Our bands 50th anniversary

[eupher61]

congratulations to all the band members, past and present (and future!)

[GaryBB]

Happy anniversary and a wish for many more. I enjoyed the number.

[Alex C]

Great tradition. Thanks for the link.

[Wyvern]

Sounds good Kurt! I hope to have a blow with you when over in Germany

[David Richoux]

My band's 50th will be this next January - we are planning a special party, commemorative t-shirts and what-not.

Considering the very loose structure of the organization, I am sometimes surprised we made it this far!
http://www.ltwcmb.com

[Toad Away]

Sehr gute mein Freund

[imperialbari]

My band's 50th will be this next January - we are planning a special party, commemorative t-shirts and what-not.

Considering the very loose structure of the organization, I am sometimes surprised we made it this far!
http://www.ltwcmb.com

Real good bassline probably by you. But then just about everybody else on the melody gives more freedom to the bass.

Very impressive to integrate a real cow on cow bell.

Your version of the National Anthem truly grasps the original spirit of that tune. Only I miss Roseanne Barr on the vocal.

I have played in something that pretended to be slightly more organised, but I am not sure it was. Your band sounds insanely funny. Whether I could take it in the long run is another matter. This has public appeal!

Klaus

[imperialbari]

no problem Jonathan!!
If you can stand our conductor..............................

Cheers,
Kurt

This kind of church environment is not fully foreign to me. What I wonder slightly about, is the obviously British formation. How did that inspiration come to a folksy German band?

Klaus

[imperialbari]

I don’t like the old style Sally Lady hats, and I am not too crazy about their guitar and tambourine female groups. But the Salvation Army does some social work not done by others. Without going into deeper theological discussions, one might say that the SA represents a very profound form of Protestantism. They appear to be a widely respected organisation.

Klaus

[Wyvern]

Quite a lot of the best brass band players in the UK seem to come from Salvation Army background.

I have no connection, but do highly respect the SA for their good work.

[David Richoux]

My band's 50th will be this next January - we are planning a special party, commemorative t-shirts and what-not.

Considering the very loose structure of the organization, I am sometimes surprised we made it this far!
http://www.ltwcmb.com

Real good bassline probably by you. But then just about everybody else on the melody gives more freedom to the bass.

Very impressive to integrate a real cow on cow bell.

Your version of the National Anthem truly grasps the original spirit of that tune. Only I miss Roseanne Barr on the vocal.

I have played in something that pretended to be slightly more organised, but I am not sure it was. Your band sounds insanely funny. Whether I could take it in the long run is another matter. This has public appeal!

Klaus

We actually win awards in some parades (and they keep asking us back for some reason!) but if they don't let us have our beer cart we don't do the parade. By the time we get to the end of the parade the keg is empty and we are in fine form for the National Anthem.

I share tuba duty with a few other strong players, otherwise I usually play Alto Horn or I am the Drum Major. Getting people to play harmony parts is tricky - we feel lucky if the audience can actually recognize the tune

We have been asked, by German and Swiss tourists, if we are a Guggie Band - it took the Internet to find out what they were talking about...

Dave R

[imperialbari]

The term is Guggenmusik.

On German eBay you often will see instrument wrecks offered as being good for decoration or for Guggenmusik.

Klaus

[David Richoux]

The term is Guggenmusik.

On German eBay you often will see instrument wrecks offered as being good for decoration or for Guggenmusik.

Klaus

Yes, I stumbled onto that answer a few years ago while searching Sousaphone images on Google - now there are hundreds of Guggen band websites!

(then I found out about Dutch "Dweilorkesten" bands... )
Dave R

[Wyvern]

What does Guggen actually mean? My translator found no such word

[David Richoux]

What does Guggen actually mean? My translator found no such word

I had a chat with a Midwestern University (not being specific on purpose) musicologist who wrote a thesis about this whole music/cultural movement. He said the Guggenmusik part of it was made up by two guys in a Swiss bar who were tasked with providing entertainment for the local Fastnacht (end of Winter) celebration back in 1947 or so. The concept they came up with is "Wrong Playing" - deliberate mistakes (for comic effect, I guess.) What the word actually means is vague.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faschnaut_Day does not link to
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenmusik ( rough web translation: http://tinyurl.com/l23l2x does not agree with the story I was told, so take what you will from it.)