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...Anyway, we get to talking. "Brazil is an intense place," says Beck. "The music can be gentle but there's a lot of life happening on the street." He goes on to talk about his favorite Brazilian performers. "There are tons of them - everyone from Jobim to Caetano. Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Gal Costa...
...Beck, who once recorded a song called "Tropicalia," is friends with Caetano Veloso, one of the founders of Tropicalia. They met a year and a half ago at one of Beck's L.A. shows. "I talked to him on the phone when I got here," says Beck. "He's in Bahia. He couldn't make...
...Beck is bummed he hasn't met any of the other performers on the massive Rock in Rio bill. "I haven't met anyone today," he complains. "We're all sequestered in different areas. I wouldn't even know where to begin to find the other acts. Some festivals are good that way - you exchange ideas and stories with the other people. Here, everyone has been set a mile apart...
...Beck's last words to me are "I don't know." For some reason, there's no reference in my handwritten notes as to what he was answering. Just "I don't know." The line is all alone on one page of my notes...
...Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil took the experimentation of the Beatles and the frustration of laboring under a military dictatorship and helped create Tropicalia. There is also MPB, ax?, pagode and a host of other Brazilian musical styles. Artists from around the world, from Stan Getz to Sting to Beck have taken the music that Brazil borrowed and borrowed it right back. "Pop music is best product we make in Brazil," says Nelson Mota, a leading Brazilian music critic and the author of "Noites Tropicais," a book about the history of Brazilian music. "It's one of the few things...