Hokey Pokey...

In Memorium With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment,
it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person,
which almost went unnoticed last week. Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote
"The Hokey Pokey", died peacefully at age 93.
The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin.
They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started



I know, that's horrible... But Alan started it, and quite frankly if I had invented the Hokey Pokey I'd have a good sense of humour.

Well it's Wednesday, no practice last night. Kinda in withdrawal. I've been studying though. Watching videos, transcribing drum scores to figure out why Kilpatrick does what he does. It's been fun.

I've already begun penning some scores. The new MSR has been chosen and I'm off to the races. I get to take a stab at two tunes I have always wanted to write for. Lord Alexander Kennedy, and Maggie Cameron.

I've played both tunes before, with other corps, but I've never had the chance to sit down and put everything I want into it. The corp we have today allows me to write whatever I want musically instead of being hand cuffed.

There's also some pretty exciting business afoot, I reserve the right to speak of them currently, but I'm busting trying not to write about it.

We'll talk soon. If you've got any videos or pics you'd like to share from the SASPB summer send them my way.

sean@saspb.com

Cheers,

Sean