{"id":3777,"date":"2011-09-12T08:55:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/?p=3777"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:40:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T16:40:06","slug":"what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-evil-kenevil-and-kenny-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/12\/what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-evil-kenevil-and-kenny-g\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you get when you mix Evil Kenevil and Kenny G?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img title=\"Finn Martin in a  'Vertigo' performance in Paris\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/articleImages\/35954.jpg\" alt=\"Finn  Martin in a 'Vertigo' performance in Paris\" \/><\/p>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/35954\/20110905\/\">Swedish artist plunges to his death in Germany<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><script src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articletext\">\n<div>\n<p><strong>A  Swedish musician plummeted 20 metres to his death at the weekend during a  performance at a street festival in Leipzig, Germany. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>The man, Finn Martin, was supposed to use a rope to help him vertically  slide down the fa\u00c3\u00a7ade of a building while playing a saxophone before  dozens of cheering fans late Friday evening. But during the attempt, the harness apparently broke and Martin plunged  to his death before the shocked audience.<\/div>\n<div>A doctor quickly determined that the 49-year-old performer had died from  the impact.<\/div>\n<div>Police said they were investigating the incident under the assumption  that safety devices had failed and were also looking into whether  participants had been under the influence of alcohol.<\/div>\n<div>The performer was scheduled to do his 15-minute act four times while  video images were displayed onto the building fa\u00c3\u00a7ade.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He was a world-class artist, one of the top-ten saxophone players in  the world, but almost unknown in Sweden,&#8221; Martin&#8217;s cousin Peter Martin,  told the Aftonbladet newspaper. Finn Martin had carried out similar dare-devil performances, which he  called &#8216;Vertigo&#8217;, many times in recent years.<\/div>\n<div>In 2005 he played on the fa\u00c3\u00a7ade of a tower in Cologne that was nearly  150 metres tall.<\/div>\n<div>On his website, Martin referred to Vertigo as &#8220;an unusually emotional  music aerial performance&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>While he was born in Sweden, Martin has lived abroad for most of his  career.<\/div>\n<div>According to his cousin, Martin&#8217;s dare-devil performances were used to  help him finance musical projects in West Africa.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Finn had a passion for African music,&#8221; his cousin Peter Martin told  Aftonbladet. &#8220;His art was his life and he was an artist and musician from every pore  of his body.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>I want to feel bad for this poor chap, I really do.\u00a0 But there&#8217;s only just so much sympathy one can muster for an obvious Darwin Award finalist.<\/div>\n<div>Do you suppose the last thing this guy heard was the bridge to &#8220;Over the  Rainbow&#8221;? (very inside musician&#8217;s joke)<\/div>\n<div>I can just hear all the sax players cringing right now, praying he  wasn&#8217;t playing a Mark VI<\/div>\n<div>I suppose now we&#8217;ll start seeing a lot of &#8220;Don&#8217;t drink and play the sax hanging from the side of a tall building&#8221; stickers on public vehicles.<\/div>\n<div>And how about that doctor!\u00a0 Imagine being able to make such a difficult determination so quickly.\u00a0 I suppose the fact that he had an Otto Link sax mouthpiece protruding from the back of his head provided some key evidence.<\/div>\n<div>Well at least it&#8217;s a good day for the formerly eleventh-best sax player in the world&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-3777\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/12\/what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-evil-kenevil-and-kenny-g\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-3777\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/12\/what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-evil-kenevil-and-kenny-g\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-3777\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/12\/what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-evil-kenevil-and-kenny-g\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/12\/what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-evil-kenevil-and-kenny-g\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/12\/what-do-you-get-when-you-mix-evil-kenevil-and-kenny-g\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish artist plunges to his death in Germany A Swedish musician plummeted 20 metres to his death at the weekend during a performance at a street festival in Leipzig, Germany. 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