Thursday, October 01, 2020

Advice to composer/performers

Spike Jones Jr.: “One of the things that people don’t realize about dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.”

A lot of the stage business was funnier in context of the expectations of that age, and leaves me untickled. But the music really did take a lot of skill.

2 comments:

  1. How do you do a C-Sharp gunshot?

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  2. That's how you tell the pros from the amateurs.

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