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Very bad tuba.
It is just so very bad.
Bad bad bad bad bad.

CDs and cassettes available in the lobby, folks…

bloke wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 6:05 pm Very bad tuba.
It is just so very bad.
Bad bad bad bad bad.

I am going to save that and watch it every time I have a gig or rehearsal I am not happy with.

I love the side eye the drummer gives him right at the beginning.

gocsick wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 9:34 pm

bloke wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 6:05 pm Very bad tuba.
It is just so very bad.
Bad bad bad bad bad.

I am going to save that and watch it every time I have a gig out rehearsal I am not happy with.

I love the side eye the drummer gives him right at the beginning.

Maybe this is only a term that is used down here "the south", but I was pretty much under the impression that the term "fisheye" is pretty much a nationwide type of term for what you and I both noticed.

guess:
a substitute tuba player who was handed a lead sheet, and who had never before in their life seen a lead sheet

I'm sure i've done worse, so i'm kinda scared to watch...

Buck up, young man. This video is all about grinning and bearing it…

the elephant wrote: Wed Feb 04, 2026 10:24 pm Buck up, young player.
This video is about grinning
and then bearing it…

ftfy

PS mad me think of the toast from that one golf movie about grinning when your ship comes in...

PPSS is the south warm again yet? I heard it was really miserable a while ago. Here, the silver lining is i can now get home whenever i want and not worry about parking, because i can shovel out a new spot in like... 15-20 minutes.

I think they were playing two different songs at the same time.

Impressive - that they needed that many cameras to record all that “action”. Some of them marked TV - imagine that being your performance and having it beamed out to the masses.

If you scrolled through the comments on Youtube - one guy actually defended and praised the tuba playing - saying it was traditional - apparently the performance bar for us tuba players is so low a dachshund could clear it with ease.

ICE should deploy those polka guys (with big amplifiers) to play at protests in Minneapolis - guaranteed to clear a crowd faster than tear gas.

The guy found his 'hot lick' and is sticking to it, hell or high water.

This deserves a poll: inebriation, 2nd week playing tuba, stroke?

UncleBeer wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 4:46 am This deserves a poll: inebriation, 2nd week playing tuba, stroke?

D. All of the above?

UncleBeer wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 4:46 am The guy found his 'hot lick' and is sticking to it, hell or high water.

That's why he wears a towel over his valve hand, so nobody can steal his hot lick.

Actually I could see this happening if he was a BBb player and had to switch to an EEb horn in a pinch.

Schlepporello wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 9:41 am Actually I could see this happening if he was a BBb player and had to switch to an EEb horn in a pinch.

I kept hoping someone would pinch me...

Is it just me, mesmerized by the tuba creativity, but were those folks dancing on snow? That would merit a like or 3!

He is just farting out random notes, and it sounds like utter crap. Horrible

scottw wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 3:43 pm Is it just me, mesmerized by the tuba creativity, but were those folks dancing on snow?

Looks like they are dancing on a raised plywood floor.

Well......too bad it went on video.

It's the mouthpiece choice!