Joe Rogan Remembers Zamfir: Master of the Pan Flute

that out for you. Beforemits. No, The Jerogan experience! What, why an accordion? Like, what is... Are you a monkey? No, the guy who has the accordion, the monkey dances! The monkey dances and... I love the sound of an accordion and I just, uh, I saw it. And I just wanted to bring something to the new studio. You like how you have a lot of weird shit here. And this is weird that somebody loved this sound so much that they decided... Like big do people play them and orchestra isn't shit. No, I don't think they made it into the orchestra So it's never been like a really respected piece of musical instrument zydeco New Orleans buckwheat zydeco you ever hear that sure yeah, yeah Polka a lot of polish polka Zamfear master of the pan flu of course what happened that poor bastard Like he had a whole marketing team behind there like dude. No one's done this No, I've done this, but we're gonna do this master of the pan flute DVDs CDs VHS tapes we're gonna sell it all there's literally no competition. There's nothing you can do this. You're Zamfear He's the Tony Hawk of the pan flute right there. Yes. Give me some volume of this guy Look at the chest hair chain gold chain 20 million records What? Zamfear He looks like a guy that works in the deli that is a very forgettable sound It's a recorder. It's for like when the one things you learn when you're in fourth grade, and they teach you music yeah that goofy I never I never paid attention to the recorder because they gave me the recorder and I go well How come I don't see this in bands? The fuck out of here. I'm not gonna spend some time learning an instrument that no one plays You had to though need to carry it in your sock Remember you had to put in your sock. They didn't even have cases. They just give you a good old tube sock from your dad Put it in there. It's right For the fucking recorder no you have to put in your dad's sock, and it didn't make any sense either that it was oh He's got it But he plays a flute right well, I said pan flute when I typed it in but Well, he's a bad motherfucker. Yeah, Jeff Rotol He's good crazy looking dude he looks like he lives in a hollowed out tree My god scurries out when you walk by on the trail hello Has anybody else figured out how to use the flute in rock and roll music besides Jeff Rotol? There's been some flute there's been uh But not like him right now where it's not worth part of the lead He's a guy Isn't that weird how like a band will come along and they'll just figure out how to do something that no one's figured out Yeah, yeah, exactly. No we're gonna do this. Yeah, we're just gonna throw a flute in the mix And then everybody's like okay. I like it. Hey, it kind of works. Should we get a flute? I was uh I was doing this show last weekend and this guy had an oboe He was like the in san francisco. He's one of the like the oboists In the world and he's playing this instrument. It's very melancholy just beautiful, but it really was occurring to me like why? Who built this who thought this sound was so important? When that they decided we're gonna make an instrument so we can recreate this feeling and this sound For all those instruments and if you gave me a pen and a paper and told me to draw an oboe i'd be fucked Yeah, I it's not what I thought it was I was like, oh, yeah Before you pull up a picture of it. Let me think of what it looks like I want to think and i'm thinking of a trombone i'm thinking of a thing where but it's definitely not that was way bigger Yeah, okay. Pull it up. Let's see what the oboe is straight. Oh, it looks like a flute. Yeah, it's straight It looks almost like a clarinet. Oh, yeah clarinet. That's what i'm thinking not a flute Yeah