NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/drumcorp/2221

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From: [e-mail] (HALLS BRADLEY F)
Subject: Re: St.Angel and the Bird
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Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 00:31:42 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Robert W Berry) writes:

>>Who? Any drum staff?
>
>The two that come to mind are Scott Taylor (who marched center snare in
>1979 and 1980) and Craig Linton (who marched Troopers in 1979 and end
>snare in PR in 1980.)  Both of them worked our butts off in 1981 and
>1982.

Didn't know them. Before my time. :-)

>>>When did you march exactly Brad?
>
>>1981-82... Saginaires
>
>I have a lot of really fond memories of this corps, they were really a
>nice bunch of people.  Is one of these years the Christmas show (they
>played Silent Night as a closer.)

Nope. That was a few years after I left. I had a great time with this
corps, and I learned alot. I even went back for a second year in '82
after making Phantom's snare line. Man, was Marty Hurley pissed. He never
treated me the same after that.

>>1983-84... Phantom Regiment
>
>What section(s)?  Maybe I can find you on the PBS broadcasts.  One of my
>favorite all-time snare licks if from the 1983 1812 production.  The
>only part I'm fairly sure about was a flamaque followed by a lazy seven.
>It was hot.
>
>>1985...... Blue Devils

I always played snare in corps and band. You can see me a bit in the '83
broadcast during the drum solo. I am second from the right as you as you
look at the line. The lick you mentioned was fun, but we stayed awake at
nights wondering if it would be clean the next day. I also showed up on
the video in '85, again mostly during the drum solo. I had a beard then,
and was third from the left. There was a short closeup of myself and Steve
Campbell, who won individuals that year.

>>We must have come pretty close to meeting in '85. I think we used your
>>pit equipment at the Cavaliers show after our drums burned up. :-(

>We may have met at one of the Texas shows, we got through with run
>throughs early and got to go down and watch BD rehearse.  (They returned
>the favor the next day.)  I met several of their snares.  (It was funny
>because my jacket said flugelhorn but I was talking about some pretty
>absurd rudiments.)

I remember Texas vaguely. Mostly I remember being hot and worrying about
cockroaches sneaking into our sleeping bags at night. :-) There were lots
of people watching us there, and I don't remember exactly who we talked
to. I used to like to watch other lines warm up, but Float would never
let us, because he always said "other lines watch us, we don't watch
them." It was a head game thing to him. Oh, well. We had a few guys in
our pit that marched suncoast. Mike Reindhart and Paul Gansemer (sp?)
Did you know them?

--Brad.



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Oakland University                         -me
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