[Dixielandjazz] Break up the band?

[Steve Voce]

No, Robert. Sorry, but Ihaven't heard the story.

Cheers
Steve


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On 7 May 2013, at 08:30, "ROBERT R. CALDER" <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:

> I suppose if in a strange town 
> 
> you could ask a band if there's anywhere local you could sit in
> for the sake of your chops et cetera 
> 
>  -- does Steve Voce remember John Barnes' comic story
> of keeping in practice in a junkshop on a (?)Spanish holiday 
> 
> and the shock occasioned somebody looking in the window?
> John told it in the course of a broadcast with Kenny Davern,
> who'd mentioned the holiday and the prospect of Barnes without chops. 
> 
> 
> I used to sympathise with a friend of mine 
> 
> who used to moan to me about a colleague of his 
> 
> (now dead, and the band they played in predeceased him)
> 
> who kept on saying yes to offers to sit in..  
> 
> 
> The man with the welcome mat chest wig had it easy 
> 
> because the interlopers often enough played in his place 
> 
> but as a necessary presence in accompaniment 
> 
> my friend the subsequent ex-member couldn't but listen 
> 
> for fear the noise would deteriorate yet further 
> 
> to the sometimes glaring demonstrations 
> of his not for much longer colleague's generosity. 
> 
> 
> Some people given initial token encouraged 
> 
> never play any different, never get better 
> 
> and far too often deliver another trying chorus 
> 
> or several, rather than refrain 
> 
> and if you fancy sitting in, and band members say no 
> 
> you might reflect on their possible past experience;
> or if somebody really banal gets in ahead of you 
> 
> you might not want to stay on, far less sit in...  
> 
> 
> And it can be hard to tell somebody to stop --
> or not to be blamed for what they played 
> 
> before you gave up trying to tell them 
> 
> and realised they were deaf . . .  
> 
> 
> somebody could write a novel about this 
> 
> 
> Robert 
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