[Dixielandjazz] The fishy daylight of the banjoist

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

Highly amused to see the reference to Alaskan angling vacation offers as support for a fellow musician tourist funds sustain. 

Reminds me of the announcement that the accountants on bass and drums would on the gig about to start have not a fellow accountant but a lawyer on piano.  A good enough player, though not quite Dick Wellstride (who also had a law degree).  

There is the tale current among first-aid persons and medical auxiliaries about the jazz band of senior hospital doctors and surgeons who realised that someone in the front row had collapsed looking very ill. 
The music stopped and they all yelled together, "Nurse!" 

How a banjoist got into the angling business?  Rehearsing beside a wooded lake distant from civilisation, he barely noticed one of his strings detaching from the tuning peg and dangling into the water. Suddenly he almost fell in, there was a tremendous pull on the detached end of his string and as he lifted it he found a large  carp had attached itself to the string, as if hooked on a line. He landed the fish, and as soon as he resumed playing with the string still dangling in the water another fish had attached itself. This seemed to happen only when he was playing.... and how peaceful the eventual shoal of fish looked, having sighed their relieved last as their sensitive organs ceased to register the inescapable sounds conducted into the water by the length of banjo-string ....  

Oh, dear, the old ones are the worst ones, and all banjo jokes are bold and, add, old and bad,
anon. 
Robert R. Calder