[Dixielandjazz] Re: Mutes

[Patrick Cooke]

>I will however be quick to purchase the CD upon release.

While they were thinking about releasing it, it escaped.
  Pat Cooke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <TCASHWIGG at aol.com>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Re: Mutes


> In a message dated 9/7/04 9:26:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> ds.augustine at mail.utexas.edu writes:
>
> >    That's it!  Y'all have persuaded me.
> >    The next gig i play i'm definitely bringing my tuba mute!
> > (Admittedly it was, in a former life, a recidivist wastebasket with
> > regrettable McCarthyesque tendencies, but after enough appropriate
> > tours in the Neo-Reformation Re-Education system under Governor
> > Schwarzenegger it has emerged fully congruent with the sound ideal of
> > the In-Sink-er-ator paradigm.  And not a minute too soon, either, as
> > i was starting to lean toward the subtle sonorances of WeedWhacker on
> > steroids.)
> >    You can't really appreciate authentic 'Traditional Jazz'
> > (whatever the hell that is) until you've heard "Someday Sweetheart"
> > with the main melody played on a muted tuba.  (Detractors--soon may
> > they be worm's-meat--may contend that the mute was not nearly
> > absolute enough and allowed some sound, tragically, to escape.  Yeah,
> > tough noogies.  Deal with it.)
> >
> >    Dan
> >
>
> Try as I might none of my translater programs will translate this
monologue
> of monolithic dialog into plain ole Hillbilly Texas Engrish, but I am
indeed
> Empressed beyond any recognizeable royalty.
>
> The severability of the situation however me thinks lies somewhere
> perpendicular to the situmanation that the disorderly perpetrude of the
mere thought of
> the ghastly horror of muting a Tuba sends waves of shock upon my pyschotic
> nerve endings between the places that they begin and end, I suppose that
would be
> somewhere nearabouts middle C.
>
> I would rather be  shaven of all my Public hair and sent to the electric
> chair and juiced beyond repair.
>
> I will however be quick to purchase the CD upon release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> It must be rather hot in Austin tonight and the Lone Star is kickin' in.
>
> Tom Wiggins
>
> A tuba with a Mute, now that my frineds is a Hoot!
>
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