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 | Impressive Hair - Graham Greene and the Happy Sinners Impressive Hair - Graham Greene and the Happy Sinners. Performed at the Newport Hotel, 24th June 2007. Impressive Hair is one of the stand out tracks on Graham's latest release, Leap Of Face. Endorsed by Ormsby Guitars and Mesa Boogie, Graham is without a doubt one of the finest rock guitarists in Australia. To purchase the album, please visit Graham's website: www.grahamgreene.com.au |
 | Lakota Spoof Graham Greene provides a humorous commentary on the type of stereotypes that still abound regarding American IndiansIn response to some of the negativity that has popped up in the comments section: I typically try to leave my editing hand out of the comments sections for the videos I post. Occasionally I will respond to a question or a comment but, even if I disagree with a message someone has left, I generally try to leave everything up. It's part of my belief that open communication is one of the best ways of addressing and working through problems in our society. That being said...I've noticed, of late, even more hostility being aimed at the posters of comments. Names and allegations are being slung back and forth, specifically in reference to certain individuals' "right" to consider themselves Native. I want to be clear that I do not buy into the belief that an individual's blood quantum is all that makes that person Native. Historically, as long as the tribe accepted you as one of them you were considered part of that tribe. This went on to include other Natives who married into other tribes, as well as white settlers who came to live with the People. Only with the legislations and regulations set forth by the government about who can be considered "indigenous" has the subject of blood quantum come into play. I, for one, do not subscribe to the way of thinking that a person's percentage of blood defines who they are. I have known many people who are enrolled as full members of a tribe who know next to nothing about their history and culture. I have also known people who would not be allowed a place on the legal rolls but who, none the less, are considered members of their respective Native communities. At the moment, we are the only people (that I know of, at least) who constantly hear the question "What percentage Indian are you?" Personally, I find this question kind of insulting - as though by being a "half-blood" an individual is somehow less worthy of respect or less knowledgeable about who they are and where they come from. Until we stop asking each other this question, however, I feel we are doomed to hear it asked of us. Those of us who are lucky enough to have grown up in families where our Native heritage was not hidden away undoubtedly know that there is still a great deal of hatred and intolerance out there. However, that does not entitle us to look look down upon those who were not able to grow up with this knowledge. Those who are just now finding out about it should not have to feel like they are being penalized for something they had no control over. They did not choose to have cultural information kept from them. They have just as much right to try to find a place for themselves within Native culture as those who were raised within it in the first place. I received this video in an email from my aunt up on the rez a while ago and posted it here because I thought it was entertaining. I found it a tongue-in-cheek response to all of the attention on Native mysticism, medicine, etc that sometimes gets a little old. I did not post it in order to bash other races. I do not condone hatred and prejudice - I don't like the results of it. The world is a harsh enough place as it is without adding more hostility. I will not deny that horrible things have been done in the past (and, in some cases, continue to be done today). However, I strongly believe that, by holding on to the hatred and by clinging to the arguements of who-did-what-to-whom, we make ourselves sicker as a people, and can not hope to move forward and improve ourselves until we can at least entertain the thought of letting our animosity go.Please try to keep your posts and comments pleasant. I welcome polite debate, but if negative comments continue to dominate the board, I will disable the comments feature for this video. |
 | Live Band Jam (improv) - Graham Greene + the Happy Sinners Live Band Jam (improvised) - Graham Greene and the Happy Sinners.This is what happens at a Graham Greene gig when the bass player breaks one of his eight strings... gotta keep the crowd from getting bored!! :P Graham is using his signature model Ormsby GG7 CustomShop guitar. Saxon is using an original 'Passion and Warfare' Ibanez Universe Swirl. |
 | Graham Greene: Dr. Fischer of Geneva (TVM 1985) I collect rare films and TV. If you're interested in exchanging material please contact me at mr.rose@ntlworld.com |
 | #2 The Third Man-The Greatest Films by Carlos de Mello The Third Man - Directed by Carol Reed 1949 Cinematography by Robert Krasker with Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli - The Third Man (1949) is a visually-stylish thriller - a paranoid story of social, economic, and moral corruption in a depressed, rotting and crumbling, 20th century Vienna following World War II. The striking film-noirish, shadowy thriller was filmed expressionistically within the decadent, shattered and poisoned city that has been sector-divided along geo-political lines. The black and white, pessimistic film is one of the greatest British thrillers of the post-war era, in the best Alfred Hitchcock tradition, and beautifully produced and directed by Britisher Carol Reed. It was voted the #1 British Film of the 20th Century by the esteemed British Film Institute (BFI). It was co-produced by Hungarian-born Alexander Korda and American movie mogul David O. Selznick. Because Korda gave American distribution rights to Selznick (who cut eleven minutes from the original British version), the credits of the US version include Selznick references.This was Reed's second collaboration with British screenwriter Graham Greene (after The Fallen Idol (1948)) - a clever and original mystery tale simply evoked by one sentence written by Greene: "I saw a man walking down the Strand, whose funeral I had only recently attended." It told of a love triangle with nightmarish suspense, treachery, betrayal, guilt and disillusionment. Its two most famous sequences include the Ferris-wheel showdown high atop a deserted fairground with the famous cuckoo clock speech (written by Orson Welles), and the climactic chase through the underground network of sewers beneath the cobblestone streets. And the film once again teamed co-stars Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles of Citizen Kane (1941), in a tale of a foolishly-romantic, wimpy American writer (Holly Martins) of pulp westerns in occupied, post-WWII Vienna who tries to understand (and then decipher) the mysterious disappearance - vehicular accidental death and burial of an old school friend (Harry Lime) - who, unbeknownst to him, had become an exploitative, morally corrupt, and chilling black-market drug dealer and racketeer (of diluted penicillin), working out of the Russian zone. [From 1951-52, Welles starred in a spin-off radio show titled The Lives of Harry Lime, a syndicated 52 episode series based on the adventures of his character in this film - Joseph Cotten delivered the narration in the American release, delivering his own story = I never knew the old Vienna before the war, with its Strauss music, its glamour and [its] easy charm - Constantinople suited me better. I really got to know it in the classic period of the Black Market. [Boots, stockings, cigarettes, and watches exchange hands.] [They could get anything if people wanted it enough and had the money to pay.] We'd run anything, if people wanted it enough- mmm - had the money to pay. Of course, a [the] situation like that does tempt amateurs, but [of course, they don't last long, not really, not like professionals] you know they can't stay the course like a professional. [A view of a dead body floating in an icy river.] Now the city - [A sign announces: "ENTERING THE AMERICAN ZONE."] it's [is] divided into four zones, you know, each occupied by a power - [Views of signs of the British, Russian, and French zones.] the American, the British, the Russian, and the French. But the center of the city - that's international, policed by an International Patrol, [A view of guard's duty being changed.] one member of each of the four powers. Wonderful. [You can imagine what a chance they had], What a hope they had, all of them strangers to the place and none [no two] of them could speak [speaking] the same language, except a sort of smattering of German. [Four guards in a jeep each represent their nationalities.] [Oh, they were] Good fellows on the whole, did their best, you know. [Views of bombed-out sites around Vienna.] Vienna doesn't really look any worse than a lot of other European cities, bombed about a bit [a little, of course]. [Views of soldiers on guard, and then standing on parade and marching in a square.] Oh, I was gonna tell you, wait, I was gonna tell you about Holly Martins, an American. Came all the way here to visit a friend of his. The name is Lime, Harry Lime. Now Martins was broke and Lime had offered him some sort - I don't know - some sort of a job. Anyway, there he was, poor chap, happy as a lark and without a cent. [Anyway, I was dead broke when I got to Vienna. A close pal of mine had wired me, offering me a job doing publicity work for some kind of charity he was running. I'm a writer, name's Martins, Holly Martins. Anyway, down I came, all the way to old Vienna, happy as a lark and without a dime. by Tim Dirks |
 | Graham Greene in "Maverick" The best (at least my favorite) scene from the Mel Gibson film, featuring the great and underappreciated Graham Greene |
 | The end of the Affair -- Part 1 A film by Neil Jordan, 1999See part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvuOQ2RiBMStarring:Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen O'ReaBased on a novel by Graham Greene |
 | Skid Row - Monkey Business (Graham Greene Band) Graham Greene and the Happy Sinners play some covers just for the hell of it. Saxon shreds out the solo on this one!Graham Greene is an Ormsby Guitars, Mesa Boogie and Wegen Picks Endorsee. |
 | Henry Graham Greene Tribute to Graham Greene |
 | Vinnies Pink Guitar - Graham Greene Vinnies Pink Guitar - Graham Greene and the Happy Sinners. Performed at the Newport Hotel, 24th June 2007Live version of the song originally released on the Club Voodoo album. The song was written on Steve Vai's old pink Ibanez. COOL! |
