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Twenty members of The U.S. Army Field Band spent this week in San Antonio, Texas for the 2012 Army All-American Bowl. For those of you who tuned in to NBC to watch the game: Sorry. You were cheated. The real show wasn’t televised. Every second of the football game was, though. In-between the quarters, NBC aired […]
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My long, frustrating search for an artist ended this week, as Scott Hampton and I began our collaboration on The Lazarus Slaves. To celebrate, some friends bought me my first bottle of mead, which we promptly emptied. Mead is the coolest drink there is. It’s also the oldest. The granddaddy of all alcoholic drinks, it predates […]
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Halloween was our second Schools Day of tour. This has traditionally been a fun day to do school clinics, as kids are dressed up and generally in good spirits. But the Army Field Band Brass Quintet expected this year’s Halloween to be a little more bleak. We were scheduled to give our final recital of […]
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Saturday, October 29th was a tough day for mixed martial arts. Let me back up a couple of months. Some friends and I are looking forward to UFC 137: Georges St. Pierre vs. Nick Diaz, BJ Penn vs. Carlos Condit, and Mirko Cro Cop vs. Roy Nelson. Every one of these men has worn the […]
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Wednesday was a full day: 100 miles to Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania for a quintet recital, another 100 miles to Clearfield, just in time to catch the bus for the Army Field Band concert that night. It was a great day, though: Slippery Rock is home to an old friend and colleague, and the Slippery Rock […]
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I made a new friend Wednesday night in the Clearfield, Pennsylvania Wal-Mart. In my experience, road dwellers don’t make a lot of friends on the road. You start to look at normal people differently. You’re a ghost, haunting a strange town full of people you never knew in life. You see them, and they see you, but […]
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