Phil Cobb - Brisbane, Brass Bands and Baseball Caps Philip Cobb, principal trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra and star of the brass band world, talks to Sarah Willis live on the Horn Hangouts from the Upper Brass Weekend at the Queensland Con in Brisbane, Australia. July 2019
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[Music] I’ve money tidy award hangout audience we’re so happy you’ve joined us today we are in Brisbane the Queensland conservatory Griffith University and our star guest today is mister [Applause] thank you for agreeing to do this you didn’t have much choice we just shocked it during yeah it’s nice to be it’s nice being Australia isn’t it certainly a long way to calculate it’s it’s definitely worth it but job don’t like is okay it’s not bad there cuz
I came from Korea just before so that’s only an hour time difference right pollution yeah only that’s a ste quite a luxury drive I can’t fit in from Japan so it’s quite a luxury to arriving or Australia not feel like a thirsty after bed first I wonder if there’s anybody watching who who you talked you were doing master classes in
Korea yeah that might well be yeah yeah I know there were few people that me it was happening so everybody knows this is happening this is ourn hangouts to get away with it no not getting away with anything here we have a huge audience we are here for the high brass weekend which has been organized here at the con
Peter loves Sarah Butler thank you very much for the invitation to this you guys [Applause] and we’d have been masterclass ting warming up in playing difficult pieces in front of lots of brass players that’s our favorite thing to do and all of you watching I think we’re live on Facebook as well so if you’re watching live on
Facebook right in let us know where you’re watching from but do go over to the website if you have any questions for Phil because I’ve only got the website up here on my iPad and it would be great if you got in some good questions well make the most of it he hardly ever does interviews so today we can ask him whatever we want well more or less whether you answer is up to you so we’ve already got people watching from all over the world like
Michelle bakers watching Inuyasha which is really lovely hello Michelle we love you then as Brendan is watching from England which means it’s four o’clock in the morning my goodness and yeah there’s so many people a lot of you in the room joining in here with I am a falafel and people like that so chooses some good names thank you for that someone tried to be stuff on door but
I do not believe in that you’d be way asleep by now so when I have a Gordon hangout guest I try and also questions that you can’t Google problem is Phil you can’t go with you virtually at all there’s a lot of stuff out there me playing there’s just not a lot a lot about your history and
I I know you actual cheer are there so Polly so what do you think we were doing on the amla on the tour and now in May I was trying to get all the all the info my great sweet bunny but what would be really interesting because you come from a huge brass band tradition and and that has shaped role-playing shaped your path
I heard that you your first trumpet you got when you were three and a half playing here yes Saturday hidden degrees no I did have a football as well but I’ve got a corner and all bats that’s what they called us now they’ve got the about masters call it house at Christmas time a three and a half so and that was given to me by my grandfather who was it was a play he was a big famous player he was yeah
I suppose back in the day you know that the army the army bounced back in the day were around there were a lot more of them and it was a real kind of it was a real thing real tradition as the army yeah Salvation Army not the British Army learning acceleration on yeah and I suppose in his own in their own unique world they were sort of upstarts really my grandfather’s good-looking man always said his hair slicked back
I used to play with it with a pinky so he was people be blaming the pinky little little finger of mother it’s like drinking tea apparently he looked he played amazing but looked testicle played as well and was never saw him play that sound was there would have been still proud he stood around Easter yeah a couple of couple of years ago he was still trying but certainly yeah we should we should have early flavors before people still come out and tell me that after
I’ve played something that nobody could bring solace to a room like my grandfather so that’s always a nice thing but you’re okay so he is still alive pretty hello I was watching well probably not this time the moment you’ll see it he never played for you live no well I used to played us with him you know
I used to babysit me and my brother and my team covers as well quite a bit all a very close family so used to played us occasionally and I used to hearing fighting and practicing and there’s lots of the causes out there fighting as well so yeah I’ve heard enough to know to know he was okay your dad became quite a famous conductor yeah he was also a player as well and so my grandfather was principal corner of the international staff and
Salvation Army which is basically the the premier brass band of the Salvation Army really it’s a bit like representing your country well that’s at least how I am always smooth so my grandfather was principal cornet of them for a while and then my dad later took over that chair and within a few years took over the baton and he’s been doing that
I think I can 30 years now he’s associated with a band 40-odd I think so he’s yeah he’s now and he can buck student up still won’t go back my playing now as well he still playing a local band I do yeah what are they called they called Hendon Hendon a Salvation Army buddy because you sort of imagined that the brass band tradition to be more
North England yeah yeah I mean I did a bit of that but not on a regular I was always The Salvation Army thing that did the national youth brass band as well which of course was full of that had done that sort of thing so I got to know and I did a few contests I did did the
Welsh errors with tour we did the Europeans with Korey concept of black so I kind thought Yorkshire areas with cop main all the morning sorry I’m a hopefully Ramona sort of understand this if it’s really a different a different tradition isn’t it of claim it is yeah yes and I’ve tried to not think about it too much because it’s still it’s still blowing down a bit
Cheerilee no which is why we’re all here this week exactly but there are small differences yeah they are oh well maybe I’m not the best person to ask because I get something that I sound like a trumpet on the corner and according it when I play the trumpet so I can’t really really but I think the articulation is different
I think in New Yorker so you could have be able to promote a little bit more you’ve got less notes take my of course yes something furred mentality you know what I was just I’ve just started teaching at the Birmingham Conservatoire and that is where the brass band tradition sort of starts in Birmingham and then goes goes goes yeah and so they have a brass band course you’re there yes that’s right and so
I was doing a masterclass it’s a it’s a child brass so I don’t just get the horns I’ve got all brass and in the morning I had their orchestral brass and yeah I’m gonna have the brass band Ross and I think they played more notes in the second half of the masterclass then all the orchestral horses Brothers are played in like the last ten years after leaving the euphonium is in the ten horns okay but you know what the other thing is the other thing
I noticed is that they all play with this vibrato that actually I was quite jealous of because I do everything I can to stop this vibrato when I’m nervous but in a brass band you’re supposed to use this in a pronto it’s a sort of yeah I mean I think I think III you’ve got to try and think about it there’s like a different way and
I think using vibrato is about warming a note up and color rather than just a habit but there is there has been not obviously not the fantastic players in the Ross family but there is a bit of a tradition that you use the practical snake abusing to partner with sounds ugly but I think for me there’s got to be a point to it so
I’m not against using the faster than anything give or take one or two bits of Records for so much as a point to it would you use vibrato mollified and we did all this in all the slow sailors in the third minute I’m good certainly yeah I think it I think that’s a great opportunity to to use vibrato if you want other people how can they tell if it’s meant to be broto or because you nervous vibrato
I don’t know I guess the trick is to be able to not show the nervous side of it just to show that what you’re trying to do is just color it rather than shake I like that it’s cool it used to warm up the notes of color the members yeah I think I think that’s a very important
I was very impressed with these with the brass band players it’s just for me a new world and but it’s such a huge tradition it is a modern we should be and continue to be very proud of in the UK because it’s it’s and the Salvation Army side of it is produce some of the most fantastic brass players or casualty as well as well as in the band then and even three or four guys slightly older guys and you know so they’re you know
Tim Jones learnt to play and you found him through the Salvation Army Patrick Howard he retired learnt to play was just given a fingering chart given an instrument and so told to learn you know and that that has shaped those guys career and life really so it’s it’s something that I’m very proud of first official yeah it has a very big brass band
Australia New Zealand and they’re lucky because we have the livestreamer the ultimate life of the brass band world had some Tim over there I can live streams all these events because Australia is so huge it’s very hard from for families to get to here constants so they all Chileans it’s a poverty it’s a brass-band party but today we’re having a horn hangout
Park people are still watching from all over the place it’s a down the trumpet man says hey Phil well and yeah oh my goodness I’m Alex the local says Phil do you play anything besides chocolate professionally the fool no no that’s just enough that everything cornets I’m pretty corny hats there’s some there’s some good questions here I have to scroll through them because there’s so many of them what style of music did your band play all sorts
I mean my my father’s actually in charge of music for the Salvation Army in UK yes and part of his job is to promote new music from composers and new composers and so there’s there’s a loads of differential armors and that’s the brilliant thing I think about the whole brass that the brass needs to be that you can it can stretch out over so many different genres yeah how long do you warm up for him depends it depends on how much blowing of thumb a day before
I tend to put it to my face and see how I feel and sometimes I need to do 5 10 minutes sometimes I’m ready to go so it depends me no more than if I was to warm up it’d be no more than 10 or 15 minutes yeah and then flute monster how much do you practice daily that’s always a difficult one to answer isn’t it it is because
I’m working all the time so it’s it depends what again it depends on what I’ve got on world wise if if we’ve had a particularly tough day at work then it’s actually better to put it in the case of meeting their arrest so it will it all depends we don’t really have the brilliance and the frustration of the other social tensions that it there isn’t a routine to it so you can’t really plan how you’re going to feel at any given winter and week or month so again
I just try and and I have thought since the work go in that to a beer just try and work out but you’re going I think you always try that’s very important and not it so to have this warm-up routine that you have to do this one hour brutal routine every day otherwise you can’t play but if you go to mala symphony on that would wreck you more than it would help and you can’t you can’t stick to that every single that you know if you’ve got a bit the studio in the morning and the traffic in another stretch of such those orange shocking so
You can’t even if you left an hour and a half tickets work that be some days where you might be pushing the time not necessarily going to get it in order to go to do your half an hour forty minute warm-up so I think mentally trying to cram it under I would never say don’t warm up but
I would say try and get it as compact as possible so you joined the months of your when you were 21 I mean that’s really quite amazing we went straight from Guildhall beautiful School of Music and Drama who were your teachers there I was predominately taught by Paul Benson who’s my own restaurant Paul Kashtan teach there as well and macadamia is in the opium
I had a hand for the lessons with Allison Boltzmann that’s about it really and then right up until college I was taught by my father so that’s pretty much it and I was so lucky through through college particularly with my dad and I’ve got a fantastic relationship with with that and then to go to guild hall and have a a very special relationship with
Paul Barristan as well I was very lucky with that so I still keep in contact with well obviously what that but still people so how does it work in England oh I I sort of know how it works but it’s good to explain to people that are not used to this London this the in British style of getting a job and mine are twister you do an audition then you get a two-year trial if you win the audition yeah it’s a brutal but but it’s your system is brutal to because
I have an audition or not and then there’s a lot of people on trial at the same time so how did it work with yours because actually it was very very quick decision wasn’t it some told yeah well I was I was on trial for another position in an on the Philharmonic Orchestra which was a job that
I won about four or five months left and why degree and it was strange how it all happened because I was in one morning I was offered a trial in a new industry I was offered an official trial first trumpet with the other so I was kind of offered the OPM job and all at the same time yeah it was a bit of a
I had to make a decision I was just asked having accepted the LPO job because I didn’t think for what many I was gonna get Jenna so joy that was a big job because the man who had retired out of that job was a a little little known trumpet player called Morris Murphy who was just God yes yet to meet you yeah well they - he’s incredible trumpet player so
I was I was offered what was going to be three or four months of work I guess to see at 2021 whether I could handle it you know it’s one thing going and having a good concert but what he can do the shows back to back and having the brutal schedule in the touring and work I think but
I think the fact that fortunately for me the fact that I buy a job somewhere else kind of rushed it through so and there no one else where else to go almost ten years almost a lot has happened in those 10 years yes so really a lot I mean also tragic things yes yeah you lost two members lot more three more in the first five days
I can’t imagine how I’m neither gone was also your mentor yeah Nigel right a very special relationship with happened yeah no a very special relationship imagine and I have fun you know I did I did leave the banning all who brought here took over from here playing over to the fence and of course night night all that’s there now but
Nigel was this at the first night of the Gerry were very special in this that I look back on it now Gerry still in the shower Gerry just retires doesn’t mistress retired with a no he was he was seen as an extra but he retired last something yeah they were very special because I was very young I had no idea what
I was doing and I had two guys there night Nigel was was best friends with Morris Gerry idolized him and they were very close and yet those two guys let me go into the other zone and just play you know they just support if they helped me where that money could and they let me play it’s only now really vital but back on that realize how special that was because you hear all sorts of other stories about other sections with very sharp elbows and not very supportive it’s a hard enough job but
I think the key with how close those guys were to so broad so Nigel and Tobias to have let me just sit down and do my thing and be supportive of that actually there’s a wonderful video of you and Nigel for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra it’s hilarious you guys are going to look it up on this roof it’s a children excerpt video basically
Nigel is entitled of some of their Nigel’s just says right so you play that alright and then you talk about it he’s making you play all these extra you didn’t play there to Sully’s he’s commenting on it brilliantly how’s the time presentation yeah I mean we’re in the various sessions studio I used to do well if it wasn’t
Britt Nigel II just knew he was a fantastic year he was a brilliant brilliant third trumpet but he was a great piccolo trumpet piccolo trumpet player and Philip Jones brass ensembles so it’s a great player in his own right but he did lots of examining and recording for the associated board studio work for them he was a very very clever man very talented so
I mean there’s not a lot he said something which I found very interesting about Morris Martin Murphy Morris came from a brass band tradition as well and Morris always have this amazing ability just to breathe through the right places and make it sound completely natural and a Nigel said he’d asked Morris about that Morrison is because he was always playing hymns and it’s just in hymns it’s natural where you breathe and is that something that maybe the the
Salvation Army fastest do automatically you learn that he’ll playing that from a very very young age that ranges I think the fantastic thing we have in the Salvation Army is word association and a lot of the children him or him as you talk developer teams that we play know we don’t know worth of work but we know the important parts of the phrases what words to look out for because we’ve sung this those things and those words before so
I think I think Morris is probably right that our association can only help yeah because you yeah they must have to make up word association for things like mollify probably not speak them out loud but you know I found that very interesting because this is a natural form of playing and breathing and then breathing where it should be instead of getting old
I thought that was really that was really just a anyway I love the video you made you played you were playing till you’re blue in the face of nitrous I haven’t blank is where I think in the job six months or something and I haven’t played sewer for excess hello so we were a bit swingley we shouldn’t tell you this but in between we were cutting noise he need maybe someone can sort of linked up to this it’s like it’s on
YouTube you put it in the chat that’d be great call me Carson and casting it’s and whitey says what was the first band you played in that be the Hendon young people’s bands you Nichols Leslie little bit back the Baumeister’s what does that mean you go there every week you play yes also do Tuesday nights the whitey band starts at half-past six
I think Mikey back yeah we live young people’s right yeah my team watch this Jeff yeah and I’m like that which starts off sick off server and then we see you about starts at eight to ten - very very good friends of mine and also in heavy heart watching in Los Angeles and I just have to say big balloons they’re managing amazing on there and it’s not that late in
New York I think it’s like oh no it’s probably evening or something lovely that you’re watching what brand of chocolate would you recommend for the best sound I do like nerdy questions leave the nest PC Oh Holly which is mine a b-flat being a penis yeah is that the one the wrong bat is attacking in the basket how long you take probably about three or four years now yeah so that’s what our persons develops with with
PMS Munich is it called the silikov model what it’s the PCL model so close okay I think it’s Nokia and I like to ask what mouthpiece oh that always doesn’t work on numbers would not be there it’s meant I am um I’m not really attractive man but Matthew I’ve always missed an arm in that thesis but mortis wigs revin
Meyers bars Wow we make it up how do you decide it’s bad at the over players who sit around these read before which one should I take the book for our first dates debate just how it feels I’ll pick one up if it doesn’t feel right now so I think I just want to show you lighten up the mood a bit we’ve been very nerdy huh if you want section love you very much in the break yes and we have some lovely photos which
Tim is going to show us now but we don’t only have photos your section have really gone to town and first of all we have Jay Elton and Charlie who are in Sydney right now and Charlie got all dressed up it’s something that you gave him you’ve got ready to go Charlie got you a big Arsenal supporter
I enjoy so Charlie is all dressed up it’s going to be really to go running now so this is what we’ve got now you feel we’re looking pretty aligned hang out today as much as we’ve already kept so early to see you live in London we’re here in see looking very soon all the best and then not only
Dave came up with a video but we have something else to show you to your section has been in Santa Barbara and they sent you this which you cannot watch hey Phil how’s it going greetings from the LSO here in sunny Santa Barbara I’ll be doing well Matt listen hey an honour of your beloved Tom and Hotspur
I’m wearing this shirt for you come on you Spurs I think next season’s gonna be a big for you but we just wanted to say hello hope you’re doing well we miss you terribly and we know we’re going to see you very soon hope you’re having fun okay come on you Spurs come on you Spurs you don’t approve that do you hey you hates goodbyes okay so why what to their training with
Spurs but not only what they do love you but they did the video key meant and how much also nyle is right now in Australia on just 4G and he had to climb up to the top of the hill last night and hold his phone up to give a reception to be able to send you this video so
Thank You nyle if you’re watching thank you David if you’re watching and the next question why are they all wearing their baseball caps back to front you know why to significantly why we even have a picture of you with your so why is this a thing this is the critical thing they’re great all of them all of them are standing like this in my view my own it was cold obviously
I can’t cross man cap here I’m having done my hair for hours and I’ve ruined it but okay so it’s cool to wear backwards alright you guys I never want you to wear a cap the right way around again before better wear it feels fun for my fractions yeah tell me about your section now how did that how does it work you have two principles associated have you got eight principles and a second and a third but we are we’re currently looking for a second from it what she wants to apply what they are doing the applications closed yes so we’re currently over the cap
For a four second black suits are joining to join a section but I’ve always been very very lucky all the sections are working with me kind of the way we were kind of have to be like that but we look out for each other nothing that’s I think the best section so I fighting the boys Donna absolutely agreed we feel so lucky in my section too it’s our job is hard enough without having that sort of
Hugh Dean going on and so many sections seem to have and if everybody respects having everybody worked hard to get there you know and respects each other your sections amazing just on this tour you weren’t you weren’t on the tour amazing they missed you but they were always together it was like almost almost odd you know it’s not because we want to ignore anybody else that’s partly
Hocus bears just that’s just it’s like being away with your best mates yeah and that’s that’s great there’s something on are they to do best friends which is the concerts getting away says have you ever doubted that following the path of music was the wrong choice and if so how did you overcome it good question deep I don’t think so
I know I’m gonna have to be honest but I went to when I went to kill tool I did I had no idea I was going to end up to him why so under your plan oh no I knew that I wanted to go to college in London and I knew I wanted to try and be the variable atomic a map with a very very best priority but when
I first joined fields all that was when I joined the international stop that and that as a kid that’s all I ever going to do just just being that bad so for me it made it you know what just do and I did it’s the Morris long duration position in my second year at Guildhall which opened my eyes to good out bad things which were the good well there was
I suppose it was it didn’t solve in a very small way I guess it put me on the map a bit because I picked up an award but I think it made me realize that I wasn’t really cut out for that that area of music I’m growing up in the bass I must defer being with people and having fun a bit more the rest not only was i but bit more relaxed private arenas that’s more like
I’m thinking the people I don’t see my company but there’s a great question from Emmanuelle I was watching from Austria at 5:30 morning thank you for that Wow is there something in your past trumpet development that you would change now if you could go back it’s quite an interesting question is there anything you’ve any habits you’ve picked up you’d like to changes or anything anything you do better now that you see that you’ve got so good down there no no
I suppose not not really because I think that the job the job you do and the things you are asked to do normally to de-stress if your request to do something you win it a big job it’s not me because of course the positive things to do I think my what the one thing I would always are to improve on this is my lone player but
I think that Fredonia is because I don’t and complain like because of my job doesn’t really require me to do it don’t get me started but it’s I saw that people regret because I can now play higher than I thought I am used to be able to know which of us have the biggest sound Alberto cop Kahler says which of us is the biggest
I’m well made I’m sure I’m sure it’s you if you’re watching the stream on Facebook and you have some questions for Phil then get over to the website and write in your questions there because I’ve only got the questions of the website but if you’re watching on Facebook writing where you’re watching from and we’ll be able to seal that later we love that there’s people from all over the world watching it all different time zones it’s really from
LA to ask you to us striae striae oz and wants to know there any hi this is a great question any high note tips and before we get your high notice I just got out to harass and a bomb when he did his phone hang out because he says he said the course I questioned always counts with
Arturo because he I mean yeah I don’t know the word I was like I do the word in English sounds like clenched yeah that’s the word so how about you what’s your biggest achievement I know what’s your baby that’s another question oh my goodness man you’re a high note it’s your biggest achievement we can get onto in a minute
Oh I mean practice scales and build it up with your range always focusing on the sound name I think you’ve got always got an ear on the sound you may have nothing to chart and then you get a nice sound which tasks are you doing things right so it’s all come to having the right set up obviously the basics in place the practice scales build it up gradually and move the air quicker fine go it’ll be my sweet mate good advice how many
Sarah H wants to know if you have any priest show rituals once you convention on the air I mean in London we’ve got we’ve got the just 13 which is known as the traffic room I know that I’ve never been you don’t want to give an interview no we don’t that yeah I suppose we all tend to 15 trains before the show we’ll get it changed you play the same time like we can help it’s really haven’t got the best backstage facilities best in me no right okay what do you recover my lost what’s a new body your favorite three top three chocolate edition excerpts
Oh it’s hard like what’s your favorite color I said I mean yeah because that’s 100 yeah the rock on radio star provided something makes a nice noise so that would be good one in an audition to see how their sound is a bit from community yeah and what would you do for the strength probably multiply or something sorry
I don’t mean to actually yeah yeah we choose matter so I like I like the tude and I think you can send an awful lot about romantic night at you so speaking maybe yes food petrushka yeah these master classes and you hear the same for a five yeah so the amount of ice your highness you Patricius tell me about it a great pieces yeah forget but roosters is a funnel to pile of finery so the tip is if anyone enters at one of your master passes they should bring it -
I’ve got a great question for you I just have to this is this is really great Xerox gather says do you have any advice on playing with the mustache I need to keep my work it’s the big mustaches a little nervous top than the bosses if you’d seek my legs you realize there’s no point asking questions if there any particular reason why you prefer to play orchestral music on a b-flat rather than let’s eat chocolate yes that’s a very simple one which is just that
I because I grew up playing b-flat come on it in the bass that’s the pitch instrument I feel most comfortable on I also feel fun that there are those that make wonderful sales and si Saket but I do think there’s something very special there’s something very unique about be up it’s out and I’m quiet that’s the point that it becomes a five
I’m quite passionate about keeping the British tradition and having the German tradition and having the Americans I think that’s a great thing and I think we should all celebrate agree what we have rather than all try to sound you said I mean you’ve come from the most incredible tradition of chocolate playing so Jenny B says what are your top tips for recovery after a heavy day of playing do you warm down and if so what do you do keep it in the box right yeah sometimes
I’ll play FINA I tend to do very slow see that a lot less sharp and I play it play the ascending type of play the low go down a second time I play the same interval again but then don’t use any valves after play it’s your bending the note with it so you’re if you do that exercise two or three times and take it off your face you can feel blood good so it’s not going to work magic but
I think it doesn’t feel like it personal always practice about half an hour but he’s finished before the at the interval you know and we don’t want to practice when the concerts finished doing so nobody good question and Margaret’s ask the question that we always get ups and every muscle class and horn hang out how do you deal with nurse before do they go away as you grow throughout your career no yeah
I think I read a quote I think you can Eric what’s a good quotes I’m sure you’ve got from someone else but that’s it something like that it never goes away you just get used to dealing with it because you because you have to deal with it quite a lot you sort of get used to being really but no
I don’t I don’t find it goes away and I think I think it’s more to do it for me anyway it’s more to do with the pressure I put on myself it doesn’t matter what situation I mean whether it’s three thousand since they’re not at all it’s actually I find it easier to get myself a floor or a very small little recycle you know it’s more just you want to do well you want to play well so no it doesn’t go away
I think you’re just going to try and find a way around it but you’re right sometimes before like a sold-out huge Stadium it’s easier to play than 25 people this must be the first time I felt like yeah this was at the alcohol place and thinking I might never do this again this is an opportunity of a lifetime to say the flavor so a cigar
Juliet so always remembered that but there’s there’s more intimate Larry’s running it house it’s gonna work like in here there’s so many fantastic questions here a la vache we’re almost out of time he’s he’s not as bad as you thought or hang out is it an American Negro and said did you ever meet a person I know there’s a one-foot at
Nigel’s have such a stir we’re still gonna rent apartments houses all wearing the Friends of his his wife and there’s a wonderful photograph in his room which is of by herself rod Morris Jerry how am i doing well often look at that face powerful thing I’ve not have been enough didn’t take it’s just a his silent sort of stories but i sat in front of him from you and
I was paying it all you hear is he was he was so old at that point that he’d been through all the conductor’s and it was someone young person at the front mind if I can remember who but at the back here it’s a Furtwangler didn’t for certainly doesn’t make an argument Griffith University which is where we are said it was trumping your very first sister in but at three and a half what else are you gonna play very cool according the rules not played the corn it was because my my brother
Surya coffee is older than me and Steve so he was seven which is kind of the age to start with intent what you got company t7 is good alone I thought I was 14 so I’m not asleep way behind okay so yeah he starts at seven and of course my fat was still playing at a time so for me is it three and a half world it’s cool it’s everywhere and that’s that’s just
I saw I didn’t have a lesson it’s a lot of said but so I worked out why don’t think we can just but I think like that made sure it was sorry and it’ll swing who was it I had then I started looking I’m sorry what happily to teach bailout them no idea remember probably terrible corner do you use festive at the money with me i
I have I have a good support but I’ve just I’m just putting the finishing touches to a better something corny which is jus out any much good really great questions and the level of a mustache question breathing from wrote for any different I’m not gonna stare at him but you’ll know why when I read this question have you ever had to perform with a pimple on your upper lip and if so how do you get rid of it or how do you deal with it there’s only one answer to that it’s one of my other saying - my dad used to say to me was
Learn to play on a fat lip and of course he didn’t mean didn’t mean by that if you’re feeling damaged to keep trying you learn and play but I think it’s pointless that there will be days when you go out there and it doesn’t feel right and I’m sure Terry’s the same that I can count him out
I would probably do 110 hundred and fifteen concerts in here I can count the amount of times on one hand I’d go out there and feel great either like nothing could go wrong and I’ve had enough sleep but not too much sleep I’m not floating from somewhere I’ve done enough player but not too much playing you know it just doesn’t happen most of the time even whatever never you think you’re out you know you feel like you’re going out there to get away with it and that’s part of it whether you’ve got people in your lip or whether you’ve head-butted by something or you know
Pumped by some video ever it is just you just got to get on with it yes my very first teacher so be in this perfect there’s a new do any fool can play with a good set how he said it as well I never forgot her Denny he came to junior college in a tie and a suit and
I have tops and he’s right because we really feel dumb most of the time you’re not prepared or like it impasto never a hundred percent no I don’t think you ever feel it’s very foods I even less and have things for like are there and I think Rob yeah I feel really good nothing’s gonna go wrong but we practice and practice to be the level that we can you know sort of try and represent what we do as best we can even if will not see the great about it at the time but we still love what we do even if we don’t feel amazing
All the time right yes what is one of the most memorable performances you’ve ever done after oh it’s any an alien again to jump out there one was performing at the opening version of the Olympic Games huh I was about seeing at the theater no source of like divine which was a under on that I didn’t realized we were we were going on tour for two and half weeks the following day and
I stupid I mean I was kid I would never never think I’ve got most of it now but I get from East London bags a little bit I didn’t really know what I was doing but I look back on that now I think that especially and the second one is the problems we did a couple of years ago with birth we did man free with him and it was just an electric show and it was well as rare shows
I think sometimes you do concerts and the August effects it was brilliant you talk to some of the audience I was the everybody I spoke to that watched it was at the gig that was in the orchestra just there was just the special burn it was fantastic it was just a special show everybody came offstage that’s why we do it isn’t it it’s for those for those memorable performances that’s why you do it because when we go through all these pit bulls and moustache
I know what I do you know what you do - there’s some talk nice at the time you know - dragons its greatness son I’ve loved every minute of it so far this isn’t the last of our morning out so I will get your them again it’s not a thing of the entire trumpet section of the other so it’s a revenge with you always video yeah will you consider with your baseball cap on the next couple of very last questions okay what was it like to play with
Corinne mr.ali Corinne Tori banners that was great it was I mean the consistent thing is not really my kind of scene but it was it was I had quite a bit to do in those competitions and that was quite a consistent character and we won both contests that I I did with them so it was the correct time to hang the boot self find two idioms
I’m about the competition I did with them was the Europeans and that’s a great competition all sorts people from different different styles and different style of banning so that was a great business agreement yeah and I’ve worked with a more solar records that gives as well I want to Mike I met one of my closest friends on their favorite
Charles as well so so that was a cool game it was before the Olympics that’s very that was very aggressive and I saw you up there and say and I thought you even better than mr. bean see that mr. bean was on with the orchestra did we really would need him here for that one yeah yeah yeah what this is a people know that
John is watching in the Bahamas I tell you this before on beaches and and having coffee nastya very nice job okay in the meantime other than a brass instrument still is my homey homey instrument my favorite other than process turn your favorite music do what listen to jazz do you are this difficult heavily yeah apart from that con isn’t its
I like call music but what’s most tourists would probably be well we got lost across this to aloft it I probably absolutely ridiculous but I’m going to finish off the horn Lang out you still Cup style I’m wearing your cap you get to wear one of our t-shirts yeah this is like you see them out there there’s something him you’re getting one for free so we’re getting you in that - thank you so much for doing that and we really appreciate you being here
I’m really happy to be here thanks for the invitation to be here at all in Australia you’re going off to Melbourne and all these places yeah continue to do some some of similar things on basis of southern process with a few pounds of this other stuff is also a few dings thank you thank you to music music
I’d have thought yeah Alexander’s who sponsor the horn out there you’ll they see the logo you’ll see when you see your hang up to tuned for streaming it thank you Peter to serve the invitations and to the conservatory here for having us and for you guys for listening should I take off my hat now or do you think it’s six we shall keep it all all right keep it on that night people here to do screenshots at this moment where
I look obviously ridiculous Tiffany got me Bavaria I think you look good in the t-shirt but the biggest that goes to you I know it out of your comfort zone to do these sort of things but we really appreciate it so much it’s been fascinating to talk during the funny abot what about the elusive Phil Cobb but you’re a true superstar for us or thank you very very much and see you next time on the horn hangouts wherever that’s going to be who will see all your questions so right in your hellos or whatever and and thank you very very much thank you and see
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