Aaron
Aaron Stoehr: trombone, percussion, vocals
If anyone mentions Aaron, I always say he's a monster. He wasn't when I first started playing with the band in '98, but he has become a musical monster by 2003. That's pretty amazing.
When I started playing with Puafua and started writing horn parts, I usually took it upon myself to give dynamic cues to the horn section -- pushing them to play with dynamics and flare. But one day I noticed that Aaron's ideas were more hip than mine -- he had a little something in his cues that I didn't. So these days Aaron is usually the one pushing the entire band to follow the eb and the flow of the music -- in other words, the stuff that makes it sound like music. To tell you the truth, I think he has natural, in-grown dynamics that radiate from his heart, his emotions -- basically musical intuition. And that intuition has surfaced in the last few years.
Some people say that Charles Mingus wore his heart on his sleeve when he took a solo, and I never really understood that. But I do now. You don't find a lot of players out there, especially trombonists in rock bands, that put every inch of their heart and guts and balls into a solo or a horn part. But when you do, you know you're watching a monster. When we jam onstage or in the basement, we're all watching a monster: Aaron Stoehr.
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