What they say about jazz saxophone is certainly true about my chromatic playing--I play all the wrong notes and then everyone applauds . . . I think that means they aren't paying attention . . .
This reminds me of a qoute I heard on NPR the other day from sax player Von Freeman,
"He once explained his teaching method: "They ask me questions and I say, 'I don't know.'" Freeman wanted young players to put their influences and original ideas together for themselves, the way he had."
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/21/167785591/remembering-von-freeman-lol-coxhill-and-sean-bergin
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@dmitrysbor From left to right: Derek Smalls (bass), David St. Hubbins (guitar), and Nigel Tufnel (guitar. Collectively known as Spinal Tap. You may notice the lack of a drummer. Somehow they keep loosing them to various spontaneous combustion incidents and other calamities.
Amongst the bands many classic and memorable moments was their appearance at the Freddy Mercury Memorial Concert at Wembley Stadium in aid of the Terrence Higgins Trust. Before they began David St. Hubbins announced that they had intended to do a full two hour set but had decided to cut it to one song, "Because Freddy would want it that way."
Nigel Tufnel is arguably the best known of the group, not least for having been the first to have Marshall amplifiers that go to 11, stock versions having been limited to 10. The idea being the amp would have that bit extra more beyond 10 than the normal amplifier.
Tufnel was once interviewed by Guitar Player magazine with an accompanying tab of one of his solos. He was the first, and I believe the only one, to have included a tongue symbol in the tab. The following letters to the editor in response to the interview included genuine outrage and threats to cancel subscriptions to which the editor simply replied with the obvious, "Uh, it's a joke."
