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September 10, 2008 |
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Tubas
FOUND by Karen
in Knoxville, Tennessee
Found behind a file cabinet in the music library of my high school band room.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Something about this kid says "impostor" -- he looks like he just ducked into the band room, grabbed a helicon, and tried to look innocent.
The cherry bomb in the lav, was that his? The fire alarm?
I've always wanted to be a tuba.
Look how cool the tuba kid is compared to the kid next to him. Wow. You don't expect a kid lugging a tuba around to have that amount of style and panache, do ya?!
Has it really been 30 years since the file cabinet was moved??
The guy on the L must have grown up to sell used cars...light pants with ugly plaid and a dark belt!! We won't even go into the total lack of coordination with that greentop pseudoWestern shirt.
Even for the 70s the dude has noooo fashion sense. I can't see his shoes, but I can imagine them--and the thought is scary.
I didn't know Doogie played the tuba. I thought he only played a certain type of flute...wink, wink, nudge, nudge.
Oooh! Haha Mr. Mojo! That does look like Doogie.
@ Gloria ... "helicon"! I'm impressed. Had to look it up.
I think what we have here, folks is a disgruntled sousaphone player. He's thinking, "Damn! When they said I'd get to 'blow a big one' this AIN'T what I thought they meant. And ... whoa! Bobby, look at them chicks up front with the flutes."
Also ... "One summer, at band camp...."
@ Sherrise-- I completely agree with you. That is one cool kid!
And FYI, everyone, that's not a tuba, it's a sousaphone.
It looks as though he and the instrument aren't suited for each other...
Opposites attract???
Pretty cute 70's lookin' guy, though! Probably drives a '78 Trans Am with the t-bar roof so the sousaphone can sit in the passenger seat!!
Lets give this guy the playlist from the other find.
i love this picture. he looks like, 'okay, i am waaay too cool for this.'
Did John Philip Sousa invent the sousaphone? Just curious.
I love this photo! I love photo finds! YAY!!
Btw, those band teachers deserve medals. To turn horrible cacophonous noise into something beautiful and inspiring has got to be magic. That's what they do, and it's amazing.
Once I had to sub for a band teacher. Torture. Pure torture. High school band class must be where, I believe, bad people go after they die.
I have a total crush on the guy in the background. Man those pants are hot!
@Clover: You mean it isn't where *band* people go *before* they die? (meh, I know that isn't funny, don't care)
@Joda: I'm digging the tacky outfit too. Those glasses are badass, you know, in a totally nerdy kind of way. The only thing foreground dude's got going for him is the mesmerizing pattern the lights make on the rim(?) of the sousaphone.
My favorite thing about this find is the fact that this guy is wearing the unbuttoned shirt and thick gold chain a la John Travolta just for band class. Imagine what he wore when he went out!
Nerds try harder to please.
Why is a 70's high school tuba player wearing a wedding ring?
He can't get the ring off. He has a horrible case of sousaphone hand!
Mr. Mojo, it took me a few minutes of pondering your post before I 'got it.'
I have always been rather slow with those sort of jokes.
Wondered about that ring myself.
Love the plaid pants on the guy next to Cool Tuba Player.
Wish we could see his hat better.
@ Colver-- The sousaphone was technically created by instrument maker J. W. Pepper, who named it to honor Sousa, who made suggestions for creating the instrument. Sousa wanted a mellower sound for the stage, compared to the tuba and helicon instrument sounds, which were better for marching.
The kid's ring looks a little big to be a wedding band-- senior class ring, maybe?
Alan, that's not a wedding ring. It's a horn.
didn't you guys wondering about the "wedding" ring ever hear the Prince song, "let's pretend we're married"?
(go all nite.. there ain't nothin' wrong if it feels all right...)
highschool kids wear symbolic rings all the time to show their... um... devotion. (?)
Band Geeks. Gotta love 'em.
i fell in love with a tuba player when i was in grade 10.
@ Tori- I bet it's actually a puka shell necklace... He looks like he may be too cool for the discotheque.
@ Tori ... I don't think it's a gold chain, I think it's some beads - maybe big ones.
And notice the bill to his cap. That's no baseball cap, it's more like a tug boat captain's hat. What did we call them? (and why did people think they were cool, except that you'd see people on album covers wearing them)?
@Night: actual lol at your "not a wedding ring" comment.
@Librarian: I think you're right about the hat. Possibly a Captain and Tennille influence.
Not a lot of dudes can rock the Captain Hat. Not a lot of dudes. This kid's slick.
I'm sure you've noticed that those hats are making a comeback? Everything old is new again.
Yup, and he's scoping out his own special Tenille up there in the woodwinds section.
Oooohhh! shiny!!
Billy was prepared to spend the entire year with this sousaphone wrapped around him, if it meant he had the slightest chance of getting Suzie's phone, and then even Suzie wrapped around him.
And, boy, was he prepared.
He'd very intentionally asked to play this lowest-sounding instrument because he, of all people in last year's 10th grade bio class, had been the only one to understand the possibilities of communicating by sub-sonic sound waves. Those African elephants they'd read about could attract mates from miles and miles away. If they could do that, surely he could get Suzie to pay attention.
Billy's theory was that the so-low-you-can't-hear-them notes shook loose special pheromones (or, like that twerp Andy kept calling them, "Farah moans [snicker, snicker]") in the other animals. He meant to rattle his own pheromones loose and get Suzie to notice.
This was gonna be SO cool! Then he might even be able to ditch these stupid beads he wears all the time, though he was actually starting to groove to them.
Unfortunately, Mr. Friedman's marching routine that year required the sousaphone players to stand in a straight line and twist back and forth in time with the music while they played. It was supposed to look neat and, as 'Friedy' said, 'spread the sound around,' but Billy was getting the feeling that Frank (who sat to his right in the rehearsal room) was getting some pheromones of his own shaken loose.
It was a bad year to be playing "Muskrat Love."
@Librarian: Thank you for getting me hip to the story behind this picture. That intense stare is completely revealed. BRAVO!
Is that kid married?! It looks like he's wearing a wedding ring.
LMAO Doogie plays the flute OH MY *blushes*
I noticed the wedding band right away. Seemed out of place, moreso than anything else in this picture.
I think the way it's taken, with the chair beside the picture taker and the music stand partially in the shot that a fellow class member secretly looked back and snapped this shot to keep of their secret crush. Of course she can't talk to him and see if he's interested and what his plans are this Saturday night b/c he's already married! So, she must pine over this picture in the meantime.
i like all those lights reflecting off of the tuba
I swear, if you put this thing around my neck one more time, I'm going to stab you through the heart with your own fucking piccolo.
It's a sousaphone. I'm not sure if tuba is an acceptable name for this instrument.
Ski-slope nose, but still, he's kinda' hot. I'd do him (yeah, I'm gay).
I'm betting, however, that John Phillip Jr. is in jail or working in a mill someplace now, whereas the guy next to him is a CFO for a fortune 500 company. AND still has a head of hair. Make fun if you will, I bet he's the one that grew up to be hot and without a rap-sheet. I know my band-people.
From wikipedia:
"The sousaphone is a wearable tuba descended from the hélicon..."
GodDAMN the 70's
awesomeee find :)
wow. amazing find. this guy looks just like my ex. i'm pretty sure i posted a comment on another find about a different guy looking like a different ex...anyway, we were also band geeks but he played the bass clarinet. however, this pic was waaaayy before my time.
PLAY FREEBIRD!!
Tuba, Sousaphone, helicon... doesn't matter which you play, 'cause you'll always be playing alone...
Helicon? I thought that was the name of the River to the Uderworld.
@not just another mouth in the lipstick vogue
[Hmm... your name has a whole nother connotation today in light of today's current events.. or should i say, current non-events...]
Re what you said: "You mean it isn't where *band* people go *before* they die? (meh, I know that isn't funny, don't care)" Mais au contraire, it is so! Funny! :)
(I know "nother" is not a word. It's my fave non-word, actually.)
With his shrunken and deformed left hand, the last two fingers of which were stapled in place, elfin-nosed Shawn compensated by taking on the largest instrument in the band.
Nah. It's a girl. She's hot. And very intense. And all the guys hope she'll unbutton just one... more... button on her casual silk blouse. Bet she doesn't wear a bra. Oh, man. If she can blow that thing, she could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.
Freebird! Hee hee
clover, "nother" IS a word. argh.
and are we sure that's not tim robbins?
This many comments and nobody's figured it out yet?
I'm suprised!
He reminds me of River Phoenix for some reason. With a sousaphone.
O_O
That's one cool guy and one huge Sousaphone!
Not as big as my low A contrabassoon though ;-)
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Same hat. I'm not kidding! It's not a matter of everything old being new again- that look is timeless.
In fact, can't you just picture semi-hot blond sousaphone boy on that motorcycle, in those boots, too?
Now then- to the point of this picture being Found behind a file cabinet in the music library of the band room: Do you think that 30 years ago (I'll just use that as a frame of reference because someone already did so) someone INTENTIONALLY left that photo to be Found? Sort of a "time capsule" if you will?
Have you ever done that? You know- left some token symbol of your time, to be found by some random stranger at an unspecified point in any of several possible "futures"? Found behind a filing cabinet. Could have been found one day after it ended up back there. Then it wouldn't have been at all remarkable. But here we are.
The kid also looks a bit like Sting.
I thought cool kid looked like Kevin Bacon.
That ain't no wedding band, it's a class ring!
the kid in the background looks like ben affleck.
Tuba Guy, meet Scuba Girl.
you two were mfeo, I'm sure of it.
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