First off I want to say THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone who shared, posted, and tweeted about our videos last week! We reached over a thousand views in the first 24 hours! Please keep sharing these, your support is greatly appreciated!
This week we are excited to share an original and another arrangement. The first video is of Jon Lampley’s tune ‘Sweatin’. We’ve always wanted to have Jon play Sousaphone with us (he dotted the i this year at three OSU games!). The only problem is that he didn’t have one. About a year ago he was able to find one and buy it. Then the problem became finding how to transport/ store it. The sousaphone struggle continues- Jon having to sit down when the ceiling is too high, having to take a car everywhere, when it’s in the car it takes up the whole trunk, finding a place where no one will step on it on a gig (especially if it’s at a bar)- but now that we’ve been playing with it for a year, it has become an irreplaceable part of this bands sound.
The next video is an arrangement of ‘Man Out Of You’ from the disney classic Mulan. Chris Ott and I were in the Disneyland All American Band this past summer. It was an amazing experience to play with musicians from all over the US (and canada). A lot of the music we played was from older disney movies- nothing newer than Lion King. Chris had the idea to arrange/ derange this tune as sung by Donny Osmond. In the video, we don’t just play the melody then present solos, instead it has multiple sections that reflect the movies plot, on top of that, it uses melodic themes from Mulan. LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS…
