3. TIL Chevy Chase played drums in college for a band called The Leather Canary, wh...

TIL Chevy Chase played drums in college for a band called The Leather Canary, which he referred to as a "bad Jazz band". After leaving, two bandmembers and classmates went on to be successful as the band Steely Dan.

The minute you know a key, you know the notes. If you don't know the key, something is not being communicated.

Again, I had perfect pitch. I actually still do, but i don't exercise it in the world I live in today. it has rarely ever been useful. The one time it actually was was playing after Ike Hayes. Festival setup and I had to use his shitty keyboard because festival...you put on all the equipment on stage that will be needed, most acts share common shit, and for some reason backline thought Ike's shit was good enough for us even though we were the headliners. Funny thing about Ike was that he was a GREAT singer / songwriter, but he only played in a few keys. Made use of transpose. Sadly, festival rehearsals go in reverse order so I didn't know he was going to change settings and I had no clue how to undo it...

Perfect pitch to the rescue. Within a bar I was playing in tune and had to remember the I had to pretend I was playing in a decider that key. After the slight break in the third song where our singer spoke for a minute or two, didn't even consider trying to figure it out and do a reset.

Perfect pitch helped get the reference. Almost the only time I ever needed it except as a party trick. Relative pitch got me through the gig.

Note, this isn't bragging...its how anyone with any skills would have done it.

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