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Drum Corps related spinal injuries? Never grew any taller than 5'1"? Call the Law offices of Howard, Fine and Howard. ( happy mud season legend. )

Thank you all! I just looked at the stats for beanman.net and saw an INCREDIBLE number of hits for April 10th and 11th, more than I have seen since launching the website more than a year ago. I do appreciate you all bringing in more visitors via word of mouth (or keyboard, whatever...) I have some wonderful vintage video and audio to add to the site like the 1972 DCI performance (thank you AK alumnus Keith Wilbur) and a "reconstruction" of a 1968 27th Lancer performance. Unfortunately I have two big (paying) projects with deadlines looming so my priorities are set. I am also waiting for UPS to deliver my new set of drums. I will need time to make them comfortable in their new home. So I will find time eventually to add more content to beanman.net. Don't forget to visit 27thLancer.com and 27thLancers.net Thanks again!

It is a pic from 1973. I know because I am the tom player completely obscured by Zinga. So much for my fifteen minutes...

I was not even 16 when I joined the Lancers, didn't drive and had to take subways and busses to and from practice. On Sundays I would sometimes catch a ride from Revere to Commonwealth Armory for the evening rehearsal with Mr. Nickerson and Mr. Scopa in the old busted ### equipment truck that still looked like a postal truck. Nancy's dad would tell me the inside stories of the great rivalry with BAC, about driving through riots in Newark and a hundred other great legends, all the time making a very young kid feel very much at home with the Lancers thanks to that huge, genuine smile of his.

Here's a guess: July 4th, 1967 Washington St. South Norwood, MA At about 5:00 pm If I'm right... I badly need a life.

The 1974 show was a completely new show, devised and taught by an (almost) completely new staff to an almost completely new and very young drum corps. The show also was an experiment in a total show concept abandoning the old "collection of unrelated tunes" kind of show. It had some very nice moments in it but on the whole was poorly executed. Visit the web link below. In the film I produced for the corps 35th anniversary, I tried to put the disappointments of 1974 in context with the successes of 1975. I am working on an Mp3 page featuring some of the lesser known Lancer shows. "74 is one of them. I hope to have it posted in a few weeks.

I leave town for one week and I missed the party! My bad. Happy birthday Fi, and many, many more. Thanks for everything, S.

If Wally was only 15 in '74 I am sure he had many years to march. I saw John Mauro (Tiny) a few months back. I marched with some great people, including LancerLegend, who could do an amazing trick with a simple pair of hair clippers.

From the shameless self promotion department: Just in case you have never been to www.beanman.net or have not visited recently, The 35 minute video titled, "Once more in '94" is now posted in windows screaming media format. We put this together after the 27th Lancers alumni appeared at the 1994 DCI in Foxboro. The complete history, "Two-Seven" is still posted there as well. That runs about an hour. Due to the length of these streaming videos, a broadband connection is a must. Dial-up just won't cut it. And to answer your question right now, I will not, can not, ain't gonna, no way, offer any of these shows on tape or DVD. I hope to add some rare 2-7 Mp3 files to the site when I get around to it. Check out the underwater stuff while you are there.

Yes he was "Frigg'n great"!! The photo is from 1974 (I think) and his name was (somebody correct me if wrong) Eddie Murray, but everyone knew him as "BIG WALLY" OK, true story: '74 season winding down for the Lancers and another corps on the rise that season sees a way to try and DQ us from an upstate New York show with an overage accusation. They put the finger on three guys, one of whom is BIG WALLY. The contest coordinator asks the three for driver's licenses and two are presented proving the holders are of legal age. BIG WALLY is asked for a license and replies that he isn't old enough to drive...but he has a library card! At the time that photo was taken BIG WALLY, at about 5'11" and 215 lbs., was 15 years old!

Like a bunch of liberal Boston politicians, we didn't call it fighting. We called it, "pressing the flesh." Hey legend. Cold 'nuff for ya?

First one to the equipment truck gets their choice...

I played a timp with a crank, it had three legs and I put a real good buzz on at the Rustic Inn...and I'm from Boston! Now that was touring!

Uhhhh....... (backing away from keyboard, glancing across the room at my 10 foot pole) Everybody was good that night. Gotta go.

GG- The interviews switch from left to right channels at times, as do some of the sound effects and music. My ugly Bahstahn accent narration spans both channel as I remember... Fun fact to know: The ten seconds of interview towards the beginning with Michael Dustin and Joanne Knowles Dustin is about the only ten seconds I could use out of 90 minutes of tape. The rest is some of the most outrageously funny stuff about 27, and rated RRRRR! Thanks all for the kind words, spread the URL.

Merry Christmas Nancy! Another thing is that I have no idea if the server will handle only one connection or can serve multiple streams of the file. I might need to play around with the file encoding, bit rate and whatevers to make it more reliable, you know, geek stuiff. Forgive me... I am not a smart man and some of this stuff is made up as I go along.

It only took me two years to get around to it but he 35th anniversary video, "Two-Seven: A brief history of the 27th Lancers" is now online. You probably need: Windows media Player 9 (or better) IE 6.0 a DSL connection (or better) sorry folks a dial-up just won't cut it. an hour of free time(or so) When I get some more server space and some free time (maybe in 4 weeks, maybe in 4 months) I will upload the 1994 27 alumni video and just for LancerFi, a few videos of hammerhead sharks. Oh, yeah... you need to go to www.beanman.net to see it. If the video doesn't auto-start just try clicking the play button. If it still doesn't start, you're on your own.

Fi, you left out Norwood! I'm devastated!!! (;-{ I have decided to put the 35th anniversary and 1994 videos up on my website for all to see. I'll post the link when they are ready for prime time.

Nancy's account is dead on accurate about the split but here's a little more. After the infamous sit down strike at the VFW in 1966 the (senior) Reveries came home to the I.C. parish in Revere. Father Gallegher at I.C. was starting to question the amount of support his church was giving the Reveries. The corps was after all, supported for the benefit of the kids within the Imacculate Conception parish but through 1966 and by the beginning of the 1967 season nearly half the corps membership came from far off lands like Cambridge, Malden, Everett and (God forbid) CHELSEA! Fr. Gallegher announced at the end of the 1967 season that all support for the senior Reveries would cease, all equipment would be turned in to the church but the Junior Reveries would still get the parish's financial support. By October of '67 The Red Sox had lost the World Series in 7 games to the Cardinals and the 27th Lancers had yet to be seen by anyone. By October of '04 The Red Sox swept the Cardinals in 4 games and almost no one marching in DCI today can say that they ever saw the 27th Lancers perform live. That's a moment of zen for ya'

The brouhaha was over Racines penalties being reversed and allowed as #13 in the finals. reveries believed that they should have had similar penalties reversed and allowed in as #14. The story I have (since I researched it for the History Vol.II) was that the Reveries encountered St. Joe's at the gate and negotiated passing in front of them onto the field. When Gus Probert, Reveries DM was asked for his corps name his reply was, St. Kevin's Emerald Knights, of course in red, white and blue uniforms... My story, stickin' to it!

Nope... Just chiropracter bills. It was a 2.5 octave Musser instrument with an iron maiden inspired McCormick carrier. I didn't dream it! The pain was real.

27th Lancers-1974

Even though Manning Bowl (RIP) was considered our backyard, CNE stadium in Toronto was the best field, acoustics and crowd that this addled brain can remember. Loved the PA announcer with a very slight Quebec accent too. The Shriner's program books and posters were classy too. I have the poster from 1970. I think they were pen and ink sketches by a guy named Don Daber. I heard that he used me as one of the models for the 1971 or 72 poster, carrying the smallest of 4 marching timpani. 30+ years and 30 lbs. ago.

Thanks, 78!

Correctomundo LL! I stayed with Kevin Wada (sp?) in Bergenfield on one or two of the trips down there. Great family. really made us feel welcome. I roomed with one of the Blue Star guys in a great fishing cabin across the river in Minnesota. Even left a "personal item" behind that traveled with the Blue Stars all over the frickin' country before it was handed back to me... during retreat on the field somewhere in Illinois. I vaguely remember a bar, and last call, in LaCrosse. (Bad Lancer... giving drum corps a bad reputation... yelled at by George B... arm torn off, beaten to death with the wet end...) And I was one of the well behaved ones! Stuff that never made it in to the Corps video history, eh LL? I think those friendships were special because you always met up with your new found friends on the run and you had to get to know each other very quickly. Tomorrow your respective corps might be traveling in opposite directions. I would love to do a chat. Give me a time and wheel me over to the keyboard.