Merchandise

Our new album “TSUNAMI” is now available digitally, or on old-school vinyl! (Vinyl includes digital download!) $15 for the digital version, and$18.50 for the vinyl (which includes shipping & handling)!

Drummers: Rites of Passage on the Parade Route (Book I – The Trainee) Chronicles of a Teenage Syncopated Drummer by Brian McBride

“If you were in marching band in the 1970s or simply love hearing the rumble of drum cadences at parades, you’re going to love this coming-of-age memoir about a teen misfit named Brian who steps into the inner-sanctum of the elite syncopated drummers of the championship youth band, the Long Beach Junior Concert Band. As their newest “trainee” Brian must endure extreme physical trials to become a tenor drummer, but it is through playing the drum with everything he’s got that he discovers who he is and what he is made of. The author brings us back through time to the heyday of the Long Beach Junior Band and the world of the syncopated drummers…when it was all about muscle cars, girls, and red sparkle drums! Relive the days when becoming a syncopated marching drummer was a grueling tribal ceremony…rites of passage into manhood within the suburbs of Long Beach, California.”