Los Straightjackets - My Heart Will Go On

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 15 Apr 2011 12:34 pm

This song is sooo much better as a surf instrumental than a four-kleenex, Celine Dion weeper!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5TlbtF8Xss

Gotta be kind of hot playing gigs in those Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling masks.

Steinar Gregertsen · Post by **Steinar Gregertsen** » 15 Apr 2011 2:10 pm

Great!

Tim Whitlock · Post by **Tim Whitlock** » 25 Apr 2011 12:53 pm

The Dion version induced something other than uncontrollable weeping for me, so I substituted a paper bag for the kleenex.

Love Los Straitjackets!

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 25 Apr 2011 8:27 pm

Los Straitjackets rock. They can take pretty much any tune with any type of reasonable melody and work it up into something cool.

My old surf-rockabilly band was opening up for them some years ago and they had a whole room full of hardcore punk/rockabilly kids absolutely swaying to the theme from the movie "A Summer Place". Like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSusBkefLD0 - of course, it's a great tune anyway, but these guys can make the translation to an audience that expects it to rock.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 26 Apr 2011 5:46 pm

Thy also do a great cover of the theme from Midnight Cowboy (first played by the great Toots Thielmans on harmonica in the movie).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgWaukS4wvc

Dave Hopping · Post by **Dave Hopping** » 29 Apr 2011 8:29 am

Give them an "A" for taste in selecting such a pretty tune.And another "A" for the Surfaris-level musical interpretation.