[Trombone-l] why the bone player?

[Walter Barrett]

On May 11, 2006, at 11:55 AM, George Carr wrote:

>> Sorry Jeff, I don't think that it could ever be said that the  
>> arranger got
>> the chick and the drummer didn't. But we might get more than sax  
>> players who
>> are talking about reeds anyway.
>
> Yeah, I have a hard time imagining the hot-arranger pickup  
> conversation:
>
> "You play in the band?"
> "Yes, I play trombone. But I also write for the band."
> "You're a WRITER?!? That's so much sexier than playing the saxophone
> or the trumpet!  Will you take me back to your hotel room?"
>
> Not gonna happen.
>
> George
>

Hey, it worked for Nelson Riddle! Rosemary Clooney was quite the  
hottie back in the day...


Walter Barrett

"Puritanism [is] the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be  
happy."
	—H. L. Mencken

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