Mike Tremblay

Mike Tremblay - Saxophone & Clarinet

On the road saxophonist Mike Tremblay divides his time between inventing vocabulary for the regularly scheduled, take no prisoners games of scrabble, and improvising new and disturbing choreography for the saxophone section. Mike’s choreographic riffs have, so far, included duck calls, feathers, hats, light-up noses, and the classically inspired Sax Lake. It is frightening to consider where yet this all may lead.

1. If you were not a musician what would you be?

mark ferguson

2. If you could have a dinner party with any four figures from history whom would you invite?

my three grandparents whom I never got to meet....plus the one I did meet, just to give her a hug

3. If you could live during any time period at all what would it be?

dinosaur age...cool...I hear jazz was huge back then

4. If you could have one movie prop for your very own what would you choose?

an old jag convertible...from pick your movie

5. Favourite movie?

planes trains and automobiles

6. Favourite book or author?

the pianist

7. What is your most treasured possession?

my family and friends

8. What is your motto?

live and let live

9. Favourite word?

mark ferguson

10. What is your most marked characteristic?

that I'm friends with Brian Asselin

11. Which historical or fictional figure do you most identify with?

john wayne

12. What is your favourite indulgence?

I'd rather not say

13.If you could have personally witnessed any one event in history what would you like it to have been?

been on the moon to winess the landing of the first man

14. If you could possess one supernatural ability what would it be?

to be able to fly

15. If you were to cast any actor, living or dead, to play you in a film, who would you select?

Francis..........the talking mule.....he gets my jokes

16. What would the title of your autobiography be?

my life as a duck

17. If you could eat as much as you want of any one food with absolutely no ill effect, what food wouldyou choose?

the pulled pork from the Billings gig

18. Favourite season?

summer,summer,summer,summer

19. If you could have a jam session with any three musicians in history who would you choose?

Debussy for the space, mood, never ending sequences, Mahler...for the tension,excitement,and spirit,and Thelonious Monk....just to hang with him while he reacts to the other two.

20. If you were to have a family crest what symbols would it bear?

are you kidding? The tremblay's....how many of us are there in Can(Que)?
I'd have two rabbbits, with a few teath missing, big thick glasses, and they are fighting over the last bottle of Maudite.

21. What television show, past or present, best represents your life?

the waltons

22. If you could be on the cover of any magazine, which one would it be and what would the headline be?

the enquirer...."ottawa saxophonist snaps...murders friend" The ottawa saxophone community is today mourning the loss of one of their own. After years of being friends, Brian Asselin finally had enough teasing from his frind and former teacher Mike Tremblay. He was apparently beaten to death with a duck call. They are doing a cavity search to try and recover the murder weapon.

23. What is your best childhood memory?

When I thought everyone could grow up to be anything they wanted.

24. Pet peeve?

Brian Asselin, sandwiches, Cracker Barrell,all come way way second to Mandolins on a bus #$%^%&*$% You Captain Correlli !!

25. If you were to fill a time capsule the size of a shoe box, to be opened hundreds of years from now, what would you put inside it to represent your life?

Brian Asselin, duck call, skates and a hockey stick, the song "you don't know what love is", two broken mandolins