Who is the...

[greatk82]

ME

[djwesp]

Can I be the Yogi Berra of tuba?




"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. "

[ken k]

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.

[Chuck(G)]

...so who'd be the Jeffrey Dahmer of the tuba?

...or the Howard Stern of the tuba?

...or the Idi Amin of the tuba?

....

[TubaRay]

I'm the "Trashy ol' Truck-Driver" of the tuba.

I believe this is the one definitive claim that has been made in this thread.

[windshieldbug]

Wade declared himself: Official TubeNet Jacka$$

(Just lookin out here for ya, bud!)

[The Big Ben]

Wade declared himself: Official TubeNet Jacka$$

(Just lookin out here for ya, bud!)

Goin' by the avatar he's usin' right now, he's the Official TubeNet Mutant.

[chipster55]

I'll volunteer to be the "Larry the Cable Guy" of the tuba

[LoyalTubist]

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!