Notes_Norton

Some crock plug-ins are better than others.

Yakety Sax is the song many sax players hate to play. Recorded in 1963 by Boots Randolph, it's the one song that people who don't know any other tune featuring a sax request. It's repetitive, and the fingering is tricky, but like most tricky fingerings, practice it enough, and it becomes easy. Mrs. Notes and I do a little shtick while playing it if the night and the audience is right. We start off a bit slower than the Boots recording and go through the AABA sections. Then a few bars of speed up and play the A section again with the look of confidence on my face. A few more bars of speed up, and I get a look of determination and play the A again. A few more bars of speed up, and I get a look of fear in my face and play the A again. Then, when it ends, I apologize about my partner drinking too much coffee or make some other wisecrack. It's a song I only play when requested, because if I played it too often, it would wear it out with our audience. There isn't a song in our songlist http://www.nortonmusic.com/cats/songlist.html that I don't like to play. There are some that I like to play more than others, but I play whatever I think will work best with the audience at the particular moment in time. Playing any song is a hell of a lot more fun than any day-job I can think of. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Girls, Girls, Girls - The Coasters

Just following instructions (again)

Without those sock plug-ins, I'd be de-feeted. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Hoarding is a term coined by the jealous types that don't have a proper collection of anything. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Harry's House/Centerpiece - Joni Mitchell

Not exactly a pun either, but it made me grin.

Sometimes people think a song is overplayed and they are tired of it. I wish I could write a song that gets overplayed!!! I play the songs some other musicians feel are beneath them, Brown Eyed Girl, Mustang Sally, Yakety Sax and a slew of others, and I enjoy them. It sure beats any day-job I can think of. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Only Human - Uriah Heep

We play it, and enjoy it. We're musicians and entertainers. We charge more than our competition, and here in the summer, when most duos are lucky to work 5 days this month, we're working 15. August is one of the 2 slowest months, and we've got 17 gigs. September is the absolute slowest, and we've got 15. 'nuff said. Insights and incites by Notes ♫

Cherry Bomb - The Runaways

I played in a Holiday Inn, the bar was call CURRENTS and it was also where breakfast was served. They got new paper placements with CURRENTS written across it. The waitresses soon discovered that if they put the napkins in the middle of the placemats it looked like CU■■■■NTS. Of course that was immediately forbidden. The next time they ordered placemats, the design was different. Notes ♫

I think so Bapu

The picture on the cover is the association: India - Gal Costa

Pipe Down !!!

Motors -> Cars Highway Star - Deep Purple

This one is wicked...

Groan.