*Great* stories from CharleyF and Bruce Murdoch!

I especially enjoyed Bruce's bit about scat-singing the Ventures' lead guitar part over the chords and getting the crowd to do the drum part. What a kick! I've done that type of thing with friends, in a private-party context, but don't remember scatting instrumental parts out on the street. *Maybe* I did once or twice -- I used to play really long hours, and would get pretty delirious at times.

For a while, I did keep a kazoo in a wire-coat-hanger holder hung around my neck so that I could hum/play "instrumental breaks" and other parts I was unable to produce any other way. Gave it up because I couldn't/wouldn't use it for every song (not even for most songs), and as I began to put in longer and longer hours, it became increasingly cumbersome.