General Music Chat

Hey, get back to band practice! See how much time you wasted deleting your original profile, then setting up a new one?
At least I confine my time here to work hours!

Hey, get back to band practice! See how much time you wasted deleting your original profile, then setting up a new one?
At least I confine my time here to work hours!

Does the boss man know?

"Take Five" written by Paul Desmond....i always wondered if it bugged him that he rarely gets credit for the tune! He was a legendary drinker, perhaps this is what drove him to drink! He also had a legendary sardonic sense of humor and dry wit.

So perhaps he was able to laugh it all off. Story has it that he wasn't too happy when they went from a drummer-less trio to the quartet w the great Joe Morello on drums. Supposedly according to JM...Desmond barely spoke to him for the first six months!

Desmond wrote a book (one i need to check out) about life on the road w the Quartet called "How Many Are In The Quartet?"...a question they'd get from time to time.

I remember reading in a PD interview (from the late '70's?) him saying that back when they recorded "Take Five" it was a big deal if could play in five or seven, but these days most H.S. kids can do it quite capably.

I wish Brubeck were still alive today. If he was, I would send him a copy of our new tune-
https://soundcloud.com/jookeyman/gimme-five

Hats off to Mark for throwing this in my lap!!
This is Mark's baby. I'm just vomiting all over it. Back to Brubeck..................

nice job. your gtr playing on this cracks me up. in a GOOD way....i'm laughing WITH YOU!

i do take exception w you crediting me w "PITBULL BASS"...."Rabid Poodle Bass" might be a more apt description!

I first saw Brubeck when I was in school. He owned the auditoriam - no matter what we thought going in we came out thinking, "Damn! This guys has it down."

Fast forward, just before I junked my TV I happened to see a special about Dave Brubeck. In his nineties he had converted to Catholicism and written a major church piece plus two sonatas (I think they were called).

The old scoundrel should have hired Christopher Lee to sing lead with him - Lee was singing with a metal band in his nineties.

Talbot