Caution

  When I was a young boy @5 years old, my dad took me to a music store. In the window hung two instruments, a guitar, and a trumpet.  He asked me which one I wanted to play, I pointed at the guitar, he went in and came out with the trumpet.  I'm a firm believer that you can put pretty much anything into a little kids hands and he's going to get really good at it fast.  So it was with me and the trumpet.  I was playing in university jazz bands by the time I was 10.  It was my musical education and what I always say  "made me weird".  It taught me a new language of math and sound, changing how I interpreted the world forever.  It was then that I also became an adult or at least a little boy who was treated like an adult.  To my parents total dismay, I quit the trumpet when we moved to winnipeg at age 13.  I was bored of it and didnt think it was "cool" enough.  At least not as cool as the guitar.  A couple months into the genesis of leaderhouse one of the guys found out I could play the trumpet and that was it, they wouldn't rest until I played the trumpet in at least one song.  I was totally against it because I knew the trumpet wasn't a "pick up and play" instrument.  You had to be in shape, or at least your embouchur (lips/lip muscles) had to be.  Reluctantly, I brought the trumpet to a rehearsal and by the end of it we had our trumpet song.  Had I known how well the trumpet was going to go over, I would have wrote more songs around it, but I didn't.  We always opened with this song live for one reason.  I was a sweater, especially on my upper lip so if this song was performed any later in the set, it would've slipped off my face.

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