Photo courtesy of Toots
Toots went to Louisiana in the early 1970’s looking for a Creole wife but came back with a sax and swamp fever. The illness left him with delusions of grandeur, further complicated by unwittingly taking copious amounts of peyote spiced Gumbo. Ever since, Toots is convinced he’s possessed by a once obscure but brilliantly talented blind musician, who died suspiciously in 1932. Now 64 years old, he lives in Kenilworth under the supervision of the local authority. Joining the band is part of an intense occupational therapy programme.
Excerpt taken from Godfrey Yammertein's 'A profile of a Great British Marching Band', published March 2011
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