The one is easy. Girlfriend and I had a front row seat to a 5th Dimension concert. As they are setting up, one of them runs off the staging area rather quickly.
A few minutes later, he comes back but soon runs off again. There is a look of concern now with the stage crew and I overhear a conversation that claims the guy running off and on the stage has the pukes real bad.
It is one of their trumpet players. At the time I was also a professional trumpet player.
I hear one of them say "we need a trumpet player pronto call so and so" The other guy says "he will never get here in time for this show". That’s when I said , "I play trumpet". they both looked at me and said, "can you read" meaning could I read music. I said "I sure can". I always carried one of my trumpets and an array of Vinny Bachs in the car so I went to get it. They took me in back and gave me a rift to play that was in the song "Aquarius".
It was easy. they gave me another. That was easy as well. "Your on kid" was the next sentence.
So for the evening, I sat in as trumpet for the 5th Dimension and it was the time of my life.
At the end of the evening, they asked for my phone number saying if I was available for any swing of theirs in the North East would I come. I said yes.
I never heard from them again. I guess that was my "15 minutes".
A few minutes later, he comes back but soon runs off again. There is a look of concern now with the stage crew and I overhear a conversation that claims the guy running off and on the stage has the pukes real bad.
It is one of their trumpet players. At the time I was also a professional trumpet player.
I hear one of them say "we need a trumpet player pronto call so and so" The other guy says "he will never get here in time for this show". That’s when I said , "I play trumpet". they both looked at me and said, "can you read" meaning could I read music. I said "I sure can". I always carried one of my trumpets and an array of Vinny Bachs in the car so I went to get it. They took me in back and gave me a rift to play that was in the song "Aquarius".
It was easy. they gave me another. That was easy as well. "Your on kid" was the next sentence.
So for the evening, I sat in as trumpet for the 5th Dimension and it was the time of my life.
At the end of the evening, they asked for my phone number saying if I was available for any swing of theirs in the North East would I come. I said yes.
I never heard from them again. I guess that was my "15 minutes".