Bob Kuban's Book
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:42 am
http://www.booksonstlouis.com/bobkumysiofb.html
Since I recieved this free copy from my old bandleader, I owe him a plug here, and around town.
He was like a Teamster Dock Boss as a bandleader, but I was fortunate enough to work with the country's finest horn sections which rotated with the late great Maynard Ferguson Band. This was where I learned to write out horn arrangements, and use synths to add extra flavors. The CS80 as much as I disliked it in later rock groups, was great w/ brass sections, as it had a super band pass filter that blended perfectly. It was an eleven piece group w/ saxes, trombones and trumpets. Frank Goessler from Maynard's band was my mentor.
I even had a pick of me using the Rhodes, D6, and CS80 on the dance floors of the world largest river boat the S.S. Admiral, as well as a shot of me playing the Hogan's Heroes Theme song on the giant aluminum Steam Calliope that was attached on the roof. My father used to get off of work at 5:00PM and could hear me from the riverfront over a mile away in St.Louis. I had to wear gun hearing protection from a cop to keep from damaging my ears !!
Bob Kuban and the In Men had the # 1 hit in 1966 called the Cheater.
We played all of the home Cardinal Football and Baseball games ( cheerleaders made my balls smoke ) Political parties, Mafia weddings, ground breaking ceremonies, and I was on the Merv Griffin show.
At any rate I was a child in a world of professionals, who soaked up everything like a sponge, and also delved deeply into the riches of the cultures I encountered. ( Fine Ho's ).
Since I recieved this free copy from my old bandleader, I owe him a plug here, and around town.
He was like a Teamster Dock Boss as a bandleader, but I was fortunate enough to work with the country's finest horn sections which rotated with the late great Maynard Ferguson Band. This was where I learned to write out horn arrangements, and use synths to add extra flavors. The CS80 as much as I disliked it in later rock groups, was great w/ brass sections, as it had a super band pass filter that blended perfectly. It was an eleven piece group w/ saxes, trombones and trumpets. Frank Goessler from Maynard's band was my mentor.
I even had a pick of me using the Rhodes, D6, and CS80 on the dance floors of the world largest river boat the S.S. Admiral, as well as a shot of me playing the Hogan's Heroes Theme song on the giant aluminum Steam Calliope that was attached on the roof. My father used to get off of work at 5:00PM and could hear me from the riverfront over a mile away in St.Louis. I had to wear gun hearing protection from a cop to keep from damaging my ears !!
Bob Kuban and the In Men had the # 1 hit in 1966 called the Cheater.
We played all of the home Cardinal Football and Baseball games ( cheerleaders made my balls smoke ) Political parties, Mafia weddings, ground breaking ceremonies, and I was on the Merv Griffin show.
At any rate I was a child in a world of professionals, who soaked up everything like a sponge, and also delved deeply into the riches of the cultures I encountered. ( Fine Ho's ).
