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Denny Schreffler Veteran Member
Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 383 Location: Tucson
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2018 12:30 pm Post subject: Train wreck |
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We've all talked about, and experienced, train wrecks in our careers.
The image of uncontrollable and uncorrectable occurrences with lingering consequences goes back to the 19th C and the beginning of steam locomotion.
So when we're talking about a train wreck on stage ....
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/arizona/rain-causes-train-derailment-northwest-of-tucson/75-572555301
A flash flood knocked several cars (and a ton -- or more -- of UPS packages) off the tracks yesterday.
-Denny |
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plp Heavyweight Member
Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 7023 Location: South Alabama
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2018 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, that is nothing compared to what I did to the solo on 'Send In The Clowns' at state contest.
Had nailed it in my sleep, on my worst day, with fever blisters, and flu, and literally Montezuma's Revenge in Mexico City, in 1978.
Totally, totally, hamburgered it for no good reason at our premier finals for state. _________________ Since all other motives—fame, money, power, even honor—are thrown out the window the moment I pick up that instrument..... I play because I love doing it, even when the results are disappointing. In short, I do it to do it.” Wayne Booth |
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blbaumgarn Heavyweight Member
Joined: 26 Jul 2017 Posts: 705
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 11:40 pm Post subject: Train Wreck |
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I don't know if I ever scattered the fields with corpses, or unleashed nuclear waste by playing a lousy solo but I did play a short solo during a city band concert in the park (standing), and when I sat beck down the young lady who played 1st trumpet with me, and an ordained Lutheran minister looked at me with horror on her face and said, "Do you realize that the fly on your pants is down?" This is embarrassing by itself, but it also made me realize that I was "trolling in the park" before we even got to the bandshell. Oh God, why do I come back to this website!! _________________ "There are two sides to a trumpeter's personality,
there is one that lives to lay waste to woodwinds and strings, leaving them lie blue and lifeless along a swath of destruction that is a
trumpeter's fury-then there is the dark side!" Irving Bush |
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NameGeorge New Member
Joined: 25 Jul 2018 Posts: 8 Location: Tampa, Florida
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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 3:03 am Post subject: |
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Oh man! These are both painful and amazing to read. Keep 'em coming, fellas. |
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