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Author: Sean.Perrin
Date: 2006-03-15 00:02
An interesting lesson he learned about Concert Etiquitte i guess. So the guy who criticised the playing got killed, or the other guy it didn't really specify.
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Author: ken
Date: 2006-03-15 01:27
This savage act almost smacks of gang violence; dude could definitely use a crash course in life skills. From an artist and musical standpoint, it reminds me indirectly of singer Karen Carpenter's death. Although bulimia was reported as official cause, I'm personally convinced the incendiary, if not tortuous pressure and drive for perfection placed on her by immediate family members -- that she placed on herself -- contributed to her final demise.
I once stepped in the middle of a chair-throwing mêlée; everyone in its path ducked in time but the wall suffered a softball-sized pot hole; flying chairs can indeed kill people (look what just one slip on the ice did to Dr. Atkins.)
The bigger picture and potential lesson for us all is we should never take ourselves so seriously. Under no circumstances, pervert and turn the love, joy and beauty of music into a weapon against each other ... particularly in the arena of LIVE music. Being hopelessly human and taking chances is what live music is all about in the first place. Surely, no bad performance, clam, butchered riff and lick or rejected audition are worthy of a suicide pack or the rage killing of a fellow musician. v/r Ken
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2006-03-15 03:43
We had sort of the same thing here. A trombone player murdered the guy who got the first chair in a big band orchestra. He wasn't teased or critizised even, just lost the first chair position. Now he plays in the small prison jazz orchstra.
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Author: ned
Date: 2006-03-15 06:15
He got the chair in prison eh? Obviously it was not the one that they have to plug in then.
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Author: Gobboboy
Date: 2006-03-18 10:59
>Typical Army Band behavior.
Please do not tar Army Bands with the same brush as a Murdering thug.
If so 'typical', how many times have you EVER seen something like that happen in an Army Band??????
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2006-03-19 14:38
I agree. What kind of statement is that, "Typical Army band behavior" ??? It's hardly accurate to paint somebody with a brush like that , simply because he is in an Army band. All members of Armed Forces bands that I have ever met have been kind, courteous and no different from the general population of musicians, except that they might have a little more self-discipline.
It seems to me that this particular piper was an anomaly, and none of this has any bearing on his affiliatiion with the military, but rather with problems of his own personality and behavior.
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