[Dixielandjazz] Re: THE ARTISTIC GRIMACE

[Patrick Cooke]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Richoux" <tubaman at batnet.com>
To: "dixie" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: THE ARTISTIC GRIMACE


> I do a lot of "street band" tuba playing (just about as much as 
> stage/club performances ) and I have noticed that people do not pay 
> much attention to bass/tuba solos unless I stand up and move around a 
> lot. If I am playing the best solo I have ever done and am sitting down 
> behind my tuba I see people looking around, trying to figure out who is 
> actually playing! (same thing happens when our drummer is singing - he 
> often gets hidden by the front line.)
> 
> If I am playing a Sousaphone or Helicon, and/or standing up and moving 
> around as I play - then the audience has a bit more of a clue and 
> sometimes I get a little applause at the end. If I have time at the end 
> of my solo I try to give a little bow or other acknolegment of the 
> applause (when it happens...)
> 
> 
> Dave Richoux
> >
> >>
> >> Well put.  I was about to express the same thought.   I think a 
> >> smile, or
> >> even an occasional laugh goes a lot farther.
> >>    Pat Cooke
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > A smiling Bass Player speaks loudly that he is high and knows they are 
> > not
> > going to give him a solo anyway so he just stands there smiling and 
> > being as
> > high as he wants to be.:))
> >
> > The really Good Bass players I know  have mastered the scowl, :)
> >
> > Musical content:
> >
> > "I get no Kick from Champagne,"
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tom Wiggins
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