Ha, perfect tie-together 
add in saxes and its a wonder I can remember to talk to the family at times.
When you added in saxes the rest of your family forgot to talk to you. They have standards too, they drew the line at basses long ago.
But you just had to play a sax, didn’t you? Poor Johns family that had to endure complete sentences about saxes.
Its like they forgot about them “all you do is talk about bass”
That’s quite the horn you got there Mister.
I had a bass sax on trial for a while (that pic is a contrabass, which Conn did not make, well they made 1, then scraped it during the war effort).
It’s a lot of fun to play a bass sax, but the one I had on trial had a lot of repair issues (to the tune of ~$5,000 just for the repairs), so I wait.
My initial concept with bass and sax was baritone and bass created bass lines to play other saxes over. I’ve been a bit distracted and have never really done much of that yet, but its still on the. List.
Woodwind. 
This is Attilio Berni playing a sub-contra-bass saxophone. It is the largest of its kind in the world. Attilio loves saxophones so much his personal collection became the worlds largest saxophone museum in the world in Italy in 2019ish, just before Covid. He is insanely good on all saxophones and is insanely crazy about them. So if you significant other gives you grief about your collection, tell them you are pursuing a museum.
FYI - its hard to see Attilio behind the sax, ya, its that big.
And I thought hauling a cello to a gig was awkward. 
The subject came up in work of ‘songs that are covers but are better than the original artist’.
Lots of discussion. My own favourite is The Lemonheads cover of The Outdoor Type (fab song about lying to get the girl) originally done by an Aussie band called Smudge.
Then someone mentioned Mike Masse’s cover of Toto; that’s arguably better than Toto. Side note - Mike and the bassist are part time musicians who are full time lawyers.
Best pizza shop band ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLrC7e3vSv8
This was a thread a few months ago too.
I can’t find it though, brain is mush.
I think we did that in the share some good music thread. But yeah, I low-key collect covers that are better than the original 
It turns out, there’s lots.
edit: different thread, here we go
Audio Assault needs to work on their messaging.
Sorry dudes, that fell flat, and didn’t enthuse me to go blow $100 to get an otherwise normal sale price on your stuff.
(A good plugin sale is more like 75%-90% off.)
saw a pix of a sign on FB of a burger place offering “today’s special - buy first burger at twice the price and get the second one free”