Klarinet Archive - Posting 000901.txt from 2004/10

From: "Ted Casher" <tedcasher@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Not sure if this is a joke or something serious -- Man sues Selmer for a lousy love life
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:30:04 -0400

Ted Casher here. Dunno, guys.....playing the tenor sax worked well for Bill
Clinton!!!!!

The night he borrowed my tenor at Hilary's 10-year Wellesley College
reunion---he sure stirred up a crowd!

In 1979, Bill could play. He could solo credibly on the blues and tunes
like "Perdido" and "A-Train." He also knew such minutae as the shout
choruses to those numbers. You could tell he spent time with the
instrument.

However, in 1989, there was another decade of nonpractice on the instrument.
He did not play as well on the Arsenio Hall show as he did in Boston in
1979.

The idea of the lawsuit is too funny! Some of us have played tenor
sax/clarinet from the days of excitable youth to Viagra!

The idea of meeting attractive members of the opposite gender worked well
for Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Billy Mitchell (famous lovers/tenorplayers of the
Basie band), Al Sears (Basie, Ellington, Johnny Hodges), who was stabbed to
death by a jealous husband. Not to mention Artie Shaw (8 wives), and
Charlie Barnet (10 wives)!!!!!

Nothing like the music business!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Hausmann" <bhausmann1@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Not sure if this is a joke or something serious -- Man
sues Selmer for a lousy love life

> At 06:10 AM 10/29/2004 -0700, Dan Leeson wrote:
> >...Mr. Barlow's attorney, noted civil rights lawyer Ron Kuby,
> >alleges in papers filed today with the 2nd Circuit Court of
> >Central Iowa that "in their glamorous print advertisements that
> >feature beautiful women gazing longingly at men playing the
> >saxophone, the Selmer Corporation creates the expectation that
> >all one has to do to gain favor with said beautiful women is to
> >purchase and learn how to play one of their extremely expensive
> >saxophones. After spending more than $6000 on a Selmer Mark VI Eb
> >Alto Saxophone and assorted accessories, as well as two years'
> >worth of private lessons, my client, Mr. Barlow, is no closer to
> >going on his first date than the day he passed his CPA exam."...
>
> This is clearly a hoax, since Selmer has not made the Mark VI model since
> about 1975. Not to mention that their advertising generally does not go
in
> that direction. And the general silliness of the thing (although these
> days NOTHING is out of bounds for the trial lawyers).
>
>
>
> Bill Hausmann
>
> If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!
>
>
>
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