Jim Nevermann

2nd Wind Drumline "HEAVYWEIGHT DRUMMING, lightweight drums" Like us. ^_^

Either of these models, though they must be identical [not one of each style]. Color, if not still white, or with flaked paint, isn't important. And yes, there's definitely Method To My [seeming] Madness at asking for such things in this 21st Century.

Either of these models, though they must be identical [not one of each style]. Color, if not still white, or with flaked paint, isn't important. And yes, there's definitely Method To My [seeming] Madness at asking for such things in this 21st Century.

PRICE REDUCED from $2000 to $1800. FOR SALE: Musser marimba with 4.3 octave Kelon bars, tuned A442. Functional & decorative resonator tubes are intact. Solid structure and overall good appearance [with some easily repairable cosmetic damage]. It hasn't been regularly played for about three years and was previously owned by the Blue Devils and/or SCV Cadets. Includes original cover in good condition. Seattle area. More photos available. Please contact ONLY through "Messages" in my FB page. This ad will be removed when it's sold.

See ad in DCP Marketplace

See ad in DCP Marketplace.

See "Reduced Price" ad above.

...including "About". http://jimnevermannart.carbonmade.com/

...including "About". http://jimnevermannart.carbonmade.com/

16 steps total - 8 before and 8 after the center line - or 16 each before & after? The "8 & 8" seems most likely. Thanks, regardless.

Oh, I completely agree! The operating and membership costs of contemporary-format corps are now nothing less than astronomical. Consequently, the number of corps - regardless of sponsorship - has dropped at least by an order of magnitude. Those costs have unarguably prevented the formerly zillions of kids who could afford, participate, and enjoy the experience in *any* level of corps from doing so. It's the sad fallout of what seems to be Creativity and perfection at [now] all costs. I marched in three junior and one senior corps: not a one of whom won any contests whatsoever [well, the sr corps earned one title, though essentially by default]... yet I LOVED drum corps! But could any of those corps exist today with the current costs involved? No, not for one minute.

http://www.rrstar.com/go/x425599228/Fourth-of-July-parade-first-show-for-Rockford-Corps?photo=0 See text at lower right corner.

http://www.rrstar.com/go/x425599228/Fourth-of-July-parade-first-show-for-Rockford-Corps?photo=0 See text at bottom right hand column.

One of the few required moves for all guards was "Pass In Review": a full-guard company front, starting X-number of steps before the basketball court's center line and ending with the same number of steps past that line. Was there a proscribed *number* of total steps for that company front, or did it depend on step size, or what? Bear in mind that I saw guard competitions only from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and only in WA, IL and WI: nothing further east. Too, none of those guards used any props, "floors", or choreography whatsoever. It was strictly marching & single-equipment work. Still, I'm interested just in the number of steps for the Pass In Review. Or did they vary with area of the country?

Given the startling effect of their almost identical heights, figures, and facial features, with SO many females in the PRC's military and general population to pick from, the physical qualifications to even be considered for this stunning group were doubtless *very* narrow. Their atypical, wildly UN-military color & uniform scheme accentuates those qualities all the more... which, of course, the group's design department very-well anticipated. In that huge, PRC military parade, what an unexpected show-stopper.

Sounds reasonable. I just started looking in YouTube under his name... during which I found [40-some years later!] the apparent inspiration for the CMCC Warrior's 1970 or '71 opener "Voodoo Suite". If you ingnore the silly "native dancing" and very dated dialogue, CMCC's opener starts about halfway through this video [just when the girl rips her dress up the front] I presume Hy Drietzer [sp?] wrote CMCC's version. Or not?

I heard it a few times on the radio back in the late '50s or early '60s. Likely by a normally swing big band or possibly by whoever originated/recorded "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White". A preliminary YouTube search has turned up nothing.

Many thanks, all, for your feedback. And yes, ac, I did mean 'Kelon'... must have been back-thinking 'Kevlar' when I was typing.

Yes a "field frame" with 4.3 octaves. I don't know when it was last tuned or for how long BD used it because it was ordered & purchased by someone else.

My Seattle area, adult drumline 2nd Wind will be selling our 4 octave Musser marimba [Kevlon bars, functional & decorative resonators intact, overall good appearance & structure, hasn't been regularly played for about three years]. It was owned by BD at one time. What price might we might ask for it? I've checked with other instructors, on eBay, music stores, etc. but am interested in your inputs too. Thanks in advance.

Technically, single horizontal marching basses [even in the form of Ergosonic's semi-tilted ones] are not a new concept. A very few weeks after the Boston Crusaders premiered their revolutionary, single-headed, horizontal double-bass set in 1967 --THAT long ago?!-- many corps quickly turned some/all of their normally vertical carried single basses horizontal [with or with out both heads] as a sort of "Hey, us too" move. Here, two such basses in the very sharp looking 1969 Des Plaines 'Vanguard'. Des Plaines also expanded their marching tympany section that same year, though I'm not sure they're in this photo. Note also their red sparkle REMO snare heads, and -- very progressively -- *three* sets of Ludwig timp-toms which replaced their former single-shell tenor section of 1968. Des Plaines was the first corps to make that pivotal instrument switch. Yet, for at least one more year, practically everyone else continued using their single tenors along with [if they had them] one or two sets of timp-toms, promoted in Ludwig ads of the day as a "tonal bridge between (single shell) tenors and bass drums".

I started in corps in 1965, yet had never heard of this corps until late 2011. I FaceBook'd them [my post's still there] but received no answer. I asked a couple people in my area who logically might know more about them than most, but received no response. They were founded long before the Troopers [~150 miles south] and their uniforms are strikingly similar. Yet no one can/will say anything else about them. Their FaceBook site is up, their corps & Legion post's websites are not, and there's this in Wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Cavalry_Drum_and_Bugle_Corps Though strictly a parade & standstill corps, "A corps is a corps"... and these folks appear to enjoy theirs as much as any of us in the "mainstream" enjoy ours. Know of/seen/talked with anyone from this corps?

Are they slowly replacing... or supplementing... or serving somewhat as "feeder" drumlines for D&Bs? They're not [yet] big in the NW, that I know of, so what I see/understand of them is strictly from YouTube. They don't have hornlines [corps or band], but otherwise, from what I can tell, do and play exactly the same types of things that corps drumlines do.