[Magdalen] Time for a little Tuba Skinny...

[Christopher Hart]

"a mere three wind instruments"? I count four, Mike. Only three brass, but
also the clarinet.

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 11:55 AM M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>Wonderful, Mike. You've made me a Tuba Skinny fan.<<<
>
> It takes a lot to make me a "fan" of anything these days, and I must admit
> I seldom do such watching listening and watching at Youtube, believe it or
> don't.  But whens I sees 'em, I shares 'em.
>
> I also must admit that the washboardist's impression of Huck Finn playing
> the washboard on what Huck might call a less-than-great day, is a bit
> off-putting.  But his use of mere tin cans is sterling.  (Well, tin'ing,
> anyway.)
>
> But the thing that amazes me about any band, from days of yore to examples
> like this, is the ability of a mere three wind instruments coming so
> absolutely close to what the original King Oliver recording sounds like.
> Point being, it's not what they do with the instruments so much as how
> clearly and deeply they've absorbed the original to make it come alive
> today on such a stage in such a way.  Not "copying"; hardly!  But, coming
> from someone who rues that so many young bands make it a point to be both
> traditional and modern and therefore a new thing altogether, "keeping a
> nearly lost style alive".
>
> M J (Mike) Logsdon.
>
> "Aaugh[.]" -- Charles Brown.
> "Avoid dull needles and use a soft cloth." -- E Kovacs.
> "Because that's the kind of guy, I'm." -- C Reiner, "Your Show of Shows",
> skit: "From Here to Obscurity".
>


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Christopher Hart

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