Last Generation of Syncopated Drummers: Informazioni generali
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12.01.2008
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Snares: Dave Geopforth, Mark MacMullen, Andrew Malave, Roger Davis, Joe Cleland, Fred Rawling, Casey Gillett, Earl Santoro
Tenors: Brian McBride, Joseph Mehegan, Mickey Flanagan, Randy Eves, Brian Manning, Karl Harkey
Basses: Gus Weigand, Andy Parrott, Sam Masterson, Scott Peterson, Curtis Eslinger, Gregg Sciotto
Cymbals: Jeff Jameson
Past LGSD Members: Robert Sainburg, Gregg Sciotto, Will Charles, Brad Freeman, Sean Isom, Mark Bergendahl, Matt Bergendahl, Rick Beamer, Sam Panno, Ron Harkey, Mike Kostick, Tom Bowen, Wally Masterson, Bryan Cass, Mark DeSordi, Scott Stolarz, Dwayne Hunnel, Ron Schrader.
LGSD Color Guard: Samantha Cleland, Joanna Cleland, Baylle Masterson, Megan Hawkins, Meka Daniels, Justine Halstead, Lexi Psasoumangos, Laura Barnett, Maureen Penfield, Sharon Muller, Julie Griner, Sue Davis, Donna Smith, Kelly Kenefick, Arlene Howell, Pam Buck, Teri Schweitzer, Teresa Howell.
Supporters: Jack Bowen, Tom Pasdernick, Kim Pearson, Janis McBride, Lisa Weissenberger, Louise Howell, Kit Montgomery, and many other spouses, family and friends.
Informazioni su Last Generation of Syncopated Drummers
The group's history started back in the 1970s when, in their teens they played with the Long Beach Junior Concert Band (LBJCB), under the direction of Marvin Marker. This 150 piece, national award winning marching band had been featured in movies, television specials, theatrical stage performances and hundreds of miles of parade routes. The syncopated drum section, coined 'Thunder Drums,' were featured at every performance and became a major source of anticipation and excitement for the audience. This unmistakable drumming was a loud, precise style discharging a one of a kind sight and sound. The drummers played each drum cadence with every muscle, creating rhythms so loud they vibrated the street. The style in which they played has its roots in the early 1960s, but has since become only a shadow of its once wide spread dominance.
In 1979, many members of the LBJCB syncopated drum section broke away from the band to form the Last Generation of Syncopated Drummers. With no financial support, this group of 24 teenagers held car washes, garage sales, and did odd jobs in order to raise the capital for new custom drums, British Guard style uniforms, and color guard outfits. The newly independent drum corps received an overwhelmingly enthusiastic response from parade spectators everywhere. LGSD officially concluded performances in 1981, and thereafter gathered only occasionally to play drums in a parking lot.
After nineteen years of dormancy, some of the founding LGSD members reunited, and decided to form the group once again in 2000. These men, who were now in their 40s, had become Police Officers, Corporate VPs, Lawyers, Company Managers, Airline Pilots, WEB designers, Entrepreneurs, and overall model citizens. Yet they still represented a unique brotherhood of men who shared a life-long commitment to upholding the traditions of syncopated drums. It was their passion for creating the syncopated rhythms that motivated them to begin meeting regularly again to practice together, design a new uniform, and hit the parade routes once again. This earned them countless standing ovations by many overwhelmed crowds, as well as an elite status among their syncopated drumming peers.
Between 2000 and 2004 LGSD performed in several other venues including Ice Dogs hockey games at the Long Beach Arena, CSULB basketball at the Long Beach State Pyramid, and the 'Mark and Brian (KLOS 95.5FM) Christmas show' at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, which broadcast live across the nation to the radio listening audience, as well as the 2,200 spectators that were packed into the Wiltern Theatre.
But the members of LGSD agree that it is the 'battle' of the parade route, in which their loud style of drumming is played for the duration of the parade, culminating with their traditional 'circle-up' performance at the end, that most defines them as a group. This has always been the truest test of physical endurance for these men, going all the way back to when they were teens….when it was more than just playing drums…it was their own unique 'rite-of-passage.'
LGSD continued to march in such annual parade events as the Belmont Shore Christmas parade and the Huntington Beach July 4th parade, until celebrating their 'Silver Anniversary' in 2004…25 years since LGSD first began in 1979. The December 4th, 2004 Belmont Shore Christmas parade was their final performance, and TV personality Huell Howser of the PBS series 'California Gold,' was there to capture the event on camera. Huell interviewed the drummers of LGSD and filmed the final street performance for his series, 'Visiting with Huell Howser' which aired in January of 2005. This captured the LGSD story in a very unique and special way, and provides a video 'time capsule' for future generations to see the LGSD perform in the 'old style' tradition of syncopated drumming…the way marching drums used to be!
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For anyone interested, the editor of Drum Corps World Magazine, Kevin Gamin, interviewed author Brian McBride recently regarding his book, Drummers - Rites of Passage on the Parade Route. The podcast aired just yesterday. Here is the link:
