According to "This is Spinal Tap", they have short life expectancies!
Clay
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> that was so painful i couldn't watch it to the end. it's as if Saturday
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> Night Live or someone else (it's almost Pythoneque) made it into a sketch.
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> i guess my limited experience of drummers/percussionists was that they
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Reply by robert bristow-johnson●January 6, 20132013-01-06
oh dear!
that was so painful i couldn't watch it to the end. it's as if Saturday
Night Live or someone else (it's almost Pythoneque) made it into a sketch.
i guess my limited experience of drummers/percussionists was that they
were pretty understated guys. i dunno.
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r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Reply by Eric Jacobsen●January 6, 20132013-01-06
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 06:18:37 -0800 (PST), Robert Adams
<robert.adams@analog.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:45:58 PM UTC-6, Robert Adams wrote:
>> In the musical world I inhabit, drummer jokes are very much in vogue :)
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> And then, of course, there is the story
> of the intrepid explorer canoeing up the
> river with his native guide when drums
> start beating in the hills.
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> "Is that bad?" asks IE nervously.
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> "Yes," says NG, "but when drums stop,
> very, very bad..."
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> "Why?" asks IE in a small voice.
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> NG replies "Bass solo start."
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:45:58 -0800 (PST), Robert Adams
<robert.adams@analog.com> wrote:
>Umm, that last line was meant to be a joke (obviously not a very good one!).
>In the musical world I inhabit, drummer jokes are very much in vogue :)
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>Bob
Hi Bob,
Accordion Joke# 1): The accordion player, with his
accordion in the back seat of his car, stops at a
grocery store to buy bread. Leaving the store with
his bread he walks back to his car and sees the rear
window of his car smashed out. He thinks, "Oh no!
My accordion!" Running up to the car he looks through the
smashed window and sees two accordions in the back seat.
Accordion Joke# 2): Accordions don't play "Lady of
Spain, ...people do.
[-Rick-]
Reply by robert bristow-johnson●January 5, 20132013-01-05
On 1/4/13 9:59 PM, dvsarwate wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:45:58 PM UTC-6, Robert Adams wrote:
>> In the musical world I inhabit, drummer jokes are very much in vogue :)
>
> And then, of course, there is the story
> of the intrepid explorer canoeing up the
> river with his native guide when drums
> start beating in the hills.
>
> "Is that bad?" asks IE nervously.
>
> "Yes," says NG, "but when drums stop,
> very, very bad..."
>
> "Why?" asks IE in a small voice.
>
> NG replies "Bass solo start."
>
:-)
--
r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Reply by dvsarwate●January 4, 20132013-01-04
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:45:58 PM UTC-6, Robert Adams wrote:
> In the musical world I inhabit, drummer jokes are very much in vogue :)
And then, of course, there is the story
of the intrepid explorer canoeing up the
river with his native guide when drums
start beating in the hills.
"Is that bad?" asks IE nervously.
"Yes," says NG, "but when drums stop,
very, very bad..."
"Why?" asks IE in a small voice.
NG replies "Bass solo start."
Reply by Robert E. Beaudoin●January 3, 20132013-01-03
On 01/03/13 12:33, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Richard Dobson<richarddobson@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
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> (snip)
>> The classical music equivalent is viola players. Goes back too many
>> years for me to know why.
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> (snip of joke)
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> OK, viola jokes, reminds me of:
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> http://eliseblackwell.com/pages/an-unfinished-score.html
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> Well, it is a pretty good story, but there is one joke in it that
> I still remember, told by one character in the story to another.
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> Q: How do you keep you violin from getting stolen?
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> A: Keep it in a viola case.
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> -- glen
The viola joke I've been told:
Q: (From one oboist to another.) What's the difference between a violin
and a viola?
A: Viola burns longer.
Well, I think its funny.
REB