TARIF DE HAIDOUKS………WITH THE LATE AND SAINTLY ROMANIAN GYPSY SINGER AND VIOLINIST, NICOLA NEACSU………….”BALADA LU CORBEA”………..MASTERCLASS……..AS A YOUNG PERSON I BECAME PREOCCUPIED WITH THE CONCEPT OF “HIP” BY THE TIME I WAS THIRTEEN I MADE LISTS OF WHAT I THOUGHT WAS HIP AND WHAT I THOUGHT WAS SQUARE……OVER TIME SOMETHINGS HAVE CHANGED PLACES….BUT ALWAYS….”WHAT IS HIP” WAS THE QUESTION….HOW TO STAY ON THE HIP SIDE OF THE LEDGER?……”THERE WAS A JAZZ SONG” ”MAKE IT REAL COMPARED TO WHAT”…WELL, COMPARED TO “WHAT IS HIP”………NOW, I WONT CLAIM TO EVER HAVE REACHED THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF IT BECAUSE THERE’S ALOT TO IT AND I’VE DONE A LOT OF SQUARE THINGS…..BUT I’VE HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF MEETING SOME VERY HIP PEOPLE AND I THINK THEY WOULD ALL AGREE THAT THE GUY IN THIS VIDEO, FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, IS EXTREMELY ”THAT WAY”………….I HOPE AT THE PEARLY GATES…..HIPSTERS ARE GIVEN LIKE AN ABBREVIATED QUESTIONNAIRE….LIKE…ST. PETER ASKS…….”WHO WAS THE SEVERELY HIP VIOLINIST IN THE YOUR GYPSY VIDEO?”……I SIMPLY SAY ” THAT WAS THE LEGENDARY NICOLE NEACSU.” AND THEN ST PETER SAYS TO ME….”WILLIAM, I’M GOING TO GIVE YOU A PASS ON THAT ALONE…IT WAS SO……. WELL…….. IT WAS JUST SO HIP”….