SHORT VIDEO ADDED: Beatles (after break-up) "Imagine" show - "Solo Years"

[bloke]

There is one late Beatles (fab four) tune on this show, and all the rest are individual Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, Starr POST-Beatles tunes.

This arranger/orchestrator (the bass player of the cover band, Mr. Eastburn) has hit it out of the park with previous pops concert cover themes, and this book promises to be just as good and just as much fun. We were actually scheduled to do this show a couple of years ago, but the wuflu nixed it.

Mr. Eastburn labels this book "TUBA", but it's obvious that contrabass trombone (or valved "cimbasso", etc.) works best. (I've used the cb valve trombone on all of his shows, and he has drooled over it.) There are 34 busy pages, and with only short rests - (a bit busier than Dvorak 9, and even considerably busier than Tchaik 4).

I've downloaded a musicians webpage hosted pdf of the complete book, but I'd better not share it. I might post screenshots of a few licks.
Anyway...This is going to be tons of fun.



https://www.facebook.com/christopher.eastburn

[Three Valves]

I'd have to retire to the refreshment stand during the playing of Imagine, else, I believe the event will be a smashing good time!!

[bloke]

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I'd have to retire to the refreshment stand during the playing of Imagine, else, I believe the event will be a smashing good time!!

I don't interpret the lyrics to "Imagine" as pro-Marxist, but rather anti-gullibility, anti-groupthink, and pro-generosity.
Remember: Lennon ALSO wrote the lyrics to "Revolution".

[Three Valves]

Perfect, an early dash to the parking lot!!

[bloke]

I could address each of your objections to each objectionable-to-you phrase in the lyrics of "Imagine" (and - I'd wager - I'm probably in favor of considerably less gov't than are you), but this isn't the place for me to enlighten you, nor to address your objections. Some others would likely be triggered.

Again, the very same lyricist - over a half century ago - wrote these lyrics:
https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... ion+lyrics
...so you might (??) want to give them at least a little bit of benefit of the doubt.

[Three Valves]

Aside from the sheer overplayed notion of Imagine,

As I experience the same visceral nausea whenever Freebird, Stairway, or for that matter, Hey Jude comes on the radio,

there is this;

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

As if possessions themselves cause greed, hunger, or are inherently detrimental or incongruous with the concepts of sharing or brotherhood.

Which they are not.

No more so than than the prescience of faith prohibits appreciation for living in the present.

Every stanza represents a rhetorical Straw Man.

A positively pretentious, shallow, and yes, naïve fallacy.

IMO

[bloke]

The lyrics criticize “religion” (as every “religion“ is a business - created by men).
They do not criticize faith, and nor do they criticize a belief in something larger than one’s self.
The other things idealized are good things, but you are just conditioned to those things being promised by pie-in-the-sky murderous tyrants, rather than people who are genuinely in favor of those things.

btw…
I’m not sure that I like you as much, when you haven’t been drinking.

[Three Valves]

btw…
I’m not sure that I like you as much, when you haven’t been drinking.

[bloke]

Here's an example of just about the softest that I played (phrases with the flutes) and (written "stinger") just about the loudest (which was "most of the time" in "most of the arrangements" - to the obvious glee of the orchestrator/bass player as well as the music director) and (in this case) to the verbally-expressed obvious glee of my section-mate, the bass trombonist.

Paul McCartney/Wings song: "Let 'em in"

from a POST-Beatles era themed (individually-recorded John, Paul, George, Ringo hits) orchestra pops concert.
During the applause, I told the bass trombone player,
"When the music director JUMPS up in the air and his FEET HIT THE PODIUM to conduct the stinger, that's JUST the type of stinger he's going to get.
This song made it to #3 on the pop charts.



This song made it to #3 on the pop chart in 1976.


bloke "I really need to discipline myself into getting back into practicing (at least: looking at "the book" before the friggin' gig). I'm still sorta running on fumes - energy-wise - post-surgery, and it's difficult to get motivated to do anything other than get up, shower, get dressed, work on repairing horns until I'm tired, and climb back into bed. "