Mine is sitting in my kitchen, looking pretty good considering it went on 4 DCI tours with me (3 with Velvet Knights Drum & Bugle Corps/ 1 with Blue Devils D&BC). It has traveled about 100K miles by bus, and spent most of those miles jammed under a bus seat. God only knows how many different sidelines it got tossed onto. It helped me get through slinging a Contra Bass Bugle Horn around in all sorts of "memorable" places like Biloxi Mississippi where we got chased out by a hurricane (free day in N.O. happened a day early as a result!), or the ever so lovely Birmingham Alabama where one year it was 118 degrees and about 90 percent humidity. Pittsfield Massachusetts is a different kind of miserable. That was all 30+ years ago between 1986 to 1990, and the little red jug seems to have weathered the wear-and-tear a lot better than I have. When something has been with you through countless adventures like that It's hard to just toss it in the recycling or donate it away. That's why it has been sitting in my kitchen for over a year. I can't bring myself to put it out! You've got to have the proper equipment to survive, right?
Mine is sitting in my kitchen, looking pretty good considering it went on 4 DCI tours with me (3 with Velvet Knights Drum & Bugle Corps/ 1 with Blue Devils D&BC). It has traveled about 100K miles by bus, and spent most of those miles jammed under a bus seat. God only knows how many different sidelines it got tossed onto. It helped me get through slinging a Contra Bass Bugle Horn around in all sorts of "memorable" places like Biloxi Mississippi where we got chased out by a hurricane (free day in N.O. happened a day early as a result!), or the ever so lovely Birmingham Alabama where one year it was 118 degrees and about 90 percent humidity. Pittsfield Massachusetts is a different kind of miserable. That was all 30+ years ago between 1986 to 1990, and the little red jug seems to have weathered the wear-and-tear a lot better than I have. When something has been with you through countless adventures like that It's hard to just toss it in the recycling or donate it away. That's why it has been sitting in my kitchen for over a year. I can't bring myself to put it out! You've got to have the proper equipment to survive, right?