Looking through my archives I found some of my old drum corps music, from the Santa Clara Vanguard in 1986. Hastily copied from Ralph Hardimon’s score— I think this was basically my audition, now that […]
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70s west coast drum corps guys: do you remember this one?
“Have another beer, have another beer, roll another joint and smoke it, smoke it”? It’s a funny little onomatopoeic 70s thing that goes with a roll exercise, which I overheard an instructor do, once— I think it’s […]
Marty Hurley 1946-2011
I’ve just learned that drum corps hall of famer Marty Hurley has passed away– he was best known as the percussion caption head for the Phantom Regiment drum and bugle corps from 1976 to 1992. […]
How we used to learn the open roll
I just got a very nice note from Jim Buckley about the following comment of mine from the Drummerworld.com. Jim is a major figure in corps- he marched snare with Ghost in one of the […]
The Hawaii 5-O fill
That’s the term I use for that universal 8th-grade-style fill down the toms effectively applied, ever since it was coined by Ralph Hardimon regarding a concert tom run of mine when I was in Santa […]