Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 2000/05

From: webler1 <webler1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] FW: having trouble with his time
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 06:15:09 -0400

This was sent to me by a friend who runs a Big Band that I play in
occasionally. I thought that you might appreciate it even if it is not
about the Clarinet.

Jay Webler
Jay's Clarinet and Percussion

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Neal Sims [SMTP:ejagchas@-----.net]
Subject: having trouble with his time

Got this from a musician friend, it's pretty good ! CNS
A drummer on a band is having trouble with his time. He keeps getting
behind the beat and the band is getting fed up and goes to the leader and
says he should be fired. However, the leader says he's known the guy
forever, he's always been a good drummer, and he'll talk to the guy and see
what the problem is.
He goes to the drummer who admits he's having problems and says he's
working on it and to please not fire him.
But things just get worse. He keeps slowing the beat down plus coming in
late and finally the whole band threatens to quit. The leader has to fire
him.
The drummer is so depressed that he goes down to the railroad tracks and
throws himself behind a train.

and now for you non-musicians:
BEHIND the train, BEHIND the beat. get it ? CNS

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