| "How many high school kids can transpose in E? How many high school players can play softly with a beautiful sound? Maybe there is something wrong with their role models."
Wilmer,
Have I told you recently what a pleasure it is having you around on TM?
You are so on the mark about this. All of those things were part of constant discussion when I was a kid. Sure, we all loved huddling around somebody's record player listening to the latest MF Horn album and wishing we could do that. Then we'd put on a Mendez recording. Somebody would bring out Doc and an album of ballads. Finally, the symphonic albums would come out for the grand finale.
We'd talk about lessons we had and the latest cool technique we'd learned. We'd have low note contests. LOW NOTE! How fat could we scream a low G or F#? The fat sound was the big thing then, I recall. Everybody wanted to see who could get the fattest sound on a lick.
Guess we were really dumb back then, eh, Wilmer?
ML |