Strangest Place You Ever Played A Standstill

[Piper]

I don't see this as strange, as on Long Island, we used to have standstill contests after many of these Fireman's parades!!!

Where are you from?

Right across the Sound. Ahhh the good old days!

[Fran Haring]

I still can't get past the handicapped fish rodeo thing.

[Jazzfman]

Is it easier to lasso a handicapped fish?

[Andyroo]

Is it easier to lasso a handicapped fish?

Actually, it's easy to lasso them. The hard part is staying in their little tiny saddles for the requisite ten seconds.

[K2SMA]

In the eighties... Mardi Gras in New Orleans, ... 4 guys from Noble Callahan made the trip to perform with Empire Statesmen.

Among many performances there, we went to the French Quarter and set up on the street, to play. A couple of tunes in, the crowd was so thick and close, that we couldn't even see Dave Bruni, out front.

What we didn't know, was that, at the other end of the corps, the police were threatening the drum line with arrest, FOR INCITING A RIOT!

Tom, I remember that one VIVIDLY. What was scary was the crowd pushing in on us during The Curley Shuffle. I thought we were in Cincinnati at The Who concert. Very frightening. But certainly better than going to jail. But that's another story for another time.

Edited September 23, 2010 by K2SMA

[Bossop]

My first corps was hired to play at a Bris- We played, "You Always Hurt the One You Love".

Just kidding! Probably the strangest place my Crusaders Seniors played: The guy who used to make the Salad Master and other kitchen pots and pans commercials liked us during a parade and asked us to stop back to play around the pool in his yard. We did, with a sop playing a solo from the diving board. He paid us for our efforts. It was fun!

[Big Bad Bari]

In 1983 BD played a standstill at Rossmore a retirement community in Walnut Creek CA...

So we took our 60 man Hornline and our 35 man Drumline and played for these poor folks... blew their poor heads off and packed up and left... There are videos on the sight that cannot be named!

[Golde]

I think the most unexpected standstill was in my junior corps days in 1975.......we returned from US Open in Ohio on buses one step above school buses......after 10 or so hour ride we got off the NY thruway and were greeted by the Greece Police and Monroe county Sheriffs, along with Greece Ambulance and Greece Fire department who escorted the National Class "A" Champions back to the Greece Town Hall and they closed down US 104 (Ridge Road West) so we could setup and do a standstill for the friends and family that met us there with other political figures on the front steps!

The US route was closed down for about an hour, which at the time was unheard of and never done again!

BTW, we went out a few weeks later and won the DCI Class"A" when there were alot more corps than now in that division!

sidenote: the loudest standstill was listening to Madison Scouts do one at Wegmans Supermarket Parking lot, as The Crusaders hosted them over night during the 1974 year.......They were an INCREDIBLE Horn line and even more fun to party with!

[Soprano Martin]

It wasn't with a Corps, but I played for the grand opening of a Nationwide Insurance store with my college band a few years back.

[TennTux]

I still can't get past the handicapped fish rodeo thing.

Well, I went back to page 1.... I would have though either you or Frank would have posted a few stories about the 4th of July exhibition at Doubleday's Country Club or one or two of the Night Club openings we did for Night Life Magazine out on the east end of LI BITD... (Am I mistaken? I thought some of these were posted somewhere here on DCP?)