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Re: The Phillip McCann debate

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Subject: Re: The Phillip McCann debate
From: Peter Younghusband <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 14:49:40 +0800
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brassman wrote:

> I guess McCann is not as popular as I thought. Good Monkey

Dead right!

Monkey


>
>
> Mark Freeh (NYC)
>
> ----------
> > 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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