Audio or music related anecdotes, jokes, cartoons... anyone? [2018]

These are just great. The author, Steve Howard, is one of the UK’s leading sax and clarinet techs and quite literally wrote the Haynes manuals for maintaining these instruments!

http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Notes/jazz_etiquette_solos.htm
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Notes/jazz_etiquette_dress.htm
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Notes/jazz_etiquette_listeners.htm
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk/Notes/jazz_etiquette_admin.htm

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Q: How does a jazz musician end up with 1 million dollars?

A: By starting with 2 million dollars.

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Bass

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Saw this in Dublin a couple of weeks ago…:grinning:
buskers

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In Dublin? That comes as quite a surprise! In Dublin, there’re buskers EVERYWHERE — and many very good ones, too!

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Q: What do you call a jazzman without a girlfriend?

A: Homeless!

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PIANIST: “OK, let’s do ‘I’ll Remember April’. First six bars in A-flat. Bar 7 modulate down to F. Bar 12, back up to A-flat again, but then in 7/8.”

SINGER: “That’s crazy! I couldn’t possibly do that!”

PIANIST: “You DID last night . . . “

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Billy Connelly: With banjo players there are some sentences you never hear anyone say: “She left with the banjo player”, “That’s the banjo player’s Ferrari” …

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http://www.heretical.com/miscella/zfetish.html

HiFi as fetish.

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Hi @ged_hickman1,

an extremely well-written article on both the causes and symptoms of “Hifi fetishism”! :grinning: Thanks a lot for posting this link.

Q. How do you know if the stage is level at a bluegrass gig?

A. The banjo player drools out of both sides of his mouth… :smiley:

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A jazz musician is someone who loads a $5,000 instrument into a $500 car to go to a $50 gig.

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Rowan Atkinson mocking Elton John and grilling him about the origin of his name…

"Funny name, ‘Elton’. How did you come by it…?" :joy:

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Audiophile 1: “Did you hear the sad news about Bob; he died of a sudden illness.”
Audiophile 2: “That’s so sad, what did he have?”
Audiophile 1: " Krell, Thiel, Theta, and Nordost."

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The world famous Amazon Denon cable listing, reviews including gems such as…

“Transmission of music data at rates faster than the speed of light seemed convenient, until I realized I was hearing the music before I actually wanted to play it.”

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1X6PM/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000I1X6PM&linkCode=as2&tag=geek03b-20

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Are you sure it wasn’t MQA that “killed” Bob? :wink:

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