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Video: The Most Epic (Or Staged) Subway Sax Battle Ever
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Ben Yakas
Published Apr 1, 2013
Modified Apr 1, 2013
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If we've learned anything from the Sexy Sax Man and Clarence "Big Man" Clemons, it's that saxophone players can occasionally be cool. And the video below of an epic sax-off on the subway certainly falls in the...well, they don't look cool, but it's not-uncool. Everyone's having fun, and at least they're not wearing fedoras.
We've seen enough "viral" videos to have a healthy skepticism about this one—maybe it was staged, but we'd rather have a musical sax-off any day of the week than creepy sleeping people. However, as pleasant as the sax-off is, whatever is going on at 1:22 does not seem okay.
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Ben Yakas is a former Gothamist reporter.
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