Posts made by Newell Post

@ROWUK

Haven't heard that phrase since I lived in London 40 years ago.

When I lived in St. Louis, I caught the "Yogi and Joe" show, live, a couple of time. (Although they were both old men at the time.) On one occasion, my boss was getting his "star on the walk of fame" (or at least the St. Louis equivalent.) Yogi and Joe were the guests of honor and past recipients. The other guest of honor and past recipient was Chuck Berry.

When it was Yogi's turn to speak, he got up and (haltingly) said: "Youse know what I always sez..... When you comes to a fork in the road...... Take it!"

And then Joe jumps up, grabs the mic, and says: "Yeah. Now let me tell you the other 50 things Yogi said this morning. Blah. Blah. Blah....."

Of course Joe was drunk and he then started telling somewhat racist jokes. Bad move Joe. In front of a St. Louis crowd with Chuck Berry sitting there, I thought he was going to get his ass kicked on the spot, even if he was 75 years old.

Where are you located and what is the destination?

You guys realize that 98% of the Yogi Berra quotes were actually made up by his childhood buddy, Joe Garagiola, and attributed to Yogi, don't you? It was a shtick they started perpetrating in little league, and kept working the rest of their lives. Joe was a chatterbox and Yogi was almost non-verbal.

@Dr-GO

LOL. Well when I was a kid Mom would buy the frozen brick of Brussels sprouts from the A&P, take them home, and boil them for 2 or 3 hours. That produced a concoction with the taste and texture of pond scum garnished with sulphur. But have you ever had them sliced and sauteed in butter and olive oil with garlic, bacon bits, and sea salt? The latter is nothing at all like the former.

That's sort of like asking: "How do you feel about Brussels sprouts?" Well prepared and in moderation: Great! Poorly prepared and in excess: Barf!

@Seth-of-Lagos

Excellent. Welcome, Seth.

@barliman2001

Thanks for that, Barliman. It's good to know. (Good to know that he will be back, not that he's under pressure.)

Hey, even Carlos got a turn on the cow bell.... while on cigarette break.... in the middle of a song....

@Kehaulani

LOL. Oh, how I wish I had a photo of my old rock band! Those were the days of horn bands, and we pirated tunes from BS&T, Chicago, and even a couple of simplified Chase tunes. The horn section (me plus one other trumpet and one t-bone) played on about half of the songs. I was even the emergency, back-up keyboard man. The other songs were R&R standards, but they let us play tambourine and cow bell on those. More cow bell! More cow bell!

Seventh grade, first year of Junior High School. I needed an elective and I thought if I took band it might get me out of piano lessons. I knew how to read music and my cousin had started on cornet, but dropped it. (He didn't stick with much of anything.) My Mom gave the relatives $20 for the Besson cornet my cousin had ignored for a couple of years and I got started.

The Jr Hi actually had two bands: a beginner's band (for people like me) and the "advanced" band for experienced musicians who had been playing since, oh, maybe the fourth grade. When I started eighth grade, the band director told me I could move up to the advanced band if I switched to french horn, but that I could switch back to trumpet (in the advanced band) when I went into ninth grade. Well, who could refuse an offer like that!

When I moved up to high school, they once again needed french horns, so I played trumpet for marching band but horn for concert band, the first year. After that I was on trumpet except for occasional digressions into horn for things like pit orchestras. I was first chair my senior year and in other groups, including a rock and roll band. I continued playing in college, but as an architecture and engineering student, I didn't have nearly as much involvement as the music majors.

But the trumpet never got me out of piano lessons...

@adc

The cork on the pistons looks like it was never played at all....

@barliman2001 Whatever happened to sethoflagos anyway? I always liked his British/African point of view.

@J-Jericho https://groovyhistory.com/mikey-likes-it-life-cereal

Playing horn is kind of like being an airline pilot -- hours of boredom interspersed by moments of terror. The most extreme case was one time when I played horn in the pit orchestra for a production of "Brigadoon." For two hours, the horn part mimics bagpipe drones BUT THEN they suddenly want an alpine hunting horn solo when the mist and fog parts in the mountains of the Scottish Highlands.

I used to double on horn. When I mostly played horn and occasionally cornet, my trumpet embouchure deteriorated rapidly. When I mostly played trumpet and secondarily played horn, the embouchure was OK for both.

@Kehaulani You're not foggy. I don't get the point either.