I read on wikipedia that Chick Corea appears in a Scientology film giving a testimonial about how Scientology has helped him. So I searched around google video and found an illegal camcorder version of it.
I watched and watched (its about 30 minutes long) and there was no sign of him. Now believe it or not, just as the testimonials were being shown, I sneezed and missed his one. I couldnt believe it, it was that short! To save you the effort, I chopped it out and uploaded it. Be warned though, blink and you'll miss it:
To put it into context, heres a clip of all the testimonials, if you are so interested (yes other famous people are there too):
Whatever merits the film may or may not have, I do like the presentation of the testimonials. You either know the celebrities or you don't. Names are not given for either the lay persons or entertainers featured, only their professions.
I'm annoyed that I lost the bootleg I made of Corea performing in concert here in 2005 because he was on the Scientology drive that night too. "Drive" is unfair he was just talking about it, but there was a nice bit of funny interaction with the audience.
My brother has been a scientologist for years. Every time he gets some celeb crush, they usually turn out to be a scientologist. So my brother, never before interested in jazz or piano, suddenly gets all hot and bothered about Chick Corea. I knew what that meant.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting. Well for me its always been about the music and always will be about the music. I'm very wary of finding out too much information about an artist when I start listening to their music for the first time. I find it sometimes spoils some of the magic by removing the mystery.
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