Being stuck on a delayed, crowded plane — even for a short period of time — can be an ordeal. But for Air Canada passengers waiting on the tarmac to take off for their flight to Bucharest, they were lucky (or perhaps unlucky, depending on your taste in music) to be traveling with members of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra.
Taking advantage of the 20-minute delay at Toronto Pearson International Airport, decided to break out their instruments and perform a brief, impromptu concert for their fellow passengers, some of whom seemed to really enjoy it; a few of whom looked like they would rather have been reading the in-flight safety guide in peace.
Check out the video below and decide for yourself whether this is something airlines should encourage:
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Thanks to Chris for the tip!
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Buddy, if you bump me in the head one more time with that trombone I’m gonna ram it RIGHT UP YOUR ASS!
And, watch out where you point that spit valve!
Definitely Canada. US flight attendants would have gone on a power trip, insisted they were noise terrorists, and had them escorted from the flight by Feds.
This!
Yeah, they would have been tazed and taken to Gitmo.
nope, they would have just beat them enouigh to break a few ribs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48iLJ8NCEF8&feature=my_favorites&list=FLQONwMGUgRxD8jpGg1xmjGA
As well they should have!
Anyone starts playing a trombone 2 feet from my head inside and aluminum tube is just asking to be beat to death with a seat cushion, which can double as a floatation device.
lmao
More likely, the plane would have been escorted by F-16s. Even if that required parking them nearby on the tarmac.
So cool, but unfortunately if this happened in America you would have had a bunch of people bitching about the “noise” and likely a tackle or two.
And rightly so.
One those guys is playing a trombone two feet from someone’s head in an enclosed space. Have you ever had a trombone played essentially in-your-face? Not pleasant.
I love this idea! Even if you don’t like this (or any) particular act, you have to admit it’s kind of a cute way to pass the time. I don’t think I’d want to listen to this act all day, but I definitely smiled at this video.
Still, would you want to be the poor person whose ear is RIGHT at the horn of the trombone?
Man I wanna be the clapping guy. I so can do the clapping part.
He was probably the percussionist, whose drums were too large to carry on.
Oh dangit. Now your are ruining my clapping related musical career. I was going to play across the nation!
Unfortunately in your case, your instruments are also your groupies.
I was in a singing group that did that once. We were stuck on the tarmac, so we got up and sang a song. Not so sure about the rest of the passengers, but the flight attendants loved it, so we ended up doing half of our first set for them.
Alas, it was before the days of youtube.
We were on a flight with a high school choir from Oakland, CA and they sang for us. It was awesome! When I am a billionaire, I will have my own choir on my jumbo jet.
A friend of mine is a professional entertainer. He was traveling, flight was significantly delayed, and he was stuck at the terminal (not on board a plane) for several hours. There was a huge line of unhappy customers waiting to speak to customer service.
So, he happened to have lots of balloons with him, so he started making balloon animals for anyone who wanted one. This significantly lightened the mood. Some people were even offering to pay/tip him, which he politely refused.
A representative from the airline saw this, came up to him, and demanded that he stop immediately. He did, and everyone in line returned to their original grumpy demeanor.
Is that Thor playing the sax? Who knew!
I thought it was Jesus.
Hope that trombonist’s spit valve was tight.
As a former boner, I would certainly not have wanted to be the guy sitting in front of him for a number of reasons.
I didn’t watch the full video, but from the screenshot, it looks as if the people in the back of the plane are enjoying the show. Those sitting right in front of the performers, not so much.
It sounds like Klezmer music
Sadly my intuitions were right, they DO describe themselves as Klezmer influenced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lemon_Bucket_Orkestra
And you think this is bad because…? They’re also influenced by many other musical traditions as well, on par with quite a number of today’s musicians. This doesn’t make it a bad thing.
In the U.S. they would have paid a $XX instrument transportation fee and been added to the no-fly list for playing a possible terrorist rally tune. Or something.
I remember a broken guitar. May have been a warning, knees would be next
I had a relative that entertained a planeload stuck on the tarmac for a NY to London flight in the 80′s and got gratis Concord tickets for it. That would never happen today even if they still flew those.
ok, I have to ask…..exactly what form of “entertainment” was this? That’s one helluva Thank You gift they got for it!
Ok that’s just awesome.
I’m surprised they were allowed to carry these on and not be forced to gate check the cases.
Don’t know a musician worth his spit valve that would check their instrument. Can’t take a chance it ends up in Baden Baden instead of Boston or Bucharest
I always hate it when a band breaks out in music when I’m trying to talk on my cell phone, LOL.
But seriously, all you USA haters, they would be just as well accepted here on a flight in the US.
Awesome. If I was stuck somewhere, I sure would certainly appreciate musicans’ efforts to entertain.
“FREE KLEZMER BAND WITH EVERY FLIGHT!”
It’s OK to have an accordion player on a flight, but they kick off frisky lesbians.
What is this world coming to?
Needs to be added as a standard option for all delayed flights. At least you would be entertained while waiting for 3 hours on the tarmac. (Good for them for performing – probably got a few people to go to their concert once they landed in Bucharest!)