[Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses/ Mike Riley

[Richard Broadie]

Hi Don -   I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Mike used to drive me nuts when I played with him at Club Razz-A-Ma-Tazz on
Sepulveda in LA in the mid 60s!  He'd play about 28 bars of Stardust as
beautifully as one could ever hear and then put a two octave tailgate slide
for three measures to a thunderous BLAT at the final bar to absolutely
destroy the pre-existing beauty.  I wish Mike would have taken himself more
seriously.  He always had to go for the gag, much to his own detriment.

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Ingle" <dingle at baldwin-net.com>
To: "Bryan Livett" <livett at rogers.com>; "Grahame Parker" <parkerjaz at msn.com>
Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses


> Two Garden Hose stories:
>    I once played (for two days before quitting, with Mike Riley. Mike was
a
> slapstick bandleader, wrote Music Goes Round and Round, and did things
> generally hazard to the sideman's health -- for which reason I said, thank
> but no thanks.
> However, he did have a few trombone tricks. He played it with his foot, he
> played it standing on his head; but the wild one was his fast extension
past
> the end of the slide tube with the resulting 20 foot hurl of the slide
into
> the audience. He'd then dig into a box and pull out another slide section
> and shrug as if it's no big deal.
> Then there was a trick trombone my dad had in his prop line up. The slide
> section was a rubber hose, fitted to look like the slide and painted gold.
> You could play it, but when it was extended past the first few positions
it
> would start to droop, and by seventh position it would all hang down and
> swing back and forth. A few risqué lines would follow.
> I, being wise, double on the VALVE TROMBONE. No flying or limp slides for
> me.
> Don Ingle
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Livett" <livett at rogers.com>
> To: "Grahame Parker" <parkerjaz at msn.com>
> Cc: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 2:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
>
>
> > No... thats a clarinet!!!!!
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Grahame Parker" <parkerjaz at msn.com>
> > To: <livett at rogers.com>; <jbutler6 at twcny.rr.com>
> > Cc: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 2:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
> >
> >
> > > I think Brian Graville of the Sensation Jazz Band in Kitchener Ontario
> > > someimes plays a garden hose with  a mouthpiece and a funnel.   Am I
> right
> > ?
> > > Grahame Parker
> > > Peoria AZ
> > > trombonist redux
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: "Bryan Livett" <livett at rogers.com>
> > > >To: "James Butler" <jbutler6 at twcny.rr.com>
> > > >CC: DJML <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > > >Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
> > > >Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 13:47:00 -0400
> > > >
> > > >and whether it's rubber or plastic hose!
> > > >
> > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > >From: "James Butler" <jbutler6 at twcny.rr.com>
> > > >To: "Anton Crouch" <a.crouch at unsw.edu.au>; "DJML"
> > > ><dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > > >Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 8:25 AM
> > > >Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE FUNNEL!!
> > > > >
> > > > > Jim Butler
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Anton Crouch" <a.crouch at unsw.edu.au>
> > > > > To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> > > > > Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 5:35 AM
> > > > > Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hello all
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Charlie Hooks goes-on about garden hoses  :-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Has anybody actually heard a garden hose played with a
mouthpiece?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I have a recording of such a performance! - from the Hoffnung
> Music
> > > > > > Festival in the Festival Hall, London on 13 November 1956.
Dennis
> > > >Brian,
> > > > > > the great horn player, gives us a fragment from Leopold Mozart's
> > > >Alphorn
> > > > > > Concerto - described as "third movement from Concerto for
> Hose-pipe
> > > >and
> > > > > > Strings".
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The playing is amazing  - better than many efforts from the 415
> > > >Brigade
> > > > > > playing "natural" horns. If Vic Dickenson ever sounded like
Dennis
> > > >Brain
> > > > > > playing the hose-pipe, then that's wonderful.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > All the best
> > > > > > Anton
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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