Great forum, Pete!

[MyMartinTenor]

Hey folks!

I'm a regular (same name) over at SOTW, but found this forum by chance. Some very good posts and members, so I figured I'd at least join up to say hello.

I'm a trial attorney (day job) from Indianapolis, Indiana. I've been playing sax for 20 years, with some breaks here and there. These days, I play various blues gigs, a lot of open jams, and very sporadic studio work or straight-ahead jazz work. I'm hugely addicted to old Martin and Conn horns, and have owned just about every model Martin (still need a low A Magna bari someday...... *drools*).

In my free time, I chase my two young kids and watch EPL soccer (Liverpool fan).

Anyway -- hello! My pleasure to meet you folks.
Erik

 

[Saxlicker]

Hi Erik,

Welcome to the cafe

 

[kevgermany]

Hi Eric, big welcome from me. I hope you'll find things a little friendlier here than SOTW!

 

[Taz]

Hi Eric, glad you found the place. I hope you enjoy your stay here.

 

[Pete Thomas]

Anyway -- hello! My pleasure to meet you folks.
Erik

Always nice to have some people from SOTW, there's a good cross forum relationship (I hope). This forum is much smaller (and that's the way, uh huh uh huh, we like it)

But we have many people from SOTW here, and many of us go there.

We even have a SOTW moderator (saxismyaxe) posting here. I'd even ask him to be a mod here too but we don't need mods (famous last words!)

Hope you enjoy it over here and welcome.

 

[Young Col]

...we don't need mods here - just rockers!
Welcome Erik to the informative and sometimes eccentric Caf Sax.
YC

 

[old git]

Welcome to the caff, Erik.

You don't fancy a bit of pro bono work in London, do you?

ENJOY!

 

[PaulyT]

Liverpool fan???

Sorry to hear that lol - Not as sorry as you Liverpool fans are at the moment though, I'll bet!

Welcome
Paul

 

[Sunray]

Welcome Mate ...

I ain't sayin nuffin - on the grounds I may incriminate me self ... ))

 

[TomMapfumo]

.........so what is a saxophone..............I though it was a 23 button trumpet.....;}

Welcome Eric to Cafe Saxophone, our independent nuclear family deterrant, unlike SOTW and its "Star Wars" approach. Just been on SOTW researching Phil Tone alto mouthpieces
- nice guy. Also belatedly joined the Selmer Reference Club.
Hope to hear lots from you....!

Kind regards
Tom

 

[MyMartinTenor]

Thanks all!

Liverpool fan???

Sorry to hear that lol - Not as sorry as you Liverpool fans are at the moment though, I'll bet!

No doubt! Brutal season, and with all the sale/lawsuit drama going on now..... very painful.

 

[johnboy]

Hi Erik, good to have you aboard.
I must have been daydreaming, not to welcome you yesterday.

I nearly wrote something silly about "No Win No Fee" but decided not to. (You might have taken me seriously, and I'm in enough trouble with this lot as it is).

I say "Good luck Liverpool". Those were the days - Good ole Shanks!!

 

[BigMartin]

.........so what is a saxophone..............I though it was a 23 button trumpet.....;}

So where's the best place to buy trumpet reeds?

Cheers,

Martin

 

[TomMapfumo]

I think it's back to the drawing board.....................I've only heard of Lou Reed and didn't realise he was a sax player.......better stick to my sackbutt!

 

[Justin Chune]

Hello Erik, and a warm welcome to the cafe.

Jim.

 

[Rogerb]

Welcome, Eric .....since I have been 'here' I rarely go 'there' ...where I am 'rogerb40uk'.

 

[griff136]

Hi Erik and welcome.

I too am an SOTW'er (same username) but from this side of the pond.

Enjoy yourself here they're a good light hearted bunch

Griff

 

[Phil Edwards]

Hi Erik and welcome to the cafe from another fan of Martin's (Alto Handcraft Committee in my case, had it about 22 years, never found anything that I'd change it for)

Phil

 

[gladsaxisme]

Hi Erik

Welcome to the cafe from one of the many novices on here ...john