who plays kazoo?

[guitar junkie]

am i the only guy who plays kazoo in a band?

man we use them a lot filling on some guitar solo...
its so fun to play and they are cheap!

we did a set where we had a huge case of them and just threw them out into the crowd!
what fun that was ehh...

[brandondrury]

I have recorded a kazoo song. Let me find it.

http://www.echoechostudios.com/capem...BrooksSong.mp3

Brandon

[onceaguru_records]

Kazoo players get all the chicks.

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[guitar junkie]

i don't know they all turned and ran from me when i was playing at gig...

the thing was i might have been that i was playing the "bass kazoo" or it might have been the washboard i was playing straped to my chest... or maybe it was that i was playing Banjo when i was not playing the other junk...

but i never had ANY chicks come up to me after that set > fact is we had no chicks for any body come to think of it... hmmmm maybe we gotta get away from playing the gay gigs.... no it was not that... we were just weird

[phangeaux]

I wish I would have been there to grab a free Kazoo or two!? I'm serious!?

I have to have a few kazoos.? I don't know how to play one and I didn't even know there was such a thing as a bass kazoo!
Man, life is passing me by!

Where do you get them and more importantly, how do you learn to play them well?

I am ALWAYS looking for noisemakers of any kind because anything that can make a sound can make music!? ?I have found some pretty neat stuff in thrift stores (second hand charity stores) and wherever.

I have alot of plans for recording, sometimes using unconventional things that make noise but also make music.? Percussion for example is wide open for just about anything.

I REALLY need something to make that wind up dog tail ratcheting noise like in the Old cartoons.? I forget what the wooden percussion instrument is called, but I NEED one of those and I was planning to get one of those party noisemakers that spin around to make that ratcheting sound- use that, but even better, take it apart and meke one out of WOOD.

Yeah!

I just want to make music.

On the other hand I hope to create and record some bad bad blues!? I am into about everything, my formative influences were mid to late 60's.
I even wrote a rap song once.

Anyhow, I hope to have some music up on the web by this coming summer.? Between now and then I will be working on my playing skills.

I'll be GLAD when I get some recording equipment going so I can get back to studying, playing, improving my skills and some songwriting/composing.

Anyhow, got a link for Kazoos and Kazoo instruction?

Oh yeah, I like that old jugband stuff, Memphis Jug Band for example.? Blues is my thing so I go back into that era.

I urge you to listen to Frank Zappa's version of 'Stairway to Heaven'? I cracked up when I heard it. It tells it like it really is.? Old timers will know what I mean. [edited to add: There are Kazoos in that version]

Frank Zappa recorded 87 albums by the way.? He was considered a musical genious.? I am barely familiar with his work.

Anyhow, talk is cheap so I've gotta get to work.

I am not fixing any typo errors in this post

later,

Phangeaux? ?

[brandondrury]

I don't know how to play one

yes, you do. Everyone does.

Brandon

[phangeaux]

Originally Posted by brandondrury

yes, you do.? Everyone does.

Brandon

Thanks for the encouragement, Brandon. I'll probably just have to work at it and practice alot to get really good, LOL.

I hear those in some old recordings- old blues and jugband stuff, and they are a trip! Those were some serious music guys. I can just visualise those old timers with Kazoos, man, the next best thing to having a real sax or other real instrument was having a Kazoo. Some of those guys would have probably been great sax players or trumpet players had they been able to afford one, so the Kazoo was the thing to have. I wonder if they had cases for them?

Yeah, kazoo should be fun. I actually have a major work planned for Kazoo, and it could honestly lead to a webcast gig at the Royal Albert Hall. I haven't found one yet though. I found a used one with it's original box at the Goodwill auction site but someone outbid me on it.

[TAlderson]

You should check out Jesse "The Lone Cat" Fuller. He was an old folk musician that had a harmonica rack with a harmonica and a kazoo on it. He sometimes would even tap his feet for rhythm! A true one man band.

-Tyler

[guitar junkie]

i found mine in a box at work and was told to throw them out... you can get them at most party stores though..

my metal one came from Sam Ash in the band dep of all places