ABBA would be my guilty pleasure, if I felt guilty about enjoying music for the masses. I love the lush, often complex arrangements, naively simple lyrics written by non-native English speakers and over-use of video FX which were pretty fancy at the time.

Posts made by tjcombo
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RE: Guilty Pleasure Listening
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RE: Personality and Taste in Classical Music
@administrator, same. The flute had to go.
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RE: Personality and Taste in Classical Music
Maybe there’s an over-weighting on the brass v string response? +1 for the cholerics
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RE: A little humour
Totally unrelated to the musical arts (like the last one I guess, but there is a vaguely medical theme for all the Docs on this forum
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RE: Trumpet Board Remote Performance
Christopher Bill has been doing the YouTube video thing for some time and has produced a "101" guide to multi-track editing. There is a great interview with him on the Brass Junkies podcast here -
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RE: A little humour
Doctor vs Lawyer
A doctor moved to a new town but couldn’t get a job in a hospital. Needing work, he opens a clinic and puts a sign outside that reads: "GET TREATMENT FOR $20 - IF NOT CURED GET BACK $100."
A lawyer thinks this is a great opportunity to earn $100 and goes to the clinic. Lawyer: "I have lost my sense of taste." Doctor: "Nurse, bring medicine from box No. 22 and put 3 drops in patient's mouth." Lawyer: "Ugh. this is kerosene." Doctor: "Congrats, your sense of taste is restored. Give me $20."
The annoyed lawyer goes back after a few days to recover his money. Lawyer: "I have lost my memory. I cannot remember anything." Doctor: "Nurse, bring medicine from box no. 22 and put 3 drops in his mouth." Lawyer (annoyed): "This is kerosene. You gave this to me last time for restoring my taste." Doctor: "Congrats. You got your memory back. Give me $20." The fuming lawyer pays him.
The lawyer then comes back a week later determined to get back $100. Lawyer: "My eyesight has become very weak I can't see at all Doctor: "Well, I don't have any medicine for that, so take this $100." Lawyer (staring at the note): "But this is $20, not $100!" Doctor: "Congrats, your eyesight is restored. Give me $20" -
RE: First practice using trumpet mask
An interesting read on this topic. Clearly written by a flute player (no mention of their toxic emissions)
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RE: Trumpet Board Remote Performance
@SSmith1226 shall do Steve. This project underlines the "organic" nature of playing together as a group. I'm missing that so much.
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RE: Trumpet Board Remote Performance
This sort of project provides a reminder of the skills and patience required of audio engineers/producers. I'm currently putting together an iso track with my jazz band. We started with a click track + chords (generated by iReal Pro) that was circulated to all band members who then recorded their contribution. Mixing the audio and in particular aligning all the parts in time is incredibly laborious. It's taken about six hours so far for a five minute track. I'm sure that second time around would be much quicker, but damn, it's fiddly work. Then there's going to be another learning curve for the video...
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RE: Still unable to log in under the original barliman2001 tag, and in hospital...
@barliman2002 very sorry to hear that. Looking forward to seeing you back "on the air" sooner rather than later.
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RE: A little humour
Not really trumpet related, but I suspect it’s not far off the demographic mark
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RE: A little humour
Anyone sick of hosting online meetings/presentations/lessons yet?
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RE: Trumpet Board Remote Performance
@SSmith1226 and co-conspirators, thanks, I enjoyed that very much.
Nice video editing too!