I searched the forums for this and couldn't find anything regarding this. so i figured i'd start it myself.

anywayz i figured it'd be kinda interesting to see if any DLO members' school whether it be college or high school has been home to any well known figures in the musical world such as Jeff Queen etc.

so to start it off my high school was home to Ken Bodiford which is the current director of Spirit and also the JSU Marching Southerners.

I don't have any musical people, but Bo Jackson graduated from my school

Didn't graduate from my school, but Buddy Holly graduated from a school near where I grew up.

My drum instructor went to college with Jeff Queen.

I graduated from my high school, and I'm going to my college.

Seriously though? I got nothin'. I think Harper Lee might have attended Huntingdon, but she transferred elsewhere before completion of a degree.

I don't think we have anything music-wise.

The only person I know of that is somewhat "famous" is some chick that went to my school a while back who was apparantly a Playboy Bunny Playmate of the Year....or something like that. I looked her up. Not bad.

EDIT: I don't think he went to our school or anything, but he was our percussion instructor a year ago. Here's a picture. (He's the bald one. His name is Micah) I'm guessing he was a snare tech for BD.

Pics or it didn't happen haha j/k.

My school has spawned plenty of drum corps players, but none who'd be considered famous. The most notable was a guy from cadets 02 that won drums.

not musical, but just for kicks:
graduates of Opelika HS
Jim Voss- ya know, the astronaut
Allison Wilmarth- she won an Oscar
Tommy Jackson- Atlanta Falcons football player


source: www.opelikaschools.org

the drummer and guitarist for thrice
bassist of rage against the machine
the blindfolded pianist

and will ferrell. he came to visit couple years back

Thrice is like my favorite band..ahhh!

The high school line I teach is where the great Scott McCoy once played snare.

Razor Ramone went to my High School.

On a broader scope... some famous people from, have lived, or are living in Southern Maryland...

Many astronauts, including John Glenn
Mike Tyson
Dr. Mudd
Demi Moore
Bruce Willis
Ted Koppel
Sylvester Stallone
Dashiell Hammett
Good Charlotte
Tubby Smith
Tom Clancy
Bill Clinton's cat "Socks"
David Hasselhoff
Steve Farr

bruce willis and sylvester stallone...oh ur area pwns mine. they're two of my favorite actors. absolutely love the die hard movies from willis and the Rocky and Rambo movies from stallone.

lmao Man, I haven't heard that name in forever! Ah, the old days of WWF :-P

yea...no one famous has ever lived in panama city...but while on vacation i happened to see Wesley snipes walking around

nice should've asked him for an autograph haha..i would've i love his Blade movies..mainly parts 1 and 3.

yea i was to scared..haha but ahh i hated blade 2 and 3.. the first one was the best...just my opinion though

i agree first one pwned the other two but still the 2'nd one sucked. so the order is obviously 1 3 2.

He was in the Blue Devils' snare line in the mid-1990s and has been snare tech for the Blue Knights and Blue Devils. Placed 3rd at I&E in '97.

I know this. There is a video of his I&E solo on Youtube, and I think he played it for me and some other of the kids in the drumline after one of our indoor rehersals. (Maybe it was something else, but it was sick)

Anyway, Micah's a great guy. The most chill instructor I've ever had.

EDIT - Here's his I&E solo. http://youtube.com/watch?v=9LmbdwRNQe8

Man..I miss him.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Ann_Paterson

i'd love to have him instruct me. though i'd love even more for Tim Jackson to instruct me on tenors that'd rule

or bill bachman

Wait, the blindfolded pianist as in Martin Leung? He actually goes to my school (CIM) right now. He played a concerto with our orchestra this past semester.

My high school didn't have any music alumni (although Ivan Pacheco did teach there for a while), but Kevin Costner graduated from it if that counts for anything.

kevin costner is a great actor. Dances With Wolves was pretty good and then The Guardian and Mr. Brooks pwned

No music greats coming out of West Geauga High School...until I graduate at least.

Just kidding.

not my high school, but our rival high school, fontana high school

Travis Barker played in their marching band playing either snare or quads (im not sure ha)
Sammy hagar, former frontman of van halen

oh, and at my high school, a center snare from the Cadets back when Colin Mcnutt was marching at vanguard was our old band director in the 90's

I went to Keystone Oaks High School.

Ron Paul (graduated from KO when it was called "Dormont High School")

Dennis Miller

Springdale HS, Springdale, PA

We've put out a whole two famous people since the early 1900's

Rachel Carson (the environmentalist)
and former WWF star Virgil

erm....our instructor was center snare for bluecoats in 98 and was one off of center in 97, the only two years he marched!

My instructor marched Seattle Cascades in 2000 and 2001. Think he was center in '01.

My school:

• E-40 (rapper)
• a couple of random corps people (BD, Blue Knights, Freelancers, Mandarins, Allegiance Elite, Quad City Knights)
• a former corps director for Pioneer

My hometown (with a little help from Wikipedia):

• Baseball players C.C. Sabathia, Bill Buckner, and Tug McGraw.
• NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon.
• University of Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido.
• Swimmer Natalie Coughlin.
• Competitive eater Joey Chestnut (his dad was my brother's band director).
• Porn star Monique Alexander.

Valencia High School, Valencia, CA

Ashley Tisdale- from High School Musical.
Manuel White- Former Washington Redskins Running Back.
Mackenzie Rosman- star of 7th Heaven.
Taylor Lautner- Sharkboy in Sharkboy and Lavagirl.

That's all I know of...

Nobody has really come out big from my school, We do send a lot of kids to Ohio state though, but nobody famous. The only person I can think off the top of my head was Jerry Evans back in the 80's, One of my uncles best friends. It's kind of funny to hear my uncle try and hype up the situation.

"How many people do you know can say their best friends with a man who just caught a game winning touchdown pass from John Elway?"

But, Other then that, the only thing I can think of is, My drum instructor used to march next to Bill Bachman (1995), Doing such things as not changing for a week just to annoy him.

Scott kretzer went to my high school... he marched cavies and won the solo in '90. he's around now and writes our percussion book and occasionally techs the drumline.
we've had a few drummers go through the school and march corps.

and the heisman trophy winner richard kaizmaier went there. only reason i know that... he donated the trophy and i had to play at the ceremony...

no drum corps people went to my school, Ill hopefully be the first but the bass player from Breaking Benjamin went there so did the basketball player Bob Sura

Without a doubt the best snare drummer I ever played with. Great player and even better person.

Well our instructor is Jim Irish, i'm not sure if he is well known or anything, but he has instructed a plethora of drumlines. He was on DCI (I forgot which), and he apparently knows Jeff Queen very well.

This bio says he knows all kinds of guys, but he told me himself that he doesn't know Peart (darn no hook up) so it isn't accurate.

He's awesome

Wholeheartedly Agreed.

Dude, whatever. Half the girls on girls gone wild are from panama city, or at least were taped (or another word that rhymes) there.

Uh, from my town, nobody too famous: Pam Oliver from Fox Sports, Chris Judd (former husband of Jennifer Lopez), Aquaman from Smallville, and of course me.

But from my school, I guess Tebow counts, Emmit Smith, David Eckstein, probably a few others I missed.

my school is 100 years old (bout to be 101) and i was only able to name off 1 person as to where most people on here have named off more..haha kinda funny

sammy hagar made Van Halen Van Hagar lol, so says my uncle, who is one of the best drummers I know

Heh, thanks man.

A real celebrity from Lake Park High School is Grammy award-winning percussionist, Glenn Kotche. I think I wrote in his year book he'd be a rock star. Little did I know he would become just that.

He just had a baby. I'll tell you about it later.

Jamey Carrol of the Rockies last year and the Indians this year

oh i got a new one..not really well known but an old section leader of ours was bass 2 for Spirit in '07.

Pete Castellano Teaches my old high school's drumline, he was DCI snare I&E Champion in 1984.

Napoleon Kaufman - Played football with him a bit in HS - he still owns every lifting record at my HS. He used to workout with the offensive line, and it would be US keeping up with HIM lifting. Good god that man is strong.

The video of him hyperextending his knee on live television still makes me physically ill. While not as bad as the Theismann or Krumrie injuries it's still not easy to watch.

Didn't he retire from the NFL to be a preacher or something? I didn't think it was the injury that caused him to leave the game. Can't seem to remember.