I had just finished up a breakfast meeting withBare Bones Software ’s Rich Siegel — Bare Bones wasa might bite busy leading up to Macworld Expo — and was skitter off to Moscone Center to attend the next in a series of day - long drop - atomic number 49 with assorted Mac developer . Which is when I saw the glitter of crashing cymbal and heard the thunder of rolling drums and the shimmer of cornet .
“ exhibition week tax all of my genial faculties , ” I reckon to myself . “ But surely I am not so far give out that I am imagining a revival ofThe Music Manhas ad libitum break out before my eyes . ”
And it hadn’t — it was an honest - to - goodness march band parading in front of the South Hall of Moscone Center , just as the show story was opening up to the universal populace .
The band in doubtfulness is the Australian Southern Stars — that ’s a picture of them to the rightfulness that I shot using one of those new - fangled camera phones all the kids are go on about . ( you may witness ahigher resolve shotcourtesy of one of the contributor to ourMacworld Expo chemical group on Flickr . ) most as I can tell , the band was n’t there at the behest of any particular vendor to promote some new ware — they come along to bein town that dayfresh off an show atthe Tournament of Roses Parade , so why not stop by Expo and treat passersby to snappish , soldierlike renditions ofYou Can Call Me AlandWaltzing Matilda ?
( Side retrieve : I am sure the Australian Southern Stars drove or flew up here from its Rose Parade visual aspect . But the crazed part of my mind that I attempt to hide from the public likes to think of the feeling that the striation just butt on all the way from Pasadena to San Francisco , playing the total elbow room up US-101 , and that they will continue their trek northward along the Pacific Coast . Keep on your guard duty , Portland ! )
Like I said , hear the march band put a spring in my stone’s throw before what figure to be an exhaustive day . ( In demarcation , the next morning my walk to Expo involved several police force squad cars mediating a local spat — that was a whole flock less uplifting than a march set . ) So my supplication to Expo organizer : More banding , please — fife - and - drum corps , show bands , Beatles tribute groups , I do n’t really care . But once you ’ve had melodic co-occurrence to differentiate the start of a day at Expo , anything less is unsufferable .
