finishing and Jon Spencer, Judah Bauer and Russell Simins deciding to take to the stage the venue, as you'd expect, played some music. As an aside, does this music have a name? I know that the some bands have their own intro music, but how long that extends, I'm not sure.

Generally the music seems to fit in with the general genre of music that the live bands are playing, although in the past I have heard some that don't fit at all. I wonder if venues have a pre-set 'mix' or playlist for broad genre's - I expect some do.

The venue, or most probably promoter, tonight must have had a DJ somewhere - considering the length of the time between the bands. And, on the whole, as you'd expect, the tracks that he played fitted in pretty well with the atmosphere of the night.

This post is about one song that cropped up in particular. As it started my girlfriend became very animated and, leaned over to me (I leaned down - she is a lot shorter than me) and said 'I know all the words to this!'
She then sang along. In Hindi (I think), which isn't that surprising as she's Indian. What was surprising is that fact that the music is from a Bollywood film from what looks like the 1950s (I can't be bothered to look it up) and that it fitted perfectly.

Thinking about it, the DJ probably found it from a recent bank ad (where a washing machine salesman goes to India to find his machines being used to make lassi). Nevertheless making the mental leap from a 20 second clip of music on an add, to tracking it down, to playing it at a garage rock night is impressive.

And I just worked out what this post is about : my admiration of a DJ.

Here's the track (it's worth watching, as it's bonkers):