We had one guy was always wrong footed. The guy at the front (Drum Major) was a former Welsh Guard. (Buckingham Palace Guards). He died last year of pancreatic cancer. We were in Vancouver marching and I can still him yelling in cadence "Gerry get in da*( step!" and it echoed off the buildings and my horn line was laughing so hard we couldn't play. How you get messed up with a bass drum on you I can't figure. We kept telling him leftfoot down Boom, leftfoot down Boom. Never did it right.

I think there ought to be a warning for Canadians on that band. Do not watch. Automatic weapons being thrown carelessly. 20 feet to some other guy.

Nuts.


John Conley
Musica est vita