dooce
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Hello Possums
Some of you might remember that me and the lovely wife set off on our Great Adventure last September, leaving behind a bari and a tenor, and clutching the only sax remotely suitable for international travel, i.e. soprano. We started in Hanoi, worked our way right through Cambodia and across to Phuket in Thailand before flying to Australia.
Well, right now we are in a place called Central Tilba, in NSW Australia, and moving on shortly for a week in Melbourne before we hop over to Christchurch and a couple of months touring NZ. After much agonising about how to transport the little screecher, it has done all our flights as hand baggage in a Will & Tom case with no problems at all. Doesn't even register a flicker of surprise as it goes through the airport security scanners!
To be honest, the sax hasn't had as much exercise as I had hoped. I've kept up a reasonable level of practice, but that's not always easy, especially stopping in hotels. I've had some great jam sessions, notably with a lovely Phillipino bloke in Dalat, Vietnam; on the back porch of a house in Townsville Queensland with a superb guitarist; and most recently, at a karoake session noodling drunkenly over a couple of C&W standards with a mate who had never sung in public before. Probably best forgotten, that one.....
Great though the trip is, home-sickness is starting to kick in, and so is missing playing in a band. I've got a gig booked 4 days after we land back in the UK in April, and I can't wait, even though my (very small) sensible bits are telling me that it will have been 7 months since I last played tenor and bari and 4 days is not enough time to get back up to speed.
Good to see you are still chewing over the same old ****e on the site - some things never change!
See you in April.
Some of you might remember that me and the lovely wife set off on our Great Adventure last September, leaving behind a bari and a tenor, and clutching the only sax remotely suitable for international travel, i.e. soprano. We started in Hanoi, worked our way right through Cambodia and across to Phuket in Thailand before flying to Australia.
Well, right now we are in a place called Central Tilba, in NSW Australia, and moving on shortly for a week in Melbourne before we hop over to Christchurch and a couple of months touring NZ. After much agonising about how to transport the little screecher, it has done all our flights as hand baggage in a Will & Tom case with no problems at all. Doesn't even register a flicker of surprise as it goes through the airport security scanners!
To be honest, the sax hasn't had as much exercise as I had hoped. I've kept up a reasonable level of practice, but that's not always easy, especially stopping in hotels. I've had some great jam sessions, notably with a lovely Phillipino bloke in Dalat, Vietnam; on the back porch of a house in Townsville Queensland with a superb guitarist; and most recently, at a karoake session noodling drunkenly over a couple of C&W standards with a mate who had never sung in public before. Probably best forgotten, that one.....
Great though the trip is, home-sickness is starting to kick in, and so is missing playing in a band. I've got a gig booked 4 days after we land back in the UK in April, and I can't wait, even though my (very small) sensible bits are telling me that it will have been 7 months since I last played tenor and bari and 4 days is not enough time to get back up to speed.
Good to see you are still chewing over the same old ****e on the site - some things never change!
See you in April.