What's the fastest, most energetic music you've ever heard? Ivo Papasov's Bulgarian wedding music? Napalm Death's speed-metal? Yeah, well then you've never heard that pride of American folklore, the auctioneer. Technically, he's not a musician or singer - he has a job to do, and that's sell things at an auction. A real auction, not this eBay jazz. And we're not talking snooty silent city auctions either. Country auctioneers that sell produce, farm equipment, family estates, or, in today's case, livestock. I attended one auction in rural Colorado that sold anything that wasn't bolted down. The guy I saw there was good, but today we're celebrating the champs - the winners of the Livestock Marketing Association's annual World Livestock Auctioneer Championship. You can buy CDs and DVDs of entire shows, or just listen to mp3s of champs like 1964's
Cecil Ward - If you think this guy's insane, brace yourself for 2000's
Max Olvera - All acapella performances. Who's up for doing a remix?
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That stuff is really hypnotic, man!
i used one of these auctioneers in a track, but it was just playing around with it, i have an mp3 that i can post somewhere, it's kinda messed up hardcore, but what do you expect otherwise, the drums can't even keep up with this insane speed. guess these cowboys invented speed rapping long before the bronx and compton did haha
Yeah, post it, I'm sure we'd like to hear it.
Well, I did a kind of remix of an "auctioneer sample", which I found on the WFMU-page.
The remix (which is more a joke than a serious remix) also can be found on the WFMU "On the download"-page, here:
http://wfmu.org/onthedownload.php/0510
Just look for
"AUCTIONEER REMIX" by Ill-Mannered...
Thanks Ill-Mannered, that was some rootin'-tootin' coolness.
Hope, this was meant as a compliment....
;-)
Greetings,
ill-mannered
Ha ha! Yes.
Cecil Ward was my great uncle. :( I miss him
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