"And frankly, there's nothing so unusual about being a Jewish cowboy." "♪ Cowboy.. ♪" "Est-ce qu'il y a des cowboys ici ce soir?" "♪ La da di, la da di ♪" "♪ La da di di di, di di di ♪" "♪ La da di, la da di ♪" "♪ La da di, di di di di ♪" "♪ La da di, la da di ♪" "♪ La da di, di di di di di ♪" "♪ La da di, la da di ♪" "♪ La da di, di di di di ♪" "♪ Yubba ba ba bi di da da da da da ♪" "♪ At night I look to the stars ♪" "♪ Will they say Kaddish for me?" "♪" "♪ Yubba ba ba bi bi, la da di di da ♪" "♪ At night I ask all the stars ♪" "♪ Yubba ba ba, bi bi, la da di di da ♪" "♪ Will they say Kaddish for me?" "♪" "♪ I'm a cowboy ♪" "Je pense qu'il faut un autre verse de Mademoiselle Katie." "Come on, Katie." "♪ As I ride this road on the journey of my life ♪" "♪ It's a road with no love ♪" "♪ I stop and wonder why ♪" "What do you wonder, Katie?" "♪ But I come to a town ♪" "♪ Lay my saddle down ♪" "♪ Search for some peace ♪" "♪ But it's nowhere to be found ♪ ♪" "Enchanté." "Thank God." "All right, the sound check has begun." "Right on." "♪ At night I look to the stars ♪" "♪ That's when I heard a voice speak to me ♪" "♪ You are never alone ♪" "♪ Yubba ba ba bi bi, la da di di da ♪" "♪ At night I ask all the stars ♪" "♪ Yubba ba ba bi bi, la da di di da... ♪" "The stuff that I got into," "I didn't get into it because I want people to listen to old klezmer music." "I snuck into the world, I hear it, I think," ""Wow, everyone should hear this beautiful melody."" "♪ I'm a cowboy ♪♪" "So it's not political, it's not religious, it's just music." "I guess the politics are that people should get along." "And maybe you'll see people coming together and putting aside differences and bringing out differences and celebrating differences and commonalities between all people and..." "I'm like the fucking..." "I'm like the Mahatma Gandhi of hip-hop, I guess you could say, except I'm not as skinny." "Um, no." "Come on, ask me, a serious question now." "I have to look for samples that are not well known so that I don't get sued." "So, for the album I actually replaced this sample with stuff that I played on the piano, but when I perform it live I just use this sample." "I don't know, I think that's illegal too." "So, I found this sample." "♪ Ai, la da da, da da di di ♪" "♪ Ai, la da da, da da di di ♪" "Which actually was originally this." "Then I sped it up." "And got it into this key." "Then I took this one." "And put it in the same key." "So, originally it was like this..." "But if I sped it up a little, I got it, it goes into F minor." "And miraculously they're at the same speed." "So this one is going..." "Okay, and then you bring in the other dude." "You see what I'm saying?" "So they're both in F minor." "And they go together." "It's absurd." "Why does that happen?" "One comes from like the '30s, from this Vilna singer, and one comes from this funk from the '70s but if you speed them up and slow them down you get them into the same tune and in time." "♪ And listen to the song, and listen to the song ♪" "♪ And listen to the song that they were singin' ♪♪" "Okay, so this kind of shit happens, okay?" "And then eventually I'm going to say "rap!"" "And then this." "It's like..." "Yeah." "♪ Here on this planet there's more greed and corruption ♪" "♪ 'Cause that's an open discussion over percussion ♪" "♪ Songs are rushing' to perform their roles and function ♪" "♪ System treat us like we're the ones that stole somethin' ♪" "♪ Lo and behold, I bring songs to keep the world buzzing' ♪" "♪ You already know the world's cold ♪" "♪ When you're alone, cousin ♪" "♪ They roam in packs, going forth and back ♪" "♪ To foreign places where they absorb and rap ♪" "♪ 'Cause this is no longer your street corner rat ♪" "♪ Nowadays we in the field ♪" "♪ Puttin' in plays like a quarterback ♪" "♪ Now you're online trying to order that ♪" "♪ Speech is so fluid that you oughta call it water rap ♪" "♪ And listen to the song, and listen to the song ♪♪" "Today is Shabbos, yeah." "When does it start?" "When is that?" "Okay, cool." "Can you find out for me?" "You need to know what?" "I need to know when Shabbos is over... begins, because I'd sort of like to sing for the Hasidim, you know what I'm saying?" "A'ight, what time does Shabbos start?" "There we go." "Whatever time sundown is, right?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "I think it's not till 8:30 or something." "Beat the Shabbos rush." "He wants to beat the Shabbos rush." "Hello." "Captain Weinberger, this is your tenant in Apartment 7." "When does Shabbos start today?" "Okay." "Well, I'm playing at 7:30 on Saint Viateur." "If you're bored you should come and hear." "1, 2, 3, 4..." "Ah, oui, sans arrêt." "Good to see you." "Definitely, good to see you too." "I have all these incredible virtuoso musicians that for some reason put their trust into me." "Maybe they see that my heart's in the right place." "I hope it's that." "It's the connection, it connecting with people, making them feel important." "I think everybody in the whole world doesn't have confidence in themselves." "I certainly don't." "As an accordion player I'm not a virtuoso." "As a singer I'm not an opera singer." "I've always been a dilettante." "But that doesn't stop me..." "I think that stops a lot of people, and me it just inspires me to work and practice." "All right, here he is, an artist that is from right here in my land." "It is with great honor that we present him to you." "Socalled... and friends!" "All right, all right." "♪ A ha ha hoi hoi ♪" "Yeah!" "Come on!" "♪ Yubba bi bi, ba ba bom bom bom bom.. ♪" "I hate ghettoized exclusive communities of people that don't share and that are hidden away from other people." "That pisses me off." "But I love culture and I realize that culture sort of develops within those protected environments, you know." "It's a weird contradiction because I love Hasidic music but I mean with all this stuff about Yiddish-Jewish culture," "I still don't care about God and I don't believe in the Bible and I don't, uh..." "I don't, I don't, yeah," "I think it's ridiculous actually." "I hate religion." "It pisses me..." "it makes me angry." "But I realize that this religion is what created this beautiful culture that I love." "♪ Yubba ba bi mi, bom bom bom ♪" "♪ Yubba ba bi mi, bom bom bom ♪" "♪ Ubbi bu bi mi ya bom bom ♪" "♪ Ubba ba mi-i-i ♪" "His compass points to a different north than most people's." "And I think he's a... independent thinker." "You know he really comes to conclusions on his own." "He doesn't like to be told what to do or what to think." "I don't even think people try anymore." "He's a great cook but he doesn't cook enough." "I think that's Josh." "Did I do, "Now it's... "?" "No." "♪ Darkening the sky until sun appears ♪" "♪ Now it's too late ♪" "♪ Now it's too late ♪" "Whenever you're ready, Case, here we go." "This is your... yeah..." "it's all good." "I swear it's fine, Katie, come on, shh..." "Here we go." "♪ Trees and skies ♪" "♪ Sighs and tears ♪" "♪ Can't see if clouds are darkening the sky ♪" "♪ Till sun appears ♪" "♪ Now it's too late ♪" "♪ Now it's too soon ♪" "♪ It's just a sunset ♪" "♪ Just a rainbow ♪" "♪ It's only the moon ♪" "♪ Now, it's too late ♪" "♪ It's too soon ♪" "♪ It's just a sunset, just a rainbow ♪" "♪ It's only the moon ♪" "♪ Hear your voice ♪" "♪ Watch you smile ♪" "♪ I try to say that I don't need you ♪" "♪ Now I'm in denial ♪" "♪ Comes on strong ♪" "♪ Can't refuse ♪" "♪ Afraid to let go, come on, let's go ♪" "♪ Got nothing to lose ♪" "That's nice." "Perfect." "We gotta go, Boops." "♪ Please don't tell me that you told me so ♪" "♪ And I found the bluebird high on the mountainside ♪" "♪ Little bird... ♪" "I just knew her as this fun, cool chick in Montreal." "And then I heard her sing at this bluegrass night and she blew me away." "Just the best voice I've ever heard." "And now she's an indispensable member of my group." "She is the voice of Socalled." "♪ Goodbye, it's the last you'll see of me ♪" "What's so funny?" "Nothing." "Okay" "I feel lucky that I get to travel with someone that I'm such good friends with and spend so much time with him." "Look, it's me, Katie, it's just me." "In a way he's like a kindred spirit to me." "I love him a lot." "Even though he always tells me that I'm weird." "But there's an expression my mom says," ""The pot calling the kettle black,"" "but yeah, he just makes me feel like the world is good in a way." "He makes me feel normal." "♪ And I found a bluebird high on the mountainside ♪" "♪ Little bird would sing its little song ♪" "♪ So I'll sigh, I'll cry ♪" "♪ I'll even want to die ♪" "♪ For the one I love is gone ♪" "♪ Yom tee dee dee doh mi ♪" "♪ Yom tee dee dee doh mi ♪" "♪ Yom tee dee dee doh mi ♪" "♪ I don't know, I don't know ♪" "♪ Where I'll go or what I'll do ♪" "♪ It makes no difference what I do without you ♪" "♪ And I love you, my darling, but I'll try and let you be ♪" "♪ Goodbye, it's the last you'll see of me ♪" "♪ Goodbye, it's the last you'll see of me ♪" "♪ Oh, goodbye, it's the last you'll see of me ♪" "Right on, man." "There's nothing so unusual about being a Jewish cowboy." "♪ Cowboy ♪" "♪ I'm a cowboy ♪" "♪ Ba ba bum bum ♪" "♪ Ba ba bum bum ♪" "♪ On a trail to nowhere, all I have is a horse ♪" "♪ Even he could lead if he broke free of this curse ♪" "♪ All I got's memories, they aren't even mine ♪" "♪ And the dry wind wails till the song has gone away ♪" "♪ At night I look to the stars ♪" "♪ Will they say Kaddish for me?" "♪" "Let's get... it looks better when both his eyes are involved." "We'll put it together a little bit." "It is quite weird isn't it?" "It's kind of..." "we did a good job." "It is pretty ingeniously made." "Come on." "I love this guy." "There is something totally weird about it." ""Dali brought to life" feel to it, you know?" "There's definitely a surrealist thing going on." "I had this dream, I had this image of a guy kind of, being able to open a drawer in his throat." "And like he could just pull out all these metal innards." "And this image stayed with me and I kept thinking how could I photorealistically get this image of a guy opening up his throat?" "I was responsible for this." "CJ did a good job on the head and then all the mechanisms..." "which are falling ap... but that's normal 'cause they do fall apart." "How..." "I have not done this in a while." "♪ And lay my saddle down ♪" "♪ And I search for some peace but it's nowhere to be found ♪" "♪ Ride like a tumbleweed, rollin' free ♪" "♪ At night I look to the stars... ♪" "I don't know, for me there's some kind of metaphor there." "It's the art inside all of us or maybe just inside Josh that cannot be contained despite itself." "'Cause there's this weird sense in the video where it's like he's terrified." "He doesn't want to be doing what he's doing but at the same time he's doing it to himself." "And I like the idea that what's inside isn't quite human but at the same time it kind of projects and for me this represented kind of being almost trapped, almost a prisoner to your own destiny or to your own vocation." "He wrote "un-fucking-believable, serious masterpiece shit"" "is what he wrote to me." "I mean, he might have gone a little overboard there but it was a really nice little message to receive." "♪ Cowboy ♪" "♪ You are never alone ♪" "♪ I'm a cowboy ♪ ♪" "That's the record that started it all." "I was looking for sounds to sample and I would just buy all the crap I could find." "Whatever in the garbage, in Salvation Armies, in people's basements, in garage sales kind of stuff and then I found this record." "It was full of little sounds to sample, like..." "Here." "Okay, so just, you just need that one thing to happen one time, you can loop that incessantly, maybe find a second ending somewhere else, with some salsa piano and reggae and funk and beats from the Baltic region" "and Chinese music and whatever." "Then you chop it up and get it to match." "And then magically somehow you find things that go together and that's the miracle of this type of music making." "Check it out, check it out." "I mean at first it was just cool, it was full of interesting sounds but then I realized, "Oh wow, I should represent myself, who I am, in this music making."" "I could start to like reference my own culture even though it wasn't my own culture at all." "I didn't grow up with Yiddish at all but like I heard this guy, I thought, "Wow, nobody's..." "Like, who has ever heard of Arron Lebedeff?"" "And they can't sue me because they're like long gone." "Don't tell anybody that I sampled that." "♪ Ba ba ba, bom bom bom ♪" "♪ Ba ba ba, bom bom bom... ♪" "I think the first time I found my own... like a real reason to make music." "It was like a calling." "What time is your flight tomorrow?" "11:40." "Did you ever see my video where my head comes apart?" "No." "No, you didn't?" "I don't think so." "Oh, you should check it out." "It's on your website?" "Yeah, and it's on YouTube." "It's been seen by like two million people." "Really?" "You're really young, aren't you?" "I'm 32." "That's young." "Is that young?" "Yeah." "When I was 32." "Yeah, were you playing with James Brown?" "Yeah." "And moved on." "I didn't know I was his hero but I guess so, you know, because he definitely has a knowledge of my music and all funky music." "Every time I mention something he knows exactly what I'm talking about." "I'm finding out more and more things about him as I know him longer but when I first saw him I thought he was some kid that came in the studio to help clean up, you know?" "So, here he is, he's a total legend." "He's the funkiest human being on the planet and he wants to work with me." "So, I can basically die." "Yo, how you doing?" "Bro." "Did you put the piano on the contract?" "Awesome." "Like any time will be good." "Okay, cool, thanks." "Hoo... you want to see if this machine makes some noise?" "This is it." "Garry Beitel, this is show business, right?" "Excitement." "Drugs, sex, violence." "No, it's more just like waiting around, being very tired, hunger, sexual frustration." "That's show business to me." "Where's the leg?" "We got it." "It feels actually like I've gone full circle in a way because the funk got me to the hip-hop." "The hip-hop got me to klezmer." "I like found myself and then from there" "I found like this klezmer hip-hop stuff." "And now I just started doing work with Fred Wesley." "He's my absolute hero." "He's the reason I got into music and so it feels like I had to go through this weird process to get back to what I love, which is funk music, but now I come to it with something to offer, you know?" "It's awesome." "Whoo, and we do one of his tunes." "We'll do one of his tunes tonight: "House Party."" "Everybody want to have a house party?" "Well, I want you to help me sing." "Everybody gotta sing." "Including you, lady, everybody, everybody." "When I give you this I want everybody to sing:" "♪ Gonna have a house party ♪" "So I've always loved his music and his arranging style and the funk stuff that he developed." "It's like this distilled soloing style." "And nobody can do it and he invented it basically." "♪ Gonna have a house party ♪" "♪ Bring your own bottle ♪" "♪ Or whatever turns you on ♪" "♪ You can bring your old lady ♪" "♪ Or your other number one ♪" "♪ I got all the latest jams and a great big place to dance ♪" "♪ I got all the latest jams and a great big place to dance ♪" "Come on!" "♪ It might disturb the neighbors but I'll take that chance ♪" "♪ We're gonna have a house party ♪" "♪ We're gonna have a house party... ♪" "Sort of the same people that would be doing rap now would've been doing funk but they don't use the instruments anymore." "So, it was like the last gasp of real black music with instruments, in a way and popular music and not highfalutin' and not high culture." "It's like pure party music." "So he's at the heart of that." "Everybody, come on." "♪ We gonna have a house party ♪ ♪" "Yes?" "No, I don't talk." "I don't talk, I don't talk." "You explain what I'm doing." "Yeah!" "Hope this works." "You know what I'm going to do?" "I'm going to pass these coins from the left hand through the table so they all end up in the right hand here." "See, I have three coins in my left." "How many am I supposed to have in my right?" "You're right, three coins and the English penny." "Satisfied?" "Okay." "How many here and how many here?" "Have you ever seen a miracle before?" "Well, you will now." "No... no..." "All right." "This is a trick by Slydini and he wants you to memorize exactly what he said and it's true 'cause there's stuff that happens for all of the words." "There's little subtle moves that happen and the misdirection's in the words." "So I gotta memorize exactly what the script is." "And these tricks, like they take a second to perform but it take months to learn it." "Part of my family mythology is that my grandfather did magic too." "And he did." "Um, is this his penny?" "This is his penny and dime." "So these were his, basically you put the dime and the penny, or actually it's the 12-cent trick." "How many, how many cents in my hand?" "Two." "It's not really much of a trick." "No, 12 cents." "But you're right actually, it's just two cents." "I guess it was my first real job." "Then I got into drug dealing..." "that was more lucrative." "I guess the two coincided for a certain point too in high school." "That's how I brought all my gear, you know, was from drug-dealing money." "Uh..." "This one's nice." "Yellow, green and red." "1, 2, 3." "The trick is not really the trick." "The trick is all the little bits that you don't see." "♪ Jew funk, Jew funk ♪" "Throw out the rock and roll shit and listen up, punk." "It's a brand new fuckin' flavor of the kosher funk." "It's the beat that makes you move from your head down to your toeses." "Carving rhymes up like the tablets brought down by Moses." "The Jew funk rules your pelvis like an ardent duty." "It's a state of mind." "A more challathic way to shake your booty." "You can try to fight it but you'll never be successful, sucker." "Baruch atah adonai, motherfucker." "And that's a little something." "♪ I'm jealous of the birdies in the tree... ♪" "I like this." "It's a poem." ""I scan your identity." ""I sample your personality." ""I remix your face." ""I download your dick." ""I upload your hormones." ""I plug into your USB." ""I branch out on your bandwidth." "Wi-Fi?" "Yes."" "It's just the idea that's bubbled up and now in a way it's sort of like sperm." "It fertilized the egg and then all the other sperm dies." "So, that's sort of like an idea, I guess." "Here is a wonderful little contract." ""I will leave Josh Dolgin all my Dolly Parton records when I die."" "From Katie Moore." "And it was even witnessed." ""The relief of finding a hair in my airplane meal" ""because it meant that actually there was some human involvement in its creation."" ""Chicken came first, the which or the who?"" "I sort of do this stuff not thinking anybody will ever see it but I do it all thinking about my audience, you know what I mean?" "And about a legacy or something but I'm also thinking about saying exactly what I feel." "I think these are sort of the rawest expression of my creativity, 'cause I don't edit them." "I don't try to do a good copy." "They're just these crappy little doodles." "And they're smudgy." "I should probably remember that and apply it to my music." "I just grabbed a wad from Chamber 36." "So, when I was a kid" "I used to draw comics for the Ottawa Citizen." "There was like a teen page." "Chicken, Freud, rice." "I did this whole series of jazz legends of the animal kingdom." "So Charlie Porker and Thelonious Mink." "I think it was probably like grade 11 or so." "But like half the time that we've been here there's been somebody sleeping in my bed but you don't ever get to see him." "Why?" "'Cause I guess he's shy." "But he's so fucking cute." "I have pictures of him that I'm not allowed to show anybody." "I got this coin here, okay." "I'm going to put it right over there." "You see it disappears." "It's actually right here, right." "Then I can put that over there." "It's gone, right?" "I don't know." "So for me to be on the spot, the center of attention is not where I like to be." "Even though I'm a performer." "Even though I'm a public figure even." "I like to secretly make things happen." "I'm a facilitator." "I think I'm more of a behind-the-camera kind of guy." "Which reminds me, could we make a little film?" "Would you mind?" "I'd love to." "How you doing?" "Hi." "All right." "Nice to meet you." "Good to meet you." "Are you Mr. Norman?" "Yes, nice to see you." "Nice to see you." "I hear so many good things about you." "You're a great musician." "I hope I can live up to it." "Come into the studio..." "All right." "Thank you... perfect." "Steady, please." "Try a little bit smiley, steady, steady." "Thank you." "Sounds like harmony." "I've been a part of all these Yiddish and Jewish music festivals around the world and I thought, "Wow, we gotta do one of these things back in the place where it came from."" "And like bring the culture back a little bit." "There's all these tours that happen, sort of like Holocaust tourism that happens and like sort of some Zionist kind of weird propaganda tours that happen, that start in Poland, and get kids really sad about Poland" "and then bring them to Israel where they can be happy and it's like, it's not... it doesn't seem like a productive thing." "It doesn't seem like it brings people together." "I thought, "Is there a way to share the culture, bring it back?"" "Maybe show people what they missed and what was lost but in a positive sort of way." "A way to get people dancing with each other, and singing and making music." "So, my parents and I organized an 11-day cruise from Kiev to Odessa and I hired some of my favorite klezmer musicians in the world, including the great virtuoso clarinetist from New York," "David Krakauer." "It's my grandfather's river." "This is where my people came from." "Everybody should go back to where they're from." "In our society, the ages are segregated, so this is a nice opportunity to hang out with and gain from the experience of people from other times." "My grandfather, who was born here, died when I was pretty young." "So I didn't grow up with that older generation but I always get a kick out of older people." "I guess I first met him in St. Petersburg when he sang "Doina"" "and I started to cry and it was the first time I've cried in years." "And then I found out he lived in that town that my grandfather was from." "He could be like sort of the heart and soul of the cruise and I was right." "What would my grandfather think actually?" "He'd probably think it was insane to go back there." "They probably left under not the finest of conditions." "I mean, yeah, they got out a little earlier than too late." "My grandparents were here." "Yeah." "And that's where they're buried." "This is Kaddish..." "you say this ancient prayer." "I don't know what I'm saying but when you're with a hundred other people saying it, bearing witness, that was beautiful." "Yeah." "And evil is not tied to a place." "Genocides happen everywhere." "So, here we are in this place where the worst genocide in maybe the world's history happened and it's this ravine." "How should I feel?" "Should I pity myself for the opportunities that were lost because so many people were killed?" "Should I be mad..." "what should we do?" "I don't know." "♪ Dum dum ♪ ♪" "♪ So sing and sway ♪" "♪ Don't you put it off until tomorrow ♪" "♪ Be happy, gay ♪" "♪ Tomorrow never comes, so live today ♪" "♪ Wave your English muffins like you do care ♪" "♪ Don't get upset if it's baguette ♪" "♪ Or rye that you eat-uh ♪" "♪ Everybody breaking' up those crackers, Wonder Bread or pita ♪" "♪ Snap bagels, holla back, flip young buns... ♪" "What...?" "♪ Everyone breaking up the challah, Wonder Bread or pita ♪" "♪ It don't matter who you shake in bed ♪" "♪ Eat cake instead ♪" "♪ As long as you can say you're breaking bread ♪" "Uh, to 96th and Riverside first off and then we'll stop at the Apollo." "Okay, sure." "We're gonna play there tonight." "Oh, that's beautiful." "It's like one of the big landmarks of New York, you can say." "Apollo Theater, now everybody associate Apollo Theater with just James Brown but no, this goes way back, way back to the days of the Cotton Club, you know, jazz... you can't have jazz without Apollo." "That's why it's Harlem World." "People call it Harlem, it's really Harlem World." "'Cause it's the world of Harlem." "See, right, right, right?" "We get people here from all over the world but we all enjoy the same thing and that's music, baby." "And then the climax, the big orgasm is tomorrow night at 8:00." "David Krakauer, Fred Wesley and Socalled." "Oh, I need a cigarette, baby." "The bread, the bread." "Come on!" "♪ Breaking bread with my mama, breaking with my mama ♪" "♪ Breaking bread ♪" "♪ Breaking bread with my mama, breaking bread with my mama ♪" "♪ Breaking bread ♪" "Watch me now!" "I had never heard klezmer music, to tell the truth but I never thought of it anything other than funk going with funk, and this music worked real good with klezmer." "So, Josh played some beats for us, you know, that he had done on some klezmer music and it was very enlightening, you know." "So, I'm learning and Josh is the one doing the educating because he has a handle on the funk and the klezmer." "So, it works real good together." "All right, and then back to me." "Fantastic." "It's the soul of your culture, it's the soul of African-American culture and you're talking about hip-hop, which is all over the world right now." "Right." "So you infuse all those elements, man." "I mean, you can't go wrong." "♪ Melodies, rhythms making every granny beat feet ♪" "♪ My rhymes go boom boom, the crowd goes ♪" "♪ What's the melody to get them on their feet?" "♪" "♪ When you transistor, make sure you're catching the beat ♪" "♪ Speaking of beat, don't struggle too deep ♪" "♪ There's a lot of things going on in the street ♪" "♪ If you should ♪" "♪ Keep the boggle and the stress and the huddling ♪" "♪ 'Cause nighttime callin' and people be buggin' and ♪" "♪ In the motion, you follow the beat ♪" "♪ God is your shepherd, don't go with the sheep-sheep ♪" "♪ We're bringing rhythms from the street, get off your seat ♪" "♪ Grab your peep, come on and touch me in the tweet-tweet ♪" "♪ Bubble in the street ♪" "♪ If you're hustling heat just following the beat, come on ♪" "Just take it right off." "Just take it off the hanger and put it on." "The three of us are coming from this place that we're not about cutting and pasting some funk on top of a klezmer tune." "I think we're really about trying to find our way in." "And... action!" "Sex... is really interesting when it's controlled." "I think we feel the heat between two people." "This is about Toby Ross, who made films in the '70s." "How should I talk about you?" "He was the first of his kind." "There wasn't a lot of gay porn being made." "I'm much more interested in films that have to do with lust than love." "This is pretty meta, isn't it?" "Look, you're a filmmaker filming me making a film about a filmmaker." "So I went down to Chicago, just filmed him." "Hello, I'm Toby." "I'm Josh." "I'm not that interested in porn actually but it's just this one fellow and typical me, I get obsessed about some master who's been forgotten usually." "The models." "They looked more like the boys that I was having sex with." "People in their '20s." "Normal bodies." "It doesn't look like, just like pounding, you know what I mean?" "It's more like erotica, I guess." "But not really, 'cause it's like sex." "They're having sex." "Do you get..." "I mean, it's a stupid question but do you get horny when you're making these movies?" "When you're shooting these?" "It's ridiculous." "What have I done?" "I mean, my dad would be embarrassed that I'm doing this." "Sex is weird." "Uh..." "You didn't, you didn't grow up with Toby Ross." "Not at all, no." "What did you grow up with?" "You mean gay porn-wise?" "Yeah." "I grew up with two magazines that I'd shoplifted when I was about 14 on a school trip to New York City." "I grew up in the country." "So there were no stores to buy it." "It was before the Internet, you couldn't see porn." "I mean, where... now, man, kids can see a lot of stuff but I couldn't." "So I shoplifted these mag... also I was ashamed and I was in the closet." "And I didn't want people really to know, like..." "So, I mean, even if you're straight you have a bit more access to porn." "I remember I stole a Playboy from an uncle once 'cause there was like guys in it too." "So, like I survived basically on three magazines for my whole adolescence." "So, I'm doing a night on October 3rd." "Part of this pop music festival in Montreal at Cinema L'amour, at the porn theater." "We're going to show the documentary and then one of his films with a live soundtrack." "This is a one-shot, just like special event." "♪ Over the mountain ♪" "♪ Close to sea ♪" "♪ There's a girl ♪" "♪ She waits for me... ♪" "Hopefully it's gonna work." "We got the print yesterday to the film." "It's so weird." "Who's gonna come tonight?" "I don't know." "I think a combo, a combination of hipsters and perverts." "This is awesome though, it's beautiful." "Can you see that shit?" "Holy Christ." "Yes?" "Yes, yes..." "God." "But I've seen some with real sex in 'em once." "♪ Searching ♪" "♪ I'm always searching ♪" "♪ Hoping ♪" "♪ One day I'll find ♪" "♪ Someone ♪" "♪ Someone to love me ♪" "♪ Someone who needs me ♪" "♪ But I'll still sing ♪ ♪" "Thanks a lot, good night." "I hope that gave you some good ideas." "Come again next year." "This is hard." "This is the hardest part of the whole day, putting on the cufflinks." "It's not me." "It's not my style." "Even the whole show like, like it's not, it's a different thing." "I think it's rid..." "I mean, maybe if you're playing at the Olympia, then you put on a special shirt." "♪ Working together ♪" "♪ Oh, oh, living together ♪" "♪ Oh, oh, dying together ♪" "♪ Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh ♪" "♪ Oh oh, oh oh, working together ♪" "♪ Oh oh, oh oh, living together ♪" "♪ Oh oh, oh oh, dying together ♪" "♪ Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh ♪" "♪ I use magic, got magic ♪" "♪ I don't solve a problem without it ♪" "♪ You wanna lock it in the closet ♪" "♪ Well, keep an open mind ♪" "♪ 'Cause I can see what's in line ♪" "♪ There just ain't anybody like me ♪" "♪ Why can't everybody like me?" "♪" "♪ Why can't everybody like me?" "♪" "♪ Do what you can to fight the blues ♪" "♪ Do what you can to fight the blues, ba da ♪" "♪ You snooze, you lose ♪" "♪ Do what you can to fight the blues ♪" "♪ Do what you can to fight the blues, ba da ♪" "Hot dog!" "It's The Together Ensemble!" "Can I get an apology for the costumes we have to wear in your band too while we're at it?" "Just while the cameras are rolling?" "No." "No?" "I stand by that choice, that we're The Together Ensemble." "We're supposed to be together, we're a team and..." "I found out two nights ago that he hates dress code." "When he goes and sees a band with dress code he sneers." "No, no, not when I see one." "I just wouldn't want to be in one." "Well, I asked him, I said so, when Socalled goes on stage, when the Socalled group goes on stage, when Socall-ed goes on stage... they call him Socall-ed here in France..." "Just anything goes, whatever." "Like you would wear that on stage." "To me that is just like, it's like denial." "Denial of the profession you're in." "Hmm." "You think it's anti-showmanship, you think you're making a statement?" "It's a choice." "You can't not make a choice." "Even that is a choice." "So don't pretend you're not making a choice." "What is it saying?" "What is it saying?" "That I don't care." "That I'm just a normal guy." "Okay, so do you think that's a good attitude to give, like "I don't care."" "So if you don't care about that, what's to say you don't care about the music?" "Maybe you don't care about pleasing the public." "No, but they figure that like they can just relax by seeing, "Oh look, he doesn't care about what he's wearing." "All he cares about is the music and the show."" "Because people are so used to people coming out with suits." "Who?" "People wear suits." "Who wears suits?" "Everyone wears a suit." "Who wears a suit?" "David Krakauer wears a suit." "Fred Wesley wears a suit." "Like, adults wear suits, don't they?" "Jazz musicians wear suits." "Okay." "Rock musicians wear like fancy weird stylish things." "British people wear ridiculous shit." "♪ When I grow up I just want, want to be a kid again ♪" "Come on!" "♪ When I grow up I just want ♪" "♪ Want to be a kid again ♪" "♪ Doesn't matter who you shake in bed ♪" "♪ Eat cake instead ♪" "♪ As long as you consent to breaking' bread ♪" "♪ Listen to Fred ♪" "♪ So many trees fallin' and no one's in the forest ♪" "♪ Ha ha ha, I only laugh from being irate ♪" "♪ So everybody throw your hands in the air ♪" "♪ And wave your English muffin like you do care ♪" "♪ Don't get upset if it's baguette or rye that ya eat-a ♪" "♪ Everybody breaking up the crackers ♪" "♪ Want to bring the pita ♪" "♪ Snap bagels, holla back, and flip buns, fuck guns ♪" "♪ We gotta start spreading the crumbs ♪" "♪ Spread the crumbs, yo ♪" "♪ When I grow up I just want ♪" "♪ Want to be a kid again ♪" "Come on!" "♪ When I grow up, I just want ♪" "♪ Want to be a kid again ♪" "I think you are... now we are ready for a new song." "What ideas do you have for this?" "I don't know, like, it's more like I'm a tailor and like you are gonna bring me your suit and I'm gonna make it fit." "Yeah, you did a really weird, balletic kind of thing there, your fingers crossed even." "Yeah, that one." "This tune is so great." "Huh?" "Can you hear anything in that?" "Oh, my God." "I'm stretching ya." "Yeah, you're stretching me." "No, it's incredible." "But I just mean like, I just have to find a way to exist." "Could it be a pop song?" "Yeah." "Yeah, 'cause I can't compete with The Carter, man." "Nobody can, he was 92 years old when he wrote this." "When you're 92, you'll be able to do that." "Yeah." "This is the tune that it's all based on, okay?" "That's the tune." "Great, isn't it?" "Okay... yeah." "Isn't that great?" "That's a great little tune." "You see why I need a hit." "Yeah... do it again." "It's all based on that." "Okay, so you want to let this..." "Percolate." "Percolate." "Then I'm gonna start fuckin' around." "I have to... do you justice." "Even in the wildest outburst of orchestral excitement there has to be discipline and organization." "This is lesson one." "Here are the sounds of the four strings of the cello." "The A... and the lowest string on your cello, the C." "Now, now we are ready for a new song." "The m-, the m..., the more melody." "Finally something, final-final-finally something soft and ethereal." "You'll figure it out." "Oh, my God." "Starts easy but then it goes to hell." "Let's just start laying it down." "Like that, like rock-and-roll style?" "Yeah, that's totally... yeah, total rock-and-roll style, that's awesome." "That's serious disco shit right there." "Sure." "Yeah." "Why don't we add it in after?" "Do this twice." "So, just to hear the count-in." "And the lowest string on your cello." "2, ready, uh, 1." "Okay, that's your 1." "And the lowest string on the cello, the C." "You don't want that D there, right, on the down...?" "Right, exactly." "Yup, take 6." "All right, awesome." "Oh, I forgot the note." "Yeah." "And even tie it like..." "♪ bah... ♪" "Yeah, yeah." "You want that?" "Yeah." "Okay." "Okay, and so now..." "can you conduct me again?" "I will conduct the hell out of you." "Okay." "Irving Fields, he signed this one." ""To my good friend Josh Dolgin, who is very helpful to my career and is a very talented person."" "Irving Fields." "I found one of his records "Bagels and Bongos"" "and then someone told me he was alive." "And so I just, I looked him up in the musician's union phonebook in New York City and he was there." "I just wanted to interview him, 'cause he's been, completely been forgotten." "Do you know how old he is?" "I don't know." "He's 94." "94..." "God bless." "How about you, how old are you?" "Oh no, I'm 72." "72, really?" "I think we should have the same shirt on." "Very good." "Hey, look at that." "So, could you take your jacket off?" "Yeah, of course." "No, no." "Yeah, yeah, because we have the same shirt, so it's funny." "Oh, okay, okay." "Steady please, steady, good, steady, smiling, steady, steady, steady." "Thank you... good." "♪ Scratch it round and round and round ♪" "♪ Oh, ho ho ho, do it, do it lightly but so politely ♪" "♪ Scratch it ♪" "Aah... ♪ Oh, I've lost my frown ♪" "♪ Hey, hey, baby ♪" "♪ Feel so woozy ♪" "♪ Ho ho, baby ♪" "♪ Got me groovy... ♪" "This was me when I was your age." "Wow." "What's your most recent hit?" "Well, my most recent hit is this song that I wrote for the YouTube and you started it all." "Uh-huh." "You started the whole thing." "What happened?" "Well, my friend, Josh Dolgin, he says to me, "Write a song about YouTube."" "I said, "What's YouTube?"" ""What, like the letter U and T-O-O?"" ""No, YouTube, Y-o-u-T-u-b-e."" ""What's that?"" ""I don't have a computer, what's going on?"" "He says "Well, on the computer, it's the biggest thing because it's for people all over the world."" "And 20 minutes later after you hung up I wrote the song." "You came in with a camera." "So, that's, that's awesome by the way." "YouTube, you mean as..." "Like a little tag." "A tag?" "Yeah." "YouTu... well, let me think." "YouTube, YouTube." "We..." "Yeah." "YouTube, me tube." "He tube, she tube." "Yeah, that's a good idea." "You tube, me tube, he tube..." "The whole world's looking at YouTube." "YouTube, me tube, he tube, she tube." "Christian, Muslim, Jew tube." "I don't want to get into..." "You don't want to get political." "Okay, here it is." "♪ You find the whole world for what you're looking for ♪" "♪ It's a blessing for mankind, that's for sure ♪" "♪ Everything and anything is on the YouTube ♪" "♪ And it's easy as a piece of pie ♪" "That's right." "♪ Just press the button on the YouTube ♪" "♪ It'll tell you where, when and why ♪" "Everybody go..." "♪ You find the whole world for what you're lookin' for ♪" "♪ It's a blessing for mankind, that's for sure ♪" "♪ The YouTube's got the world in your eyes ♪" "♪ It's a wonder of the world today ♪" "It's true." "♪ It should win all..." "the all-time Pulitzer Prize ♪" "♪ It should have... ♪" "Oh, wait a second I got stuck there." "I gotta do it over again." "Okay." "See, that's what we did." "See, we stopped, what we did originally I screwed up." "Yeah." "But then I corrected it." "That's cool." "So we're doing it again." "That's okay." "You don't mind?" "That's fine." "♪ How many miles to the heart of the sun?" "♪" "♪ Thousands of miles, thousands of miles ♪" "♪ Oh, they're off of the rails where the roadways run ♪" "♪ Over tens of thousands, thousands of miles ♪" "♪ The lines on the path stretch farther ♪" "♪ To the streets and the days... ♪" "This is great peanut brittle." "Hi, this is peanut brittle." "This is peanut brittle." "Mmm, what's this on the ground?" "Looks like peanut brittle." "Ah." "He was, I don't know, friendly and cheerful is what he was." "We used to call him the cheerer-upper because the other two would be fighting and he would come along and he would just make everybody smile and be happy." "He really had that skill, I must say." "Would you say so?" "Yeah... yeah, yeah." "You're talking at what age?" "Oh, two, or year and a half." "Oh yeah, they would dress him up or he would dress himself up." "And he, he was always wearing costumes." "He was always wanting to, I guess, entertain." "I don't know, but just to make people happy." "This is the Dolgin house." "This is my bedroom." "This is where I grew up." "I don't know, I guess it is kind of weird to be able to come back to your childhood room." "I miss Fuzzface." "Fuzzface never moved to Montreal with me for some reason." "Um... here's my diary." "This was definitely the first one." ""The great Joshua Dolgin." ""Yahoo, it's January 1st, it's 1986." ""But Jeremy says, 'Who cares?" ""'Does anything different happen?" "No." ""'Abso-Smurfly nothing.'" ""I said I was happy anyway." ""I woke up feeling bright as a fresh light bulb today" ""as I went downstairs, ate a cracker," ""got my snow pants, jacket and cross country ski boots on" ""and then went out into the world." ""Macaroni is good, teddies are nice." ""Gym is fun." "Baruch atah adonai, Merry Christmas, good night."" "Then eventually he did sort of move out." "And the place remained the same, you know?" "And of course then he would continue to accumulate and leave it here." "And he doesn't have a lot of room in his house so I can't really say, "Look, take this and put it in your bedroom or in your basement."" "He doesn't have a basement and he has no room there." "So, it stays there." "This I need." "At a certain point," "I just started collecting things from my house, just different parts of the house that were sort of getting lost in the shuffle." "And started like keeping the cool stuff in this thing." "Actually, so... this is from my grandfather's company." "TK's is the name of the company." "I just want to show you this." "Oh, this is the only thing I wanted from my grandmother after she died was this." "This is the pan that she made her chocolate squares in." "This is the coolest thing." "I was really into Salvador Dali." "A book signing in New York City." "This is a really cool prayer book from a long time ago." "From Germany... from Prague." "1874." "It's from my mother's family." "I'll make it disappear." "This is my dad's passport." "Oh, here's matches from their wedding." "This is his 16-millimeter camera, my grandfather." "Just little glimpses of that." "Isn't that awesome?" "Sounds pretty solid." "They're built to last." "Look at that thing." "♪ Over thousands, thousands of miles ♪" "How could you see how the history of the world has been and not want to be a part of that?" "And not want to, like how can you see Houdini and Orson Welles and Irving Fields and James Brown and Tom Waits and Michelangelo and Om Kalsoum..." "How can you see all this stuff that humans have done with their time and brains and not want to at least give it a try?" "'Cause there's only one shot of like being a part of the world." "C'est Michael Winograd a la clarinette." "Monsieur Allen Wa-wa-Watsky." "C'etait Mademoiselle Katie Moore." "Et de la basse, Monsieur Fred Liebert!" "Okay, alors..." "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "Et vous faites... ♪ La la la, la la ♪" "Merci, Dailymotion." "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ La la la la la, la la la la ♪" "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ La la la la, la la la la ♪" "♪ My God's gonna kick your God's ass ♪" "♪ You're too dumb and I'm the head of the class ♪" "♪ Stop waiting around for something better ♪" "♪ The boys think it's better, the tighter the sweater ♪" "♪ Take the sweaters, don't sweat it ♪" "♪ You can own it all, just pay on credit ♪" "♪ Two to the left then 4 to the right ♪" "♪ You've got to fight for your right to fight, uh!" "♪" "♪ Forever never better than late ♪" "♪ Sharpen up blades to obfuscate ♪" "♪ You can own it all right now, why wait?" "♪" "♪ Eat what's on your plate then eat the plate ♪" "♪ Say what you can while you're still allowed to ♪" "♪ Every silver lining's got its cloud too ♪" "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ La la la la, la la la la ♪" "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ Ia la la la ♪ 1, 2, 1, 2, ready!" "♪ These are the good old days!" "♪" "Oh oh oh... oh oh oh..." "oh yeah!" "Oh yeah, oh yeah!" "These are the good old days, my friend." "It's only going to get worse." "So go ahead and do it now." "Be nice to each other." "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ La la la, la la la la la ♪" "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ La la la, la la la la la ♪" "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ La la la, la la la la ♪" "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ La la la, la la la la ♪" "♪ These are the good old days ♪" "♪ La la la, la la la la ♪"