Carson tuba tribute?

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 9:53 pm

Due to the recent thread on the off-topic forum about Carson, would it be possible to do a Johnny Carson with tuba pic?

Thank you,
Sousie

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:00 pm

I hope someone out there will take this challenge on.

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Sun Jan 23, 2005 10:55 pm

bloke wrote:I wonder how many folks realize that Johnny Carson had Roger Bobo on his show (at least twice, I believe) to perform as a soloist.

I did not know that. That is really great to hear. I wish there was more of that nowadays

Leland · Post by **Leland** » Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:08 pm

Grooving for Heaven wrote:I remember that, and I also have on video somewhere the guy who played Biff from back to the future come on his show with a sousaphone and 5 minutes of tuba humor. It was great.

I remember that -- he goes, "And now, I'm going to play 'The Stars And Stripes Forever'..." Then he starts swinging back and forth, going *BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT*, and says, "Hey, what do you expect, it's the tuba part!"

Really funny.

Dang it, I missed Johnny since '92, and I'm missing him all over again.

Matt G · Post by **Matt G** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:09 am

Leland wrote:
Grooving for Heaven wrote:I remember that, and I also have on video somewhere the guy who played Biff from back to the future come on his show with a sousaphone and 5 minutes of tuba humor. It was great.
I remember that -- he goes, "And now, I'm going to play 'The Stars And Stripes Forever'..." Then he starts swinging back and forth, going *BLAT BLAT BLAT BLAT*, and says, "Hey, what do you expect, it's the tuba part!"

Really funny.

Dang it, I missed Johnny since '92, and I'm missing him all over again.

I also remember when he took a request and someone shouted out Moon River and he proceeded to sing/hum it through the tuba...

Yes, Johnny was great.

It funny that bloke mentions that the only guy that he can expect to watch and be funny is Conan. Conan is the only guy left with a really good band. Leno's band is useless, they don't even play the show off anymore, and when they do play it is fairly awful. Letterman's band is a notch up, and they at least play tunes that have a funny relationship to the guest who is being played on. They goof around and seem to not take things too seriously. The Max Weinberg Seven, Conan's Band, is very good, with a solid trumpet player who can play guitar, a good woodwind doubler, and La Bamba is one hell of a 'bone player who gets goofed on quite a bit.

If anyone took a queue from Johnny on how to have a good band and interact with them in a comedic way, it was Conan.

I can only wait until Leno "retires", then Conan will be on at a more reasonable time. I just hope he doesn't move out to La-La Land to do the show.