(Just as a side note, I want to mention that the dressing room that Dearly Beloved used twenty-four hours previously still smelled atrociously bad. It was all armpits and litterboxes. They admitted/apologized to some of us that they hadn't bathed in a while. No shit! I think their previous encounter with soap must have been back in Canada.)
The big tune of the night was When I'm Sixty-Four. It went pretty well. I'm flat (of all things--after years of being twenty cents sharp, I'm finally going flat!) and the other two horns are wild with the tuning as well. I 'm guessing that when I'm playing straight clarinet, my throat and embouchure aren't as wide open as they are when I've been playing saxophone full blast for an hour. Thus, I'm a little low. The clarinet wins again!
I recorded it:
Other than that, it was our usual stuff. Jason Pellett nailed Penny Lane. The sound was really good, particularly for the horn monitor. I think that it helped that Greg was not there when we set the monitor mix--Jason and I want us and probably nothing else, and Greg wants everything else and us!
We always laugh that the Please Pleaserock Me gig always looks like a music store...three keyboards, a Wurly, drums, hand percussion, six or seven guitars, five amplifiers, omnichord, laptop, plus the horns--me or soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone sax, piccolo, flute, clarinet, and kazoo, Jason on piccolo trumpet, Bb trumpet, flugelhorn, and trombone, and Greg on alto sax! We use all thirty-two channels at Smith's, and we could use more if they had them.
On the break, I stuffed the request box with Young Americans--Bowie quotes A Day in the Life, so I think it's legit.
It's a drag that Youtube took down the video of Bowie (with Sanborn) playing Young Americans live on the Dick Cavett show. One of my favorites. I did find it here.
Speaking of David Sanborn, I got my Dukoffs back from Will Grizzle already. He put them back together for me. Yay! I played my normal one last night--it's a 7* that Mojobari opened up to .85, so it's really a D8 now. It felt great. I had been using a Dukoff vibracom D8 (my backup mouthpiece). The silverite one has more bite and balls. I love it.
Mark Cobb is the man!
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