Redneck Regiment Announces Show/Uniforms With 2006 being it's first season, the Redneck Regiment of Pikeville, Kentucky is proud to be competing in the
DLOFDC League for it's inaugural season. We have been working hard to get the show,
ADHD: Attention Deficit Hillbilly Disorder, playable and on the field. While the repertoire is still remaining secret, once you see it I'm sure you'll understand where the inspiration for the show's name came from.
While we're not ready to reveal the repertoire, we are ready to give some details about the regiment's uniforms. We just got the new uniforms in a few days ago, and while a lot of the kids are still getting used to the concept of shoes (hey, most of them have been marching barefoot at the camps), the uniforms turned out well.
Below is the sketch of the general design of the Redneck Regiment uniforms.
The shoulder patches were an idea the kids wanted the day after we received the uniforms, so we just stitched them on there. The capes were added when the 3rd bass drummer used safety pins to attach an old quilt he took from the clothes line in his back yard to his uniform and make himself a cap. The drumline followed suit the next day and put their capes on during sectionals, all of them with old quilts or sheets of cloth of roughly the same dark blue color, and most with at least a couple patches in them, and when the rest of the band saw them, they were jealous and had to have their own. Since most of the kids' capes had patches on them, the few that didn't we just added a few to them in random places to make them look like the rest of them.
The hats are the good old Aussie hats, but since we don't have any plumes yet and didn't have any fancy looking feathers, we just plucked some off the chickens that often visit our practice field and put those in the hats. We're debating on keeping the chicken feathers in the hats for the season.
The guard has a much simpler uniform. They're just wearing some tan t-shirts and overalls, and if their hair is long enough they put it in pigtails. They still don't have shoes for their uniforms, and most of them expressed they don't need or want them. We couldn't find any rifles for them to spin, but we did find a lot of shotguns so they've been spinning those. They also have flags, but they're all different colors and have patchwork on them like the capes everyone else wears.
We hope to reveal the randomness that is our repertoire sometime soon. Until then, we look forward to our first competition!
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