Thank you, Ms Burns - I’m glad you get the joke. Always nice to connect on all the levels.

thx for the thumb’s up!

You’re onto me about the anarchy. That’s one of the things I love about New Orleans marching bands, and about about bands like The Chicago Arts Ensemble or maybe from Carla Bley’s “Escalator Over the HIll” period - or even the rhythmic “free associations” in the music of the artist formerly known as Dollar Brand. Thank you for hearing it.

you exactly get the feel. Like I’m delivering the song from a deck chair, wearing a boater, shades, loud shirt, with my legs cross and a highball in my left hand.

well thank you, sir. But there’s this little issue about an outstanding warrant … don’t know the details. There was this party, you see …

The Tuba Czar was one of my favorite Eugene, Oregon, pawn shops. There’s a whole sub-genre of tuba humor and the owner had collected some of the best. Thanks for your sweet words.

sharing it like a case of mono oxox

thank you, Mr Speck, man in a velvet kid suit. Sometimes a sloppy snogg is just the item!

So glad you liked it, Jurgen. Sometimes, a tuba and a trombone say what a whole lot of other instruments won’t.

I am just now exploring your very rich uploads and I know I will be able to use them. You are the inspiration. Thank you!