"RacinBob" (racinbob)
04/10/2020 at 10:52 • Filed to: None
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"RacinBob" (racinbob)
04/10/2020 at 10:52 • Filed to: None | 4
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Today’s shirt is a 2006 season reminant of the defunct Panther Indycar racing team. In 2006, Panther had one driver !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! who had a good season. Per !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! “ Meira qualified in 6th place and would be the highest-starting driver to not drive for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! or !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . The team would acquire sponsorship from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! after qualifying. Meira would eventually finish in 10th”
Panther is probably best remembered for !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ’s last turn crash in the 2011 Indy 500 relegating him from the lead to 2nd. They closed down in 2014.
ttyymmnn
> RacinBob
04/10/2020 at 10:59 |
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I showed up to a trumpet lesson one day wearing a bright red shirt. My trumpet teacher, always quick with a quip, smiled impishly and said, “Tim, it’s a shame you couldn’t find a red shirt.”
That said, that’s a cool orange shirt.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
04/10/2020 at 11:13 |
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Musicians think they’re funnier than they are. I wore a camo shirt to school exactly once. My band director was making wise cracks about the pair of pants sitting in the front row. Later he made more jokes about the pair of pants walking down the hallway.
I decided that day that camo wasn’t cool.
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ttyymmnn
> TheRealBicycleBuck
04/10/2020 at 11:29 |
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You would have to know Mr. Crisara (I will never call him by his first name out of a bottomless well of respect I have for him). He was in his late 70s or early 80s when I started working with him. H e was a small man of Italian heritage, sharp as a tack, and he was the first call studio trumpet player in NYC for 30 years. He cared deeply for his students and often had a pixie grin and a way of cutting right to the core of an issue in a piercingly honest yet humorous way. Some of the younger students may have been put out by his unvarnished assessments, but they were always delivered with an avuncular grin that made you realize that it was never personal. All of his students collected his quotes over the years, and here are a couple, starting with my favorite :
“Tim, all that trumpet is doing is amplifying the chaos in your head.”
“Tim, there are two ways you could play this: you could be musical, and up and down and all, or you could be a monotonous bore. Tim, you’re being a monotonous bore.”
One day, a bunch of trumpet students had gathered in a practice room across the hall from his studio, and Mr. Crisara stuck his head inside to see what was going on. A few students asked him questions, then he turned to me and said, “Now Tim, what can I do for you?” I said, “Can you get me a job?” Without missing a beat, he replied, “Do you do windows?”
After playing the fanfare opening of the Hummel trumpet concerto: “Now Tim, I don’t think you want to play that as if Hitler just walked in the room.”
So, when Mr. Crisara called out my red shirt, he was just being himself, and I laughed. A couple days later, he opened the door to his studio and I saw that he was wearing a suede vest. I said, “A little touch of the Old West today Mr. Crisara?” So it went both ways.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> ttyymmnn
04/10/2020 at 12:01 |
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Now I wish I had a collection of quotes from my band director. He wasn’t as witty, but he would throw out the occasional zinger.