The below image is fresh out of Sirte and is quite frankly remarkable. What a Dude! I know there are stories of James Blunt rolling round Bosnia in a tank division with a guitar, but that's just transport, he actually played it round a camp fire like a Girl Scout. This warrior is jammin' on the front line!
It does make you think though; We really all should get away from the daily grind more than we do. Walk away from the lathe, park up the truck, turn of the monitor, put down your automatic weapon. Quite frankly since giving up smoking I rarely leave my desk. Perhaps learning an instrument is the answer?
Psychologists will agree too. It would work as an excellent source of respite. Aiming and firing at Gaddafi Loyalists is very much a right hand side of the brain function. As is reloading and coordinating manoeuvres. In fact all war things are quite logical (in a brain activity sense rather than ethically or morally). But music, very abstract and left hand side, so all good. Its re-energising. Or re-loading to maintain a military parlance... Sketching'll do it too.
Though the Chap recreating a very Banksy image is more likely to be a motivational musician. Something morale boosting. I truly hope he is taking requests. Either way, whether it's his own traditional material, The Kinks, Kasabian, he's pulling it off with aplomb. As a test, please feel free to fire wildly into the air at a Blunt concert, just to see if his dignity remains intact and his underwear unstained too.
Our Libyan Mariachi is undoubtedly the Star of this shot however please give a moment to the Chap firing some very heavy artillery, in sandals.
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