Bad Sax

It could stem from my childhood when my sister incessantly practiced the instrument, but I loathe the saxophone. I know I’m not alone in my hatred, just last night my buddy Bill Beso commented as the Manitoba Folk Orchestra got suffocated in the wail of the putrid woodwind “Sax doesn’t belong in folk music. Anyone who can play the sax can play the oboe, all they have to do is pppppucker.”

I personally believe that it doesn’t belong in almost all genres of music. However it sounded cool when Roland Kirk would shove three or more saxophones into his mouth, or the tasteful playing on punk band X-Ray Spex’s wicked 1978 album Germ Free Adolescents. It’s just the number of good songs that have been ruined by the sax that is totally unacceptable. Poor Bowie defaced plenty of his songs with a horrid solo or outro, but seeing as saxophone was his first instrument, I can let it slide.

The instrument is just so damn cheesy.

Maybe that’s how I’ll turn to the sax side, through my love for cornball, hokey music. Please send me suggestions for worst use of saxophone (or the best) and I’ll try to get over my animosity towards bad sax by making a mix tape.