My Bands (Past and Present)
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
George Bernard Shaw
YouTube Videos of My Playing Sousaphone:
with: Portland's One More Time Around Again Marching Band (www.omtaamb.org)
June 1, 2019 Concert at Oregon Zoo - (I recorded from my position in tuba line)
Brown Eyed Girl
I Want You Back
America The Beautiful
June 3, 2019 - 30 second on the parade route at Starlight Parade
with: Portland's Power Pep Band (www.powerpepband.com)
Beer Barrel Polka
Great Balls of Fire
Midnight Hour
Hey Baby
at Portland State University basketball game:
Forget You
I Saw Her Standing There
with: Stumptown Gumbo - In 2012, a friend and I started creating New Orleans-style street music with just his trumpet and my sousaphone: https://youtu.be/HOmEO-andas and https://youtu.be/iCnDghgJz9c
with: The Beat Goes On Marching Band (http://www.thebeatgoesonmb.org/) - including playing in Obama's Inauguration Parade in 2009
YouTube Video - Me Playing Banjo (sometimes Drums)
with: Lewis River Dixie - 2005-2011: https://youtu.be/n0oINjqgDyo and https://youtu.be/5XbmDPmAtLo
with: Portland's One More Time Around Again Marching Band (www.omtaamb.org)
June 1, 2019 Concert at Oregon Zoo - (I recorded from my position in tuba line)
Brown Eyed Girl
I Want You Back
America The Beautiful
June 3, 2019 - 30 second on the parade route at Starlight Parade
with: Portland's Power Pep Band (www.powerpepband.com)
Beer Barrel Polka
Great Balls of Fire
Midnight Hour
Hey Baby
at Portland State University basketball game:
Forget You
I Saw Her Standing There
with: Stumptown Gumbo - In 2012, a friend and I started creating New Orleans-style street music with just his trumpet and my sousaphone: https://youtu.be/HOmEO-andas and https://youtu.be/iCnDghgJz9c
with: The Beat Goes On Marching Band (http://www.thebeatgoesonmb.org/) - including playing in Obama's Inauguration Parade in 2009
YouTube Video - Me Playing Banjo (sometimes Drums)
with: Lewis River Dixie - 2005-2011: https://youtu.be/n0oINjqgDyo and https://youtu.be/5XbmDPmAtLo
Background - Making music is part of the fabric of me:
Making music has been part of me since childhood - and the first instrument I learned to play (after the family player piano) was a tuba/sousaphone in a public school in 3rd through 5th grades. In 6th grade, my parents moved me to parochial school with no band program, ending my playing of tuba and sousaphone. I did not play a tuba/sousaphone again for over 40 years. At age 52, I wanted to see how much I remembered - and rented one. I was pleased both by how much I remembered and that the fun/passion for playing returned. As I got better, I joined a community band - which experience led to other opportunities/bands - such that in retirement I’ve enjoyed making lots of music with the sousaphone and tuba - even marched in a Portland adult marching band in Obama’s inauguration parade in 2009. I also enjoy playing drums, guitar, some ukulele, and some keyboarding (chords and bass line for classic rock and roll).
Making music has been part of me since childhood - and the first instrument I learned to play (after the family player piano) was a tuba/sousaphone in a public school in 3rd through 5th grades. In 6th grade, my parents moved me to parochial school with no band program, ending my playing of tuba and sousaphone. I did not play a tuba/sousaphone again for over 40 years. At age 52, I wanted to see how much I remembered - and rented one. I was pleased both by how much I remembered and that the fun/passion for playing returned. As I got better, I joined a community band - which experience led to other opportunities/bands - such that in retirement I’ve enjoyed making lots of music with the sousaphone and tuba - even marched in a Portland adult marching band in Obama’s inauguration parade in 2009. I also enjoy playing drums, guitar, some ukulele, and some keyboarding (chords and bass line for classic rock and roll).
