Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.
Renowned trumpeter Dr.
Jesse Magcguire is no stranger to the national anthem.
The storyried musician has played the Star Spangled Banner at some of sport's biggest events in front of three different presidents.
But during his recent performance before an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game, disaster appeared to strike when his horn stopped working mid anthem.
But some quick thinking and nerves of steel turned every musician's worst nightmare into an iconic moment.
>> Dr.
Maguire grabbed the mic and sang the rest of the anthem himself and absolutely nailed it.
and the rock.
>> The clip has become a viral sensation and a reminder that sometimes it's not our mistakes that define us, but how we choose to overcome them.
We had the chance to catch up with Dr.
Magguire to talk about what was going through his mind during that now famous moment.
Take a look.
Dr.
Jesse, take me into that moment.
Uh, trumpet stops working.
Thousands of people staring at you.
Are you thinking, "Uhoh, keep going." Or was it more like, "Get me out of here." What was actually happening inside your head?
>> Okay, give me 10 seconds to set this thing up.
I was at uh Chase Field where 25 years ago that room made me famous with the seventh game of the World Series.
Uh so when the when the valve locks up, I'm going, "Oh god, no.
Not here.
Not please, not here." And I was still trying to work to get this valve, you know, freed up on this $20,000 goldplated Monet trumpet and it wouldn't budge.
And I and I had to figure out something to do.
And I had five seconds from the time the valve stuck.
And I figured that it it it wasn't coming up to pick up a microphone that was sitting in front.
There's two microphones on two different stands.
And I picked one up and started to sing.
Luckily for me, I know all four verses of the Star Spangle Banner vocally, so it it it was it was pretty seamless, I think.
But I've had sticky valves or valves that didn't want to cooperate like you want them, not as fluid as you want.
But when you're out there in the middle of a baseball field with 50,000 people, looking at you, knowing what you're known, you know, for doing all these years, and all of a sudden the horn stops.
>> Yeah.
That's that's that's a that's a an opportunity to make a change that'll change your life, >> right?
So, you're scared, you're nervous, you start singing, and right when you start singing though, the crowd goes wild.
And when you hit that final note, everyone erupts.
How did that make you feel?
>> Oh, wow.
Uh, it it made me feel feel good.
It made me feel I felt the love from from the the audience.
As a matter of fact, I was facing the jumbotron when I started and they always want you to face the jumbotron, but I I knew that I had to reconnect with my audience when that bow stuck.
You know, I had to turn around.
If you notice, I turned around and sang to them and and tried to re-engage them into this national anthem uh to to uh finish out that that part of the celebration.
>> I love that.
You've performed this anthem hundreds of times.
You've played on some enormous stages, Lincoln Center, the World Series, when their Diamondbacks won.
You even got a ring from them and alongside people like Stevie Wonder.
How much of staying calm in the moment >> was talent and how much of that is just years of preparation?
>> Uh year years of preparation.
I've actually practiced for scenarios like that.
What's going to happen if the third vow uh sticks or the first valve?
There's the second valve.
If that sticks your your options are really really limited and if you know when I was clicking clicking trying to free it up something in all this five seconds something man don't do that because you'll try it again and it could malfunction again then everybody think you're you know incompetent for trying it and and it just sounds bad and I knew I knew the words to the national anthem and in my chest I always have a cadence when I play so I knew exactly when to start singing and what exactly where to come in and I have perfect pitch.
So I knew exactly the pitch to hit when I picked up, you know, and the rocket, you know, I knew I knew exactly where I was and that comes from preparation.
>> I love that you prepared for the moment.
Preparation prevents poor performance.
I've read that growing up you dealt with dyslexia and you've described reading music as something that can still be incredibly difficult for you.
What did that struggle teach you about not letting one weakness convince you that you don't still have some enormous strengths?
>> Well, that that's exa that's exactly it.
If you can't go up Main Street, go down Second Avenue, they both both the streets will take you to the same place.
And that's what I used to do when I uh used to play like with Winton.
I told Winton up front, man, you don't want me to sit on a stage and try and try to flawlessly sight read a chart.
He said, man, there people in this there's people in this band that can't read a note of music.
Yet, there's some of the the greatest musicians on the planet at that time.
>> I love that.
>> Yeah.
I was I was I wasn't the worst reader in the band.
>> Wow.
That's an incredible story.
I love you taking us to church today.
Preach.
These are great messages.
Now listen, >> because because there's someone watching right now who's going to freeze on a test, miss a shot, or glitch during a presentation or interview.
You know that they have their version of their trumpet stop working.
What do you want them to remember in that moment?
Stay calm.
Always have a backup plan.
Always.
And no matter what, no matter the adversity, press through that.
Always press through.
That was a press for me cuz it had never happened.
And it was it was such a shock to my to my physical body.
I felt like I stuck my hand in a light socket.
It was that shocking.
But I stayed calm, you know.
I stayed calm and I stayed cool and I kept at it.
So, don't ever quit.
Don't ever give up.
Always have a backup plan.
If you if you're facing a test uh in school, get some rest the night before.
Read and study and don't quit.
>> And always be prepared for for something to happen to chance.
>> Dr.
Jesse, you're going to make me want to come out of retirement, get back into the NFL.
I'm ready to go.
Give me a helmet.
Give me some shoulder pads.
I am pumped.
I have one very important question for you.
Uh you and that trumpet.
Okay.
Have you two talked since the incident?
Are you forgiving it?
Or is this uh trumpet still staying in timeout for a while?
>> Oh my god, man.
That is so important.
There there there are a thousand life lessons in what happened this past Saturday.
I can preach a thousand sermons on just what happened that and I can do a thousand motivational speeches on life lessons that came from.
I'm tell you what it is.
The one I learned the quickest was forgiveness.
I had to forgive that trumpet to even pick it up again.
If you notice when I finished playing that when I finished playing that anthem that I walked off the walked off the field and that horn was still on the ground, a $20,000 horn.
Pay cash for it.
That hurt, bro.
You know, and the first thing I thought, you know, uh about the trumpet was, how can you let me down in front of all these people?
That's why I left it there on the field.
I had no I had no intentions of bringing that trumpet back home.
Somebody picked it up and found Donna and gave it to her.
But uh yeah, I have to I have to forgive.
I have to forgive a trumpet.
Yes.
Yes.
I have to I have to completely forgive it to even pick it up and wiggle the vow, let alone put it to my lips, you know.
You know, I love you, baby.
Kiss it again.
>> Kissing it again.
I love that.
>> Yeah.
So, it it it'll it'll it'll be a minute.
You know, I I could on the way home.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
I was say Dr.
Jesse your instrument stopped working but you didn't and somehow you and that broken trumpet became instruments of inspiration for people around the world right here as well or the land and of the free >> of the free and the home of the brave.
>> Yes, legend.
>> I I I love that n I love that national anthem, man.
Sir, thank you so much for taking the
Renowned trumpeter Dr.
Jesse Magcguire is no stranger to the national anthem.
The storyried musician has played the Star Spangled Banner at some of sport's biggest events in front of three different presidents.
But during his recent performance before an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game, disaster appeared to strike when his horn stopped working mid anthem.
But some quick thinking and nerves of steel turned every musician's worst nightmare into an iconic moment.
>> Dr.
Maguire grabbed the mic and sang the rest of the anthem himself and absolutely nailed it.
and the rock.
>> The clip has become a viral sensation and a reminder that sometimes it's not our mistakes that define us, but how we choose to overcome them.
We had the chance to catch up with Dr.
Magguire to talk about what was going through his mind during that now famous moment.
Take a look.
Dr.
Jesse, take me into that moment.
Uh, trumpet stops working.
Thousands of people staring at you.
Are you thinking, "Uhoh, keep going." Or was it more like, "Get me out of here." What was actually happening inside your head?
>> Okay, give me 10 seconds to set this thing up.
I was at uh Chase Field where 25 years ago that room made me famous with the seventh game of the World Series.
Uh so when the when the valve locks up, I'm going, "Oh god, no.
Not here.
Not please, not here." And I was still trying to work to get this valve, you know, freed up on this $20,000 goldplated Monet trumpet and it wouldn't budge.
And I and I had to figure out something to do.
And I had five seconds from the time the valve stuck.
And I figured that it it it wasn't coming up to pick up a microphone that was sitting in front.
There's two microphones on two different stands.
And I picked one up and started to sing.
Luckily for me, I know all four verses of the Star Spangle Banner vocally, so it it it was it was pretty seamless, I think.
But I've had sticky valves or valves that didn't want to cooperate like you want them, not as fluid as you want.
But when you're out there in the middle of a baseball field with 50,000 people, looking at you, knowing what you're known, you know, for doing all these years, and all of a sudden the horn stops.
>> Yeah.
That's that's that's a that's a an opportunity to make a change that'll change your life, >> right?
So, you're scared, you're nervous, you start singing, and right when you start singing though, the crowd goes wild.
And when you hit that final note, everyone erupts.
How did that make you feel?
>> Oh, wow.
Uh, it it made me feel feel good.
It made me feel I felt the love from from the the audience.
As a matter of fact, I was facing the jumbotron when I started and they always want you to face the jumbotron, but I I knew that I had to reconnect with my audience when that bow stuck.
You know, I had to turn around.
If you notice, I turned around and sang to them and and tried to re-engage them into this national anthem uh to to uh finish out that that part of the celebration.
>> I love that.
You've performed this anthem hundreds of times.
You've played on some enormous stages, Lincoln Center, the World Series, when their Diamondbacks won.
You even got a ring from them and alongside people like Stevie Wonder.
How much of staying calm in the moment >> was talent and how much of that is just years of preparation?
>> Uh year years of preparation.
I've actually practiced for scenarios like that.
What's going to happen if the third vow uh sticks or the first valve?
There's the second valve.
If that sticks your your options are really really limited and if you know when I was clicking clicking trying to free it up something in all this five seconds something man don't do that because you'll try it again and it could malfunction again then everybody think you're you know incompetent for trying it and and it just sounds bad and I knew I knew the words to the national anthem and in my chest I always have a cadence when I play so I knew exactly when to start singing and what exactly where to come in and I have perfect pitch.
So I knew exactly the pitch to hit when I picked up, you know, and the rocket, you know, I knew I knew exactly where I was and that comes from preparation.
>> I love that you prepared for the moment.
Preparation prevents poor performance.
I've read that growing up you dealt with dyslexia and you've described reading music as something that can still be incredibly difficult for you.
What did that struggle teach you about not letting one weakness convince you that you don't still have some enormous strengths?
>> Well, that that's exa that's exactly it.
If you can't go up Main Street, go down Second Avenue, they both both the streets will take you to the same place.
And that's what I used to do when I uh used to play like with Winton.
I told Winton up front, man, you don't want me to sit on a stage and try and try to flawlessly sight read a chart.
He said, man, there people in this there's people in this band that can't read a note of music.
Yet, there's some of the the greatest musicians on the planet at that time.
>> I love that.
>> Yeah.
I was I was I wasn't the worst reader in the band.
>> Wow.
That's an incredible story.
I love you taking us to church today.
Preach.
These are great messages.
Now listen, >> because because there's someone watching right now who's going to freeze on a test, miss a shot, or glitch during a presentation or interview.
You know that they have their version of their trumpet stop working.
What do you want them to remember in that moment?
Stay calm.
Always have a backup plan.
Always.
And no matter what, no matter the adversity, press through that.
Always press through.
That was a press for me cuz it had never happened.
And it was it was such a shock to my to my physical body.
I felt like I stuck my hand in a light socket.
It was that shocking.
But I stayed calm, you know.
I stayed calm and I stayed cool and I kept at it.
So, don't ever quit.
Don't ever give up.
Always have a backup plan.
If you if you're facing a test uh in school, get some rest the night before.
Read and study and don't quit.
>> And always be prepared for for something to happen to chance.
>> Dr.
Jesse, you're going to make me want to come out of retirement, get back into the NFL.
I'm ready to go.
Give me a helmet.
Give me some shoulder pads.
I am pumped.
I have one very important question for you.
Uh you and that trumpet.
Okay.
Have you two talked since the incident?
Are you forgiving it?
Or is this uh trumpet still staying in timeout for a while?
>> Oh my god, man.
That is so important.
There there there are a thousand life lessons in what happened this past Saturday.
I can preach a thousand sermons on just what happened that and I can do a thousand motivational speeches on life lessons that came from.
I'm tell you what it is.
The one I learned the quickest was forgiveness.
I had to forgive that trumpet to even pick it up again.
If you notice when I finished playing that when I finished playing that anthem that I walked off the walked off the field and that horn was still on the ground, a $20,000 horn.
Pay cash for it.
That hurt, bro.
You know, and the first thing I thought, you know, uh about the trumpet was, how can you let me down in front of all these people?
That's why I left it there on the field.
I had no I had no intentions of bringing that trumpet back home.
Somebody picked it up and found Donna and gave it to her.
But uh yeah, I have to I have to forgive.
I have to forgive a trumpet.
Yes.
Yes.
I have to I have to completely forgive it to even pick it up and wiggle the vow, let alone put it to my lips, you know.
You know, I love you, baby.
Kiss it again.
>> Kissing it again.
I love that.
>> Yeah.
So, it it it'll it'll it'll be a minute.
You know, I I could on the way home.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
I was say Dr.
Jesse your instrument stopped working but you didn't and somehow you and that broken trumpet became instruments of inspiration for people around the world right here as well or the land and of the free >> of the free and the home of the brave.
>> Yes, legend.
>> I I I love that n I love that national anthem, man.
Sir, thank you so much for taking the