20150829 Green Island, Taiwan_Dan_Tibo_Patty_Guitar_Didgeridoo_Flute_Jam Session
Green Island, Taiwan
a.k.a. Lyu-dao (Deer Island), a.k.a. Burnt Island
This is a musical, photo, video story of my 2 weeks there during Taiwan's Ghost Month, where it's said that the spirits will take over your soul...and if you go in the ocean, they will pull you under to your death, so that they can pass on to the afterlife. I basically went to all the spots I asked about and the locals said to stay away from, and had an amazing time.
I snorkeled the shit out of the island, mostly in the spots tourists and locals avoided. I camped out in You-Zih-hu, the island's first, however, now abandoned native island people's village...the Han Chinese population of Taiwan, over time, strongly encouraged the original Polynesian population to leave....and on the main island, to move into the mountains, away from the best, flat, fertile lands of the western coast. The Wang/Huang family was at Youzihhu until 1976, where they left behind the coral cement homes, and (98) 7'x17' cement aquaculture ponds for abalone production...the seawater supply pipeline can be found in what I call the port, along with a freshwater lens, flowing out of the sand-coral volcanic circle, at high tide, and into the the port.
I neither saw, heard, nor felt any ghosts on land or in the water...only beauty...and some ugly things too, which I already studied before coming to Green Island.
This where some Taiwanese, suspected as being Chinese Communists were sent to prison, called Re-education during the White Terror under Taiwan's martial law days... starting in the 1950s, parallel to the US's Communist witch-hunt McCarthy era, following WWII when Japanese-American citizens were sent to internment camps in America.
In Taiwan, many of these Taiwanese political prisoners were sentenced to death, after hard labor (including for some, walks from Taipei in the north to the southern port, a death walk though Devil's Gate, a rock archway at the beach of the facility, and failed re-education...even those turned in by neighbors, whom where not actually China communist supporters...this includes both men and women.
Who's playing in the video?
Dan Asher (USA):
Bass Bamboo Didgeridoo (1st half), Bamboo Flute (2nd half), Lead Vocals/Ad hoc Lyrics, Photography, Videography, Editing...
Thibault (Tee-bo) Boulay (France-Belgium):
Blues Bamboo Flute (1st half), Bamboo Didgeridoo (2nd half), recording, scuba diving guide.
Patty (Australia):
Lead Guitar, plus Vocals/Lyrics in the bonus/encore song, visiting Tee-bo, from Taipei.
Jam Lyrics - Part 1
Dan:
You do English scuba courses? Nice. (There's a sign on the wall, above the wetsuit racks)
Scooby-doobie-doo-bih-doo-doo-bih-doo.
Scooby-doobie-doo and dah-Daphnie too.
Scooby-doobie-doo and shah-Shaggy too.
Scooby-doobie-doo and Thelma as well.
Scooby-doobie-doo and don't forget Fred.
Scooby-doobie-doo and that is the crew.
Patty: Scoo-Scooby-doo
Dan: Ha ha...Right?
Chasing a mystery in a van on the i-island...Green Island.
Mmmm no typhoon....post typhoon.
Post double two...double typhoon.
(the first, two weeks earlier, was the largest on the planet in 2015...the second got to Green Island and turned north, missing the rest of Taiwan...I Scooby-Doobie scootered 10 hours south, from Taichung City and then east onto the other side of Taiwan at Taitung and Fugang Port to the Ferry, as the second typhoon headed north from Green Island, which is off the SE of Taiwan)
Ooooowww we swoon...on the island in the afternoon.
[Cut from the final edit:
Patty: Aaaaah, that was fuckin' good.
Dan: The playing was good.
Patty: I know man!
Ti-bo: Ye-eh-eh-ah....good!]
Jam Lyrics - Part 2:
Ti-bo: Can I play some didge, man?
Dan: Yea...You can...I'll do the flute...the flute-dee-lute.
[They switch bamboo didgeridoo and bamboo flute...Patty changes it to a mellow tune on guitar]
(I've never played flute in my entire life...and this is actually my first jam, ever...used to play trumpet as a kid...love Kareoke...and play some didgeridoo at home from time to time...gave away my Aussie Aboriginal made didge to a friend in the US, before I headed off to live in Taiwan 3 years prior)
Ti-bo: Somewhere over the rainbow...
Dan: way up high.
Dan:
We're the story...just hangin' out...
On the Island of the Gree-ee-een De-er
...and The Others that Were here.
Ti-bo: I have all this on video, man...Smile.
Patty: Ahhh! (responding to the light in his face)
Ti-bo: Thanks
Dan: ha hmm hmm hmm
Patty: Oh, that's on video?
Ti-bo: Yeh, everything.
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There's a special bonus song by Patty after,
followed by a couple of my short videos,
after the ferry ride back to the main Island,
on the scooter ride back to Taichung City, Taiwan.