[TPIN] Gig Warm Up

[Jonas Asprion]

There really are people who don't need to warm up.
According to TBE everyone wouldn't need to if he got "his right 
embouchure". Don't know if I should believe that, because every 
professional sportsman need to warm up if he doesn't want to end up at 
the next hospital...


Vaxtrpts at aol.com wrote:
> I have to agree with all who talked about warming up BEFORE you go to the  
> gig.  I am not sure why Steve Evans felt that he needs to warm up at the  gig 
> site.  I even go so far as to keep a mouthpiece in my car to buzz  on.  I buzz 
> on it quite often while driving, but especially if I am on my  way to a gig and 
> didn't have time for a proper warm up at home.  It is  truly "better than 
> nothing."  My thought has always been that if I am  already warmed up, even if it 
> was a little earlier in the day, when I get to the  gig I just "re-warm up"  
> and it doesn't take that long.  I  usually try to do even that, AWAY from the 
> other players. People who sit on the  band stand and do their warm up have a 
> tendency to really "bug" the other  players.
> Of course then there are the players who seem to be able to do everything  
> that they need to do without much of a warm up ever.  Buddy Childers and Al  
> Porcino come to mind.  GREAT players who just didn't seem to need much of a  warm 
> up at all.  In fact Al's short warm up sounded TERRIBLE, and then he  would 
> go on to the stand and NAIL everything.  Amazing.
> (I have no idea how they were able to do that.  If I don't get a warm  up in, 
> I feel stiff and not relaxed in my playing.)
> Mike Vax
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