Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 04, 2023

Dead on arrival….

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a symphonic piece counterpointed by f@rting noises …

sighs I’ll get the mallet and the stage hook.

If you are good at it, you might be able to get on a late night talk show.

I spoke once with an engineer at a classical music station and he said he was familiar with a number of timpanists who were also members of metal bands. Just goes to show you that an aficionado of one genre of music doesn’t mean that’s the only type of music they like or participate in.

Looks like he’s playing the orchestra pit.

I’d go see that.

He will shortly be joining the gentleman behind the curtain in pushing a broom

Bob should’ve known better. Authentic fart notes come from the winds section, not percussion.

I invite you music aficionados to look up that clip of a young Frank Zappa on Steve Allen’s TV show where he and Steve played a bicycle.

Should have signed up for Weird Al Yankovic’s 2019 Strings Attached tour that had a full orchestra accompaniment with his band (“Tuba solo!!!!”)

No, that’s a wind instrument.

Appropriate when performing PDQ Bach.

It would have been fine if it wasn’t for the director and the string section and the brass section and the wind section of the orchestra – they weren’t prepared for something they hadn’t been trained for.

And the mystery is solved…..now we know why they are referred to as a “Pops” Orchestra.

One time in an evening informal church service, a guy did a ‘special number’. He stuck a trumpet mouthpiece into a music stand and played it like a trombone, sliding the bottom stand half to get the notes. Did a fairly good job, too.

Honor and gratitude to all who have served and those who have loved them. Prayers for the fallen and hope for the injured and those who have cared for them.

Earlier this am I found our US flag windsock hanging straight down, not a frond stirring. Normally I would say that was because of the lack of wind. Today I am wondering if it is lack of spirit, a depth of unhappiness, a bruised soul. Prayers for the country.

Ca-Ca phony

I’d think he’d be sleeved with Tats for Tymps. Beaters with skulls? (With lasers coming from the eyes?

I generally prefer classical music to any kind of pop. But I’ve sometimes thought that being a percussionist in an orchestra must be rather boring, with what they’re given to do. I wonder how many play jazz or rock in their spare time.

PDQ Bach composed “Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion”, one meaure in the percussion score is marked “All Hell Break Loose”. Maybe this is what they’re playing, and this would have been appropriate. :D I used to LOVE it when the director of the concert band at Eastern Michigan U (Hi, Max!) would pull out that one, since I was in the percussion section and we had waaaayyyy too much fun gathering an awful lot of ‘hell’ to make it happen. :D

Bob ruined a good suit for that demo! The guy Johnny Carson used to have on did it all with his hands! That’s where I learned it!

I’m sure Spike Jones must have used this sound at some point.

But can he play “Wipe Out”?

Okay, that has possibilities. a new concerto in C flatulence minor.

1812 Overture?

They are going to put him back on triangle.

Classical Gas

Happy Birthday, America!

Now that’s talent!

Is that guy behind the curtain the same guy that was in “The Carol Burnett Show” back in the day?

It could also be a Zappa composition, written right in score and performed as intended.

Recalling drum solos back in the late sixties – a common stageism was for the drummer to play the double bass drums with both foot pedals while removing his t-shirt.

Both Mozart and Haydn had fun with the Bassoon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF8MmpKA6mk

Uh, that’s not percussion. More like a wind instrument.

Been under suspension for some time… If you see this, please let me know. Thanx in advance.

One of my friends in high school was the son of two piano teachers. He couldn’t do piano and ended up as the percussionist in the high school orchestra. He and his brother both got scholarships to Harvard.

I’m so easy. LOLOL!

“Fanfare For The Common Weirdo”.

How I used to wish someone, anyone, in the symphony would create havoc onstage when I went to those concerts. Someone clipping cello strings, or this.

The Willian Smell Overture is reaching the guy behind the curtain.