Tuesday, February 3, 2009
25 Random Things About Brian
This is a carryover from Facebook - great idea courtesy of Mike Casey. If I set this up correctly, everyone should be able to add items as comments and they'll all show up on the blog. You'll need to click on the post title above this entry to get to the page where the comments will appear...
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ReplyDeleteTim--you are the man! I read your note and came here to start it--you beat me!
ReplyDeleteThese 25 things have started around FB in the past few days. Totally cheesey I know--but we've been having fun with them. There have been Brian references in a few of them-so let's go!
1. Brian had to sleep closer to the door when we were kids so the kidnappers would get him first.
2. We had a sister in the late 80's who had hair that was basically plaster. Brian's was stronger.
ReplyDeleteYou could bounce a quarter off of it. People did it. I saw it.
ReplyDelete3. I remember being in the basement, under our room, hearing him play bass on Sultans of Swing.
ReplyDeleteWe also plugged in our stereo to the same amp to scare the next door neighbor (hot) who was laying out topless.
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ReplyDelete4. Brian would have laughed at (or said it himself) "Don't you think Yusaf Islam sounds a lot like Cat Stevens?"
ReplyDelete5. Playing ping pong in the basement and telling sister about his dream of majoring in music in college.
ReplyDelete6. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765
ReplyDelete7. "I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE, MAN
ReplyDeleteUntil you wake up in the Frankfort Airport cradling your trombone on a 17 hour layover after dancing in Amsterdam and taking a train trip that got rescheduled in German because of the World Cup [and] because the plane had mechanical problems in Philadelphia and couldn't make it there (and thank God my college edumacation taught me how to say 'pousane'...German for 'trombone'...I KNOW! They spell things differently.) and you're surrounded by 19 heavily-armed German soldiers on their lunch break, you ain't been nowhere."
8. "REALITY TV SHOW PROPOSAL:
ReplyDeleteGIGGING
Gigging follows the lives of Columbus Ohio-based unsigned jazz musicians who play music in whole or in part as their livelihoods.
Gigging will follow the members of the bands Honk, Wail and Moan and The New Basics Brass Band as they play a year of gigs in which members gig, cross paths, fill in, sit in, enjoy, support and argue. Side trips by members to play other gigs will also be shown, as well as what members might do during the day to make a living (dance musician, restaurateur, studio owner, teacher, editor, etc.). Attention will also be paid to the rehearsal and composition processes, as well as to what an "ungigging" individual might be doing while another is out playing a gig.
The culmination of the first season of Gigging will be a reunion concert in which everyone who has ever played in either band will be invited back to play a concert in one of Columbus' beautiful downtown theaters, with a particular emphasis on paying tribute to their fallen brothers and sisters. With over 250 people having passed through these two bands in the last 18 years, this could be a huge event."
[[I know... right?]]
9. "Titles to be used (for albums, bands, etc.)
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Even Trombones Can't Save It
Insert Pun Here
Rank Amateurs
Spitting on High Street
To Go Insanely Polite
Did Ya Name It Yet?
Dirt Box
The Bugs in My House"
10. "Man, I bought this [note]book for $11.00 and there's nothing in it."
ReplyDelete11. Speaking of #7 and layovers, Brian (along with myself and some other members of HWM) had a very interesting experience during a 12-hour layover in Seoul, South Korea. It involved, among other things, a lot of walking, bad directions, a hotel room made for very small people, not much sleep, a very crowded public bus, police in riot gear, and almost missing our flight out. Good times...
ReplyDelete12. The last thing Brian and I did together (other than family dinners etc.) was go to the Springsteen concert this past March. We wanted to go back in 84-85 but couldn't. He called me out of the blue, a week before the show, and said--"Hey--Let's Do It!" He remembered how bad I wanted to go back then. That's Brian.
ReplyDelete13. He was not in the OSU Marching Band but he did perform at half-time of a Bucks game. They were playing "76 Trombones" and needed the same. I was home on a break and used his ticket and sat with his room mates.
ReplyDeleteBrian and I used to play a game in which we tried to connect any topic of conversation that came up to our childhood friend Bobby Stellar. It was even better if you could connect to it to the time Bobby tipped back on his chair, fell over, and "cracked his skull."
ReplyDelete15. When I had a particularly soul crushing job downtown, I would often get off the bus 15 blocks before my stop to visit Brian at the record store. He never acted like it was annoying. Though he was clearly annoyed when he got me some Gap Band tickets and I accidently invited a racist.
ReplyDelete16. Mom's Birthday was this past weekend. We had a good time but there was an empty seat at the table....Brian would have gotten my "Best of Both Worlds" comment. From Holzt to Hanna Montana..Hey he knows all music. Even the "Pop Tart" stuff--and, it could make a good jazz tune--right?
ReplyDelete17. Brian and 3-4 from HWM played the Shamrock Club Pub before it's the venue it is today. He broke out a jazz version of "A Nation Once Again". Some people, who would not have come anyway, didn't like the fact that a jazz band was playing at an Irish Club. There should only be Irish Music. Brian paraphrased a comment from the lead singer of the Black '47--I'm Irish, I wrote/arranged this stuff, so it's Irish Music, get over it.
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