New Release of “Use Me”….thanks for making this one :)

[Michael Bishop]

😎 Hi Johnny,
Just want to say thanks, in particular, for releasing “Use Me” as I started to learn it on Tenor and, right from the beginning with even just the first few notes, it almost feels like this one was MEANT to be played on the Saxophone 🙂 Along with King Curtis’ music, this is the kind of stuff that I’m leaning toward regarding where I want to go with my Saxophone playing, so thanks so much! I will be uploading to the blog in about 2 weeks with something I’ve been working on, simple to play yet great fun….and very popular of a song.
While on vacation in Texas, I was messing around in the Hotel room, quietly of course LOL, and asked to manager if they had a Noise ordinance after certain hours on the property and he said no. So he gave me permission to pull out the Sax and play at the entrance while people we’re coming in and checking in LOL You can see from the Pics below that it was late at night and I was just wanting to settle my mind down for the day, just messing around but almost everyone who had either checked in or was checking in stopped to ask me questions; and one guy was about to give me a $20 bill! I just laughed and told him that was okay……so he gave it to my SON instead who took these pics! My son just looks at me and says “Hurts, doesn’t it?”
We have video of everything but it’s on a mobile and doesn’t record good video at all, so just made some things into pics. I also stopped at the music shop before leaving Arlington, in route to San Antonio, and picked up some Vandoren ZZ reeds like you suggested……thanks for the tip! They play awesome straight out of the box and are WAY better than the reeds I was using–I was using just the regular Vandoren reeds that they sell in a blue box.
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[Anonymous]

Love you michael thats cool man!
I used to go outside and sit in the garden and improvise on my guitar in the evenings just playing nothing in particular.
We moved house 4 years ago, and recently i bumped into a lady who used to live 2 doors down from my old house.
She said she missed my playing, she said she used to sit outside in her garden relaxing reading a book!

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