THIS HAIR...
1973 - `74 Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra...
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1973 HAIR performance
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bloke
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1973 HAIR performance
no...not "that" HAIR...
THIS HAIR...
1973 - `74 Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra...
(Someone posted this on fb, and tagged me.)
THIS HAIR...
1973 - `74 Memphis Youth Symphony Orchestra...
(Someone posted this on fb, and tagged me.)
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
Oh, say can you see/
My eyes, if you can/
THEN MY HAIR'S TOO SHORT!
My eyes, if you can/
THEN MY HAIR'S TOO SHORT!
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
A FEW THINGS:
The principal trumpet is (per custom) on the LEFT end of the section.
Look IMMEDIATELY south of him...
THAT'S Mrs. bloke !!! (principal bassoon)
At that time, the two of us had never spoken, but I had noticed (difficult to not notice) her two-inch-diameter round-lenses eye-wear.
now...Check out the 2nd trombonist - with the naturally super-curly hair (white-guy) "afro"...
Immediately to the RIGHT of Mrs. bloke, is the 2nd trombonist's identical TWIN brother - with an IDENTICAL wild "afro".
According to Mrs. bloke, he never spoke...not ever. ' possibly wasn't pleased with the seating arrangements...(??)
The principal trumpet is (per custom) on the LEFT end of the section.
Look IMMEDIATELY south of him...
THAT'S Mrs. bloke !!! (principal bassoon)
At that time, the two of us had never spoken, but I had noticed (difficult to not notice) her two-inch-diameter round-lenses eye-wear.
now...Check out the 2nd trombonist - with the naturally super-curly hair (white-guy) "afro"...
Immediately to the RIGHT of Mrs. bloke, is the 2nd trombonist's identical TWIN brother - with an IDENTICAL wild "afro".
According to Mrs. bloke, he never spoke...not ever. ' possibly wasn't pleased with the seating arrangements...(??)
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
Everybody wanted to be a Hippy!!
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- bloke (Mon Dec 06, 2021 6:53 pm)
Thought Criminal
Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
My trouser cuffs were wide, and the bell-bottoms were as well...
I didn't wear those crazy "stacks" shoes, because I was already taller than the average bear.
I didn't wear those crazy "stacks" shoes, because I was already taller than the average bear.
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
LOL...
My sister just stuck this one up (apparently, a scan of one of those trendy "fingerprint-resistant" photos)...
...probably from the same year...
...loading up the fiberglass 36K to go somewhere and play something (??)
My Mom would let me drive that '71 Catalina of hers (with 400 cu. in. engine) by then...
bloke "At that time, I was still a (working - mostly: behind my parents' back, and passing for 20-something at cocktail parties/etc.) guitarist, and - still viewed 'tuba/sousaphone' as a 'class at school', rather than as a 'musical instrument'."
My sister just stuck this one up (apparently, a scan of one of those trendy "fingerprint-resistant" photos)...
...probably from the same year...
...loading up the fiberglass 36K to go somewhere and play something (??)
My Mom would let me drive that '71 Catalina of hers (with 400 cu. in. engine) by then...
bloke "At that time, I was still a (working - mostly: behind my parents' back, and passing for 20-something at cocktail parties/etc.) guitarist, and - still viewed 'tuba/sousaphone' as a 'class at school', rather than as a 'musical instrument'."
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
I was doing the Mrs. Bloke bassoon thing at that age, and tuba was just something that seemed like a better choice for football band than carrying a flag.
John Morris
This practicing trick actually seems to be working!
playing some old German rotary tubas for free
This practicing trick actually seems to be working!
playing some old German rotary tubas for free
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
I was already in and out of Memphis Symphony by 1973 but the Hair was definitely a thing then.
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
Fortunately, you seemed to be rocking more of a John Sebastian look than the Charles Manson!! 
Thought Criminal
Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
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Re: 1973 HAIR performance
yeah...exactly...
...and I was recruited to play the bass in my school's jazz band.
me: OK...one-note-at-a-time/bass clef or chord changes/strings stupid-far-apart/only two r.h. fingers, and not even the r.h. thumb/no prob.
bloke "I also THOUGHT that we might blow off those jazz band rehearsals sometimes (last hour of the day) and I could go home early, but we NEVER blew them off..and it ended up being the OPPOSITE:
When I would skip school with a friend, we would actually sneak ON TO the campus for the last hour, so as to not f-up those jazz band rehearsals.
(bLOKE SKIP DAYS ROUTINE SCHEDULE:
Go to the grocery, buy two 15-cent/lb. chicken thighs and a small bucket of ice cream. Put the chicken on the grill - banked coals - but in a donut pattern to avoid burning the chicken, play tennis, go swimming - washing off the tennis sweat, eat chicken and ice cream, sneak on to the campus for jazz band, go back home.) (yes: really)
...and I was recruited to play the bass in my school's jazz band.
me: OK...one-note-at-a-time/bass clef or chord changes/strings stupid-far-apart/only two r.h. fingers, and not even the r.h. thumb/no prob.
bloke "I also THOUGHT that we might blow off those jazz band rehearsals sometimes (last hour of the day) and I could go home early, but we NEVER blew them off..and it ended up being the OPPOSITE:
When I would skip school with a friend, we would actually sneak ON TO the campus for the last hour, so as to not f-up those jazz band rehearsals.
(bLOKE SKIP DAYS ROUTINE SCHEDULE:
Go to the grocery, buy two 15-cent/lb. chicken thighs and a small bucket of ice cream. Put the chicken on the grill - banked coals - but in a donut pattern to avoid burning the chicken, play tennis, go swimming - washing off the tennis sweat, eat chicken and ice cream, sneak on to the campus for jazz band, go back home.)
I was one of those people who (in high school) barely graduated in the top 10% of my class (360 seniors), never studied (who cares about THAT crap...??), and with achievement test scores which always prompted counselors and teachers to call my Mom and tell her to put me in A.P. classes...my Mom: "If you can get bloke to do ANYTHING that he doesn't want to do, all power to you."Please excuse bloke from school, yesterday. He was sick.
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(yes: really) 