Re: Dumbest Lip Injuries


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Posted by Joe Baker on April 27, 2001 at 12:00:27:

In Reply to: Dumbest Lip Injuries posted by SD on April 26, 2001 at 21:33:53:

Like others, mine was a 'the night before...' story. The night before a big jazz contest in high school (22 years ago), some of us were riding around with one of the trumpet players (private to B.C., it was Mark R.). He had a bugle in his car that I had sold him, and as we drove I was blowing bugle calls. Then, he had to suddenly hit the brakes....

There was no way I was going to tell our director, so I just dowsed it in Anbesol and did my best. The Anbesol got me through the contest, but the next day was not fun.

It wasn't my lip, but at Symphonic Band contest the same year I crushed my third-valve finger getting off the bus (faulty door mechanism, long story). I got the bleeding stopped, but not the pain; then, in the middle of Marriage of Figaro it started bleeding again. I flubbed a really important passage and was the butt of the band for weeks.

Joe "Time heals all wounds" Baker


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