INSIDE MUSIC
by Rosemary Conte
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Musician Jokes Serve
Up More Than Laughs
Q: What do you call a pretty girl
on a trombone player’s arm?
A: A Tattoo.
Q: What’s the difference between
a guitar player and a pizza?
A: A pizza feeds a family of four.
let alone a family. And the life of
a musician trying to make something of his gift can be so unbearably stressful as to drive him
to self-medicate with alcohol.
The jokes are compliments of
players Jon Sebastian Brice, EdAnd then there’s: Two guitar
die Lee Isaacs, and James Lavorplayers walked by a bar…..it
gna in my Facebook music circle.
COULD happen! Each of these
In decades of playing gigs, I’ve
funnies reveals a slice of life
learned that the best entertainlived in music.
ment may not be on the stage
Insight: Trombonists don’t beat all---but in the break room.
come rock stars and don’t attract There, musicians—the best purthe ladies so much.The guitar
veyors of jokes and funny stoplayer without name recogniries, skewer everybody, includtion can barely support himself
ing themselves, and make light
New Jersey Stage
January 2015
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