Aaron Aardvark
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Horse Guards SplitIs this a nascent HG split coming up or what? wahhhhhhhhhhhhh
and is that clarinetist (left) just nipping off for a quick fag or something??
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General Melchett
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There's nothing like good dressing..........
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MrJpig
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And that`s nothing like good dressing!!
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General Melchett
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I thank you!
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MrJpig
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NO...Thank You !!  
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sticky blue
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My God - dressing - ha! - shambles more like - don't tell me "It's Deliberate" 'cos I won't believe you - 
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Co-admin
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Give us a clue which year it is!
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MrJpig
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| admin@home wrote: | | Give us a clue which year it is! |
Dunno but the bass drummer has had enough and about to leave stage exit left !!  
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General Melchett
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1991? has to be then or before as no females.
Drum major - Wiggy?
Clarinetist - Donners?
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admin
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I think it is me far right front rank and I seem to remember I was the inside left man of A Band. That was the march on and we were doing the open out ready to pick up the golden 24. It could well be 91
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RAB
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| admin wrote: | | I think it is me far right front rank and I seem to remember I was the inside left man of A Band. |
 ..Would that be the front left rank Deli..??..
I love the way the DM's using full arm power in his efforts to get to the ..err..Front..?? ...Side..?? ..Middle...???
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lesbryan
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Ive been wathing these comments a while.and i must say that countermarching whilst carring and playing instruments.has got to be an art and take some doing and getting used to and mighty IMPRESSIVE especialy with the massed bands and also great to watch and listen to 
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Aaron Aardvark
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| lesbryan wrote: | | Ive been wathing these comments a while.and i must say that countermarching whilst carring and playing instruments.has got to be an art and take some doing and getting used to and mighty IMPRESSIVE especialy with the massed bands and also great to watch and listen to |
Les mate....it's a piece of pi$$......just learning to duck when the trombones comes round it the only difficult manoeuvre. 
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lesbryan
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I could just imagine getting clouted with a trombone slider (thats what you call it i think) behind the lug "ouch "
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Hornblower
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Cpl "Chunky" Goss once gathered the young and impressionable horn students around him one cold and miserable winters day in our cosy East barracks practice room and told us a story about a massed band gig he was on (that was in the days when we had bands oversees and in virtually every major RN barracks) (Lamp swinging healthily).
Said trombonist was parping away for all he was worth as the the 4 or 5 bands mingled together, to come out the other side in a triupmphant and glorious cavalcade of colour and music.
Trouble was, Chunky didn't come through in one piece, or at least his trombone didn't, 'cos an errant cymbal being vigorously swung around sliced straight through the ar$e end of it!!!
Sounded better that way though - allegedly.
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Hornblower
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Countermarches were great fun to be in - especially when me and Andy Cunningham had a (very) long standing rivalry...
...We very nearly always passed each other on every gig we were on together and the game was to take the other's music.
The best bit was psycheing each other out as we swung around - neither of us would look up and hope that the other had forgotten. NO CHANCE!
But just occasionally one of us actually would forget - then SWOOP!!
I'm ashamed to say that over the years I think he won.
It got a bit naughty when I decided to lob his dots in the air.
Andy wasn't too happy with that!
I laughed...
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Hornblower
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...Then there was the gig in Napoli, where we were very hot after getting to the NATO base in an un-air-conditioned bus that we'd been stuck on for hours trying to get there.
Once on the gig, we were marching up & down (as you do in the middle of the bloody mediteranean summer in full ceremonial dress) and I suddenly felt as if I wasn't going to make it to the next counter-march - so instead of swinging around...
...I just kept going - Woohoo! Always wanted to do that.
I had the decency to stop playing though, as the band got quieter.
DD didn't even shout at me - there's a first!!!
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Hornblower
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OK - you can have your thread back now.
At least it was related... 
(Oh - and I was RMB history by '91)
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Co-admin
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| Hornblower wrote: | | (Oh - and I was RMB history by '91) |
You still are mate!
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Hornblower
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Good point Deli!!!
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Co-admin
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You'd be amazed about who and what people still talk about
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Hornblower
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Spill 'em big boy!!!!
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Co-admin
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| Hornblower wrote: | | Spill 'em big boy!!!! |
Your t-shirt for one Stuff of legends
The caves concert (ask Ffoggy!)
PC49 who arrested one of the buglers and had a set of marching solos written about him... and that is just the Gib trip
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Pompey Rich
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Going back to the date Deli, it wasn't 1991. I was there that year and the old metal hoops were fitted on the drums. Therefore it was probably the next Horseguards Beat Retreat with the painted plastic hoops which are on the drums in the picture.  Clever tw@t ain't I
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Hornblower
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| admin@home wrote: | | Hornblower wrote: | | Spill 'em big boy!!!! |
Your t-shirt for one Stuff of legends
The caves concert (ask Ffoggy!)
PC49 who arrested one of the buglers and had a set of marching solos written about him... and that is just the Gib trip |
I DID arrest a bulger - at BRNC when I was a copper at Devonport.
What was his name? Colshaw? Colston? Naaahhh I think I'm gettin' me bulgers mixey blobs. Ahhhh, for a few more brain cells - doesn't stop me drinking though!
Anyway, back to the plot, said bulger stole an alternator out of a car and the stupid git admitted it in interview under caution. (Sorry Andy, that's just the way we do things dahn 'ere!)
His punishment? Kicked out the mob. I saw him on telly shortly after that, he was interviewed after the Deal bombing. (God rest their harmonious souls.)
Any civvy caught and convicted for that (highly unlikely) would get a slapped wrist and told not to do it again - or else!
I felt really sorry for the bulger - but he was a dickhead for admitting it.
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Hornblower
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Ffoggy? Are you there?
When you do come in, what the 'eck is Deli on about?
As a matter of interest, I've been in receipt of many dits on a drunken binge involving old shipmates and it's really funny to hear some stories that you absolutely KNOW have been embellished - part of the ship's stories procedure I suppose.
But it's even funnier when you're told something about yourself that
a) you weren't involved in
or,
b) you don't remember.
Anyone got any? (Dits that shouldn't have featured you or have been grossly inflated etc)
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FFoglamp
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Stuey, I'm here !!!!!!!!!! Ummm...ten days late. Now then, what we on about ? 
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2nd Clarinet
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Hey Stu....
I remember the Naples trip.
Some of us flew there while 'others' took the scenic route by bus.
I especially remember the visit arranged to Herculanum (opposite side of the volcano the Pompeii)
Who was this?.......He would always have his camera to hand with his, wait for it.......light meter.
This person would walk over to the subject, take a meter reading, adjust his camera settings, take another meter reading, re-adjust his camera settings, focus his camera, look up and the subject was either gone or we had all moved on, taking great piccys with our 'instant' cameras.
Even the 'tour guide' got fed up with him and his bloody camera.
Answers please........
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joe90
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Was that the Naples trip where we were booked into some crap accommodation by the authorities over there and had it reorganised by Paddy Weekes (or others?) into quite a good place. I seem to remember a nice organised walking trip around the cathedral area where you daren't take your hands out of your pockets whilst holding on to your valuables (and wallet)
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boneflyer
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| Hornblower wrote: | | admin@home wrote: | | Hornblower wrote: | | Spill 'em big boy!!!! |
Your t-shirt for one Stuff of legends
The caves concert (ask Ffoggy!)
PC49 who arrested one of the buglers and had a set of marching solos written about him... and that is just the Gib trip |
I DID arrest a bulger - at BRNC when I was a copper at Devonport.
What was his name? Colshaw? Colston? Naaahhh I think I'm gettin' me bulgers mixey blobs. Ahhhh, for a few more brain cells - doesn't stop me drinking though!
Anyway, back to the plot, said bulger stole an alternator out of a car and the stupid git admitted it in interview under caution. (Sorry Andy, that's just the way we do things dahn 'ere!)
His punishment? Kicked out the mob. I saw him on telly shortly after that, he was interviewed after the Deal bombing. (God rest their harmonious souls.)
Any civvy caught and convicted for that (highly unlikely) would get a slapped wrist and told not to do it again - or else!
I felt really sorry for the bulger - but he was a dickhead for admitting it. |
Hornblower - I was at BRNC at the time and remember Rod Starr breaking into a cold sweat at the very mention of this individuals name.
For the record his surname was the same as a famous removals company - quite appropriate considering his own removal activities!!!
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Hornblower
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| admin@home wrote: |
The caves concert (ask Ffoggy!)
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Bids M8 - what is Deli on about? What do you know about the caves concert?
Failing Bids being able to answer (which is pretty likely considering he doesn't even know the march-on piece for the finale of RT 1977  ) can anyone please tell me what Deli's on about?
I suppose the easiest way is for you to tell us Deli!!!! 
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FFoglamp
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Hey Stu, get over the RT thing. [For other readers not familiar, see other thread - somewhere ?]
Anyway, about this "what the 'eck is Deli on about" thing. I haven't the ffoggiest and its been such a long time, I don't even know what you are on about.
So................................. [makes a quick exit from thread, and hopes Hornblower doesn't find him lurking in another room]
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Hornblower
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Don't think for a moment that I didn't go looking for ya!!!
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