Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

RW>  You'd be surprised in my bar band days though how many
RW>  times I'd go to a gig to find a pickup drummer who didn't
RW>  have a drum key or common hand tool.s  A drum key, common
RW>  hand tools, and wd40 for kick drum pedals was part of my
RW>  gotta have it toolkit for gigging.

JB>  WD40 didn't *exist* in my bar-daze! Still, a box of fluids,
JB>  a box of tools, and a box of expendable were always on my
JB>  list. Inside one of those boxes was always a box of band-
JB>  aids, mole-skin and what-nots.


           Things I've learned from studying music... you two anticipated
what might go wrong & came prepared.  Before Richard joined us here I
mentioned the Hoffnung cartoon in which the clarinet player has a
dictionary protruding from his hip pocket & admitted that on occasion I
carried a dictionary in my purse. Yes, you'll probably find a high
percentage of nerds... including me... in the clarinet section!  But I'm
reminded also of the former student who told me I'd taught him to be
prepared.  At the time, it didn't occur to me to include that in the lesson
plans I was expected to hand in monthly to the school office.  I was just
being myself.  With experience I realized the majority of normal red-
blooded kids study the teacher at least as intently as whatever the teacher
is blathering about.  I reckon after a few years in my band class he knew
more or less what I kept in my pockets, my clarinet case, and my desk
drawer....  :-))




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