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Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: Robert Moody
Date: 2005-01-12 20:55

I auditioned for the Army Field Band a little while back and really blew chunks (still haven't figured out how that happened, but it did) and now, today, I hear from my commander that THREE of the clarinet players from the Field Band will be touring with us.

Good thing? Hopefully.

Nervous and always wondering? Probably.

Now I REALLY have to nail the Zigeunerweisen. [cool]

[cool]

Sigh....

Robert Moody
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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: diz
Date: 2005-01-12 21:31

"blew chunks" - can you translate for me, sorry I only speak Australian English

Without music, the world would be grey, very grey.

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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2005-01-12 21:35

"blew chunks" = chunder

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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: ken
Date: 2005-01-12 23:46

Grinding out a prepared solo night after night in a performance situation before the general public is hardly reconcilable to a high pressure audition with a table-chair line of green bags and brass shooting excerpts, scales and sight reading at you while scrutinizing every utterance.

I'm sure you'll discover these Field Band pickers aren't that much finer players than you ... if at all. All you can possibly know is they had a better audition then you, and even that's questionable depending on what overall qualities the panel was looking for that day.

And, in reality, it's a fantastic stroke of luck soloing on a tour with these folks augmenting the section ... a unique opportunity to do some personal networking and building a career field reputation by playing well. v/r Ken

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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: William
Date: 2005-01-13 14:41

"Blew chunks"!! Is that synonomus with hand gernades, bombed, clams or trainwrecked?? LOL

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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: Brenda Siewert
Date: 2005-01-13 14:44

My kids always used the phrase, "Blew chunks," to mean they vomited with forward propulsion.

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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2005-01-13 15:05

If it's any consolation (I doubt it will be, though): for the few years I took private lessons while in high school, my teacher was a clarinetist in the Army Field Band and, although he played a fine soprano clarinet, he couldn't play a note of BASS clarinet (which was ostensibly what I was taking lessons on), and I used to chuckle whenever he tried to play my bass and could barely get a squeak out of it. So, those guys ARE only human...........

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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: Robert Moody
Date: 2005-01-13 15:48

<<"Blew chunks"!! Is that synonomus with hand gernades, bombed, clams or trainwrecked?? LOL>>

Affirmative. [cool]

[cool]

Robert Moody
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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: Avie
Date: 2005-01-13 16:25

Being a self taught novice I need a clearer explaination of "blew chunks" and "chunder" otherwise I can only guess the meaning of the original post! Neither definition is in my dictionary. My guess is that you did well. [frown]

[frown]

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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2005-01-13 16:56

I believe the term he could've substituted there is "sucked". For some reason, at the audition, he "sucked".

Also substitutable into that sentence would be "played like Alexi".

Hope I'm not being too candid on what you meant Robert [wink]

[wink]

.

Or if that's not what you meant, then I too could use a clearer explanation.

Alexi

US Army Japan Band

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Re: Oh Great! THEY are going to be here.

Author: Robert Moody
Date: 2005-01-13 19:55

Okay, for our non-Americanized English speaking members; here is an explanation of what I meant by "blowing chunks".

While some may disdain the moments right up until vomitting, the worst feeling is when you actually are throwing up.

If one were to equate a scale of severity to such an experience, "blowing chunks" would be equivalent to vomitting in a terrible and powerful way as a severe reaction to something eaten. Hence, "chunks" of undigested food have returned to the outside world...whole. It is a very unpleasant, and often unexpected, experience to say the least.

My experience in the audition (the actual playing part) came across to me as the equivalent of "blowing chunks". It was a terrible experience that I did not expect and it took me by violent suprise. I was, afterwards, somewhat dazed as to what had just happened...quite like the feeling one might experience from the former described event.

In short... "blew chunks" meant that I played horribly bad...comparable to the experience of vomitting on oneself.

[cool]

[cool]

Take care,

Robert Moody
http://www.musix4me.com
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