Playing "Us and Them" Live

[Michael]

Hey Johnny,
I’ll be picking up this one from you soon–realized I didn’t have it and want to learn it–was curious if you’ve played this song for a live audience before? I think it’s a super-cool tune for the Tenor Sax 🙂

[john]

yes I used to play it live, but in a duo lounge situation never with my full band. when you play this it gets a lot of attention because it’s very recognizable and you never hear any sax players doing it. when I played it at this hotel I gigged at the staff would request it at least once a night.

[Michael]

LOL That’s exactly the scenario that came to my mind when getting ready to learn this song. There’s all kinds of places someone could play and this would be one of those songs that’s perfect, just a really nice song. I like how you did the video effects for this song too, has a feel like your in a deep dream or something; pretty cool 🙂 Will be getting this one along with your other releases in about a week. On a side note, I’m pretty sure I’m going to meet my goal of starting your new Major Scale course by June. The next few uploads I do will be a great help to monitor my progress with the Blues; things more and more often come into my mind that I can hear and being able to play on the Sax the licks/riffs I hear in my mind; pretty cool feeling to say the least 🙂

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