Word: banding
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...always enjoyed walking through the ?countries? of Epcot, and I was pleased that the children didn?t find it too burdensome or ?adult? on Monday. We dined at Mexico, and it was as good as dining gets at Disney. Afterward, the kids danced as a mariachi band played. I watched them, happy as could be, and wondered if this would last another three days, or if the memory would last forever. For Caroline, perhaps, it will - this will be her ski lodge, her hot chocolate with marshmallows. For the twins, it?s doubtful they?ll remember, no matter how many...
...anyone in the G.I. audience could play the piano. An upright piano was on the back of an Army truck that had been reconstructed to serve as a stage. I raised my hand. I'd started playing piano when I was 4, and I had been in an Army band back home in California but had not touched a piano for many weeks...
...next morning, we were called to line up as replacements for a company of soldiers that had largely been wiped out the day before. Someone hollered out three names, including mine, to stay behind. The colonel in charge, who had heard me play, wanted me to form a band that would play for the men returning from the front. Called the Wolf Pack Band, we would play mostly swing tunes. We probably entertained more frontline troops than any other military band...
...managed to turn around and found our way back to an American checkpoint where a G.I. came up to my side of the truck. He had a grenade in each hand with the pins pulled. I explained to him that we were G.I.s in a band. He said, "All my buddies were just killed here by Germans in an American truck just like this, and all of them could speak perfect English just like you're speaking." He asked if we had papers, which I showed him, and then he asked, "What's the password?" The guys in the truck...
...band started by them sending me their 4-track demos every week,” Berger wrote in an e-mail. “Each week I’d get a package with a couple songs they’d written. Each one better than the next...