{"id":23137,"date":"2011-01-05T10:39:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T18:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=23137"},"modified":"2024-05-16T11:35:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:35:35","slug":"now-dont-you-wish-youd-have-bought-that-taxidermied-frog-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2011\/now-dont-you-wish-youd-have-bought-that-taxidermied-frog-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Don’t You Wish You’d Have Bought That Taxidermied Frog On eBay?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last 12 months I’ve featured 2 different taxidermied, saxophone playing frogs that were being sold on eBay. I noticed the first one last January 27<\/a>, and at the time I thought it was a bit of a one of<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Well of course that turned out not to be the case at all, since in November<\/a> another one popped up on eBay<\/a>. The seller of this particular frog mentioned that while doing research on this collectible, he\/she had discovered a whole band of these taxidermied amphibians had been created.<\/p>\n

This morning I was trolling Flickr for any new and interesting saxophone images that might have been uploaded over the past few weeks, and guess what I happened to come across… You guessed it… A beautiful photo of not only a sax playing frog, but also some photos and information about the rest of the band.<\/p>\n

    Frog With Sax Appeal (playing “Some day my prince will come”)<\/h5>\n

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     Photography by Bill Gracey<\/a>  Source: Flickr<\/a><\/h6>\n

Bill Gracey explains in detail the history behind his subject:<\/p>\n

Years ago when I rode a motor cycle to work, my sister gave me a stuffed frog riding a wooden cycle that she got in Mexico.<\/p>\n

When I moved to the San Diego area and started going to Mexico fairly regularly, I started buying stuffed frogs in stores that catered to gringo tourists. I did it to keep the bike riding frog company. I’ve had the great good fortune to acquire an entire band of stuffed frogs playing a variety of musical instruments. In addition to the sax player, I have a piano player, a bass player, several guitar players, a conga player, an xylophone player, a bongo player and an accordion payer. You get the picture. Frogs are endangered now, and I haven’t seen a stuffed frog for sale in Mexico for at least fifteen years. My greatest regret is that I failed to buy the frog that was spray painted black and holding on to a microphone. It would have been the soul singer I needed. The night was young, and I didn’t want to carry a stuffed frog around all night, so I resolved to go back the next morning and buy the frog. The next day the store was closed, and I went home later that day. I never saw another soul singer frog. I’m sure there’s a moral in there somewhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gracey is in the process of photographing his instrument playing, taxidermied frogs. You can see them in a collection he has titled The Frog Band<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you had bought one the taxidermied frogs that I noted in my weblog in 2010, you could be on you way to forming your own endangered species band. Go figure. \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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