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Yakety Sax, the official Epic Fail music of the progressives.
BTW I had that cassette and as a young Tuba Player (Ya call me a “Tubist” and we may need to discuss “Music Theory” out in the parking lot, Mr. Man!) I played the CRAP out of that song.
In my Tuba days I always preferred the sound of a Sousaphone as that MASSIVE Bell allows for a MUCH more aggressive sound than the concert tuba.
Still I always assumed that he played that song on a concert horn with rotary valves which are mechanically faster than the piston valves on that horn, but he makes that song his bitch!
BTW the Album was my first exposure to Tom Waits with a fairly literal cover of Tom Trobart’s Blues.
Good Times!
That piece of music gave him no treble at all! 😉
Admit it: You loooooooove me!
Yeah I do baby! AND I’ll respect you in the morning! 😉
Be gentle and I’ll pretend it is my first time.
Piston valves rule!
Rotary valves are easier and faster, but vastly more complex. NOTHING is worse than snapping a string in the middle of a concert and just have to figure out what notes you CAN play.
In this case, thankfully most classical composers consider the bass to be a mere afterthought of chord support.
For my heavy-metal and funk-tuba it was all Sousa all the time! you can’t fake slap-bass with a concert horn! 8)
All of this talk makes me miss blowing my Flugel.
Yeah, you heard me.
Flugel horns RULE! Especially when you can rock a solo with a plunger mute!
Yeah, you heard me! 😉
Slides are better. Gives you lots of practice for working a pump gun. 😉
Besides, trombones are one of the loudest non-amplified instruments. You can really blast those things.
I started playing on a trombone, and I SUCKED at it. (Actually the tuba was a desperate plea of my band director…good move for him because I was good at that one!). The first time I really shot a pump-gun was a round of sporting clays. By the end of the round I was shooting the pump as fast as a semi-auto. Trombone I played for 3 years and SUCKED. 😀
that guy has a lot of brass.
Technically nickle-sliver 😉
Even better. Or there’s <a href="this version.
Chuck Daellenbach rules!
Loved seeing them in person…