Posts made by Dr GO

@georgeb said in Staying in top playing shape post band shutdown:

Well the second wave of Covid has shut the band down again and it looks like it will be a long one, so I will be stepping up my practice sessions to keep myself in band shape for whatever time is necessary.

So I thought Canada was getting the curve under control. So sorry to hear this. I did a gig the weekend before Thanksgiving and was told it would be safe... No dancing. All wearing masks. Band would to isolated to a separate area spaced away from the main building... ALL LIES. Band was only 20 ft from crowd, crowd generally was NOT wearing masks, and a good number WERE dancing. A super spreader event to be sure. Was it worth the $150 I was paid. Hell no! But I believed the person hiring me. NEVER AGAIN. I am turning down private gigs for now. Only doing the Church performances I have been contracted to play for now.

@ericmonroes said in Why not another thread about bigger horns ?:

Anybody can recommend the most expensive trumpet in the world? I researched some blogs and found only this review https://webproductradar.com/most-expensive-trumpet-in-the-world

Checked out this site. I do no agree. Monette and Harrelson trumpets can be several times more expensive. My Harrelson SWE Summit, brushed silver with 14K gold tuning slides now starts around $14,000 but I have seen it on sale for $12,800.

Christmas Spirits!

Silver and Gold

@smoothoperator said in Famous Signature Songs:

Its a shame that Lee Morgan died so young, "The Sidewinder" could be on the list.

I agree so I made the change.

@SmoothOperator said in Famous Signature Songs:

@Dr-GO said in Famous Signature Songs:

Arturo Sandoval - Flight to Freedom

What about international players. It gets kind of complicated, they didn't necessarily have charts.
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/6835403/chocolate-armenteros-dies-trumpet

I've been listening to Chocolate, I assume the "Chocolate Sabroso" is something of a signature sound for him, I'm not sure how popular it is though, now if I can find the sheet music.

Till Bronner - Estate

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

@Dr-GO said in Artist on BOARD:

Some of us may even own one!

I can’t imagine who that may be.
Can you give me a hint?

Some of us may even own one!

@Dale-Proctor said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

I am rötcorp, but I have no idea what that would be...

Hmmm.... Garbage disposal?

If you spell your name backward and put an umlaut over one of the vowels, that is your Ikea name.

I am ydanö. I am fairly certain that would be a soap dish.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

@_Mark_ said in Trumpet 3rd valve sharping:

... play F, press the third valve and get a B above. What am I doing wrong?

Overblowing.

From my perspective;

Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts
Randy Brecker - Some Skunk Funk
Arturo Sandoval - Flight to Freedom
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
Herb Alpert - Spanish Flea
Maynard Ferguson - Gonna Fly Now
Bill Chase - Get It On
Woody Shaw - Rosewood
Al Hirt - Sugar Lips
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Kenny Dorham - Blue Bossa

Jim is an amazing friend and honored The Eddie Brookshire Quintet with several performances over the years. These have been tough times for club owners, and this amazing customer helps sustain such venues with generous contributions such as this $3,000 tip for a $6,50 beer!

I am a bit partial to this one that Celebrates Louis Armstrong:

Which reminds me of the following corollary?

Why does it take so long to get a cemetery plot?

Because people are dying to get in!

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Words to live by: When it comes to pain, 'tis better to give than to receive.

Then they come to me for evaluation and I receive again.

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

Do they allow loud laughing in Hawaii, or just a low ha?

Is that laiman's language?