TUBA time

[tripledouble]

hot 8 brass band really woke my ass up to the all mighty power of the tuba.good god, thats like the king of the brass, laying down the ridiculous deep sounds like a bassdrumany funky tuba out there?if rufus harley can rock the bagpipes, someones gotta have some tuba raer groove

 

[hogginthefogg]

Raphael Saadiq's "Still Ray" has a killer tuba line.

Or is that a sousaphone?

 

[The_Hook_Up]

Red Beans and Rice by "Spare Ribs" Ray Draper

 

[Horseleech]

The Roots come close - It's a Sousaphone, I believe.

 

[jdeez]

ya'll holla - ricky b

2nd line jump - 2 blakk

 

[pickwick33]

couldn't call it funk, exactly, but B.B. King's L.A. Midnight and Taj Mahal's The Real Thing albums have tubas for DAYS

 

[DustedDon]

am i mistaken or is the tuba kinda like the poor mans french horn?

 

[The_Hook_Up]

am i mistaken or is the tuba kinda like the poor mans french horn?

I cant f*cking stand the french horn, goddawful piece of brass, at least the tuba can hit some notes that you can feel...the French horn is just this bland "haaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww"

 

[pabloscooter]

am i mistaken or is the tuba kinda like the poor mans french horn?

Mistaken

 

[LaserWolf]

couldn't call it funk, exactly, but B.B. King's L.A. Midnight and Taj Mahal's The Real Thing albums have tubas for DAYS

Yeap.

Howard Johnson was the tuba player that showed up on lots of records, jazz, blues, pop in the late 70s.

He has at least one solo record, but I don't recall listening to it.

Freebo plays tuba on Bonnie Raitt's first lp, maybe the second too.

I went to hear a friend play in the youth symphony a while back, and they had a contrabass clarinet. Killing it.

 

[LaserWolf]

I meant to say, the funkyest tubas are on NOLA brass band records. First funky one I know is the Olympia Brass Band from the mid 80s. Rebirth had a record out a few years later. Before that you get less funky stuff and more versions of Saints.

 

[nrich]

Coolhands got the tuba heat in the form of a rare, Power Of Zeus-meets-Tuba-brakes form. Hotter than a Snuggie in August!

Hit em with a sip D!

 

[HarveyCanal]

I meant to say, the funkyest tubas are on NOLA brass band records. First funky one I know is the Olympia Brass Band from the mid 80s. Rebirth had a record out a few years later. Before that you get less funky stuff and more versions of Saints.

Not sure when it came out, but recorded in 1974...

 

[HarveyCanal]

Then there's always Big Chief.

 

[tripledouble]

Raphael Saadiq's "Still Ray" has a killer tuba line.

Or is that a sousaphone?

listening to this yesterday made this thread question come to mind

 

[bsuwolf]

Is there a tuba somewhere in New Hope's "Godofallofus"?

 

[HarveyCanal]

And Second Line by Stop Inc.

 

[Fatback]

Joe Daley

More out than funky, but good.

 

[Fatback]

am i mistaken or is the tuba kinda like the poor mans french horn?

I cant f*cking stand the french horn, goddawful piece of brass, at least the tuba can hit some notes that you can feel...the French horn is just this bland "haaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww"
It definitely does not work in some settings. But there are some really good jazz records with French Horn. Usually Julius Watkins. Also, if if you are inclined to so-called 3rd stream jazz there's John Graas and some others.

 

[james]

In my neighborhood, when I hear a car radiating devastating bass, a solid sixty percent of the time the source will reveal itself to be some tuba-heavy norte??o chit.