Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:37 pm
ME
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. "
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Re: Who is the...
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:45 pm
Can I be the Yogi Berra of tuba?
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. "
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. "
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:06 pm
Yogi Berra's Explanation of Jazz
Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?
Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation
The other half is the part people play while others are playing
something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the
wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if
you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's
wrong.
Interviewer: I don't understand.
Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand
it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
Interviewer: Do you understand it?
Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't
know anything about it.
Interviewer: Are there any great jazz player alive today?
Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for
the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that
the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.
Interviewer: What is syncopation?
Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either
before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when
they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other
types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something
different from those other kinds.
Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz
that well.
Interviewer: Can you explain jazz?
Yogi: I can't, but I will. 90% of all jazz is half improvisation
The other half is the part people play while others are playing
something they never played with anyone who played that part. So if you play the
wrong part, its right. If you play the right part, it might be right if
you play it wrong enough. But if you play it too right, it's
wrong.
Interviewer: I don't understand.
Yogi: Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand
it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.
Interviewer: Do you understand it?
Yogi: No. That's why I can explain it. If I understood it, I wouldn't
know anything about it.
Interviewer: Are there any great jazz player alive today?
Yogi: No. All the great jazz players alive today are dead. Except for
the ones that are still alive. But so many of them are dead, that
the ones that are still alive are dying to be like the ones that are dead.
Interviewer: What is syncopation?
Yogi: That's when the note that you should hear now happens either
before or after you hear it. In jazz, you don't hear notes when
they happen because that would be some other type of music. Other
types of music can be jazz, but only if they're the same as something
different from those other kinds.
Interviewer: Now I really don't understand.
Yogi: I haven't taught you enough for you to not understand jazz
that well.
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:34 pm
...so who'd be the Jeffrey Dahmer of the tuba?
...or the Howard Stern of the tuba?
...or the Idi Amin of the tuba?
....
...or the Howard Stern of the tuba?
...or the Idi Amin of the tuba?
....
who is the...
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:59 pm
I believe this is the one definitive claim that has been made in this thread.schlepporello wrote:I'm the "Trashy ol' Truck-Driver" of the tuba.
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 12:45 pm
Wade declared himself: Official TubeNet Jacka$$
(Just lookin out here for ya, bud!)
(Just lookin out here for ya, bud!)
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:09 pm
Goin' by the avatar he's usin' right now, he's the Official TubeNet Mutant.windshieldbug wrote:Wade declared himself: Official TubeNet Jacka$$
(Just lookin out here for ya, bud!)
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 1:42 pm
I'll volunteer to be the "Larry the Cable Guy" of the tuba 
Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 10:58 pm
The Alistair Cooke of the tuba (living in Vietnam): ME *
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*Except I have no intention of becoming a citizen of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam... Alistair Cooke, a broadcaster of the BBC stationed in America, became a citizen of the United States on December 1, 1941!
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*Except I have no intention of becoming a citizen of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam... Alistair Cooke, a broadcaster of the BBC stationed in America, became a citizen of the United States on December 1, 1941!