[Dixielandjazz] Re: Bass Solos(was Grimace)

[Patrick Cooke]

>I have noticed that people do not pay
much attention to bass/tuba solos<

Really??!!  Very observant!  As a bass player, I can tell you that nobody
pays attention to bass solos....not even the guys in the band.  They usually
start a conversation about sports, fishing, or crab grass, and often forget
to come in at the end of your solo.
   As for the audience, dancers stop dancing and look like they are waiting
for the next tune.

   I once saw a list of comparisons between masturbating and playing a bass
solo.  The one that sticks in my mind is:
   "God will forgive you for masturbating."

   Pat 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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