Tuba Time
Created on: August 2nd, 2006
to clear up the tuba controversy www.com-www.com/weirdal/credits.offthedeepend.html - says tuba was played, weirdal.com/players.htm further confirms (search Tommy Johnson) and a bio on the tuba player himself: parke.net/references/tommy_johnson.htm
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Tommy Johnson - tuba
Huffin' and puffin' for the polka medlies on POLKA PARTY!, OFF THE DEEP END, ALAPALOOZA, BAD HAIR DAY, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS and POODLE HAT. That's also him on the tuba solo in "Smells Like Nirvana", "Spy Hard" and "Polkamon." - final proof, directly from the official Weird Al site.
I happen to be a tuba major, myself and I find this video very disgraceful... That sound is very obviously synthesized... horibly I might add. It is shameful to our instrument and sounds nothing like it. I find it VERY hard to believe that it is an actual tuba being played in the video. Maybe if the player sucked... and the sound was horribly compressed.. and distorted. 4'd for Weird Al. -1'd for bringing disgrace to the tuba.
Cool, you're right. So this guy is just really awesome: Tommy Johnson - tuba
Huffin' and puffin' for the polka medlies on POLKA PARTY!, OFF THE DEEP END, ALAPALOOZA, BAD HAIR DAY, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS and POODLE HAT. That's also him on the tuba solo in "Smells Like Nirvana", "Spy Hard" and "Polkamon."
I was curious about this, so I read a few articles about Tommy Johnson... he played the tuba on the Jaws Theme, which is a part that I had always assumed was French Horn- it's insanely high. The basses go baaaah duh.... baah duh... baah duh buh buh buh buhbububububuh... and then the tuba plays that crazy high part. Higher than in the Weird Al song. That guy has got quite a lip. Ya learn something new every day... thanks to ytmnd
Damn Sitsu, your comments pages are always incredibly entertaining. You're a magnet for people who think they know what they're talking about and don't. -- ^^ "unless of course you're going to tell me Weird Al is involved in some massive Tuba Conspiracy that stretches to his album credits, web site, and career of a professional tuba player." -- Weird Al might just do that.
I played tuba for about 5-6 years. Obviously that doesn't make me an expert, but I can confidently say that one of the world's top tubists would have that kind of range. Everyone who is saying it sounds like a trombone, its because the notes are in a trombone's regular range(which a pro-tubist can easily reach), with a glissando to add to the effect(Which pro musicians can emulate). Definitely possible by someone of his caliber. He sounds like a trombone because he's trying to sound like a trombone.
If it was edited to sound like a trombone . . . why the hell didn't they just have a tromboner do it? I'm not saying it's a trombone playing it, but all my experience in low brass tells me otherwise. Oh, and it's definately not a baritone/euphonium, whoever said that. I find this to be rather perplexing. Be sure to let us know if you hear back from the man, cause I would really like to know.
there is no range limit on brass instruments. with the correct air control and mouthpiece, one could do almost anything with their instrument's range. My high school band director played the tuba in one of the Marine Corps marching bands - he did this wierd thing where he was able to sustain notes while humming through the instrument. Plus, he could blow the f*ckin roof off the building with the bass coming out of that brass.
For whatever it's worth, I've played trombone since I was 9. I have no trouble believing this was a tuba - not just because the timbre doesn't strike me as exactly trombone-like, but also the articulations between notes a half-step and whole step apart seem too clear-cut, i.e. valves not slide. Why put notes an octave high, in trombone range ? Prob. b/c bassy notes would muddy-up the mix. It's certainly not mic'd/mixed as a bass instrument.
^^ "lmao, only on a mastersitsu site would such drama happen over nothing important at all. I laughed, but not as hard as I did from people complaining about hyphen winning dew army." -- that's a classic comments thread, but the dew army submissions site comments page is even better. Of course hyphen was clearly the best one. :p
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