A new height of irony
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"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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I had a very late night
last night, talking music until the early hours with an
old colleague I have not seen for a very long time .
Ah yes, an excellent way to spend an evening, especially if some fine
reds and few ports are consumed. Then the reminiscing becomes
embellishing ;-)
I have a bottle or two of Merlot 84, which I keep for such
occasions.
Great. Open one to let it breathe a little and I'll be straight over.
Welcome, TT, any time:-)
If
only it was that easy? I am very partial to Merlot. Except once when I
passed through LAX and I asked for a Merlo(t) and the bar staff corrected
me in a broad 'Ameriken' accent and said "No, it is a Mer-Lot."
Ah that's Mer-Lot as in Job-Lot :-)
with ice and lemon, and one of those plastic imitation ice-cubes
that lights up when in liquid?
I once had a girlfriend who was partial to a single malt now
and again. She sometimes politely refused it when the barman
put ice in the glass without asking her first. She got blacklisted
from a very posh club in Chelsea, when the waiter asked,
"shall I add some water?" She took a sip and replied,
"I think you might have done that already!"
The chap is a musicologist and teacher (guitar)
We discussed amongst other things the importance of key
signatures not only to the players (no one wants their part
to be in seven sharps, C# major:-) but aso in the way the
tune "sounds" Flat keys, Eb, Bb are often preferred for
jazz.
These are exactly the fine philsophical points of music which
blossom after a glass or two of Merlot.
Mmmmmmm............... perhaps I would be better off discussing "micing"
with your cat :-))
LOL. I have recently taken up the tenor saxophone. My wife,
who knows I am a great Ellington fan, bought me a small carved
figurine of a cat playing a sax. She gave it to me, and said "It's
Cat Anderson" So be it! It was such a lovely gesture that
I did not have the heart to tell her that Cat Anderson was a
trumpet player:-)
Iain
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