Low Brass Player's Creed

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Tue May 03, 2005 5:52 pm

WOW!!

Someone needs a hug.....

Ralph

Leland · Post by **Leland** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:19 pm

I'm gonna save that one, and when I can locate a printer, I'll pass it around my section at work.

Leland · Post by **Leland** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:25 pm

Ah, it was even alluded to on the old TubaEuph BBS:
http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/may1999 ... 11761.html

And scroll partway down this next page to see Yo Yo Ma learning the meaning of the creed:
http://www.jayfriedman.net/pictures/cso.php
(you can also see ye Olde English font "B" at the beginning of Yo Yo's copy)

winston · Post by **winston** » Tue May 03, 2005 6:54 pm

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:09 pm

TUBACHRIS85 wrote:I am acctually SHOCKED at the amount of profanity that can be found contained with in it......

It's not exactly "restrained", is it?

Leland wrote:Ah, it was even alluded to on the old TubaEuph BBS:
http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/may1999 ... 11761.html

Needlepoint ... Old English script ...

Dan Satterwhite · Post by **Dan Satterwhite** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:15 pm

It was written by Charlie Vernon and a couple of his friends when he lived in Atlanta. The version with the Olde English B was for sale at one time...suitable for framing, I believe they said.

Mine's in a nice frame.

RSMorgan · Post by **RSMorgan** » Tue May 03, 2005 9:56 pm

The profanity!! I am shocked, SHOCKED, I say!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue May 03, 2005 10:09 pm

Gee, when it was passed around our low-brass section it wasn't nearly so cleaned-up and excised...

Chriss2760 · Post by **Chriss2760** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:27 am

I LOVE YOU, MAN!!!!

That made me cry....
Beauty.
True.

Adam C. · Post by **Adam C.** » Wed May 04, 2005 12:32 am

I assumed this was common knowledge; I guess I was wrong.

It would look nice in cross-stitch with some flowers and maybe a border, I think.

Cameron Gates · Post by **Cameron Gates** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:17 am

TUBACHRIS85 wrote:Hey, I'm pretty confident that I found it.............
I am acctually SHOCKED at the amount of profanity that can be found contained with in it......

-tubachris

Let's lighten up here a little. My middle school band director gave me a copy a billion years ago. I now have that very copy taped to my instrument locker.

Political correctness and tuba playing can not go hand in hand.

Cameron Gates

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:32 am

Cameron Gates wrote: Political correctness and tuba playing can not go hand in hand.
Cameron Gates

That's some of the best news I have heard in a very long time!

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:48 am

When I had a couple of lessons from Mike Moore, he said this was the Genesis of the LBC:

Written by Mike Moore, Charley Vernon, and Harry Maddox in the cellar of Mike's house when they were all living in Atlanta in the 60's. It is meant to be recited to the tune "You Got Trouble" from the Music Man. Try it, it works. I think the boys were quite "Oiled" when they wrote it. BTW, Mike's Dad was a GREAT tuba player with the great tuba player name of Jewell Moore. He played up to his late 80's and did so quite well. He was the tuba player with the Atlanta S.O. before Mike, who got the job at the tender age of 18. If memory serves me correct, they were/are the only tuba players to be with the orchestra. Kinda of a Southern Helleberg tradition.

Chuck

Tom Holtz · Post by **Tom Holtz** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:58 am

Adam C. wrote:It would look nice in cross-stitch with some flowers and maybe a border, I think.

I'd pay money for that.

Dan Satterwhite · Post by **Dan Satterwhite** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:12 am

Chuck is correct. Written in the late 60's before Charlie got the job in Baltimore. Kleinhammer would NEVER have written something like that. Later, in the 80's, at Mike Moore's house, a video was made of Charlie reciting the Creed, with the intent of marketing it. There was actually an ad in the Intl Musician for LBC productions, selling the printed version (suitable for framing), a t-shirt, and the video. Fortunately, heads with better sense prevailed, and the video was never sold.

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:17 am

Oh God, I forgot about the video. I remember seeing a trial cut, kinda like "Low Brass Players Gone Wild". Mike's wife would just shoo the girls out of the room and shake her head. Now, that was funny, but not as funny as Charley and Jamie Hafner as pirates in "Naughty Marietta" at BMC in 1980. Nw, THAT'S something I would truly love to see on video tape.

Chuck

Dan Satterwhite · Post by **Dan Satterwhite** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:26 am

I have a couple of pictures of Charlie and Jamie in their Marietta costumes...I'll try to scan them and send them to you.

Charlie (in his southern accent): "But Master, Cap'n Dick has the coastline surrounded for MILES around!"

Yeah, the video was really funny. It was recorded on a medium speed, and one machine I saw it on had only short and long play...so it was like hearing Charlie recite it while breathing helium. Of course, the sight of him in Mike Moore's jacuzzi full of bubbles was disturbing.

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:39 pm

I can one up that one: Chaley Vernon DANCING at BMC, summer of 1980. Now THAT was truly disturbing. I seem to remember Charley and Jaime getting a ROUSING ovation before they had even said a word.

Here's one for you:

Billy Vernon: Yeah, someday me and Charley are going to be working together, he's got me covered.

Don Gardo: What, he can get you that janitor gig at the Meyerhof?

Many Drunk Low Brass Players on Boy's Hill: RONTFLTCAO (translation forthcoming)

Chuck

hurricane_harry · Post by **hurricane_harry** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:57 pm

this may be one of the unsolved mysteries of the music world. who really did write the low brass players creedo?

MikeMason · Post by **MikeMason** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:33 pm

all the brevard talk gets me to wondering- where is Jamie Hafner now? A true gentleman...

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