Miscellaneous Your Favourite Picture Of You Playing

Taz · Aug 5, 2021

I think this is one of my favourite action shots, caught at a wedding when I was with Johnny and the Zephyrs. If I remember rightly we were playing Lucile! I used to love playing along with Tony who was the pianist and a mighty fine boogie woogie player he was too!

John Laughter · Aug 5, 2021

Getting with the dancers and having some FUN! Click on photo :sax:

Pete Thomas · Aug 5, 2021

ParadisePoet said:
Ha! That moment you find yourself playing beer bottle: Bet you're glad for the guy on accordion.

BTW The beer bottle player is the great Alan Dunn

Phil · Aug 5, 2021

What reed is he using?

Colin the Bear · Aug 6, 2021

Ivan said:
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Count Wilhelm Bassy, Meredith Bongo and Yours Truly playing in the Jack Ruby Five, Tides Festival, Dunoon, Live online March 2021

Note accessories... Jazzlabholder, dickie-bow, solar panel

Capt. Picard on sax. Willie Nelson in the corner. 😉

Nick Wyver · Aug 7, 2021

From 1973 - or thereabouts. I was thin then.

helen · Aug 11, 2021

Mmm... That's a tough one. I just spent a bit of time looking through my photo collection. I didn't realize I had as many as I did.

I guess if I had to choose one, it would be this one by award-winning photographer Jason Brown. Before Jason became uber famous as a photographer in Canada, he was the piano player in my Bassic Sax Jazz Ensemble.

This was one of my Mark VI's last major gigs as my main tenor. The next year I got the Zephyr from Sarge at WWS that bumped the VI to backup status.

Clivey · Aug 22, 2021

Just home from visiting darling mother who had these two from about 84. Note c-ducer transducer bug

Jules · Aug 23, 2021

re the smaller photo- why does the back of your head have its own microphone? very Harry Potter...

Clivey · Aug 23, 2021

Jules said:
re the smaller photo- why does the back of your head have its own microphone? very Harry Potter...

Yikes. No Photoshop back then.
looks like the drummer had all the mics and I was stuck with the bug .tee hee. You have to admit though. They did /do allow for extreme posing possibilities, foot on monitor, lying on back, Pete Townshend star jumps etc etc.

Jules · Aug 23, 2021

Clivey said:
Yikes. No Photoshop back then.
looks like the drummer had all the mics and I was stuck with the bug .tee hee. You have to admit though. They did /do allow for extreme posing possibilities, foot on monitor, lying on back, Pete Townshend star jumps etc etc.

Sax mics were always worrying from that point of view....!!!

thomsax · Aug 24, 2021

Another "target microphone". Not easy to control !?!?! . No money, just good food ...... . A picture from a private garden party for some years ago.

helen · Aug 26, 2021

thomsax said:
Another "target microphone". Not easy to control !?!?! . No money, just good food ...... . A picture from a private garden party for some years ago.
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What brand of sax are we looking at here Thomas? I am torn between a D&J, B&S, or something altogether different. I know it's not your Hammerschmidt--at least not the one with Lucite key guards.

thomsax · Aug 27, 2021

helen said:
What brand of sax are we looking at here Thomas? I am torn between a D&J, B&S, or something altogether different. I know it's not your Hammerschmidt--at least not the one with Lucite key guards.

It's a Yamaha 25. I played that horn for some years. I alternate between Martin and YTS 25. A modern sax is more friendly to my body. I don't play any longer so I'm going to sell my saxes. Maybe I'll keep a tenor and some others saxes. Who knows, maybe I start to play again!? But I don't think we are going to play again. And I don't understand the meaning of playing scales and long tones, play long with backing tracks, record myself ... when I'm +65. "Can't Teach An Old Dog New Tricks". If I get a call from a person asking for help to arrange a RockSax workshop or a small Blues and Rock event, I wouldn't hestitate.