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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Wrapping up this day with an empty Belhaven Scottish Ale and here to say

here to say today was the kickoff for Ari's summer cohort, and feeling most honoured and very humbled at the effusive praise given to her coaches. Hand-picked, is what she told the cohort. And when I look at it, see it is true.

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Jeff Scott said:
Not sure why I thought of GonePlaid while watching this.

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Most(not all)of the big bands I've played in consisted of older guys playing older stock charts: Glen Miller, Count Basie, Les Brown, etc. Still a lotta fun to be with 5sxs, 4tpts, and 4tbns+keys and drums-playing my THUNDERBIRD.
 
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Yes, my own soft spot for big band goes way back. Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson ... lol I saw Dennis Day, even. And on friendly terms with Horace Heidt, Jr. Feels sometimes like a different life. Chicago, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Chase ... at the same time there is Tull, ELP, and I'm tuned into Steeleye Span.

One of the bass players I volunteer coach in Ari's MTftBP summer cohort wrote to say she also played saxophone. Sax is my earliest love, and Sonny Rollins is my first musical hero. When it comes to those four guys of greater than modest accomplishment — you know, Stig, Barry, Dirk, and Ron Nasty — I'm with Stig, "the quiet one" :cool:
 
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GwenOnBass said:
Yes, my own soft spot for big band goes way back. Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson ... lol I saw Dennis Day, even. And on friendly terms with Horace Heidt, Jr. Feels sometimes like a different life. Chicago, Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Chase ... at the same time there is Tull, ELP, and I'm tuned into Steeleye Span.

One of the bass players I volunteer coach in Ari's MTftBP summer cohort wrote to say she also played saxophone. Sax is my earliest love, and Sonny Rollins is my first musical hero. When it comes to those four guys of greater than modest accomplishment — you know, Stig, Barry, Dirk, and Ron Nasty — I'm with Stig, "the quiet one" :cool:
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My Dad played tenor or bari in a coupla local big bands in Miami in the 50's-60's(not his main source of income). I started on 'squeak stick' in junior high, switched to bass clarinet-we owned one-and sax in high school and subsequently in a(not the)Navy band, then in 67 picked up bass, developing from the get go, habits that I'm sure not about to break some 55 years later.
Sax wise, I didn't 'zackly have a hero, but I listened to Rollins, Coltrane, Johnny Beecher, and a few other tenor men. I attempted to emulate Getz's tone and just loved the sounds Paul Desmond coaxed out of an alto. I haven't played any of the 4 saxes I have in years. No lip any more + new teeth mean I prolly won't.
 
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A friend's father took to war with squirrels at his bird feeder. The feeder is on a pole at even height with the window of the breakfast nook one storey from the ground floor. He's got the feeder wired and plugs it in as squirrels attempt their thieving. Hilarity ensues. Never witnessed the act myself, but he is exactly the sort of man who picks a random table as he leaves the restaurant to say, "thanks for taking care of our check."
 
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I saw a squirrel dying this morning.

I passed him on the way out for my walk, he was enjoying the day and playing as usual. On the way home I saw him again. I suspect that a runner stepped on his lower body. He was unable to use his rear legs, about of foot of intestines were trailing behind him as he used his front arms to pull himself across the sidewalk. He looked at me in distress as he crossed. I should have dispatched him but was so shocked, I did nothing.

It demonstrates how fragile all life is. You never know what may happen on any given day. Never take a moment for granted.
 
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You ever play "The Chicken"? That song's a modern-day standard, or it certainly will be, eventually.
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It's in the book for the community band I used to have the bass seat in. We never played it during my stint though, Birdland was the only Jaco related chart that got called and I never fully caught on to that particular arrangement, which is either the Buddy Rich chart or something very close.
 
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Took a trip over to west TX to see a friend for a couple of days. Hadn't seen him since way back in B.C. Pretty good drive over and back but hot - upper 90s. Good visit!

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Summer of '70, I had to drive from the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA to Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX. My car was loaded with personal effects and Army gear.

I checked my tires around El Paso. I could see cords! Yikes. I made it to San Angelo on those old Texas ranch roads OK, but the VERY FIRST THING I did when driving into town was pull into a Goodyear store and have the tires replaced.

HUGE sigh of relief! Not a lot going on between El Paso and San Angelo. Back then, anyway.
 
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