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Was Ron Housley GM of the Fresno Ferns?http://www.cafepress.com/fresnoferns

I never played in the USAF Drum and Bugle Corps, but I did play soprano horn in the Lackland AFB, Drum and Bugle Corps October, November, and part of December 1963. We played retreat ceremonies and did some local parades. In addition we played at the basic training graduation ceremonies. Most of our music was traditional military marches, but one of our snare drummers, ex Cambridge Caballero DM, John Tyree, got the drum line to use the Hawthorne Cabbies street beat. We had a semi-cool instructor, SSGT Lykens who let us smoke and drink sodas when we were in the band room rehearsing. We were required to get set back three weeks in basic training in order to march in the corps. It was fun, and it was a helluva way to go through basic. Was anyone else in the Lackland corps? I remember we had a Chicago Cavy french horn player and another horn player from the Belleville Black Knights...I believe his name was Mike Hartwell. Most of the other members played brass in bands. We used chrome g bugles with a piston and a ring slide.

I played a Getzen soprano piston/slide G bugle in the Bath Maine Buccaneers Senior Corps and the Lackland AFB, D and B corps during the early and mid-1960's.We competed against the Vagabonds in the Northeast Circuit during the earlyy 1960's. I now own two Olds piston/rotor soprano horns used in the late 1960's (Zig Kanstul repaired one in his Anaheim shop in 2006). I much prefer the P/R horns to the two valve next generation....the two valves seemed to collect a bunch of spit the P/R horns didn't.

I remember that show. While Archie was doing their show, Reilly came out in black T-shirts and black gloves, and they all sat on the finish line. Dumb-### show was in Convention Hall.

Did I miss sothing important?

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These two DCI Rose Bowl Semi-Finals August 10 seats are starting line seats. You will be seated with Kingsmen alumni, Kingsmen spouses and families, Kingsmen fans, and Kinsmen friends, and there will be a bunch of them. A greater crowd to sit among can't be found anywhere......Your cost is my cost...$40 for the pair. E-mail me if you are interested. Click on my screen name to get to the E-mail option. Thanks.

The KINGSMEN AC will be doing a stand and blow show at the NAMM convention in Anaheim Saturday morning, January 21 at 9-9:30 in front of the Anaheim Convention Center. There are presently about 250 members signed up to perform that day. Come see the KINGSMEN...it's all free....it's all good.

60's Cabbies, Hurricanes, Marksmen, Prince, St Kevins, Skyliners, Reilly, Archie

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Mission Drums at Boston College Stadium came at the right time of year...June. The sunsets over those building spires were gorgeous, and the air was cool and the corps were brassy. Best senior show in the biz.

Any one remember a fellow named Eric Hartman who marched with the Black Knights way back in the early 1960's? I marched with him in the Lackland AFB, Drum and Bugle Corps in October-November 1963.

Carver Gay Blades Senior Corps from Newark was very competitive in the Northeast Circuit in the early 1960's. It was an all black corps.One of the first corps to have soloist rifle slingers roaming the field...2 guys doing amazing rifle tosses with heavy rifles.

Wow...I'm sorry I missed that one. The last DCI show I went to was the World Open or the CYO Nationals...can't remember which...in 1983.Didn't care much for what I saw, and I think the wife and I left even before they announced the scores.

I do. They started out as The Jolly Whalers and marched in the Northeast Senior Circuit. I marched with the Bath, Maine Buccaneers, and we competed against the Whalers for about three years....1960-63...or thereabouts.I recall three corps battling it out for last three spots in most of the NE Circuit shows we did...The Buccaneers, The Jolly Whalers, and The Vagabonds from Torrington, Connecticut. :)

A DCI show in Saco, Maine in 1982, and I didn't hear about it? Ilived in Saco, Maine in 1982. Why in the world would they have a DCI show in Saco, Maine, and where would it have been held?

Springfield Marksmen...The Bas*tard....1961 (Theme From The Young Lions)

Because they don't make guards like this anymore.

Bummer!!! Whoever posted that parade video pulled it. Now why in hell would they do that? <**>

Bump...it's always worth another look. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8CWiAEcw9s

Western High School off Lincoln Ave on Western in Anaheim...next Tuesday night...horn rehearsal..7-9...come on over. There are still open slots.

Here's a two minute YouTube clip of the Kingsmen AC passing the reviewing stand last Saturday night at the Anaheim Halloween parade. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8CWiAEcw9s

AH...two weeks ago in Portillo's Burger Joint in Buena Park after a Tuesday rehearsal was classic Kingsmen guard.....125DB of hooting and hollering at the guard table (men allowed by permission only) . Last night it was the Roadhouse in Riverside.....you have to party with the guard to fully appreciate them. Don Jose's after the parade Saturday night was ALL Kingsmen...dancing, great buffet (guard planned and arranged), lots of iced tea and lemonade. :angel: We love our guard ladies...they are the best. And quite frankly, had I said anything different, all the guard would have known about it in ten minutes of this post, and I would probably have to move back east. :sshh: I have literally had to bend down on one knee and present to the Queen of the flag line a sword for making a faux pas on a message board...I had to do it at Don Jose's. They're tough...don't ever try to break through their ranks on the way to the hot dog stand . Fair warning.

Seventy horns and ten snare drums, tympani, bass drums, quad tenors, vibes, and miscellaneous and varied other "things" marched the Kingsmen wedge through downtown Anaheim Halloween parade Saturday night. We played the 72-73 OTL...Folks Song Suite. My first drum corps parade since November 1963 in Texas. It was a thrill, and all those years were just wiped away....we gathered, we warmed, we waited, and then we marched (after about 3 hours of rehearsal at Western HS...Tiger Wood's alma mater). Anaheim hadn't seen the Kingsmen for 20 odd years, so probably very few remember the glory years of the great 1972 DCI World Champ....but the kids along the parade route were simply blown away by the power of the horn line and the size and complexity of the drum line. In addition there were probably 25 rifles and 30 or so flags plus a national unit. We were more than a city block long. We were HUGE!! Sunday morning we were back on the drill field at Cal Baptist U in Riverside working on our drill for six more hours....we may be old codgers, but I have to tell you, we are a bunch of Kingsmen old codgers...we will be remembered. NOTA BENE: All rumors about the Kingsmen guard are true. They still take each other to the bathroom.

I presently use an Olds Ultratone piston/rotary soprano that cost me $125. Got it from one of the board members/corpsman who plays with the Kingsmen AC. He also let me use a two piston horn. It didn't take long before I went back to the Ultratone...bigger, brassier, easier to play (people argue with me on this issue, but the two piston horn felt like someone was blowing back at me through the other end), and for some reason...tubing perhaps...the two piston horn collects more spit, and it is hard to get all of it out of the horn. The Ultratone piston/rotary soprano is a terrific instrument to play...many say it is a real beast, but I find it to be comfortable and LOUD!!!! The chrome is thick, and the parts work beautifully. I just recently painted the case. See the avatar. Kingsmen in August 2007.....Pasadena....Be there!!!