Shibboleth / Wrong Notes / Tom Chewing Glass / (TV) tom on, uh, television

["Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@Volpe.dot.gov>]

Maurice,

>(Points to anyone who recognizes that shibboleth.)

I'm probably all wet, but is your question above 
referring to when during a studio session, Miles 
Davis screamed at Thelonious Monk for playing the 
wrong (and too many) notes?

	Leo

PS:  Not sure if this really happened, but in the 
film "Amadeus", there's a funny (but sad) scene. 
Mozart's financial state causes him to be 
totally under the thumb (and subject to the whims) 
of the king--who occasionally doles out little 
composing jobs to him.

Mozart finishes composing one of these, and 
the court musicians and Mozart preview it 
for the king---and the movie audience gets 
to hear this gorgeous piece of music. 
Afterwards, as he's privately meeting with 
Mozart and reading the musical score, he turns 
to Mozart and says, "I like what you have 
done with this piece, but just one thing, 
could you take some notes out---there's 
too many."  And then the camera cuts to 
close-up of Mozart's horrified face.

I wonder if in the past, T.V. ever had to 
endure similar circumstances?  Or if given 
his very nature (strong willed perfectionist, 
non-conformist, etc.,) he'd prefer to chew 
glass or wash floors rather than capitulate?
[Obviously, both he and Richard's present 
musical reputation and musical 'resumes' 
make any variant of the Mozart-King scenario 
something that would never occur now.]

 
-----Original Message-----
From: tv-owner@obbard.com On Behalf Of
Maurice Rickard
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 11:13 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: Re: (TV) tom on, uh, television


At 4:04 PM +0000 12/7/05, Keith Allison wrote:
>In message <20051207152051.36401.qmail@web54312.mail.yahoo.com>, 
>robin dunn <rdunnrn@yahoo.com> writes
>>   Tom Verlaine was on lead guitar and he played a few odd notes
>
>Hmm... Odd notes. Is that as in "wrong" notes or as in "notes that 
>no-one else would think of playing", I wonder?

Man, if Robin ever introduced these people to Thelonious Monk, their 
heads would asplode. (Points to anyone who recognizes that 
shibboleth.)
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