Bobo on Carson on YouTube

MikeS · Post by **MikeS** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:01 am

Someone recently put a couple of videos of Roger Bobo's appearances on "The Tonight Show" on YouTube. If it's someone on this list, many thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NymprfjizE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJkyi0BKPk&NR=1

Tom Holtz · Post by **Tom Holtz** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:49 am

I haven't seen the C. of V. clip before, but the other one, (title escapes me) I saw that when it aired. I was a very young and very mediocre trombone operator. Bobo blew my mind. Not just the playing, but the attitude he brought on stage, and the simple fact that this guy got on the freakin' TONIGHT SHOW playing tuba. That appearance is probably one of the reasons I thought it would be cool to switch to tuba when the opportunity came along in middle school.

Jeffrey Hicks · Post by **Jeffrey Hicks** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:33 pm

what horn is he playing in these?

MikeS · Post by **MikeS** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:52 pm

Jeffrey Hicks wrote:what horn is he playing in these?

The following is from a post on this forum made back in 2004:

"Roger played his B&S f from 1979 until he left for Italy in 1989. His B&S and 188 were always at his side when he played with the LAPO. His old B&S is a truly great instrument. By far the best B&S I?ve ever played. It started its life as a six-valve tuba and Larry Minick removed the 6th valve. The left hand fifth valve was changed to 2/3 and a slide kicker was added for the left thumb (Roger had that set up on all of his tubas)

I think he recorded a few things on his B&S: Morning Song (not sure) and the Schubert Serenade (I?m sure about that one) on ?Prunes? were recorded on the B&S as well as many LAPO recordings in the 1980's

Chuck Koontz currently owns that tuba.
I would LOVE to own that tuba!
Norm Pearson"

tubacdk · Post by **tubacdk** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:01 pm

the horn is, last I knew, now owned by Scott Sutherland.

trseaman · Post by **trseaman** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:28 pm

Amazing...

And great to see ole' Johnny again!

Tim

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 5:44 pm

Was the "other one" Ionel Dimitru's Roumanian Dance? Great piece, what can one say about the playing? Stupendous.

Since then, I have always disliked hearing the Meistersinger Prelude being played on a big woofy tuba.

True, so very true.........

Chuck

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:15 pm

Chuck Jackson wrote:Was the "other one" Ionel Dimitru's Roumanian Dance?

Yes sir. Number 2, specifically.

Calinours89 · Post by **Calinours89** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:16 pm

wow roger is one of the best brass player in the world

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:26 pm

wow roger is one of the best brass player in the world

As we like to say in the Good Ol' USA:

"Brother, you said a mouthful"

Cheers,

Chuck

WakinAZ · Post by **WakinAZ** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:32 pm

Apart from the virtuosity, I like the fact he is a laid-back, self-deprecating guy with a good sense of humor: i.e.; a typical tuba player. The crack about the job offers pouring in for the recent tuba grads was priceless.

Eric

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:40 pm

Eric B · Post by **Eric B** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:49 am

I thought that was interesting that Johnny Carson mentioned that he had never seen Doc and the band react so enthusiastically to another musician before. That speaks volumes to me.

dwerden · Post by **dwerden** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:03 pm

There really is a wealth of cool stuff there, but it's hard to sort through all the junk sometimes. I'm trying to do that for myself and others. This page:

http://www.dwerden.com/music-videos/tub ... videos.cfm

has a collection of videos of tuba (or tuba-related) clips from YouTube. There are 42 as of right now. I will drop them as they are deleted from the parent site, and add more as I see ones that are good quality. There are also links there to my collections of euphonium and brass ensemble videos.

Scott Sutherland · Post by **Scott Sutherland** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:58 pm

tubacdk wrote:the horn is, last I knew, now owned by Scott Sutherland.

I do own that tuba now, but have recently decided to sell it. It's an incredible horn, but I am using my Yamaha more and more these days, and the B&S is just sitting with only occassional use. This is a horn that NEEDS to be played.

If anybody is interested, please contact me through email or PM.

kctubadude · Post by **kctubadude** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 2:25 pm

dwerden wrote:There really is a wealth of cool stuff there,

http://www.dwerden.com/music-videos/tub ... videos.cfm
.

Cool page, thanks for putting it up there!
Lots of great videos.

Does anyone have the video of that Rock Band with the Tuba from Itec several years back, where the bridesmaids from the wedding next door crashed the gig?

highsierra · Post by **highsierra** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:36 pm

Here is a photo of Chuck Koontz playing the Bobo B&S F tuba in question.

Enjoy!

btw- Chuck sounded great on this tuba!

Russ Dickman

John Caves · Post by **John Caves** » Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:46 pm

Didn't Stan Freeze (sp?) also appear on Johnny Carson? I remember him playing asousaphone, and the music was something about a farm ???

Anyone remember?