OT: Obituaries Thread

[utee94]

Doesn't sound familiar, no...

Did you get past the groovy intro, to the point where the horn kicks in?

[SFBadger96]

So... yeah.  Anyone got an extra $5K-$6K lying around?

Yeah, my parents got a great deal on a used one from my teacher back in the day--back then I think it was about $1000, which was a lot of money for my parents to spend on anything. It was pretty cool--had a screw-on bell, so it fit in a flat-sided case.

And yeah, the tone matters. I would never have competed for anything serious, I was merely decent.

[betarhoalphadelta]

Did you get past the groovy intro, to the point where the horn kicks in?

Yeah. It perhaps is something I've encountered as a background music in a movie, or in a restaurant/retail place, but if so I certainly never noticed it. 

[MrNubbz]

So... yeah.  Anyone got an extra $5K-$6K lying around?

Stop it,scape a little off the top of that Vanguard/Fidelity porfolio or hit up Mr Dell or Tito

[utee94]

Yeah. It perhaps is something I've encountered as a background music in a movie, or in a restaurant/retail place, but if so I certainly never noticed it.

Ok.  It's no big deal of course, just wanted to make sure you heard the actual horn melody to see if you knew it.  The groovy intro lasts an extra couple of measures that seem uncomfortably long, even for me, and I love the song. 

[Gigem]

Doesn't sound familiar, no...

Yeah I don’t remember it either. Wasn’t he ( Chuck Mangione) a recurring character on KotH?  

[MikeDeTiger]

I never had my own French horn, just used the school-issued ones.  I didn't need a good one, I wasn't good enough for it to make a difference.

But now I'm looking at French horns for my daughter.  She's going to be competing for State this year, and the quality of the horn you're playing can make all the difference with the judges.  Her tone is really great on the school-issued horns, but when I hear her play a REALLY good one like the one her private lessons teacher owns, I can't believe how amazing she sounds.

So... yeah.  Anyone got an extra $5K-$6K lying around?

I played tuba in band.  We probably couldn't have afforded $5k for one, but at least my folks would've had a fighting chance.  As it was, all kids who played tuba used the schools' and were only issued their own mouthpieces.  Our section was actually rather good, for guys who were the only ones who didn't own the instruments and couldn't take them home to practice.  All the other kids would show up to class like "Hey, that new piece of music was really hard, glad I spent some time learning it with the sheet music."  Hooray for you.  All we could do was bring the sheet music home, read it, and try to envision playing it in our head.  Come to think of it, that's probably one of the reasons I became such a good sight-reader in choir.....by that point I'd already spent a lot of time looking at music and imaging the notes, and learning to "hear" them correctly on the page.  

[jgvol]

You've probably heard this song at some point.  It was featured in the first Dr. Strange movie if you're into those...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7dg8vRDM68

I swear I've heard this is a game show when somebody won something.

18 seconds to 35 seconds of the song.

[utee94]

It really does blow my mind that there are people who don't know who Chuck Mangione is and have never heard "Feels So Good."

Now I know what old farts like Fearless must feel like 100% of the time.

[jgvol]

It really does blow my mind that there are people who don't know who Chuck Mangione is and have never heard "Feels So Good."

Now I know what old farts like Fearless must feel like 100% of the time.

I know the name.  Just never listened to his music.

Kind of like I've heard the name Doja Cat, but have no clue what she sings.

[utee94]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S99Wz4CCqzY

[betarhoalphadelta]

It really does blow my mind that there are people who don't know who Chuck Mangione is and have never heard "Feels So Good."

Now I know what old farts like Fearless must feel like 100% of the time.

What's strange about it is that you and I aren't *that* different in age... Assuming you went straight from high school to UT, that'd place you being born around 1972 to my 1978.

If this song was big in 1977, you'd have only been 5.

• Maybe you fell in love with the song sometime later, perhaps due to being a band geek / horn player. Just as I learned who Yo-Yo Ma was because I was a cello player in 4th-5th grade orchestra. 
• The other theory was that your parents absolutely loved the song and so you were over-exposed to it?

But otherwise I wouldn't think a 6-year age difference would account for this. 

[utee94]

I was born in '71, graduated high school in '90 and undergrad in '94.

I remember the song well from 1978 when it got popular, it was all over the airwaves.  It's possible my parents really liked it, but they never bought it on album or cassette.  So all of the exposure I had to it, would have to have been live in real time.  Like I said, it was everywhere.  On the radio on stations that played pop, rock, and adult contemporary.  In commercials.  On TV specials.  All over the place.  I remember Star Wars quite well, too, and it came out in 1977 (and played in theaters well into 1978).

But my love for the song definitely came later.  I remember liking it, sought it out later, bought it on 45, and learned it on the flugelhorn I borrowed from school.

[847badgerfan]

My parents were into that easy (hard for me) listening music garbage, so I heard that song WAY too much... 

I was into Black Sabbath, UFA, Scorpions, Priest, etc.