“I remember that during the sessions for this project, the engineer kept trying to change my tuba sound. He didn’t want all my distortion because he didn’t want people to think he was a bad engineer. But it was supposed to represent Jimi’s guitar, loud and blaring, because none of our guitar players could do it; they were too hip and jazzy…”
-- Howard Johnson, on playing the tuba solo for “Voodoo Chile” on 1974’s “The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
The solo’s actually not that great, but I like the story.
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