domhatch
hilarious! and reminds me.
i was a bugler (later trumpet player) in our school cadet band. would've given anything to be the bass drummer (don't tell an actual drummer i said that).
we found out the guy who played the bass drum used to hide sarmies under his skin (for the uninitiated, a bass drummer in a marching band often wears an animal skin; some are fake, some are real, and many go back generations). can't remember which category ours fell into.
he'd play one-handed, just keep a two-beat per bar rhythm, nothing fancy, and munch his sarmie with the other hand while the rest of us played our lungs out on the march, changing step, entertaining the crowds and just generally shielding him from view (which is why this reminded me of it - 27 years later on!)
bastard. but when we did find out about this little deception of his, he got his dues.
oh yes
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