![]() ![]() He took up playing slide guitar, banjo, djembe, harmonica and various percussion instruments, and started playing solo gigs. ![]() When Paul Simon's Graceland tour rolled into town, Xavier's dad took him, and the youngster knew that a career in music was for him. One of Xavier's earliest childhood memories was of fashioning a primitive yirdaki out of a piece of vacuum cleaner pipe. Only he calls it by its Aboriginal name, the yirdaki. Sure, he liked to surf, but while his friends coveted such modern gewgaws as digital watches and Sony Walkmen, young Xavier found himself drawn to something that's been around for 50,000 years: the didgeridoo. He can also play a dozen different instruments - at the same time.ĭidge you ever: Growing up in Bell's Beach, Xavier Rudd knew he was different from the other kids. Xavier Rudd doesn't have the catchiest name, and thus far he lacks a catchphrase to match "Crikey! Look at the size of that!" but he does have the ability to draw from Aboriginal, Hawaiian, Native American and other world cultures, and the talent to write songs redolent of Paul Simon, Ben Harper, Leo Kottke and David Lindley. Wizard of Oz: Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin may no longer be with us, but Australia still has a rugged hero from another era, a fearless throwback who thinks nothing of surfing a killer wave on his local beach in Southern Victoria, wrestling with giant didgeridoos on stage, or just disappearing into the outback and getting down and dirty with Mother Earth. ![]()
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