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Author Topic: Any musicians on Film-Tech? Mike Pennell Expert Film Handler Posts: 150 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Apr 2003 posted 07-17-2003 05:05 AM                     I play a sweet air guitar.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-17-2003 05:29 AM                        quote: Those are terrible seats, Michael. How much did you pay for your tickets? The picture was not taken from a seat in the auditorium, but from the stage.  |  IP: Logged Sandie Caffelle Film Handler Posts: 24 From: Herefordshire, UK Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-17-2003 07:07 AM                        What a talented bunch we are!! I play flute plus alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. I used to play various recorders, but haven't for years now. My favourite instrument is my Baritone sax which was built in 1928. It has a huge bell on it and makes a gorgeous sound. Over the years have played loads of styles of music - I'll play any type if there's money involved!! (I also sing in a choral society which does about 6 concerts a year to raise money for charity - but that's a bit serious and not so much fun!!) Sandie PS; My daughter Anja has just achieved a degree in music - she's a B.Mus (Honours). She attended the Royal Northern School of Music and is going to do a Post-Grad Diploma in performance starting in September. Her main instrument is Bassoon, although she plays Contra-Bassoon, Baroque Bassoon, flute and piano as well.  |  IP: Logged Don E. Nelson Expert Film Handler Posts: 138 From: Brentwood, CA, USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 07-17-2003 02:19 PM                     .....I play Parker Bros's. Monopoly, a lot, ....does that count?  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-17-2003 05:11 PM                        Did your daughter study with William Waterhouse in Manchester? A friend of mine studied bassoon with him at the Royal Northern College a few years ago.  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 07-17-2003 07:06 PM                     When I was a kid, thousands of years ago, my folks offered me the chance to learn piano. I wish today that they had pressed the issue a little harder. I didn't learn to play, but I can make basic cords with both hands, and have perfect pitch. Dont have room for a piano in this film equipment-jammed house, but do have a nice old Hammond M-100 that I like to play along with things I hear on TV, radio, or records (remember them?) If nothing else, can I offer my abilities to engineer the recording sessions when the Brad Miller, and his Platter Scratchers group gets going? I can supply an Ampex AG-440C 2-track!  |  IP: Logged Matthew Bailey Master Film Handler Posts: 461 From: Port Arthur,TX Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-17-2003 07:15 PM                     Me, I'd use a Moog synthesizer like the one Eric Siday used to create the music for the Screen Gems yellow & red logo. or rig a wooden Native American Indian flute to a Moog synthesizer. Or even take several soundheads ,each wth a variable speed reversible motor but without the picture head with several lengths of film through them either interlocked,non-interlocked up to allof them & maybe run the outputs of the soundheads into the Moog. I was reading a music class book at a Goodwill store & it showed someone interlocking a tape loop through five reel to reel recorders.  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 07-17-2003 08:20 PM                        I play lefty bass, and have for 2 or 3 years. I wouldnt consider myself real good, but it is fun to play, and combined with my theater sub, does a hell of a job of shaking the upstairs and pissing off the parents Josh P.S. If I find a pic I'll post it.  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-18-2003 12:54 AM                        quote: The picture was not taken from a seat in the auditorium, but from the stage. Michael, those are the worst seats in the theater! You can't see anything, there's always a light in your eyes, & if the grid rots out the whole fly system will come right down on your head. If you look at the other people in the other seats, you will see that they got comfortable, nicely upholstered seats while they just drag out cheap, uncomfortable hardbacked chairs for the suckers they can foist out onto the stage as long as the suckers keep coming. The people who sold you those seats were taking advantage of you. I don't know for sure, but it may be that they heard your German accent & saw an opportunity to try to take advantage of someone whose first language isn't English. "Oh yes, we have some nice seats left in the orchestra!" And then when you see what they've done, you go back to fix things & they pull that same dodge that Brad came up against with the lady who hit his vehicle, "Tickets? No habla eine kleine nachtmusik!" I'm sorry that you were taken advantage of, but those people at the boxoffice are there just to make money & you have to watch out for yourself. If you think you're getting a deal, you need to be twice as careful. If they ask if you want something that sounds like "souping", you are NOT getting a free meal with your admission & there is no such thing as a free lunch. You really need to get with Bob Maar & let him explain second-acting & other informed-consumer admission techniques.  |  IP: Logged Dave Williams Wet nipple scene Posts: 1836 From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-18-2003 03:06 AM                        I have played a number of instruments since I was three... Age 3...Piano Age 9...Violin Age 11..Clarinet, Jazz and Orchestra Age 13..Drums, Jazz Age 14..Percussion, Orchestra Age 15..Bass, Jazz Age 15..Drums, Metal (the band was called Fred and the Mother Fuckers.. Not Kidding, that was the name of the band...) After that I didn't pick up any new instruments, but instead I started with sound mixing. I played in about a dozen bands, won several awards for my drum playing and my bass playing, and also played with the high school orchestra with both violin and clarinet just a few months after picking them up. Remember that I was a little young at that time, still in elementary school. Also won several regional and state titles with the school bands and orchestra's, and recieved a music scholarship, but didn't take it. While talented in music, it bored me silly to perform it. I would have rather just been a rock star of some kind, but I had severe stage fright, and that is why I always played the bass or drums. One night playing the bass in front of a crowd of 4,000 my bass began to feedback during a bass guitar solo. No matter what I did it wouldn't stop. So I just took it off my shoulder and swung it around and then smashed it into the stage. Got great ovation. Good thing it was my cheap bass. Had the good one off stage. I cannot play any of the instruments any more. I had severe burns to my hands when I was 25 and can no longer hold pressure in the fingers or even hold on to a glass very well for that matter. Maybe I could go back to the drums, but would have to tape the sticks to my hands or they would just fly all over the damn place! Good Times. Dave  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-18-2003 03:15 AM                        boy dave, you've really led a charmed life!  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-18-2003 06:29 AM                        quote: One night playing the bass in front of a crowd of 4,000 my bass began to feedback during a bass guitar solo. No matter what I did it wouldn't stop. So I just took it off my shoulder and swung it around and then smashed it into the stage. Got great ovation. Quick thinking! Frank Angel could have done that if his projector crapped out during that show! The main thing is that the audience thinks it's part of the act.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-18-2003 06:55 AM                        quote: The people who sold you those seats were taking advantage of you. I don't know for sure, but it may be that they heard your German accent & saw an opportunity to try to take advantage of someone whose first language isn't English. Unlikely, since the picture was taken in Berlin (that is in Germany). Actually, I was paid to play there. The light doesn`t blind you, as the stage is lit from above. Also, the stage seats in the Philharmonie are upholstered. The bass stools have adjustable footrests, so you sit very comfortably: Backstage, there are two cafeterias where you can even smoke! What more can you ask for? Dave - have you thought about taking up the trumpet or another brass instrument? You don`t need much finger activity there. A friend of mine lost two fingers on one hand, and he started playing the horn where you only need 3 fingers.  |  IP: Logged Evans A Criswell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1579 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 07-18-2003 09:33 AM                        I'm one of the few long-haired guys that has no musical talent at all. Everyone always asks me if I play an instrument and when I say no, they tell me I look like someone who would. I just tell them, no, I'm just a guy with really long hair with no musical talent at all. I remember back in 1998, riding in the car with a friend and I started singing "Mr. Tambourine Man" as horribly as I could. My friend joined me and we sounded like a 2-man drunken quartet. My future attempts to sing when he was around would be greeted with hium yelling "Stop!" When I was young, I tried to learn to play a guitar, but I never could get past making common chords. Same with piano -- the only way I could play a song on a keyboard was learning a song as a sequence of numbers and playing the keys in sequence like a computer would ("memorizing the song"). But that way, learning one song did not help me learn another, and I couldn't play the chords that went with the notes unless I memorized that as well. What did the banjo player get on his S.A.T.? Drool. How do you know when the stage is level? The banjo player drools out of both sides of his mouth. What is the difference between an onion and a banjo? Nobody cries when you cut up a banjo. What is the difference between a trampoline and a banjo? You take your shoes off before jumping on a trampoline.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-18-2003 09:50 PM                     I've known several talented pianists over the years who could play EITHER classical or pop/rock but only a few could play anything you put before them. The first time it happened I assumed that the gentleman did not want to play pop/rock songs because he didn't enjoy that type of music. But, as I have said, there are now more than "a few" musicians who can play either one style or the other. I find this an interesting problem. For instance, I can read and comprehend the sports section of the newspaper despite the fact that I do not follow sports. Just as the laws of language remain consistent regardless of the subject, the laws of music notation apply to more than one style of music. Obviously, I am missing something. What are the factors at work here?  |  IP: Logged

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