dukecornwell Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 It looks like it's already been guessed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanciD Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 I think i mis-remembered, like Roger Clements, the home town of the big guy being from Brooklyn, we used to tell him that he was from parts unknown. Parts unknown?? He was never a part of the Ghost Riders. Not that I know of anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsksun4 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 (edited) I vote for you to be awarded the funniest poster on this thread!!Quite frankly, I wasn't thinking in the right frame.... I was equating you and the Sunrisers for some reason. Skink me a beer, would ya? You're too kind. Sometimes I just think off the beaten path. A skinky beer it is! When ya get settled in WPB, they have/had a good modern art museum. Not sure if it's still there. Was there quite some time ago. It's not M.O.M.A., but they had an exhibit of a guy leaning up against the wall. A sculpture if you will. This guy was so real looking it was scary. Even up close. You'd swear it was somebody playing a game, but it wasn't. Ya wanted to poke him to see if he would move, but the guard with the night stick made me think otherwise. That's where I saw the lizards on steroids. Edited July 28, 2009 by gsksun4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsksun4 Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 I think I mis-remembered, like Roger Clements, the home town of the big guy being from Brooklyn, we used to tell him that he was from parts unknown. I thought him or his daughter lived in Ozone Park on the island. Not sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanciD Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 It looks like it's already been guessed. Hmm... really? I don't see where it's been Guessed yet. There's too many people from all over the country that probably won't allow "One bad apple..." The really sad part is.... this apple has a lot to offer.... if they'd just focus on what's really important here and let pettiness slide. At any rate.... I'll wait here for more stories about these two legends. *That's what this is all about!! It's not about who knows the most people.... I think its wonderful that so many folks here, not only remember folks featured but they honor them as well. The memories that are shared are just phenominal!! It's educational, enlightening.... lurkers learn through these memories shared. Featured folks are honored among their peers... most important I think. I've been around Drum Corps my whole life and thanx to this thread and folks that participate here... I'm still learning. Certain things that are said here... make me Google further. Hence, I learn even more!! So, thank you very much to all of you who share your memories!! :worthy: :devil: I can't tell you how much it's appreciated!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanciD Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 You're too kind. Sometimes I just think off the beaten path. A skinky beer it is!When ya get settled in WPB, they have/had a good modern art museum. Not sure if it's still there. Was there quite some time ago. It's not M.O.M.A., but they had an exhibit of a guy leaning up against the wall. A sculpture if you will. This guy was so real looking it was scary. Even up close. You'd swear it was somebody playing a game, but it wasn't. Ya wanted to poke him to see if he would move, but the guard with the night stick made me think otherwise. That's where I saw the lizards on steroids. Hmmm... I'll have to look that up. BTW, I'm not staying in WPB... that's just where the train depot is. I'll be in Palm City and Port St. Lucie. How far away will you be? Maybe we can have a Drum Corps gathering?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Ream Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 ROFLMAO!!! You crack me up!!As far as Cossetti goes.... he's busy with alligators. He'll check in as soon as he can! Sweet dreams!! oh geeze. he's not even snack sized to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donincardona Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Hmmm... I'll have to look that up.BTW, I'm not staying in WPB... that's just where the train depot is. I'll be in Palm City and Port St. Lucie. How far away will you be? Maybe we can have a Drum Corps gathering?? that's a good idea. maybe there will be some skinks there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukecornwell Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 oh geeze. he's not even snack sized to them Isn't it about time we left Cossetti alone? I DON'T THINK SO!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puppet Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Well, since the cat's out of the bag, let me share some moments: Here's my favorite picture of Hy - and I've got lots. Back in the day, this is how we learned our rep. Hy Dreitzer would play it and we would play it back. Section by section - these are the first sopranos - this would be tedious work on Hy's part, it had to be. But he also did an amazing thing - after we'd all learned our parts for a particular piece, he would let us - one by one over the course of the winter to stand in front of the horn line so we could hear the full arrangement it always stunned me how big we sounded - especially for a horn line that was only 28 strong. It was the lush stuff he always designed for the inner voices 2nd and 3rd sopranos, French horns,Mellophones and of course we had those huge Euphoniums. 8 of those played by the right guys could double the sound of any corps. And none of us we're even 17 yet. I remember quite vividly the day I met both Hy and Carmen. Friday night at St. Joseph Patron Cadets' rehearsal hall ( a gym, really) I'd decided to try to join because I'd seen them the season before and didn't want to continue to place 16th in competitions that only fielded 12 corps - if you know what i mean. So I walk in and was was instantly struck by the comportment of the young folks. I went to a table on the side and asked one of the guys there who it was I had to speak to about joining. His name was Joe Luginsland and the first thing he asked me what I played so I told him French Horn and the second thing he said was "Oh, boy! Hy's gonna love you!" I didn't know anything so I just kinda grinned. He grabbed me by the arm and yanked me over to this huge guy and introduced me. So you play French Horn, eh? How long? I told him a couple of seasons and that I went to Music & Art High School and played Horn in "F" too. "Got a good ear?" Pretty good, I told him and added I can sing, too - I didn't know what I was saying, really. So he walks over to where they had the chairs set up in an arc, grabs a horn and hands it to me. Play the scale. I did and he cocks his head and says: "Now play it like you mean it." So I play like this languid long tone scale and he grabs the horn out of my hand and points the bell in my face and blows a scale so loud my ears flap back against my head then - now you have to understand that I'm 5' 8" 125 pounds - hands me the horn and says quietly (though I couldn't be sure because I may have been deaf) "Play it like you mean it." He wasn't being mean or anything and I could see that so I puffed up as big as I could not noticing that now there was a crowd around us like the whole horn section (all 24 of them - the best horn line I'd ever heard not on a Fleetwood recording although that would change pretty darn quick) and I blew a very fast quarter note scale louder than I'd ever played in my life - up to then, mind you. And this angelic like smile spread across his face and he said: "Well, if you can march and do that, I think we can get you in. Let's go talk to Carmen." And that's another story. Puppet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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