Author: oldreedguy
Date: 2019-10-25 00:51
You know...I sit here and tell stories...sometimes a few here and there do enjoy...
OK...
...while my newly acquired Buffet S1 (yes there is/was such a thing) is waiting for a $400 overhaul up near San Luis Obispo, California...I sit here listening to Roger Waters' 2017 concert on youtube...now, what does that have to do with clarinet?
Dig this...
In 1999...having not played clarinet since Navy boot camp (yes, I played in the 1981 Recruit Bank Great Lakes IL and qualified as a full time Navy clarinetist...I TURNED IT DOWN!)...for 18 years I didn't touch any horn at all...no, I got into Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead and and was a garage/bar band bass/keyboard rock jammer from 1988-93...then I got sober in 1994 and left music for good...no, not exactly...because of a bass gig I did in 1998-a fill in weekend thing, I met a music therapist...and the Veterans Administration picked up the tab for my undergraduate and some graduate work...but I needed an instrument when I matriculated at Willamette University in Salem OR...I flunked the bass guitar audition so badly they thought I didn't have any music skills at all...but the school needed the VA bread so they admitted me...I took a few months of lessons, the school discontinued the Music Therapy program, I auditioned at a conservatory at University of Pacific in Stockton (some guy named Dave Brubeck was involved there)...and passed!
Only 4 months of lessons after not playing for 18 years! So yes, you can do anything you put your mind to it, just practice and "feel" the music...that's what got me through the past 20 years or so...I put the clarinet down again in 2000 when I "discovered" my rather unusual high "tenor" male voice...but over the years I picked it up again here and there...a little sax...piano...12 string guitar...bass.voice...whatever...at 58 now, I can hit super high notes comparable to Robert Plant and guys...and even gals...like that...but playing clarinet as a kid...that's how it started...if you got it in you, just do it...if it makes you happy and others dig it...cool...anything is possible...
Great gig in the sky,...pink floyd...I can sing like the girls...full voice...but the clarinet is where is started...rock on, clarinet player redux,,,
Barney P....old rock star of rehab...
My R13 was pawned for a road trip I took a couple of months ago...dazed and confused, I found my room, sober...100 miles north of LA...we'll see what the 'ol licorice stick'
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The Clarinet BBoard
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