Marcus Miller and David Sanborn... playing plastic instruments.

[risingson]

I couldn't believe this really, but check out what I've just found on Youtube! And presented by Jools Holland!

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBmLa-TrRRo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBmLa-TrRRo[/url]

[Greene-Mann]

That's awsome!!! proved a point and a half there.

[OldGit]

dig the moves too

[thisnameistaken]

Didn't those Casio guitars and MIDI horns cost a small fortune back in the '80s?

If they'd grabbed instruments from a school's music department it would've proved their point a bit better.

[risingson]

[quote name='thisnameistaken' post='492399' date='May 19 2009, 02:43 PM']Didn't those Casio guitars and MIDI horns cost a small fortune back in the '80s?

If they'd grabbed instruments from a school's music department it would've proved their point a bit better.[/quote]

We got given one a while ago, it was such a piece of trash that we left it inside an old piano and no one has touched it in about 6 or 7 years.

[bassace]

Er, I don't think it was Charlie Parker but Ornette Coleman who played a plastic sax. But that was a 'proper' plastic sax - as opposed to a toy.

[allighatt0r]

I have to admit that the drums are the best sounding instrument there.... haha!

[risingson]

[quote name='bassace' post='492627' date='May 19 2009, 07:44 PM']Er, I don't think it was Charlie Parker but Ornette Coleman who played a plastic sax. But that was a 'proper' plastic sax - as opposed to a toy.[/quote]

And on the third day, the Lord said; 'thou shalt not argue with Marcus Miller!!'

Edited May 19, 2009 by liamcapleton

[bassace]

[quote name='liamcapleton' post='492837' date='May 20 2009, 12:00 AM']And on the third day, the Lord said; 'thou shalt not argue with Marcus Miller!!' [/quote]

My apologies. Charlie Parker sold his usual alto just befor a concert to buy drugs. Dizzy and some other band members scoured the neigbourhood to buy him a new new sax. The only one they could find was a Grafton plastic sax. He played the concert and Ornette Coleman followed later.

Edited May 20, 2009 by bassace

[OldGit]

[quote name='bassace' post='492955' date='May 20 2009, 08:48 AM']My apologies. Charlie Parker sold his usual alto just befor a concert to buy drugs. Dizzy and some other band members scoured the neigbourhood to buy him a new new sax. The only one they could find was a Grafton plastic sax. He played the concert and Ornette Coleman followed later.[/quote]



The Grafton is a perfectly fine sax in the right hands, especially if it's been coated with Charlie Parker's mojo
It was an attempt to make a sax using what was then state of the art materials. I wonder if we could get Status to try .. Now that would be a horn ...

Edited May 20, 2009 by OldGit

[Dubs]

that was great

[chardbass]

Happy days for them no doubt. Hiram Bullock seemed to have such a huge personality

[bluesparky]

[quote name='OldGit' post='492396' date='May 19 2009, 02:37 PM']dig the moves too [/quote]
Ha ha, yeah, very funky.

I like David Sanborn, i used to do Run For Cover in a band, the marcus miller bassline and solo were great fun for me!!!