it don't get much better: Oktoberfest in S.F.

[Mojo workin']

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKWiwfOh ... ed&search=

[TubaRay]

Anyway, it was fun - lots of great looking gals around too.
Barry Guerrero

It's good to know you were willing to suffer in the cause of good music.

[Mojo workin']

No mojo, I'm afraid it really did look more like this - including our own perfomances of "Sierra Madre Del Sol" (it comes up later on this Youtube excerpt).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hLScSEb_g8

Fantastic! I always prefer beer and sauerbraten to hippies and hashish!

[Steve Inman]

Well ....

Oktoberfest in Muenschen isn't too bad either!

I **WAS** disappointed to note that the beer tent bands did NOT have any tubas (in the tents that I peeked into).

Cheers,

Steve "ein Bier, bitte" Inman
Back in Kokomo, IN

[TonyZ]

I **WAS** disappointed to note that the beer tent bands did NOT have any tubas (in the tents that I peeked into).

For how long did you peek before you realized there were no tubas (tuben)?????

[finnbogi]

Well ....

Oktoberfest in Muenschen isn't too bad either!

I **WAS** disappointed to note that the beer tent bands did NOT have any tubas (in the tents that I peeked into).

Cheers,

Steve "ein Bier, bitte" Inman
Back in Kokomo, IN

Which beer tents did you check out? In my experience, most of the tents have a proper Blaskapelle with a tuba and lots of oval tenorhorns, at least during the day. The more fashionable tents tend to substitute these with an electric bass guitar and saxophones in the evening, but the traditional ones (e.g. Augustiner, Hacker) keep the same setup.

On the second day of Octoberfest this year the tuba player in the Paulaner tent was very good and played a number of solos with the Kapelle, including at least two rounds of Klarinettenpolka (I must admit that my memory and attention started suffering a bit after my sixth Maßkrug).