Klarinet Archive - Posting 000884.txt from 2000/10

From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Ian Haystead video. ETC ETC
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 18:18:23 -0400

> > From: Peter Randell <bardell@-----.ca>
>
> > Hi Tony :-
> > And "B - - - - - - -" to you, too !
> > Is Sid Lawrence still around then ?
> > Regard's
> > Peter Randell
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> Everybody knows now that you will have to wash your mouth out with soapy
> water, PETER RANDALL!!!
>
> Still, I`ll contact Mrs Thatcher this week. She comes at some expense I
> fear. A word of warning also. Don`t play "Colonel Bogey" standing too
close,
> within striking distance of her handbag, or you`ll probably end up with
your
> mouthpiece sticking out of the back of your neck!
>
> You ask of Sid Laurence. Sid Laurence died 18 months ago. The band was
> bought by Chris Dean, a trombonist, and it essentially plays functions for
> concerts and dancing these days. I don`t think we will see any more
> recordings due to the fact that these days music producers don`t know what
> big bands are, (here in U.K. anyway). A lot of audiences also. Chris will
> inevitably find it increasingly difficult to keep the band up and running,
> sadly. He`s a fine player - I did some gigs with him many years ago, and
he
> knew what he wanted musically, and discipline wise also.
>
> A sudden thought - - Am I right in observing a similar syndrome being
> realised in the U.S. also? That is,
> are the only bands we hear of being recorded these days come from the
> colleges and universities? All the
> current professional big bands seem to have little outlet in recording
> C.D.`s for commercial release now that the era of Basie and Kenton has
gone,
> whereas I see a lot of university big bands and symphonic band adverts in
> the British music journals`. These university bands are of course all
> amateur. Now I wonder - - - -?
>
> Anyway,the competition is now closed folks, as PETER RANDALL was
> exceptionally quick off the mark coming forward with his explicit
expletive.
> I`ve now got to kleen up _my_ akt, or Marc will klose me down kompletely.
> Best,
> Fine two-keyed lad.
> (An alias - to prevent me from being diskovered, and forcibly evikted and
> un-subskribed from klarinet).

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