| Steve,
Here's a Bach 72 / 7D east coast transplant player that changed quick when he got to the " Beach " ( Los Angeles )
Lee Thronberg came to town about the same time I did in the late 70's He's from the New York area originally and when he " stepped off the boat " he was playing a Bach 72 with a Bach D mouthpiece. ( I think he was with some Rock Act that got him out West )Anyway, it didn't take him long to figure out his set-up was making him work way to hard - he was playing with a really popular horn-band out here called " Jack Mack and the Heart Attack " . they used a 5 piece horn section .( trivia: they were playing the Atlanta Summer Olympics , in the plaza, at the exact time the 2 bombs went off .)
Within a couple of months, he jumped on the Calicchio/ Reeves bandwagon with a Calicchio 3 bell / 7 pipe ML trumpet and a 41 s / 69 Reeves. ( 3 bell is a great " Rock and Roll " bell especially if your looking down the barrel of a 451 Sennhauser mike and a " hot ' monitor) and all of a sudden he was the main " Rock and Roll " trumpet player in town ( like Mac Goellehin ( Sp? ) is on the East Coast )eventually playing tours like Tower of Power,Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd, Bowie, etc. and finally , now, Band, taking the spot Chuck Findley left open upon his departure, still using the same Calicchio and Reeves set-up.
2 other friends of Lee came out here from Rochester, NY about the same time, ( within a couple of month's ) with the same Bach 72 / 7D set-up and changed within 6 months.
They told me all the younger players ( late 70's early 80's ) play the Bach 72 / 7d set up or they use a Bach 72 / Girad 7M set-up. It was pretty universal at the time on the east coast from what I'm hearing.
They have all switched to Calicchio / Reeves set-up now and are doing well in town.
Larry
Steve, I'll call Lee tomorrow and ask him what the name of the band he was on that got him to the West Coast. I want to say Joe Cocker, but I don't think that's right, but it was some " Blues/Rock " type recording band that was a name act at the time.
Larry |