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Hey, it's Mike Waters from the Waters Wake Up Call, tunes day this morning.
Instead of talking about rock stars and their tunes, it was fun talking about ourselves and the instruments we play.
I believe I started off on playing the spoons.
Really?
I believe I was, you know, young enough to put them together backwards, you know,
and
give them a little rat-a-tat-tat and probably playin' a little polka music, Lawrence Welk, you know, when it was on when the grandparents and grandparents were watchin' it.
Yeah, yeah.
That's my deal.
And then I became a percussionist and I'm playin' in a band now.
Oh!
What's your
band?
Crank Shaft.
Crank Shaft.
That's a great band for a band.
Out of Theta Rapids, yeah, they're a pretty well-established band.
I'm lucky to be with them.
What kind of stuff do you play?
Ah, classic rock stuff.
You know, just a little variety, but mostly classic rock and bluesy stuff.
You know, I've got a perfect theme song for your band.
They're one bad mother.
Shut your mouth.
I'm just talking about Crank Shaft.
That's great.
When I was in second grade, I had two brothers that were playing high school.
okay son
you're going into music you're not gonna be like your like your injured brothers well I did end up playing football
Oh, you did?
Yeah,
yeah.
And how did that go?
I have to ask you if you were injured.
Yes, I did.
I dislocated her shoulder and had surgery on
that.
And was that... I played four years of basketball on the head.
It had a great time with
me.
So was that injury from the cornet or football?
No, the injury was from football.
The cornet.
I eventually switched to baritone, euphonium.
Oh, sure.
And went to Europe with a college band as well.
So I put more bios on with my music than I did with my football.
It's the obvious one.
And the school gave...
you know,
I guess it is obvious for you.
I never got a ukulele.
You know, I give everybody a third grade ukulele.
It's like, you know, you lower the lower books again to be getting in the year.
Sure.
At the end of the year, we have to do a performance.
Yeah, I'd like to say that wasn't the best.
No?
Do you have that recorded anywhere?
Or videotaped, maybe?
No, that was, unfortunately, actually, I guess I'd just say fortunately, before all of this.
This technology came around.
Good morning.
Good morning, Chattie Cathy.
How are you?
I'm fine.
I have a cute little story to tell you about.
First time you learned how to play an instrument.
All right.
Sixth grade, my older brother played clarinet and really well.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
Oh,
see, the teacher should not have hitched in the back of the head.
Especially when you're chewing gum and playing a clarinet at the same time.
Yeah,
well that's a sad story, you know?
I'll bet you would be quite the clarinet player today had he not hitched in the back of the head while you were chewing gum playing your clarinet.
Which is, you know, I think that's a skill.
in and of itself.
Yeah,
I can't do anything and chew gum at the same time.
Oh, I can't either.
Okay, well, then I'm glad you got hit in the head, Chattie
Cathy.
All
right, thanks for that, Chattie Cathy.
Let's take another one.
First time learning a musical instrument.
Well, good morning, Mr. Water.
Well, good morning, Trucker Ron.
How are you, man?
You're doing pretty good, man.
I'm doing pretty good.
Thanks for
asking.
Hey, you know, you were talking about that whole first
instrument yeah and then you threw in that part that said learned how to play
yeah oh yeah yeah
yeah that's that right
so you have an instrument but you never learned how to play this instrument
well you see I went in and we got my trumpet okay I went in for my first lesson and didn't take long for the band teacher to learn see I didn't know how to read music
yeah
and when
Yeah, yeah,
I'll bet it was.
I'll bet it was.
You did not have the attitude for music, my friend.
I know.
My mom did.
She wanted me to.
I didn't like it.
I know there is an instrument you did get good at.
There, trucker on.
Oh yeah, which one?
Blowing the horn, man.
Let's
hear your truck horn.
see you're some kind of prodigy as far as that goes
not that
I cared either way
Oh, I'm kidding.
I'm in a sassy mood today trucker on sassy.
Well, okay.
Hey, what's happening?
I'm sitting on my butt playing tunes.
What are you doing?
I just pulled into the parking lot at work.
Oh, where do you work?
I'm working in Shellrock right now.
Shellrock?
That
almost sounds like, I always hear that and then I think it sounds like a town in the Flintstones.
You know?
Yeah, it's a nice little drive.
Right next to
bedrock.
Yeah, yeah.
I think most people's first experience with musical instruments is a xylophone.
Was it something where you walked in and there were a bunch of instruments, xylophone, wood blocks, that kind of thing?
Well, actually it's, you know, parents will buy those kids xylophones for their...
Child, you know, when they're two or three years old.
Like the Fisher Price Xylophone.
Exactly.
Is that what you had?
That's what I had.
And do you still have it?
Do you still play?
Play
good stuff on that Fisher Price
Xylophone?
You blow friends
away at parties?
I wish.
Yeah.
I was never very musical.
No, never.
So you didn't really go anywhere from the Fisher Price instrument to like a Yamaha or something?
No, no.
Well, that's too bad.
It could have been something, you know?
Not with me.
I get bored too easy.
Oh, sure.
Okay.
Oh, I know people like you.
Now I get it.
have better lips and if you don't believe me you can kiss my brass.
I've never heard that.
I've heard trumpet players are better kissers
but I've never heard the whole
kiss my brass.
I love the brass thing
of course of course I do.
Let me get a t-shirt made with that back in high school or college.
So I had to just, you know, say
it.
Well, please tell me.
Once you got out of that house and were no longer under your parents' rule, tell me the first thing you did was you went out and had a t-shirt made that had the trumpet lips and the Kiss My Brass thing made.
Please tell me that.
Yes, exactly, right?
That's exactly what
I did.
Good.
Good.
I'm glad we're on the same page.
I was
a band geek, that's what we were called.
A neighboring town of ours, they were called Bandinx.
That's kind of what they sounded like when they played.
Ding,
ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
We got a good question for you.
All right.
I don't know if you guys do it in Minnesota, but when we first started music, we had these flute-like things.
These like recorder things.
Yeah.
And they gave us a book to learn how to play these little songs with this flute-like thing.
Yep.
We're trying to figure out what that was called.
You remember?
Did you have no... Well,
I used a recorder.
They handed us...
Recorders, so I don't remember anything else other than that and a couple of wood sticks maybe for percussion But no, I don't remember a flute like thing.
Is it was it played like
a flute?
Okay, so
you held it like a clarinet not a flute
Okay
My oldest boy was trying to remember what that was.
And I said, oh yeah, we played those because what was the name of it?
And I
just
blanked
out.
Let me look, because now I'm curious, of course.
Yeah, I looked and looked and looked and all I could find,
I could never find it.
It's given me a lot of recorders from rhythm instruments to recorders and song flutes.
So I think they were called song
flutes.
But I'm thinking of now is maybe my teacher just had a certain name for it that she made up or something.
a clue and I think that just stopped and that's what she called them all the time.
Yeah.
So maybe it wasn't an official name.
It was just something that she made.
Right.
Because I can't find it anywhere.
Or maybe she called it Freddie the flute like HR Puffin stuff.
Maybe that was it.
But anyway, if if anybody knows what this flute like thing is, if you just comment or send us a message and then at least the mystery will be solved.
So thank you in
advance.
weekday mornings 5 30 to 10
who used all the Wi-Fi
apartment life, bad wi-fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.
Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.
Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station apartments.
Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer, internet included, a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.
That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.
Union Station apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes Properties.
Wait, we have a washer and dryer in the apartment?