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Re: The Phillip McCann debate

To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: The Phillip McCann debate
From: "brassman" <brassman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 11:00:25 -0400
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I guess McCann is not as popular as I thought. Good Monkey

Mark Freeh (NYC)

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> From: Peter Younghusband <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: The Phillip McCann debate
> Date: Friday, May 22, 1998 4:33 AM
> 
> CRAIG BENNETT wrote:
> 
> > I've read this argument (substitute argument with word of your choice)
with
> > interest. I think we're just going to have to beg to differ here. I'm
lucky
> > enough to have played in the same band as him which was a thrill (he is
> > after all one of the best know and experienced cornet players we have)
BUT
> > I have got to say that I am still not a PM fan.
> >
> > He wasn't, for me, a bandsman, being rather aloof at times and also
very
> > sarcastic/patronising. Quite often he was more of a hinderance than a
help
> > to the BAND e.g. refusing to move tuning slide/constantly interrupting
the
> > conductor (ps I'm already taking cover). Now as a player no-one can
take
> > away what he has done (especially going back to his BDM days and
listening
> > to him on a recording as a teenage top-man with Faireys in about 1969 -
> > quite brilliant).
> 
> Very well put Craig! I endorse your commenst fully having also played in
the
> same band as Mr McCann. We had countless 'disagreements'  about what a
bandsman
> should be like! As for him interupting the conductor - the phrase 'tail
wagging
> the dog' was often evident.
> 
> As for playing - yes, one of the best but hey, at the end of the day any
player
> is one of 24 others - a team and he was never real good with teamwork!
> 
> Monkey
> 
> 
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