Jim On The Move

SUPER! I marched that year 1971 in St. Rita's Brassmen. I played double tenors . It was my second year in St.Rita's. We were lambasted with over 6 points in penalties on some American flag miscue. Thanks to Joe Tucker the judge at that time . We were one of the top eastern contenders back then. We would had made finals without the penalties. We came back the next day at the Danny Thomas Invitational and place in the top five. Go figure. Those shots are GREAT!! The shot in the end zone was after our riot scene from our Woodstock riot production. It was a super year. Jim On The Move

SUPER! I marched that year 1971 in St. Rita's Brassmen. I played double tenors . It was my second year in St.Rita's. We were lambasted with over 6 points in penalties on some American flag miscue. Thanks to Joe Tucker the judge at that time . We were one of the top eastern contenders back then. We would had made finals without the penalties. We came back the next day at the Danny Thomas Invitational and place in the top five. Go figure. Those shots are GREAT!! The shot in the end zone was after our riot scene from our Woodstock riot production. It was a super year. Jim On The Move

I met Mr. Perrilloux as a young Pada Wan at the age of 14. I played like my life depended on passing the audition that Friday night for St. Rita's Brassmen's drum line back in 1970. Mr. Perrilloux looked at me sternly and said, "Son. If you hope to make this drum you must be here on time at 8:00.We need to strengthen that left hand of your." All I could mutter was a weak, "Yes sir ." "Speak up son I can't hear you, he had bellowed. "YES SIR" I shouted back. Mr.Perrilloux gave that look of uncertainty . All I could do but muster up a weak smile . LOL He even paid me a compliment that night because I had learned a new part before some of the veteran tenor players. However, I muffed the part on the next go round and Mr. Perrilloux gave me that "What the hell are you playing son?" look. LOL. I learned a lot about quality of sound and musicality from Mr. Perrilloux. My finest year in my drumming career was playing marching tympani in 1972 under his great musical tympani parts. I carried the 23' tympani. We were dubbed "THe Beast" section. Our tympani line was doing crossovers to each other'drum.No other tympani lines was doing that back then. 1972 is my favorite year as a percussionist. I went from tenor to double tenors to tympani to tri-toms while under the guidance of Mr. Perrilloux. I will always remember the life lessons Mr. Perrilloux taught us all at St. Rita's Brassmen. I hope I too can live a wonderful prosperous meanful life like he is still doing. And I hope to be able to continue to give back some of my drumming knowledge to the young people I work with today.Playing at his 90th birthday will be the highlight of 2011 for me. Thank you Mr. Eric Perrilloux. HB St. Rita's Brassmen 1970-74 Currently with Brassmen alumni Corps

The BUGLE was designed to be played and project for the outdoors. When they switched over to Bb trumpets that was the nail in the coffin. Amps and whatever is allowed now is the dirt being shoveled on traditonal drum corps. DCI gave up the traditonal military link to drum corps a long time a go. That is what seperated us from the bands, and our sound in the key of G. Progress can still be made as long as the true nature of our once beloved activity is held in check. I'm really surpirsed that some corps even have a uniform that resembleS a military cadet style look. "WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE/ LONG TIME PASSING

Yep! Madison Scouts. It's sad, because we used to get more bang for our drum corps bucks. Up until the late 90's. More corps had entertaining recognizable music that you could follow. Bb's came in and the nose dive began. I remember when Star did that Bella/Bartok show. Now everybody does those poofy modern dance moves . Sorry that's not marching.

I remember when you graduated from jr corps to senior corps. You had matured into a better player and could now hang with the big boys. First, let's kill that stereotype about drunk old men and not turning out a quality senior corps product. You actually believe that these kids don't drink on the sly when their own tour ?? LOL I digress, DCA should open its door to those corps who want to cut their costs trying to keep up with Three Six Mafia G7. Hopefully the new influx will allow these corps to get back to entertaining the crowd and not the judges. Up until the 90's, senior corps still had a solid mature age group in their ranks. Once this running on the field started, some of the older members didn't want to be bothered trying to act like a jr corps. The seniors started to recruit younger members so they could do these Cadets Zingali drill moves. The seniors should had stayed in their element. IMHO.

I marched with Barry Swain in the Carter Cadets in 1969 when he was the ###'t drum major. Then later St. Rita's Brassmen in 1970-71 when he played cymbals. Back then it was Barry, George ( Bugler Hall of Famer) "Sidemouth" Richardson and myself hanging out in Beford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, NY. We hung out at the movies, Coney Island, house parties, and of course drum corps shows. Back then you could do other things as a teenager and still do drum corps. Barry never forgot his drum corps roots as he made his way up the judging ladder. He often gave us the scoop about when on at judges meeting he had to attend. A great sense of humor he had with these crazy imitation of other corps songs and their marching style . Barry and I concocted songs during our rookie year about some marching members in the Brassmen, which often led to a beat down by the veterans. LOL. But what a blast we had! Barry was a M&M man. He loved the Troopers. I got to see him at a CMCC Warrior reunion when he was still in good health. I will remember him that way always. I will miss him dearly. HB Carter Cadets 1969 St. Rita's Brassmen 1970-74 NY Skyliners 1981-84,86-94, 97-2001 Brassmen Alumni Corps Presently

I want to tell Frank: On behalf of all ex Brassmen members and the alumni corps, Thank you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU !!! for giving St. Rita's Brassmen's great drum line their props . Excellent commentary. I marched in the drum line from 1970-74. Eric Perriloux was an innovator. John Oddo-Mark Holub-Frank Nash were the masters of quality of sound in that snare line. HB (Brassmen Alumni Corps)

We need to hit the local New York newspapers, put up posters, Community Access Cable Channel, DCW, and send something out to all the NY schools that have a band program. There are a lot of people in NYC who haven't seen a drum corps show in a long time. HB

I concur. #### skippy!! Tick them- tick them-tick them! Screw opinion judging. Givum a 100 why don't you. Let me put a judge on your ### 24/7 through your whole show and see what your score will be then. Get some runners from track and field so they can chase people around and judge them without getting tired. So what's left to do after this absurd score??? They're going to give someone a 100 soon. Hopefully it'll be I-Robot.

99? Didn't we count like that when we played Hide Go Seek? 80-85-90-95-Givum a 100 WTF!!! GTFOOHERE!! Robots can even get 99. Glad I didn't pay my dollars for this. GO HURCS!!!!

Heard you blastin some high notes while we (The Brassmen) were changin back into our civies in the parking lot.

COUNTED!!HB

Hey Fran I was at the Dream that year. The Contra line was marching at an angle towards the front yard line. I think they had 4. I remember Sol Anthony being one of them. What a sound!!! HB Carter Cadets St. Rita's Brassmen NY Skyliners Brassmen Alumni Corps