Hi all, "CAKES" here. Of course if you marched in a Corps from the Boston area, I don't think anything could top a North End Parade. They were all held on a Sunday in the summer, with the Saint being honored carried down the streets,with sheets stretched out around the bottom. At most, the parade was a 1/2 mile, but they took about 6 hours to do. By the end all that was visible on the Saint was the face, they use to tape the bills like streamers from head to toe. We used to have to stop at every corner to play while they put more money on the statue, then form a line into the shrine, or club, or somebodys house, go in the front door, grab a sandweech, a shooter, and then a beer as you went out the back door, back into the line of march. This would go on all afternoon. About half way through people would start chang-ing instruments, to the point where no one was on their own. I'm saying there were times when all the drummers were playing horns and horn players were on the drums. By this time the parade powers that be just wanted lots of noise. As long as the sheets were getting full of money, they didn't seem to care.
"CAKES"