country tuba

[Chuck Jackson]

Everyone's got to have a hobby.

Chuck

[windshieldbug]

Is anyone on tubenet making a living as a country music tuba player?

I didn't even know that Country Music made a tuba! Is it perhaps a Chinese stencil?

[David Richoux]

I met a hay farmer outside of Seattle who also plays a pretty mean tuba (in several different bands.)

[iiipopes]

Remember, Paul R. Sidey runs an Angus farm.

[David Richoux]

The only successful even slightly alt.country tubist I can really think of is Mark Rubin. (and he would probably deny the relationship ) Much more alt.texas.hayseed.klezmer.bluegrass.

However, Stan Freese, the father of the alt.country.punk band The Vandals drummer Josh is a well known tubist, and he recorded "Play That Country Tuba, Cowboy" (not the one on Youtube.)

[ken k]

i don't know but i think that guy in the pic has too many teeth to be a country tuber player

[David Richoux]

Way back in the early 90s I became part of an experimental C&W band in San Francisco, mostly with members of Polkacide - we had pedal steel guitar, banjo/guitar, drum kit, accordion, bari sax, sometimes a t-bone, and me on tuba. We rehearsed quite a lot, playing covers of semi-obscure Country & Western tunes and trying to come up with a good name for the group.

We did one gig before the band broke up - not because we couldn't play well together or had Spinal Tap sorts of personality disorders - we just never could come up with a band name that really worked for us, so we all quit the group simultaneously!