Lou Needs Help

[ochoopsfan]

 

[winlots]

Yup

 

[JordyG]

I see someone playing one of those things on every second street corner here in NY. Apparently they're unplayable.

 

[CTrefugee]

Plus Collier on bagpipes and Dangerfield on accordion. Drive their opponents insane.

 

[JordyG]

Plus Collier on bagpipes and Dangerfield on accordion. Drive their opponents insane.

You have successfully identified two members of my dream quartet. The other two instruments are, of course, banjo and jaw harp. I'm glad to see someone else recognizes the potential of these in concert.

 

[oldude]

The ukulele is much easier to learn than the guitar, and I can play neither one....

 

[eebmg]

I guess the analogy that Geno uses that a great team plays like a great band is a little more literal than we thought.

 

[CTrefugee]

You have successfully identified two members of my dream quartet. The other two instruments are, of course, banjo and jaw harp. I'm glad to see someone else recognizes the potential of these in concert.

Fun, but super annoying to others, I used to play one of these:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Orig...5769&wl11=online&wl12=354552052&wl13=&veh=sem

 

[JordyG]

Fun, but super annoying to others, I used to play one of these:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/The-Orig...5769&wl11=online&wl12=354552052&wl13=&veh=sem

Wow. What a band they must have in the hereafter.

 

[JordyG]

The ukulele is much easier to learn than the guitar, and I can play neither one....

On the Uke a person can literally play a chord with one finger of your left (or right) hand pressing down on the fret. I see so many young women in this city playing this pseudo instrument that it has little to do with musicianship and everything to do with attention seeking. A lot of people today think that if you can strum a chord it makes you a musician. As if solving a math equation makes me a mathematician.

 

[Huskee11]

You have successfully identified two members of my dream quartet. The other two instruments are, of course, banjo and jaw harp. I'm glad to see someone else recognizes the potential of these in concert.

No Tuba???

 

[JordyG]

No Tuba???

Accordions sound, to me, like a classroom of whining adolescents. Banjo's sound like someone dropping kitchen utensils while simultaneously scraping them across a blackboard. Bagpipes sound as if a cat is being eaten by an air conditioner. Jaw harps are their own reward. I've occasionally heard some really good tuba sounds though.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

This guy could help ...

 

[RockyMTblue2]

So Lou if you like that little ditty:

 

[Bigboote]

You have successfully identified two members of my dream quartet. The other two instruments are, of course, banjo and jaw harp. I'm glad to see someone else recognizes the potential of these in concert.

Peter Schickele.PDQ Bach wrote a "Suite for six gig-impaired instruments": contrabassoon, alto clarinet, piccolo, English horn, gong, and one I can't quite call up. Not unlike your dream quartet.

There was an accordion player on his way home from a gig (unrealistic as that might sound). It was late so he stopped for a cup of coffee. As he was paying for it, he realized that he'd left his instrument in his car unlocked. He rushed back to his car, but it was too late -- someone had already put two more accordions in it.

 

[augustaTC]

Cowbell, gotta have someone on the cowbell.

 

[Sifaka]

Cowbell, gotta have someone on the cowbell.

And the harp. Just remember Mark Twain's Letters From the Earth, in which God's emissary reports back to the Creator what people imagine heaven to be like:

"Meantime, every person is playing on a harp -- those millions and millions! -- whereas not more than twenty in the thousand of them could play an instrument in the earth, or ever wanted to.

Consider the deafening hurricane of sound -- millions and millions of voices screaming at once and millions and millions of harps gritting their teeth at the same time! I ask you: is it hideous, is it odious, is it horrible?"

 

[MSGRET]

If this young lady can play a Ukulele, then Lou should have no problems. She is only 14.

 

[HoopsHoppy]

Accordions sound, to me, like a classroom of whining adolescents.
Anytime I hear or hear about accordions, I think basketball - specifically Tony Lavelli, four time all-American through 1949; a 6'3" player with a deadly hook shot. Even in college at Yale, he was into music and song writing. After a couple of years with the Celtics, he turned professional as an accordionist - I remember seeing him on stage at the Paramount theater in NYC as an accompanist for opening acts and/or doing solos just before the headliner.
Thanks for bringing back the memory.

 

[augustaTC]

If this young lady can play a Ukulele, then Lou should have no problems. She is only 14.

And Sina's little sister is "Milena, the Queen of Cowbell"

 

[MilfordHusky]

Cowbell, gotta have someone on the cowbell.

 

[MilfordHusky]

 

[MilfordHusky]

 

[MSGRET]

And Sina's little sister is "Milena, the Queen of Cowbell"

And when she plays the drums she wears pumps instead of barefoot or tennis shoes.

 

[Bigboote]

It took me a little while to find it, but here’s a great and appropriate comic from a couple months ago (not sure how this will work):

Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 5, 2018 | GoComics.com