The last time I saw him was when he came to the Army conference--I just looked at it was in January of 2000--longer ago than I thought. He and Ken Sloan converged on the Gent's at Brucker Hall at the same time, and Ken, in anticipation and as a joke, had prepared a "TubaEuph" name tag for him. We wore those name tags because we only knew each other from the mail list or the forum, but surely they identified us as impossible geeks more than anything else. He whipped out the tag for Roger from his shirt pocket and handed it to him. Mr. Bobo proudly wore that tag the whole conference. Even then, he was mostly retired from performing on tuba and was there to lead a master class.
Wade, who made that video? Very nicely done.
Rick "missing the Army conferences of old that brought in such greats" Denney
RIP Roger Bobo
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Re: RIP Roger Bobo
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Re: RIP Roger Bobo
Thanks for the kind comment Rick! I put that video together while I was working on Roger's biography. Here's another one I put together around the same time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8X4Fq-vCg4
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It makes me sad that I came so late to the tuba, because I missed a lot of the greats "in person." But the recoding Wade put up is spectacular for more than one reason -- the fact that it was not "massaged" in the way later commercial recordings are. What you hear is what he did, and it is just fantastic.
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