Getting on a bit...

[smokiejoe]

I think you play really good bry mate,ive tried playing acoustic but all the hard work my hands have done over the years my fingers seem too big to run across the frets,im ok on chords but cant get my head around to actualy making a song out of it.Now and again i do dig the guitar out and annoy everyone,,we do have a keyboard here of which i would like to play also but again never taught to play,think i will just stick to drums and just pee the neighbours off anyway./PS,i enjoyed chatting with ya mate on the phone,bit of a shock as i wondered who the hell you were and so did the misses,lol.Anyway must have a chat again mate very soon and i had to have a cup of tea mate as i was gaspin and this misses was on the nagg for one too so she could have one with her woodbine.

[Montesmoke]

I think i might look into getting lessons for the sax, i have allways wanted to play the saxaphone since i was in my early teens.

[smokiejoe]

Yeah i agree with you there,such a lovely instrument.all shiny.

[Montesmoke]

Indeed smokie, just love the sound a sax makes.

[Robusto]

Our sax player is a cool blower. He works at a local Yamaha School as a sax/woodwind tutor. He got me a deal last Christmas - as I am a would-be sax fiend, too - and I paid ?90 to hire a good alto sax for three months over Christmas as a gift from my in-laws. I had the option to buy the sax at the end by paying about ?400 more, or to return it. Because I am a mate of several teachers there, and buy stuff for my own school there, they chucked in music books, audio-visual tuition stuff, extrea reeds and good straps.

Needless to say, it was a pig to play, and it's all about the mouth position, or embouchure. I trained myself to play about three simple melody lines, but because I didn't work at it like a dog, I forgot what I'd learnt previously.

I wanted to be The Brecker Brothers in five minutes, and it takes a hell of a lot longer to play the sax than that!

It was great fun, but I didn't persist.
Got some nice snaps tho in a timid way.



At 4.00pm I have a private gig singing and playing to a birthday party for three 70 year olds. More later.