<p>BassDad, kudos to your d. May it be the first of many.</p>
<p>Make sure you have her autograph the CDs first! :)</p>
<p>Thank You BassDad for causing me to spray my morning coffee all over my keyboard.</p>
<p>Well, if humor about the procreative habits of framed free-reed aerophones is your thing, you will want to check out the poem Arnold by Les Barker, available at <a href="http://www.drweevil.org/?m=200703%5B/url%5D">http://www.drweevil.org/?m=200703</a></p>
<p>Congratulations BassDaughter (is that right??). Can we hear this...maybe on Youtube. They put EVERYTHING (even copyrighted material) on Youtube. Hey...that's where our Garage Band...The Dead Thumpers can perform complete with accordian(s).</p>
<p>She has elected not to participate on this forum, although I believe she occasionally reads it to keep track of what I have said to embarrass her lately. I expect to pay richly should she ever be in a position to select a nursing home for me. Anyway, she does not have an official name on CC.</p>
<p>I have not heard any of this music myself and probably will not for some time. The recording sessions have been completed, but they have not even started on the editing and mastering. It may not be available for purchase for several months. I am not going to put it up on Youtube, but that does not mean that it will not eventually be there.</p>
<p>Clearly Bassdad's good news has sidetracked us from our more immediate endeavors:</p>
<p>The Deadening Thumps:</p>
<p>Bass guitar / management - Bassdad
Crooning - Thumper and Mythmom
Spooning - Cartera
Backing - Singersmom07
Tracking - Violadad
Accordian - binx
Ukulele - Shennie
Comb and Wax Paper - musicamusica
Dulcimer - edad
Water cannon - Lorelei's S
Bagpipes - Lorelei's friend
Musical Director/Conductor - Lorelei (that means whatever happens is your fault)</p>
<p>Instrumentation needed: Ovation guitar, assorted instruments from Bassdad</p>
<p>Program:</p>
<p>California Dreamin' - Thumper fronting. Mythmom can swing her hair. (Cue reads "Sing along. Stand up.")
Bolero, with accordian solo (Cue reads "Thunderous Applause; Stand up.)
YMCA - (Cue reads, "You're having fun! Stand up!")
1812 Overature, with Lorelei's S and cannon (in D?) (Cue reads "Stand up and duck")</p>
<p>Encore - Amazing Grace - with bagpipe solo, drifting off down the aisles and away. (Cue reads "Long hushed moment of silence, then rousing applause. Stand up. Go home.")</p>
<p>Did I miss anything? We've got a number of folks here who haven't yet signed up. Be warned, if you aren't in it, we expect you to attend. Being in it may be less painful. Oh, and we need someone to write the program notes.</p>
<p>Sorry, no Ovation guitars here. We have two Martins, a pair of Yamahas and a Fender electric, plus a few, um, things that qualify as GSO's (Guitar-Shaped Objects) but do not deserve the name guitar.</p>
<p>Don't we need both standing and sitting Ovation guitars?</p>
<p>Good thought, violadad, but I think we won't have any sitting ovations.</p>
<p>No, no, no, my friend does not play the bagpipes, but he wants others to play the bagpipes and he wants there to be a bagpipe major and ensemble on his campus. I think we need a guest bagpipe player.....what about that cutie from C-M? </p>
<p>My SIL plays guitar, and I will ask him what brand he has, if Ovation is the prescreen issue. </p>
<p>I think we need someone to whistle. I cannot whistle, but I so admire those who can. Volunteers?</p>
<p>I have a Yamaha guitar here, no help in that department. But I think we are missing a harmonica and I can provide a couple of those. I will get one of those neck thingies and play the harmonica and the uke at the same time! And as to the program, every program needs a good march, so I nominate Stars and Stripes. We can have the bagpipe player do the piccolo parts!</p>
<p>With that accordian hanging around my neck, I'm really feeling a need for a polka, too.</p>
<p>And I'm thinking we will probably need a videographer, to memorialize all this.</p>
<p>I'll handle the A/V. Bribes for destroying the originals will be greatly appreciated and used to help defray the cost of D's tuition...</p>