ANNOUNCEMENT - Tale of a Drum Line, 1993 Santa Clara Vanguard
Coming to Scene 7
Ciao everybody.
Twenty-five years after its first publication, Tale of a Drum Line - The Legend of the 1993 Santa Clara Vanguard has grown and appeared in many different places, including two issues of Modern Drummer magazine.
It’s a true story about a group of percussionists who suffered every possible horrible pitfall you can imagine, who never gave up no matter what … and who somehow completed a Haily Mary at the end of the national tour via an astonishing and near-perfect performance that NOBODY saw coming … and were briefly, somehow, someway, the #1 drum line on the planet. True story.
I’ve never seen anything so crazy and inspiring before or since. It also accidentally turned into one of my first forays into creative writing.
The Final Edition - SCV 93
Last year, and over the last few months, I have been quietly working on a new, improved, and expanded Tale of a Drum Line. And it is (finally) done!
Over the coming weeks. I’ll be releasing the ’93 Vanguard drum line story, chapter by chapter, on my new blog, Scene 7, exclusively for paid subscribers. When the final scene drops, I will publish the entire Tale of a Drum Line as a softcover, and that will be that … my last telling of the story, for all of history.
If you want to visit Scene 7 and check it out, you can find it here =
I truly hope Scene 7 puts a few happy and interesting minutes into your day.
That’s the mission.
Lee
p.s. SCV note - At the end of Tale of a Drum Line, I plan to include notes by every member of the SCV drum staff, and maybe other cats as well (fans?). I have not collected this content yet, but I have talked to (almost) everybody about it. Scotty is missing from the photo below. Which is a 30-year unsolved mystery.