A Mighty Wind Page #4

and you will have a ball."

They used to go out, come back, they had

a great time. Except a couple of cruises...

...dysentery broke out on the ship.

I was not there.

You do not want to be on a cruise ship

when dysentery breaks out...

...and knock on the men's room door,

"Will you be coming out soon?"...

...and hear, "I don't think so!"

I'm so glad to be here.

I love the network.

I love what you do here.

I watch it constantly.

That's what I wanted to start by saying.

I think you're doing a fabulous job.

And I'm very, very happy

to be here talking with you.

It's a perfect fit.

Our demographics are skewing older...

...and that can be a minus

with corporate underwriters.

In this case, it's a plus because

of the built-in fans for The Folksmen...

...all the groups

that your dad represented.

And, you know, I think it's gonna

do very well in the evening hours...

...which is when we'd propose

to do this concert.

If you don't mind me saying, our audience

for some of these groups is getting younger.

Not radically younger.

Which I hope is all right.

If we can get two dozen young people

watching in the evening hours...

...I think people here would be happy

because we don't have much of that now.

This is great and I want to tell you...

...if you're not weary of hearing stories about

your dad, I want to tell you a little story.

A young kid by the name of Lars Olfen,

in 1966, going to a concert.

I'm 16 years old and it was raining.

And I got right up to the box office

and like some kind of practical joke...

...the door slammed shut.

Sold out, right when I got there.

My young tears mixed with the rain,

I'm walking away and I hear a voice.

"Hey, kid, over here."

And I go, "What, a scalper?

Who is this guy? I can't afford

that kind of money for a ticket."

But he looks kind of familiar

and I go over there.

He hands me two tickets,

doesn't want a dollar.

It's your father. Why would he do that?

That was Dad, you know.

He was just out there, with people.

And he was generous, he was kind and

really that's why we're doing this thing...

...to pay back this much back

to his memory.

The naches I'm feeling right now.

Your dad was like mishpoche to me.

When I heard I got these tickets to

The Folksmen, I let out a geshreeyeh...

...and I'm running with

my friend like a vilde chaye...

...right into the theater,

in the front row.

We've got the schpilkes

because we're sitting right there.

It's a mitzvah what your dad did,

and I want to try to give that back to you.

Okeinhoreh, I say, and God bless him.

Where did I go up? I remember hitting a...

We shared a song

I think it might be on "the ravens,"

on "the ravens."

"We shared."

I think you might stay below me on--

Stay on:
We shared

Wandered

Wandered through each other's secrets

We traded

We traded

You're right! Mitch, you're right!

Oh, I forgot that.

We traded an honored worth

That's it, nice and crisp!

That's very nice.

Walking down to Main Street

Everybody's gonna sing

There you go.

What are you singing there?

You got the root on "sing"?

You singing the root?

No, I was singing:

Everybody's gonna sing

Didn't I give you a sixth?

-I don't think so.

-Tony, I give him a sixth?

I think you were singing the sixth.

-Can you sing me a sixth?

-Could you sing a sixth?

-Everybody gonna sing

-Everybody gonna sing

-Yeah, I can sing that. Sure.

-Let's try it again. One, two, three.

What? Yeah?

-Go ahead.

-You have a problem in the bridge?

No, I was gonna--

Can I switch?

Can I change out of my costume?

Costume? Are you hot?

Yeah. But also, I mean...

...I've been wearing it for a month.

You know the policy.

We all gotta wear the uniform

until we're ready to take it off.

You're close, I just don't think

you're quite there yet.

You did not sing that sixth,

and I want to see you sing that sixth.

You just wear what you have on.

You sound fine.

Eventually you'll be able to wear

your civvies when you're singing.

Jonathan? Hi.

Well, I got good news and better news.

Good news is, we're still doing the concert.

The better news is, we are going live.

Yeah.

I got a friend, at NO AA, so we're going up

in the Nimbus 7 Oceanographic Satellite.

He's got some bandwidth there,

and it's live!

Yeah, the corporate underwriters

wouldn't go for it, so...

I'm excited too!

Okay. Okay.

Shalom.

Folk music is in my blood.

As a young boy, in Sweden-- I was born

there and came here at an early age...

...but we'd go back to Sweden every

year, my family and I, in the winter...

...which was a flip from the normal thing.

Every Olfen kid, Lars, Sven, Pippi

and Liv, was trained on the dulcimer.

When you could hold a rattle, you'd

hold a dulcimer. And we learned to play.

I had a garage band in Stockholm,

which was a challenge in its own right...

...to keep an instrument tuned

with that temperature swing.

There's a block warmer

for the Volvo in the garage...

...but it's cold in there in the winter.

So we played and I had a hit

that you might have heard of.

Which means, "How's It Hanging, Grandma?"

and it was big on the Swedish charts.

I got in touch with the American music.

I loved that and thrived on that...

...so I came here

and became part of that scene.

I'm so happy to be here and come

full circle, airing this show on PBN.

It's a dream come true.

I worked the fields my father worked

From dawn till setting sun

Then it quiets down.

And the skeletons of Quinto

Call me home

"The silver tentacles of the moon's rays

haunt me... "

That's really getting confusing.

It's really confusing.

It's really confusing. I'm hearing you

the same timbre, and it's cluttered.

Maybe if I did it higher

and he did it lower--

-If you do what you did before.

-I can't get that much higher.

But that's-- Now it sounds

almost more like a ventriloquist.

Can I make the radical suggestion

that maybe this is not the best number...

...to start with?

This is a live television show.

We don't want people

to reach for their remotes here.

It's public television.

I don't think...

-They don't have remotes.

-Yeah.

My God, that's terrible. What do you mean

he won't come out of the room?

Have you talked to him? Has he talked to

a doctor? Have you given him medication?

I know he's anxious.

I'm always anxious. I come out.

You know, I mean,

we gotta do something.

You want me to-- You mean,

I'm supposed to talk to him?

I like him, I don't have that much

to say to him.

I could be empathetic.

I'm not sure what else I could do.

I could sit, I could try.

Anything, we have to do something.

I'll talk to him. I'm happy to.

I gotta get him out of there.

We're not broadcasting from a motel room.

We gotta get him out of there.

What's happening here?

Could you run your hand over that?

-What are you getting?

-Well, I'm getting a bounce.

But there's a lightness within it, as well.

Interesting. You know, honey,

it's a very tricky color.

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