TUBA time
tripledouble
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hot 8 brass band really woke my ass up to the all mighty power of the tuba.good god, thats like the king of the brass, laying down the ridiculous deep sounds like a bassdrumany funky tuba out there?if rufus harley can rock the bagpipes, someones gotta have some tuba raer groove
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Or is that a sousaphone?
2nd line jump - 2 blakk
I cant f*cking stand the french horn, goddawful piece of brass, at least the tuba can hit some notes that you can feel...the French horn is just this bland "haaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww"
Mistaken
Yeap.
Howard Johnson was the tuba player that showed up on lots of records, jazz, blues, pop in the late 70s.
He has at least one solo record, but I don't recall listening to it.
Freebo plays tuba on Bonnie Raitt's first lp, maybe the second too.
I went to hear a friend play in the youth symphony a while back, and they had a contrabass clarinet. Killing it.
Hit em with a sip D!
Not sure when it came out, but recorded in 1974...
listening to this yesterday made this thread question come to mind
Joe Daley
More out than funky, but good.
It definitely does not work in some settings. But there are some really good jazz records with French Horn. Usually Julius Watkins. Also, if if you are inclined to so-called 3rd stream jazz there's John Graas and some others.
Also also, James Reese's "Summertime" (Greenville, SC, holler) is French-horn-led and really good.
Haha. Logan Square-related? Yeah, those dudes got the boomin' systems.
there's also that french market jazz band lp on flying dutchman that has that funky version of bongalusa strut.
Thats the one.
I bought it in the mid 80s in a chain record store.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't.
How does one tell the diff b/t a tuba and sousaphone though?
You would have to be crazy familiar.
My guess is, since the sousa is smaller it is pitched higher.
There are differently pitched tubas too.
I ride for this one.
ok, next question is, is it hard to play a tuba?
honestly, im talking about those real big dog ones. do you need crazy lung capacity for that? does it get crazy heavy if you are in a marching band swinging that shit around?
who has played one before?