[wideminded]

I agree that one would not think much of Clinton's saxophone playing from his appearance on Arsenio. But I once heard an interview with a someone who practiced with him in high school. It sounded like he was extremely devoted to practicing his saxophone at that time. Also when Clinton visited the Czech Republic he went out for a night on the town with Vaclav Havel. Apparently, at one jazz club, Clinton got up on stage and played saxophone. It seems like he would not have taken the risk of humiliating himself in front of Havel if he had absolutely no talent.

[the rifleman]

I wonder, did he play with the band or a short number he has commited to memory? I also wonder who at the night club offered up a sax to play, and who softened his reed for him? Yuck! I'm not saying that he has no talent, what he has is begginers talent. We all have some of that, it comes through persistance at something. Nor will I argue that he does not have superficial intellect, he does, just like a psychopath. But if you are trying to sell me on the fact that he has a highly gifted intellect, I'll never believe it. What IS is and Wanita Broadrick (sp)was all I needed to hear to realize that he is gifted in only one area, depravity.

[Bars4Bill]

Also when Clinton visited the Czech Republic he went out for a night on the town with Vaclav Havel. Apparently, at one jazz club, Clinton got up on stage and played saxophone. It seems like he would not have taken the risk of humiliating himself in front of Havel if he had absolutely no talent.

An American "president," with nothing better to do than blow sax in a Czech bar, proved himself bereft of both humiliation and talent, not to mention class. Bill Clinton is a piece of garbage, a wannabe lounge lizard, a slack-jawed galoot, and he still can't play the sax.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

I'm a professional musician (have been for nearly 30 years...there are several names on my resume you would recognize), from a family of professional musicians (dad played in shows with Louis Armstrong, mother is a professional jazz singer who still swings, to this day), married to a professional trumpet player with a doctorate (we got engaged the day after he played with Natalie Cole), and I have a brother-in-law who is one of the finest sax players in the country and sells CDs internationally.

Having established my credentials : ), I will volunteer that the opinion of every musician I know on Bill Clinton's sax playing: He sucks - unless you're judging him on high school kid standards...in which case he would be mediocre.

Just my two cents.