You sound like you are about 50 years old then, just a guess... I am quite a bit older so I played bass from 1975-1984 all thru HS including upright... Tried at one time to join air force jazz band but my sight reading was not good enough (fast enough) so failed... Was in many bands that went nowhere, you know, slingblade sorta porch-garage bands... Can't say I miss it much... What a pain to haul the equipment around, the shitty cords & buzzing pick-ups whilst the piccolo player had a case not much bigger than an eyeglass case (HS Band)... Then having to deal with personalities-gripes in the various bands or other musicians being better or worse than you...
In one instance was in a band that was playing some AWB tunes & the guitarist & singer started arguing over a passage so the drummer started farting around on his setup then all-of-a-sudden just leaped-smashed thru his set ruining a number of his equipment then thrashing all over makin' it worse... We were freaked so called an ambulance but he was an epileptic & had not taken required medication... Got the argument stopped though..
Back in high school we were on a bus to go do a state competition in band in which I played upright & sometimes timpani... Going up a mountain pass the bus started missing then broke down completely, one of the students had to hitchike back to a payphone, in the meantime we all had to stay on the bus but someone in the back yelled out "HEY!! There's MONEY out there!!!"" & tried as hard the Band teacher to keep us in we just all blew past him... Bigger than shit there was over $800 in various bills off the side of road in the ravine & down in the swampy area, nope I didn't find any!... Alotta dough for 1979...
In one instance was in a band that was playing some AWB tunes & the guitarist & singer started arguing over a passage so the drummer started farting around on his setup then all-of-a-sudden just leaped-smashed thru his set ruining a number of his equipment then thrashing all over makin' it worse... We were freaked so called an ambulance but he was an epileptic & had not taken required medication... Got the argument stopped though..
Back in high school we were on a bus to go do a state competition in band in which I played upright & sometimes timpani... Going up a mountain pass the bus started missing then broke down completely, one of the students had to hitchike back to a payphone, in the meantime we all had to stay on the bus but someone in the back yelled out "HEY!! There's MONEY out there!!!"" & tried as hard the Band teacher to keep us in we just all blew past him... Bigger than shit there was over $800 in various bills off the side of road in the ravine & down in the swampy area, nope I didn't find any!... Alotta dough for 1979...
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